Gallery: 20 Fantastic Dollhouses Designed by Famous Architects
Thomas Butler01ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTSInternationally renowned, award-winning architects
Zaha Hadid's *This Must Be the Place* dollhouse is a puzzle structure made of wood and resin pieces. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler02ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTSInternationally renowned, award-winning architects
Its current bid is £10,500. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler03ADJAYE ASSOCIATESIn collaboration with Base Models and artist Chris Ofili
David Adjaye's *Electra House* is a flexible home that contains a live/work space. Designed to be accessible to all, the ground floor is a continuous space, undulating between outdoor courtyard and creative indoor space. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler04ADJAYE ASSOCIATESIn collaboration with Base Models and artist Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili, a long-time Adjaye collaborator, created custom miniature artwork for the home. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler05MAKE ARCHITECTSAward-winning international architectural practice
MAKE Architects' *Jigsaw House* is made up of 26 fully-designed houses and another 20 empty houses that can be combined. *Image: Thomas Butler*
06MAKE ARCHITECTSAward-winning international architectural practice
Each partner in the practice was encouraged to invent their own house filling each room with their own sensory expressions of play and color. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler07COFFEY ARCHITECTSYoung Architect of the Year 2012
Individual, hollowed-out oak rooms in bright colors can be inserted into the house. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler08COFFEY ARCHITECTSYoung Architect of the Year 2012
Coffey Architecture's *Inside Out* dollhouse is built out of concrete and includes a bonsai tree and herb garden. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler09STUDIO EGRET WESTIn collaboration with artist Andrew Logan
Studio Egret West's *Puzzle House* unfolds from a colorful rectangular box into seven separate pieces. The hollow spaces each contain a jewelry-like object designed by artist Andrew Logan: a stair of mirrors, a ladder, a diving board, a few thimbles, a chain, a propeller. *Image: Thomas Butler*
10DEXTER MOREN ASSOCIATESArchitects and interior designer specialists
Dexter Moren's *Haptic House* is based on the concept of 'sensory play'. A series of components, identical in character, are meant to stimulate the primary senses. The 360-degree access means there are no defined rules of how it can be used. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler11GLENN HOWELLS
Glenn Howells Architects built the *The Extra-Ordinary House* out of robust timber. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler12GLENN HOWELLS
They want to explain how the home works through touch and feel so a child with impaired sight can understand how its volumes relate to living. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler13SHEDKMIn collaboration with artist James Ireland
SHEDKM's *Outside/In* is a collection of exterior-like spaces that rotates like a Rubik puzzle around a spiral stair. *Image: Thomas Butler*
14GUY HOLLAWAYIn collaboration with Hemingway Design.
Guy Hollaway designed the Jack in a Box, which at first appears to be a simple house. *Image: Thomas Butler*
15GUY HOLLAWAYIn collaboration with Hemingway Design.
Until it inflates to be a life-size playhouse. *Image: Thomas Butler*
16MORAG MYERSCOUGH AND LUKE MORGANIn collaboration with Ishbel Myerscough,Chantal Joffe and Lemn Sissay
Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan's dollhouse is a vibrantly colored, multi-level structure. *Image: Thomas Butler*
17JAMES RAMSEY RAAD STUDIOIn collaboration with artist Lara Apponyi
James Ramsey RAAD Studio’s *The Grimm House* is an interpretation of an illustrated fairy tale book for blind children. The story of Hansel and Gretel is written in braille on the exterior.The interior cavity is a tactile exploration of the fairytale, sculpted from hard candy, braided hair, and bones. *Image: Thomas Butler*
18DUGGAN MORRIS ARCHITECTSIn collaboration with Unit 22 Modelmakers
Duggan Morris Architects' *Multi-story* house has been designed to aid early intervention strategies for children with developmental disability Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The house swaps the visually noisy cross section of the typical dollhouse with a set of rooms arranged in either a stack or plan form. Each room can be used in isolation or as part of a sequence. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler19DRMMIn collaboration with Richard Woods Studio and Grymsdyke Farm
dRMM's *House for a Deaf Child* has an exterior with adjustable pieces to give color expression on the outside and control of light and views from the inside. *Image: Thomas Butler*
Thomas Butler20DRDH ARCHITECTSIn collaboration with Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Dolven
DRDH Architects' *Play House* is a toy theatre, based on the 18th-19th century paper Theatres Popular. The theatre features working scenery lifts and curtains in the fly tower, making all floors accessible to its actors and audience.*Image: Thomas Butler*
21LIFSCHUTZ DAVIDSON SANDILANDSAward winning architects, urban designers and masterplanners
Lifeshutz Davidson Sandilands dollhouse is made of three-sided rooms that can be stacked. *Image: Thomas Butler*
NASA22AMODELSCreative architectural model makers
Amodels' *Elvis’s Tree House* is based on a real playground in Southampton, England. The concept was to be as physically challenging as possible so kids learn for themselves as fast as possible. *Image: Thomas Butler*
23AMODELSCreative architectural model makers
The tree house includes a swimming pool in the branches and, of course, Elvis. *Image: Thomas Butler*
