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Brillhart elevates Miami home on stilts in response to rising sea levels
Responding to floods and weather caused by climate change, Florida-based Brillhart Architecture has raised a residence in southern Miami on galvanized steel stilts. More
Responding to floods and weather caused by climate change, Florida-based Brillhart Architecture has raised a residence in southern Miami on galvanized steel stilts. More
Cities are failing to prepare for climate change and should focus on resilient design solutions such as building houses on stilts or creating floating neighbourhoods, according to the latest report from the United Nations' climate change panel. More
Spanish architecture studio Takk has pulled back the walls of an apartment in Madrid to create an outdoor terrace alongside an insulated space that contains a bedroom on stilts. More
Architect Javier Sanjurjo and architectural design studio Ameneiros Rey have completed an L-shaped house in Vilalba, Spain, featuring living spaces elevated above the ground on pillars to optimise views of the surrounding nature. More
A black holiday home by Chilean architecture studio Elton Léniz is lifted off the ground by wooden stilts to help reduce the building's impact on the earth. More
Brazilian studio KS Arquitetos has designed a home in Porto Alegre that is elevated on stilts so that it peers over the treetops and out onto Lake Guaíba. More
Matthew Pratt's proposal to raise all human activities onto elevated cities built on slender stilts has been awarded joint third place in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More
American firm Parnagian Architects has released images of a conceptual house lifted on stilts above a site in coastal New Jersey that was hit hard by a hurricane. More
This cabin in the Alpokalja forest near Kőszeg, Hungary, was entirely built on stilts as an isolated getaway that would harmoniously integrate with the surrounding trees. More
Japanese studio Unemori Architects has completed a house in the city of Takaoka that is raised 70 centimetres above the ground on concrete stilts to protect it from flooding and heavy snow. More
US firm Olson Kundig designed an oceanfront home on Canada's Vancouver Island on stilts, with panoramic views of the surrounding forest and the Pacific Ocean beyond. More
Punta Chilen by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is a house extension on bright red-painted pine stilts overlooking the sea on the island of Chiloe in Chile. More
US architecture firm Hybrid has designed and built a compact house along a back alley in Seattle, which is partially lifted off the ground to make way for parking. More
Atelier Marko Brajovic designed Monkey House, a wooden cabin on stilts set among the trees of Paraty, Brazil, as a retreat for the architect's friends during the pandemic. More
Architect Gerhard Heusch has completed a subterranean extension for his own 15-year-old home that sits atop pilotis over a hillside in California. More
Italian studio Network of Architecture has completed an extension to a hotel in South Tyrol comprising ten gabled guest suites elevated on stilts to preserve access to the scenic grounds. More
Canadian architect Natalie Dionne has completed a forest retreat in southeastern Quebec, which is raised up on stilts to meet the level of the rocky landscape. More
Mumbai Artist Retreat is a cabin built from steel and bamboo by Indian studio Architecture Brio in the coastal town of Alibag that's raised on stilts to withstand rising sea levels. More
Interlocking cypress-wood planks form the roof of the Mikuni Izukogen restaurant that Kengo Kuma has perched on a rocky hillside in Honshū, Japan. More
Architecture studio Kientruc O built the Bó Mon preschool with a shady veranda for children living in Vietnam's mountainous Son La Province. More