Dezeen's top 10 cabins of 2022
In the latest roundup in Dezeen's review of 2022, we have selected 10 cabins published this year, including structures perched on mountainsides, overlooking lakes and nestled in back gardens. More
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Llabb creates The Hermitage cabin overlooking Italian mountains
Italian architecture studio Llabb has perched an off-grid wooden cabin for "contemplation and introspection" on the edge of a hill overlooking the Trebbia valley near Genoa. More
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Palicourea House by Bloco Arquitetos steps down hillside in rural Brazil
Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has created a nature retreat for a landscape architect and her family that features brick walls and glue-laminated timber roofs. More
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Concrete walls frame desert views in remote Chihuahua home by OAX Arquitectos
The earthen tone of this off-grid holiday home in Northern Mexico was selected to match the rock formations of the nearby Cumbres de Majalca National Park, which is known for its dramatic landscapes. More
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Dezeen's top 10 cabins of 2021
Ever have the urge to get away from it all and retreat to a cosy cabin somewhere quiet and remote? In the second roundup of our review of 2021, we pick out 10 of the best cabins on Dezeen this year, including a metal tube in Russia and a house on stilts in the Brazilian forest. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Marc Thorpe designs off-grid cabin retreat in the Romanian mountains
Architect Marc Thorpe has revealed designs for a cabin hotel in Romania, featuring off-grid wooden lodges informed by rural vernacular architecture. More
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Eight escapist cabins from across the US
A cabin built in a tree above a Texan creek and a Washington writer's retreat feature in this roundup of eight cabins from across the US. More
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Ten escapist hotels featuring luxury cabins nestled in the countryside
A new wave of cabin hotels is offering guests the chance to sleep in individual rooms set amid spectacular landscapes instead of in a traditional building with corridors. Here's our selection of 10 of the most interesting cabin hotels. More
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Casa Etérea is a mirrored off-grid cabin on the slopes of the Palo Huérfano volcano
Solar panels and harvested rainwater power this mirrored holiday home by first-time architect Prashant Ashoka, which was designed to be self-sufficient and in harmony with its surroundings. More
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Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers creates cedar-clad cabin in the woods
Vancouver studio Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers has clad a "contemporary cabin the woods" of British Columbia's Bowen Island in black-stained cedar. More
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Small La Invernada cabin glows in Chilean forest at night
This house by Chilean studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has mesh and polycarbonate walls to reflect the shadows of trees in daytime and light up at night. More
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Majamaja is an off-grid seaside cabin near Helsinki
Architect Pekka Littow has used Finnish spruce and birch plywood for off-grid holiday home Majamaja, which is perched on a rocky outcrop by the sea just outside of Helsinki. More
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Dezeen's top 10 cabins of 2020
In a year when the coronavirus pandemic caused travel restrictions, cabins offered a welcome sense of escapism. As part of our review of 2020, here are Dezeen's top 10 cabins, including one made from infested wood and another with a titanium roof. More
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Piers Taylor retrofits his own off-grid home "to banish the demons" of his youth
Invisible Studio founder Piers Taylor has carried out an extensive retrofit of Moonshine – his own off-grid home near Bath in southwest England. More
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Ten eco-friendly dwellings where residents live off the grid
These 10 off-grid homes allow residents to live in more remote locations, or were designed by eco-minded designers to facilitate low-impact lifestyles. More
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The Olive Houses are off-grid retreats hidden in Mallorca's mountains
Craggy boulders jut through walls in these off-grid guesthouses that architecture studio Mar Plus Ask has built in Mallorca, Spain, for creatives in need of a quiet escape. More
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Waterstudio.NL designs yacht villa that can be raised out of the water
Dutch architecture studio Waterstudio.NL has created a solar-powered electric yacht-cum-villa with retractable stilts that allow it to be raised fully out of the water to become an off-grid home. More
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A6A constructs charred-wood off-grid cabin in Ustaritz
Bordeaux studio A6A has created Heva, a black Douglas fir-clad cabin designed for off-grid living, in Ustaritz, south-west France. More
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Frankie Pappas threads skinny house through South African forest
Architecture collective Frankie Pappas has hidden the 3.3-metres-wide House of the Big Arch within the Bushveld nature reserve in the north of South Africa. More
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Maguire + Devin builds minimalist off-grid cabin retreat on Bruny Island
Bruny Island Cabin is a wood-lined off-grid holiday home in Tasmania designed by architecture studio Maguire + Devin featuring only built-in furniture. More
