Architect Simon Unwin believes these seminal structures are crucial to our understanding of architectural design. Is he right?

Travel is supposed to make us feel more alive so why is the hotel room a place of such loneliness and despair? There was a period in my life when I spent a lot of time in hotel rooms. It was normal to skit from Shanghai to Dublin via Vilnius and Rome in a month, and then begin the loop all over again: Athens, Novosibirsk, Kuala Lumpur. I travelled alone to these cities and when I got there I was required to stand on stages, sit on panels and talk endlessly.

In a small terrain of 16m width by 20m long in the middle of a flat Belgian landscape, rises a 30m high water tower built between 1938 and 1941 for and by the village of Steenokkerzeel. It has been in service until the beginning of the nineties and was used by the Nazis during the 2nd world war as a “tour de guete”.

These uncomfortable combinations of furniture and the human form are sure to make you squirm. Created by Australian artist Fiona Roberts, this series of furniture pieces are embellished using abstracted body parts. Roberts abstracts the forms through the use of repetition, patterns, and traditi...

Employing natural processes to illuminate and warm interior spaces, this series of algae-based furnishings combines beautiful glass vessels and organic matter to create lovely yet functional home objects. Each fixture generates light, heat and oxygen using methods similar to those seen in bio-adaptive architectural facades.

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On an eight-foot-wide site in London, architect Luke Tozer cleverly squeezed in a four-story home equipped with rain-water-harvesting and geothermal systems.  

This amazing contemporary stone residence situated in Coahuila, Mexico, was designed by Greenfield.

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A cliff top home in Matanzas, Chile. Photos by Cristobal Valdes. Designed by Panorama Arquitectos.

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A House for Essex is designed by Grayson Perry and FAT Architecture. It is both an artwork in itself and the setting for a number of works by Grayson Perry exploring the special character and unique qualities of Essex. The building has been designed to evoke a tradition of wayside and pilgrimage chapels. It belongs to a history of follies, whilst also being deeply of its own time.

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