by Diane Slawych | Aug 30, 2019 | Featured, Profiles
When one of the reactors of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant near Pripyat, Ukraine exploded on April 26, 1986, residents of surrounding communities were told they would have to leave their homes for three days. Most of them never went back. The area surrounding what...
by Diane Slawych | Jul 5, 2019 | Featured, News
Almost every day in Barcelona, you can find a few people gazing up at the home on 43 Passeig de Gràcia. The facade is a mix of colourful stone, glass and ceramics that’s been compared to a Monet painting, while the columns resemble bones and the protruding cast iron...
by Diane Slawych | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
It seems that property owners in Hanoi, Vietnam would go to any length (or height) to reduce their taxes. When the city government decided, centuries ago, to base the tax rate according to the width of a property’s street-facing facade (the wider the home, the more...
by Diane Slawych | Sep 24, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
It’s shaped like a giant Hershey’s Kiss, has the silvery gleam of an Airstream trailer and a name that sounds like a laundry detergent. The Dymaxion House was conceived by architect R. Buckminster Fuller as the home of the future. It was designed in 1946 to be the...
by Diane Slawych | May 24, 2018 | Featured, Profiles
“What normal family can live in such a house?” shrugs tour guide Titus Akkermans. No doubt about it, Wall House 2, located in the residential neighbourhood of Hoornse Meer in the Dutch city of Groningen, is an unusual structure. Its curvy modules, each in a different...
