Carney Logan Burke builds Wyoming retreat around huge boulder
US architecture firm Carney Logan Burke has completed a home on a rugged Wyoming mountainside that wraps around a giant boulder (+ slideshow). More
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Glass observatory rises from roof of Montana mountain home by Johnsen Schmaling
Johnsen Schmaling Architects has created a family dwelling in rural Montana that consists of interlocking volumes clad in charred wood and is topped with a glass-enclosed viewing room. More
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Studio Inches adds concrete and granite gallery to Alpine art museum
A year after transforming an old house into a gallery at the foot of the Swiss Alps, architect Matteo Inches has extended the building with a new concrete and granite gallery (+ slideshow). More
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Peter Zumthor creates buildings on stilts for tourist trail at a Norwegian mine
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has built visitor facilities at a historic mine in Norway, with one structure that hangs off a wall and two that are raised on stilts over a steep cliffside (+ slideshow). More
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Robitaille Curtis perches a ski chalet on a steep slope in Quebec
Canadian firm Robitaille Curtis has completed a cabin in the Laurentian Mountains that sits atop wooden pilotis, enabling snowmelt to pass under the home (+ slideshow). More
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UAE plans manmade mountain to increase rainfall
The United Arab Emirates is considering proposals for an artificial mountain that could help increase the country's rainfall. More
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Mork-Ulnes completes California ski chalet coated in black tar
This northern California cabin by Mork-Ulnes Architects is clad in tar-coated timber and sits atop a concrete plinth – measures that both help protect the structure from heavy snowfall. More
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Kengo Kuma completes Chinese spa resort with pixellated stonework
The pieces of multi-tonal stone used to construct this spa resort in southwest China by Kengo Kuma give the complex a pixelated appearance (+ slideshow). More
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GilBartolomé Architects creates cavernous "Gaudiesque" residence with a zinc-shingled roof
A wavy zinc-covered roof covers the front of this residence by Madrid practice GilBartolomé Architects, which is dug into a steep cliff face overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Spain's Granada province (+ slideshow). More
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Scott and Scott completes mountainside cabin in Whistler for family of snowboarders
The A-frame exterior of this mountainside cabin in Whistler was designed by Canadian studio Scott and Scott to mimic neighbouring 1970s chalets. More
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Alastair Philip Wiper finds "noble failure" at Breuer's Modernist Flaine ski resort
Photo essay: why do some people hate the architecture of Flaine? To find out, photographer Alastair Philip Wiper travelled to the Marcel Breuer-designed Modernist ski resort in the French Alps often referred to as "phlegm". More
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Murman Arkitekter completes tent-shaped restaurant for a Swedish ski resort
This mountainside restaurant by Murman Arkitekter has giant triangular gables and is set at the top of a ski slope in northern Sweden (+ slideshow). More
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Movie: Alpine Shelter by OFIS and Harvard students airlifted onto Slovenia's Skuta Mountain
This movie by film studio Carniolus shows how the Slovenian army used a helicopter to airlift the various components of an Alpine cabin to its mountainside location. More
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Thin concrete planes define mountain home in Japan by Kubota Architect Atelier
Six slabs of wafer-thin concrete form the floors and walls of this house by Kubota Architect Atelier, which cuts into the side of a mountain in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture (+ slideshow). More
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French villa designed by Julien De Smedt to look like a bump in the landscape
Grass ramps over the curving form of this house in the French countryside, which was designed by architect Julien De Smedt as a contemporary alternative to the region's "pastiche chalets" (+ slideshow). More
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Timber cabins provide guest suites for Patagonia's remote Awasi Hotel
Chilean architect Felipe Assadi has built a series of wooden hotel cabins on a Chilean hillside, offering guests the chance to glimpse wild llamas, pumas and rheas in their natural habitat (+ slideshow). More
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Faceted home in the Swiss Alps by JM Architecture is covered in dark grey tiles
Mottled grey tiles envelop this angular house in the Swiss Alps, which was designed by Milanese firm JM Architecture to look "like a stone in the landscape" (+ slideshow). More
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Vector Architects disguises mountainside community centre beneath sprawling grass roof
Vector Architects designed a huge grassy roof canopy and plant-covered walls for this community centre in southwest China, helping it to blend in with its mountain landscape (+ slideshow). More
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Serbian mountain home by EXE Studio clad in both white ceramic tiles and dark wooden shingles
One half of this tiny mountain dwelling in western Serbia is faced in white ceramic tiles, while the other is clad in dark timber shingles – a nod to both traditional and contemporary styles (+ slideshow). More
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Zaha Hadid's Messner Mountain Museum photographed by Hufton + Crow
Zaha Hadid's mountain museum at the top of Alpine peak Mount Kronplatz is captured in these new images by British photography duo Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). More
