The Modern House

Find a high design residence to buy, lease, or rent for vacation

Finding a truly spectacular holiday home to buy or rent can be an impossibly difficult, time-consuming task. Architecture journalists Albert Hill and Matt Gibberd have changed that with The Modern House, a U.K.-based real estate site dedicated to design, decor and distinguished homes. Created in 2004, Hill (a former writer for Wallpaper and The Times) along with Gibberd (who spent time at The World of …

Urban Insect Hotel

Mathematically-inspired bug houses designed to promote urban biodiversity

Winning London’s recent Beyond The Hive competition, the “Insect Hotel” is a five-star refuge for bugs living in urban environments. Architecture firm Arup Associates designed individual compartments in a mathematically-derived pattern known as a Voronoi tessellation to house an array of species spanning spiders, beetles and moths. Recently featured on Good, the competition was commissioned by real estate company British Land and the City of …

Brinca Dada

Modern interpretations of the dollhouse with true-to-life, functional details

Shrinking Modernism to a micro scale, the sleek and minimal dollhouses by NYC-based Brinca Dada have kids and adults alike excited to play make believe. At the Dwell on Design show I got to hear about the toymaker’s recently-completed Bennett House (above and below), which takes its cues from a mix of aesthetic influences. With the overall simplicity of Rietveld’s Schröder House, Piet Mondrian’s geometric …