Rarely have floating communities seemed quite as achievable, affordable, and beautiful as “Land on Water,” a proposal for a modular building system by Danish architecture studio MAST. Take one look at ...

For homebuyers with a special affection for life on the water—and an insistence on creature comforts—floating homes check a lot of boxes. These unique dwellings offer a permanent, water-based ...

Climate change is forcing humanity to think of alternative options for pretty much everything, from fuel to housing options. As far as the latter is concerned, floating cities or floating houses are ...

The Netherlands is going through a subtle shift in how people imagine home. Instead of resisting the water around them, many residents are choosing to build their lives on it. New communities of ...

In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...

Life on water must be great, but admittedly, it's not for everyone – and not just because of the high costs it entails. For those not eager to move too far from terra firma, there's always the ...

Don’t use a carpenter’s level to establish a horizontal line when building a floating house, says Marc Even, who often has three custom homes, in various stages of completion, bobbing on the water ...

A woman couldn’t afford to buy a house, but fear naut — she made do with a floating home. Kate Fincham beat the housing market by purchasing a 550-square-foot, two-story home that’s built on steel ...

My partner and I live in a floating home in the Pacific Northwest. My partner and I belong to a community of houses floating side by side in the Columbia River. Our house is on the smaller size at 885 ...

A new fleet of pod houses created for life on the water has just been unveiled by the Panama-based company, which specializes in cutting-edge marine technology. The unique houses combine fine ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Design for Impact is a series spotlighting architectural solutions for communities displaced by the climate crisis, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Many of these ...