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Weekend Cabin: Casas Na Areia, Portugal

by steve casimiro on May 11, 2012 · 1 comment

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Weekend Cabin is a collection of stealthily modern cabins lurking in rustic remodeled Portuguese fishing huts.

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Weekend Cabin: Whangapoua, New Zealand

by steve casimiro on May 4, 2012 · 3 comments

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Honestly, I just like saying “Whangapoua” over and over. The fact that this beach cottage is pretty spectacularly awesome is beside the point. Whangapoua, Whangapoua, Whangapoua. The Whangapoua Sled House gives new meaning to “mobile home” — it was moved into position by tractor on the sand of New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula in a high-erosion [...]

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Weekend Cabin: San Juan Island, Washington

by steve casimiro on April 27, 2012 · 0 comments

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This week’s Weekend Cabin was built for a weaver, with a loom overlooking sparkling PNW waters.

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Weekend Cabin: The HemLoft, Whistler, B.C.

by steve casimiro on April 20, 2012 · 7 comments

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An illegal, clever, and stunningly beautiful treehouse.

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Weekend Cabin: Mill Valley, California

by steve casimiro on April 6, 2012 · 5 comments

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If you’re going to dream about having one cabin, why not dream about two? This central California couple had the land and inclination and, working with Feldman Architects, built one cabin to serve as a painter’s studio and another to be a yoga space/guest house. The duo play peekaboo through the trees, and the lower, [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Trunk House, Australia

by steve casimiro on March 30, 2012 · 1 comment

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There are houses made in the trees and then there are houses made of trees, and the Trunk House is decidedly the latter. This small cabin in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia, is supported with y-shaped trunks of the stringbark tree foraged from the ground in the surrounding forest. “Our original interest was in [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Austin, Texas

by steve casimiro on March 9, 2012 · 0 comments

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Take a passing glance at the outside of the cabin at Austin Heaven and you could be fooled into thinking it’s 50 years old, or 100, or 150. This wood-walled, metal-roofed shelter is firmly rooted in the time-tested architectural tradition of West Texas Hill Country — it’s easy to picture some grizzled poke sitting on [...]

Weekend Cabin: La Clusaz, France

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So many tree houses look like they were built by hippies or hobbits, but les cabanes dans les arbres just west of La Clusaz, France, retain the traditions of a true cabin: log walls, post and beam construction, and a simple rustic aesthetic you could find just about anywhere in the Alps. Indeed, this pair [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Muskoka, Ontario

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Here’s the plan: First, get a boat. Second, earn enough coin to have a house for my boat. Third, build boathouse that looks a lot like this one. Fourth, move into boathouse. Fifth, rarely leave. Located at Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada, the 600-square-foot structure is a renovation of an existing boathouse. It has a minimalist [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Niercombe, France

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Scattered throughout the mountains of south-central France are hundreds of stone huts called burons. Constructed for the production of cheese, they date at least as far back as the 13th century, when a tax was imposed on their construction (the hand of the Man dates even further back, of course). For hundreds of years, burons [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Allandale House

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Is there anyone who doesn’t have a soft spot for A-frames? Despite their spatial inefficiency, A-frames are romantic, retro, hopeful, and fun. And as imagined here by architect William O’Brien, modern and more function than their reputation would suggest. Allandale House is a merging of three asymmetric A-frames, actually. The widest of the three contains [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Kawakami, Japan

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Man, the Japanse. They so have it going on right now. This retreat two and a half hours from Tokyo is equal parts cabin, tent city, and base camp. The owners, Setsumasa and Mami Kobayashi, design and test outdoor gear, and their ethos is clearly articulated in the merging of the natural with the manmade. [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Stone Creek Camp, Montana

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There’s nothing small — or subtle — about Stone Creek Camp on Flathead Lake, Montana, but it’s plenty provocative. The project by Andersson-Wise architects turns the traditional inside out: It’s a log cabin in the sense that the walls are comprised of timber — cordwood cut from the Douglas fir and larch trees that were [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Great Barrier Island, New Zealand

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New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island stands off the northeast coast of the North Island, the first (or last) bit of the country sticking out into the Hauraki Gulf, and though up to a thousand people reside there, there’s no municipal electrical, water, or sewer systems. Everything’s off the grid, and even getting there’s takes a [...]

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Weekend Cabin: Foster Loop, Mazama, Washington

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The long wooden walkway of the Foster Loop cabin near Mazama, Washington, is suggestive of a pier floating above a body of water, and entering the house reminds one of boarding a vessel — self-contained, welcoming, secure. Exiting, too, echoes stepping away from the craft and venturing into a seamless world, though in this case [...]

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