Moving terrace follows the sun at Robert Konieczny's Quadrant House
This house in Poland by architect Robert Konieczny has a moving outdoor living space that pivots and docks with rooms on either side of the garden. More
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Large mechanical shutters cover windows of Black Box extension by MATA Architects
MATA Architects has added a timber-clad extension to a house in north London, with windows concealed behind large shutters that can be opened using mechanical winches. More
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Movie shows The Shed's moving roof in action
This captioned movie shows how the roof of The Shed, currently under construction in New York's Hudson Yards, will move back and forth. More
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Rotating beach hut can catch the sun's rays all day
Jak Studio has built a beach hut in the British seaside town of Eastbourne that can rotate to follow the sun. More
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Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades
Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. More
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Fully rotating house built in Italian countryside
Architect Roberto Rossi has completed a house in northern Italy that can rotate 360 degrees. More
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The D*Haus Company unveils Devon house with a swivelling top
UK architects David Ben-Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson have updated their shape-shifting D*Haus to create a residence with a rotating roof for a site in Devon, England. More
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Anmahian Winton's zinc-clad observatory enables stargazing from a New Hampshire mountain
The top of this faceted private observatory in central New Hampshire, by Anmahian Winton Architects, rotates to provide different views of the night sky. More
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Prefab buildings by Ten Fold Engineering build themselves in eight minutes
Our latest captioned movie features modular structures designed by Ten Fold Engineering, which can be transported anywhere on a lorry and self-deployed at the touch of a button. More one-minute movies ›
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10 movies featuring buildings that move or change shape
Over the last few months we've been publishing short movies about shape-shifting architecture on our Facebook page. Here are 10 of the best, including projects with sliding walls, kinetic facades and rotating rooms. More
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Foster + Partners completes Dubai Apple Store with carbon-fibre "solar wings"
Filigreed carbon-fibre shutters fold around the oriel window of Foster + Partners' Apple Store in Dubai, shading the shop floor during the day but opening at night to views of the Burj Khalifa. More
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Richard Murphy's "box of tricks" home named UK house of the year 2016
Secret hatches, moving walls and a sliding ladder all feature inside the Edinburgh home of architect Richard Murphy, which has been named RIBA House of the Year 2016. More
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Retractable garage-style doors open Amsterdam entrepreneur hub to the elements
Dutch studio BETA and Elisabeth Boersma of planB have transformed an old school in Amsterdam into a hub for entrepreneurs featuring full-height windows that can be retracted to open the entire facade. More
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Sliding walls create various layouts inside Garden House by Caspar Schols
Timber and glass walls slide along runners to reveal or enclose this gabled garden shed in Eindhoven, designed and built by Caspar Schols as a hobby space for his mother. More
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Students create Night Train party pavilion for former brewery in Latvia
Architecture students have built a train-inspired party pavilion in the grounds of a former factory, featuring a glowing wooden carriage that shuttles along a raised platform (+ slideshow) More
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Rotating and tilting ReActor house accommodates two artists for five days
A pair of artists built and lived in this house balanced on a pole in upstate New York, which spun around and inclined as they moved around it during their week-long residency (+ movie). More
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Sliding and spinning walls animate facade of house by Matharoo Associates
At the touch of a button, the chunky marble walls that surround this house in India divide up into spinning and sliding panels, revealing a more lightweight glass facade behind (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
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Cloud Seeding Pavilion by MODU features canopy made of 30,000 plastic balls
This pavilion in Holon, Israel, designed by New York-based architects MODU with Geotectura, has a dynamic canopy made of mesh fabric and small balls that move with the wind (+ movie). More
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The Wild Thing is a "creature-like" cabin that stands tall above a Latvian wildflower meadow
The sides of this 4.5 metre-high stilted cabin lift open to offer inhabitants an uninterrupted view of the Latvian landscape (+ slideshow). More
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New Pinterest board: moving buildings
We've created a new Pinterest board full of moving buildings that roll, spin, twist and hinge open, following the publication of Henning Larsen's Danish university facility with a climate-responsive kinetic facade.
