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‘Built By Humans’: 30 Architects That Ate And Left No Crumbs When It Came To Creating Something Amazing
The Instagram account 'Built By Humans' showcases stunning structures from around the world, both ancient and modern, and celebrates the ingenuity and creativity behind them.
From intricate temples and monuments to towering skyscrapers, 'Built By Humans' is a feast for the eyes. However, according to its description, this fun little online project also features emerging architects and designers who are trying to make a name for themselves by pushing the boundaries of the craft.
This way, the account retains the balance between traditional designs and the latest trends and innovations in the field. Below you will find our favorite posts from its feed.
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David 2 years ago (edited)
(EDIT: Finished thread - this one still my favorite) I really like this. Not just because big / expensive. I mean the colors and vibe. It gives the impression of quality without being gawdy / showy and it fits my rather subdued personality. It looks like a lot of work to maintain outside but I suppose if I could afford that I could hire some yard help. Also, I don't think I ever thought a black house could be beautiful but here we are. I think it is the wood highlights. We actually have two black houses I know of in town and they look horrid. But they are literally ALL black.
aartdesigns 2 years ago
The lines. The environment... textures... colors. Ah. All wonderful. Nicely done. Bravo.
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David 2 years ago
That must be somewhere very hot with no winter / storm season. If this existed where I live then certain times of the year you would be surfing more than channels from your living room sofa.
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Goran Jeremić 2 years ago
This is Ostrog monastery in Montenegro, it's part of serbian ortodox church.
Hiram's Friend 2 years ago
And here you are at the bottom of the stairs with six bags of groceries.
Iwanna Iguana 2 years ago
If it was a private house, first thing people would think is what a massive amount of money they would have spent on such a construction. But it's a church...so ok
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aartdesigns 2 years ago
That's an unexpected locale... fun little beach area. Just a really interesting area and building. Total Bond Villian lair vibe, for sure.
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Cardboard Dino 2 years ago
This is what I would want to live in if I was a famous actress in the past
Kayjunmoon 2 years ago
If you live there you won’t be cleaning it yourself:)
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
To me, they're very much like the traditional Moroccan Riad's , beautiful though!
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Sleepy_Theater_Bee 2 years ago
The tiles are really pretty but kinda make the pool look like it's filled with algae and needs a good cleaning with a power washer
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aartdesigns 2 years ago
I think I'd be hesitant to pressure wash, being so old. May not survive.
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Bored Seb 2 years ago
when you can afford such a place, you can afford the cleaner...
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aartdesigns 2 years ago
Well that is different. Buy stock in window cleaner though. Really cool how it reflects the surrounding environment... Interesting design study
Omni Unicorn 2 years ago
What if it breaks? That's a lot of custom-cut glass! Beautiful, but not worth it imo.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
My thinking as well. One good windstorm and the outside becomes the inside. The Geico lizard would flip his little scaly c**p over insuring this place.
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Tricia Burcell 2 years ago
Breathtaking in beauty, scope, and design! I wish I could hear that organ play; you’d practically see the sounds floating around that room!
Hilary Gilbertson 2 years ago
The interior is beautiful, but this shot is just messing around with lenses.
GadgetGirl 2 years ago
What drugs do you take to design this and still think it's a good idea when they've worn off?
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
When the assignment is to fit the house into a landscape, why do architects habitually create square shapes?
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GadgetGirl 2 years ago
Love this design. Natural cooling, shade in the summer, and ferns smell so lovely
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Just stop already huh? Move on if you don't like it. That's what the rest of the mature members of this site do.
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Epona 2 years ago
How do you even get into the pool? The room next to it looks very angled (as does everything else in this photo, apart from the ground). Also, I'd hate to have to walk to or from that upstairs room if it was pouring rain or snowing. Why isn't that stairwell covered?
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Bob Bobson McBobford 2 years ago
I agree, it looks like a building that survived a zombie apocalypse and then got partially restored by the survivors, but the survivors wanted to keep some reminder if the destruction as a monument to what they've been through
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David 2 years ago
Poor boy me is JUDGING you . How do you put that much money into house and outdoor furniture but you can't be bothered to remove the weeds from between the bricks?
Kayjunmoon 2 years ago
I know what you mean but this is one of the few on here that doesn’t look so staged. It looks lived in.
Load More Replies... Sleepy_Theater_Bee 2 years ago
Very beautiful, very regal, but give me a tiny cottage in the woods any day. This is too fancy for me
aartdesigns 2 years ago
I really love the ability to open a whole wall if the weather is right. So nice
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Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
This is only graphic design, not a real building, and one guesses that all of the lights would be on only to showcase, not all the time.
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Just me, myself, and I 2 years ago
Love it, but there aren't enough people I like to fill the bedrooms and share it. A bit too much for me, husband, and 2 dogs.
Tricia Burcell 2 years ago
Whimsical lodge that incorporates every cool design tool they could think of! 👍🏼
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
this is a cheesy mcmansion....and frankenhouse to boot!...am i a rustic lodge? a farmhouse? gothic? a greek villa?...blech!
David 2 years ago
"EW!" The design seems hodge podge. Some of the dormers are either fake or just ill placed. The rounded roof one in the foreground pointing to the side is half blocked by peak roof in front of it. The rotunda windows are also partially obstructed. If you zoom in the neighbors have nice looking houses too but of a much more reasonable design. This screams, "I had money but wasn't sure WTH I wanted"
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Kim Landfather 2 years ago
White-white-white. To me that show’s absolutely zero personality and just looks like an elegant hospital.
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
WTF? It's not even a real photo. This is clearly an artists impression....
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Tricia Burcell 2 years ago
I love how even the lighting is carefully designed to play with the architecture!
