Quite special this one. Not only is it a) super and b) shiny, it’s c) officially the best house in the world and d) it exists in more dimensions than it ought to!
Confused? Then I’ll cover these points one by one.
a) and b) - well just look at it.

(Photographs by John Gollings - Gollings Photography)
I [...]

As shiny homes go, they don’t get much shinier than this.
Looking like another escapee from the set from Blade Runner (cf. The Pyramid House), it is in fact the overall winner of the 2009 Solar Decathlon over in Washington D.C. - a competition which seeks to raise awareness about renewable [...]

I came across a property the other day advertised with “duel aspect windows” (sic).
I was immediately put in mind of the incident when Lord Sash-Windowe famously called out Major P.V.C. Casement for suggesting he’d defenestrated his wife …

Both parties were injured, the local constabulary was called and the case eventually went to court where the [...]

You should never underestimate the power of a photo when marketing a property.
But sometimes discretion should definitely be the better part of valour and you really, really, really should just upload an ‘awaiting image’ pic, especially when the property you’re promoting looks like this:

or this:

or for sheer bizarro, how about:

Bear? What bear? I can’t see [...]

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
Why, ’tis Juliet on her new Bloomframe balcony.

Had Shakespeare been alive today, and living in Amsterdam, then it’s a dead cert that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ would have included a Bloomframe balcony scene (and more sex and drugs probably, but this is a family show, folks).
A whattyframe? A bloomingpardon?
Hush [...]

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I was wandering around the Neocribs blog the other day when I came across this … a hairy rough-hewn hunter-gatherer kind of a house in the middle of a Swedish forest.
Being Swedish, of course, it’s also beautifully designed – a perfectly pitched combination of Red Cedar wood shingles, Birch lattice, plasterwork, and reindeer fur.
Reindeer fur?? [...]

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If you took one dollop of 2001: A Space Odyssey, whisked in a hefty glug of Blade Runner and added a dash of The Mummy you’d end up with something like Makoto Tanijiri’s sleekly beautiful Pyramid house in Saijo, Hiroshima, Japan.
Not only is it a stunningly futuristic statement, but it also apparently echoes the earliest [...]

The winner of Shed of the Year 2009 has been announced over at The Shed Blog, and wooah! What a wonder!

In fact, it’s such a humdinger of a shed that Steven Harwood’s Kite Cabin has caused some heated debate in the Editorial Dept here at FAP Towers.
“It’s bigger than my [...]