Home Inside A Pyramid

The Smith Tower in Seattle, with its pyramid at the top housing a small glass lighthouse, is home to Petra Franklin Lahaie; her husband, David Lahaie; and their two young daughters. The residence on top of the tower has taken on the status of an urban legend. LINK, Via: UniqueDaily

The Bookshelf Apartment

Photo: Pasi Aalto

For the Small Spaces exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Rintala Eggertsson converted the small space inside a stairwell into a towering bookshelf, and stocked it with 6,000 books!

Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo has more pics and video clip: Link – Via: Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival, Via: Neatorama

ClockTower Triplex Penthouse

This ClockTower Triplex Penthouse is a $25million apartment in Brooklyn - More info & pics HERE. | LINK

Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

Six drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs. As an elderly couple leave their apartment the drummers take over. On everyday objects they give a concert in four movements: kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living room. The drummers perform on everything from dog dishes and slippers to toilet brush and microwave oven. The hidden music in the household objects is just waiting to be brought to life. LINK: Youtube

Apartment Room Addition: Hope the Cables are Strong!

Are you outgrowing your apartment? Need an extra room? Well, just hang one outside your window (hope those cables are strong!). Here’s a "walk-in sculpture" called the Rucksack House in München, Germany.

The cube is a light and empty space, free from connotations and open to its user’s needs. While still being inside a private atmosphere, one has the impression of floating outside of the confines of the actual dwelling above the public space. Folddown furnishings and a multitude of built-in openings on the inside provide extra living space with direct daylight. Sections of the walls unfold, with the help of hidden magnets, into a desk, shelves, and a platform for reading or sleeping. The Rucksack box is suspended from steel cables that are anchored to the roof or to the facade of the existing building. The construction is a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The outside cladding is exterior grade plywood with an absorbent resin surface punctuated by plexiglas inserts. LINK