Located on Tobin’s Island in Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, this two-story boathouse was designed by California-based Akb Architects in 2017. Dubbed Tobin Island Boathouse, the 2,300-square-foot, waterfront building is constructed by Toronto-based Mazenga Building Group as a guest suite next to ...
Contrived by Valencia-based architecture firm Mano de Santo in collaboration with KM ZERO Open Innovation Hub, Punta de Mar is a proposed houseboat intended for sustainable tourism. Made from natural low-impact building materials, it is meant for two people wanting ...
Hamish McKenzie, a British artist, and houseboat renovator lives in his one-off houseboat made from discarded buses, vans, speedboats, and planes. He owns seven such houseboats, which are parked amid a small community of 50 houseboats in West Sussex, England. There ...
The rising housing crisis has led various companies around the world to find new ways to provide housing to people. Floating houses have arisen as a key solution, but they aren’t inexpensive. However, those who don’t care about money can ...
It’s no secret that with increasing global warming, glaciers are melting faster than ever before. Due to this sea levels are constantly rising and soon a time may come when we have to make the ocean our permanent home. Probably ...
Berlin-based brothers, Oliver and Chris Laugsch of travel website Welcome Beyond own Modern Boat, a floating housing unit positioned somewhere on the Spree river bay in eastern part of the city. In order to offer something unique to visitors, they ...
Italian mini-yacht company Jet Capsule unveiled its floating UFO (Unidentified Floating Objects) off-grid home concept earlier this year. Now the design firm is back with its updated and improved second version houseboat called UFO 2.0, which is expected to be ...
Say goodbye to your home on land, and embrace a life on the water with beautiful Bluefield Houseboats. These are prefabricated modular homes for a floating life on water with minimal energy footprint. Custom built in Northern Ireland, the structure ...
Tangram 3Ds, an international 3D design firm collaborated with Schopfer Associates to design a stingray-shaped luxury floating home at the coast of an island in Aegean Sea. As its name suggests, it features a stinger tail which is used as ...
While housing rents on land are reaching new highs across the globe, water-based homes like Rev Houseboat are becoming more convenient living solutions. It is designed to bring all the luxuries of a deluxe penthouse into a small abode that ...
