A Toronto firm crafts a serene waterfront structure for a family in Georgian Bay.

A once-plain floating home on Seattle’s Portage Bay receives a much-needed renovation ten years in the making.

Designed as a prefabricated monolithic steel grid, the boathouse’s orthogonal frame was delivered from Houston by truck and then...

Built by Norwegian craftsmen in the ’50s, these quirky, boat-shaped residences in Los Angeles are rarely on the market.

The windowless cabin by Handegård Arkitektur grants a one-way vista that’s aimed out over the North Sea.

Building Arts Architects transported materials by barge to the rocky shore of Kawagama Lake, and erected the spectacular...

Toronto architect Gregory Neudorf creates a pristine and practical 400-square-foot dwelling with nautical storage below deck.

What's better than one hundred photos of cabins? One hundred and one photos of cabins.

Sitting lightly above the eelgrass, the tiny dwelling serves as a port of entry for a family getaway on the Salish Sea.

From a tiny smart dwelling to an off-grid boathouse, here are five Austin homes that showcase the power of prefab.

A series of elemental cabins perch right on the water in the Chiloé Archipelago.

Nature lovers will go gaga over the lush landscaping and outdoor amenities.

On the edge of a tiny island accessible only by boat, this buoyant summer home lives the life aquatic.

Inspired by Norway’s traditional boathouses, Swedish architect Erik Kolman Janouch plants a cottage into Vega Island’s barren...

Designed by Mexico City–based firm BAAQ', Casa Naila features four pitched-roof volumes that open to the pristine shores of...

Anchored to a rocky site on the shores of Lake Memphremagog, a granite home sports a long, sleek roof.

This turnkey residence comes with all furnishings, recreational equipment, and its own private helicopter pad.

Compact in size—yet big on comfort—this well-crafted micro-home is a luxurious way to experience the water.

In a break from his regular programming, lighting designer Brendan Ravenhill crafts a love letter to New England’s functional but...

Seafaring or stationary, floating homes and houseboats are a cool alternative to landlocked living.

Designed with minimal maintenance in mind, these coastal summer cabins are totally self-sufficient.

From shipping container homes to modular holiday retreats, these sleek prefabs prove the benefits of off-site construction.

A family transforms their 25-year-old waterfront property into a bohemian home for their daughter.

On a private island in Ontario, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects are in the midst of creating an energy-efficient and convivial...

The entire lineup of this year's Los Angeles Iconic Houses tours was filled with irreplaceable works of architecture, but the...

These fiery facades aren’t for the faint of heart.

North Haven, a rocky island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, is quintessentially New England.

The Houdini-like designers behind this boathouse employed giant steel arches to make the structure disappear from view and in its...

Designed and built by Stockholm based Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, this dwelling joins a number of structures—such as a boathouse...

More Japanese minka than Sears, Roebuck & Co., a kit home in the Bay Area—complete with a meditation room—provides the right...

Decades after he launched the revered counterculture almanac, Stewart Brand and his wife, Ryan Phelan, turned a derelict ship...

Turkel Design creates residences starting at $1.7M based entirely on a client’s personal preferences.

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This home is teeming with bespoke elements and views of the water from every room.

Southern California’s Harry Gesner, who died this month, crafted some of the Golden State’s most idiosyncratic homes.

This Swedish guesthouse embodied Nordic building traditions for a modern extension.