Amazing Design

We are surrounded by the built environment day in and day out, but how many buildings still turn your head, make you scratch it or even turn it upside down (your head, not the building … well, not most buildings anyway). Over time we have collected some of the most crazy architectural designs and creative engineering marvels from around the world and grouped them by type, theme and (as always) adjective - from the remotest and most unattainable luxury private island architecture to hidden rooms and doors that may be lurking in your own house.

Contemporary Architecture and Cutting-Edge Design

Though there are some unbelievable homes and amazing house designs around the world, many of the most incredible buildings designed today do not fit readily into our standard vision of architectural types. Tree houses bring us back to our childhood while house boats bring out the adventurer in us. The institutional places where the public come together, however, are where you can find the work of many of the world’s most talented architectural designers.

Amazing Treehouses and Treehouse Designs: We all dreamed of having them as a child - or, if we had them, we dreamed of bigger, better and more awesome ones. Here are some dreams come true - unbelievable real-life tree houses that may make you wish to never return to the ground again. Bonus: here are 15 more.

Brilliant Houseboats and Houseboat Designs: Some are conceptual, some are real. Some are eye-poppingly ingenious and incredibly innovative while others are hilariously ill-conceived and quaintly impracticle. Whatever your budget, you can find a house boat to buy or at least one to ogle at. Bonus: here are 15 more.

Airport, Train and Bus Station Architecture: Planes, trains and automobiles make the world go ’round but too often overlooked are the designs of these buildings which harbor our indispensable vehicles. These architectural innovations push the limits of contemporary design to new heights, levels and speeds.

Ultramodern Museum Architecture and Interior Design: Museums are historically the places we house our most precious artefacts. Lately they have become themselves the subject of artistic endeavors - and critique. Here are some of the most offbeat, avante garde and thought-provoking modern and postmodern museum designs.