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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? The owners of this one-off holiday house in the East Tyrolean village of Nussdorf near Lienz thought it looked like a cross between a bird (Vogel in German) and a UFO, hence the name. Website: conn.ch Address: Refugi Lieptgas, Fieu 2 Flims Waldhaus, Via dil Parc, Flims, Switzerland Price: from about ВЈ985 a week Ufogel Nussdorf, Austria Indeed, the architects wanted the refuge to evoke a memory or ruin, standing as it does on the spot of a dilapidated old hut, which was used as the mould. The uncompromisingly modern creation - by architects Selina Walder and Georg Nickisch - was crafted by taking a cast of a traditional log cabin and, while the plaster was still wet, pressing horizontal logs against its exterior before removing them to leave ghostly troughs and grains.

Yet for all the functional minimalism, the lushness of the natural surroundings is never far away, snatched in glimpses through a lunar-like circular skylight and wide windows. The interior is slick, with butter-smooth, pumice-grey, raw concrete walls, and sparsely furnished (just two Eames chairs at the kitchen table and a single fur-draped seat by the fire). Come closer, however, and Refugi Lieptgas's distinct urban aesthetic reveals itself: it's built entirely from concrete. Shobac Cottages, Nova Scotia, Canada Refugi Lieptgas Flims, SwitzerlandДЇrom a distance, this looks like a classic, romantically remote spot in the Alps. Outdoors, guests can fish for trout in the pond, go kayaking from the nearby beach or venture to the lovely villages of Blue Rocks and Stonehurst. The rest of the interiors are in a look MacKay-Lyons describes as 'monumentally modest', with exposed framing and punched-metal staircases in some.

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The buildings sit on a peninsula and, naturally, the huge picture windows are made for absorbing the ocean views and the rugged, craggy shore below. Although contemporary in style, they're covered in silver-toned cedar shingles in an homage to the area's vernacular architecture. Enchanted by 'this ghost of a lost village at the end of the Earth', as he describes it, he constructed four two-storey cabins here. While driving one Sunday 30 years ago near the town of Kingsburg on the southern shore of Nova Scotia, architect Brian MacKay-Lyons chanced upon some ruined farmhouses and barns from the 17th century. Website: Address: Encuentro Guadalupe, Carretera Tecate- Ensenada, Valle de Guadalupe, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico Telephone: +52 6461 552 775**Price:**Doubles from about ВЈ170 Shobac Cottages Nova Scotia, Canada As well as a top-notch restaurant and a poolside bar where chefs cook fish tacos, the hotel has its own onsite winery led by Hugo D'Acosta, one of the pioneers of modern Mexican viniculture. And the minimalist interiors of these modular cabins (monochrome and wood with floor-to-ceiling windows) chime perfectly with a new wave of cutting-edge vineyards, restaurants and places to stay that have proliferated down the valley, where the microclimate is perfect for growing Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes. Over time the Corten steel frames will acquire a tawny patina, camouflaging them against the arid-looking landscape. Architects Graciastudio - based a couple of hours' drive away over the border in San Diego - mounted the rooms on slender legs to minimise their impact on the boulder-covered slopes. While many cabins are tucked among trees or squirrelled away on hillsides, the 22 huts at this anti-resort stand sentry like funny little lookout posts along a ridge high above the Guadalupe Valley in Baja California. There is cool, mid-century furniture and carefully chosen curiosities, including a mounted fox head sourced from Churchill's estate.Д®ncuentro Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico Encuentro Guadalupe Baja California, Mexico Inside, the eco-conscious theme continues with reclaimed timber, organic paint and low-energy lighting, but at no sacrifice to design sensibilities.

The duo commissioned the firm Sutherland Hussey Harris to create a hideout with influences ranging from traditional Japanese architecture to the film The Ice Storm, which would be, above all, sustainable (wood-clad and with a flat, moss-covered roof) and in keeping with its pretty rural setting overlooking Lake Windermere. And this is no shack, but rather a thoroughly 21st-century - and Royal Institute of British Architects award-winning - cabin. True, they will adore it, but the name surely derives from the love lavished on it by owners Karen Guthrie, an artist, and Adam Sutherland, director of Grizedale Arts, a local contemporary-arts residency.

The solo double bedroom and saucy monicker of this place suggest it's aimed solely at amorous couples.

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