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  • Crossboundaries converts houseboat into tiny solar-powered home

    Beijing architecture studio Crossboundaries has carried out "a full makeover" of a boat to create a tiny solar-powered house named Fàng Sōng. More

    Katie Last | 21 January 2023 | Leave a comment
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    Best Practice Architecture updates historic Boathouse Bungalow in Seattle

    A quaint dwelling that was once a houseboat has been renovated and enlarged by US firm Best Practice Architecture for a couple and their daughter. More

    Jenna McKnight | 18 August 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Tamás Bene creates Hungarian houseboat to be "in harmony with its surroundings"

    Hungarian architect Tamás Bene has designed a houseboat, which was informed by local fishing boats, as a holiday home on Lake Tisza for a young couple from Budapest. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 14 December 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Baca Architects moors modular floating home on Chichester Canal

    Baca Architects – the studio behind the UK's first amphibious house – has completed a boxy floating home on Chichester Canal in southern England. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 23 October 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Floating home in Seattle by Vandeventer + Carlander features water-level bedrooms

    "Float-level" sleeping quarters in this single-family home moored to the shore of Seattle's Lake Union allow residents to go swimming directly from their bedrooms (+ slideshow). More

    James Brillon | 14 August 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Houseboat by Laust Nørgaard floats in Copenhagen harbour

    Danish boatbuilder Laust Nørgaard has completed a floating home for his family in Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow).  More

    Alan G Brake | 12 February 2016 | 5 comments
  • Baca Architects completes buoyant house on the River Thames

    Work has completed on the UK's "first amphibious house" by Baca Architects, which rises in its dock-like foundations to avoid flood water (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 20 January 2016 | 4 comments
  • Floating home by +31 Architects is moored on an Amsterdam river

    Half of this floating house by +31 Architects is submerged below the waterline of Amsterdam's river Amstel, while the other opens out to a buoyant terrace (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 14 October 2015 | 13 comments
  • Copper-clad ParkArk houseboat by BYTR Architects floats on a Dutch canal

    Copper panels and local timber clad the exterior of this houseboat in the Netherlands by BYTR Architects, which is moored beside a wooded parkland (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Durrant | 5 June 2014 | 1 comment
  • UK should "learn from the Netherlands" and build floating housing - Alex de Rijke

    Dezeen Wire: "we're advocating other UK architects to design on water," architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. More

    Amy Frearson | 30 August 2012 | 1 comment
  • Water Villa by Framework and Studio Prototype

    Timber batons create geometric patterns across the exterior of this houseboat in Amsterdam by Framework and Studio Prototype. More

    Amy Frearson | 24 July 2012 | 1 comment
  • Watervilla de Omval by +31 Architects

    Dutch architects +31 Architects have completed this curvy house boat on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More

    Rose Etherington | 21 April 2011 | 4 comments

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Tom Kundig designs Truckee home with metal "treehouse" for Faulkner Architects founder

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Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

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