Focus On: Shelter

These lightweight and modern homes are delivered ready for occupation. >

Standing at different heights, these steel-clad towers form one playful residence in Japan’s city of Kosai. >

Architecture studio AP+E has designed an evolving outdoor classroom for alternative learning. >

Casas Melhoradas, a double storey, low-cost house by Architects Without Borders, reinterprets Mozambique’s traditional corrugated iron and wood homes. >

In what sounds like a prefab fairytale, Muji launches three little houses – one made of cork, one of aluminium and one built out of wood. >

Google Head Office in SA has won top honours at the International Green Interior Awards. >

The first prize for the NASA 3D Printed Habitat Challenge Design Competition went to a house made of ice. Here's a closer look at the futuristic igloo. >

Ikea is putting the innovative design they're celebrated for into action in crisis zones across the world, such as Nepal, to give people better shelters. >

UrbanCampsiteAmsterdam is an art installation by fourteen architects, artists and designers where you can rent a room in a quirky temporary shelter. >

In an industrial part of Amsterdam the locals refer to as "Noord", 16 grounded houseboats now dot a former shipyard: tricky architectural brief, magical space. >

The Cocoon is a portable shelter for the homeless, which hopes to bring a bit of relief to their dire circumstances. >