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Phoenix 2 years ago
Ahhh, there's nothing quite like getting up in the morning, stepping outside and involuntarily going for a swim.
Tricia Burcell 2 years ago
Gets that feel of ocean bungalow without the danger of being washed away during the next storm. (Until there’s a mudslide…)
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Praea Kitten 2 years ago
Uh, not *just* to look at the neighbors. You have to give the neighbors an opportunity to look in and be jealous of what you have, too
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I think this would have looked nicer with a triptych Palladian window.
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vos (they/she/he) 2 years ago
looks like something out of Star Wars in more of a human way if that makes sense
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Same. I totally want to have a tiny house some day!
Load More Replies... Tricia Burcell 2 years ago
Okay, fine. I’ll come live in the cool mushroom house, you twisted my arm.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Really, just cut it out. No one wants to hear from you anymore!
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Praea Kitten 2 years ago
These places with the huge windows make me cringe to think of the cooling bill in the summer
Ginny Crouse 2 years ago
And the heating bill in the winter. Yes, deserts get cold at night.
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Carrie Little 2 years ago
Something about these pictures where you look out the window at nothing but woods or desert or whatever make me so uncomfortable... they're beautiful, but I just don't think I could live there.
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Hopefully there’s a pump in the pool that can we down the roof during fire season.
David 2 years ago
If I had that kind of money I'd have a foam system. Though the pool could still be a good source of the water part of that equation.
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Tricia Burcell 2 years ago
This is so cool, but I think storms would feel scarier in a house like this. Did I say scarier? I meant more epic. (Okay, I meant both.)
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Grace Briseno 2 years ago
I mean to be fair, the water features are in pretty precarious spots if you're not watching your step, and the brutalist concrete patio with a random uncentered hot tub(?) in the middle doesn't look particularly nice. Great view though.
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Jay Son 2 years ago
Wouldn't surprise me if this was built on the wall of a hill/mountain and this being the only possible view.
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David 2 years ago
Locally we call this sort of thing a McMansion. A fancy house built in a tract (or small plot of land) that is trying to be a rich people home but they didn't quite have the money for a rich people home. (Though I'm sure this place cost a lot more than my place)
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
McMansion is specifically a slang term that describes a large, often opulent or ostentatious, mass-produced house. The name carries a somewhat critical connotation because McMansions lack architectural uniqueness, class, or style. This house isn't that.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
The proportions are rather overwhelming. Having the different elements at different heights would be more welcoming and homey.
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David 2 years ago
This one is probably quite nice from the inside. Appears to be right on beach so that rooftop patio likely has a wonderful view. The open part of the second floor appears to have a track so I'm guessing it has a large window/slider wall that closes in the bad weather - and still gives a wonderful view to sit and have a cup of tea. Actually, I'm realizing the bottom opens/closes as well. Must get some wonderful breezes in warm weather with everything opened up.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
This looks like a 'let's use up all the odd bits of stuff we have leftover' project.
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David 2 years ago
Big windows, uncomfortable furniture, big panels in the back where they will post the flight times, nothing to do except wonder if there is an overpriced vending machine down the hall. Yeah, very much an airport waiting area vibe.
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Bill Swallow 2 years ago
It's a top-secret government base for an off-books clandestine research and ops division! Can't you tell from how unobtrusive it is?
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David 2 years ago
they appear to be growing pine trees on their patio. And they are overcrowded even if they were not in a patio planter box.
Anička 2 years ago
They'll thin them out by getting a Christmas tree every year from there... And eventually they'll just replant them all 😋
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David 2 years ago
Google image tells me - Damero Building / Francisco Cadau Oficina de Arquitectura - APARTMENTS, RESIDENTIAL • CAMPANA, ARGENTINA - so "homes" of a sort but not a house.
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Bruce Scheiman 2 years ago
Again, I question whether this is a home? It's beautiful, however, I seriously doubt that is a home.
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
I'm a little confused here, help me out. Where did the idea that these are 'homes' come from? That's not mentioned in the headline. Just 'stunning architecture built by humans'. I mean, you're not wrong - this certainly seems to be an apartment building, and several of the others are likely built for other purposes. But I didn't see 'homes' as part of the criteria for inclusion.
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
David are you drunk? Seems like you're just sh!t-posting at this point,
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CD Mills 2 years ago
I was wrong before. THIS is the ugliest building I've ever seen. Surely there won't be one worse than this.
CD Mills 2 years ago
LOL Disregard the last sentence. I didn't know it was the last one until I scrolled.
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CC 2 years ago
Nope, the vast majority of these leave me cold. I do like big windows to let in plenty light, but NOT glass walls. The only one I actually liked was the one that was apparently a LOTR film set! 😀
Elizabeth West 2 years ago
Yes. Too much glass, not enough privacy, no feeling of warmth or coziness, and I shudder to think about the heating and cooling costs.
Load More Replies... Paul Rabit 2 years ago
The civic ones are great, the private residence ones just remind me that I’m living in a new Gilded Age.
Marco Richter 2 years ago
not so much stunning achitecture but the usual rich people homes. Very few exceptionally great designs.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Too many entries are just blocks of pale concrete with loads of windows. When you've seen one, you've seen them all.
CC 2 years ago
Nope, the vast majority of these leave me cold. I do like big windows to let in plenty light, but NOT glass walls. The only one I actually liked was the one that was apparently a LOTR film set! 😀
Elizabeth West 2 years ago
Yes. Too much glass, not enough privacy, no feeling of warmth or coziness, and I shudder to think about the heating and cooling costs.
Load More Replies... Paul Rabit 2 years ago
The civic ones are great, the private residence ones just remind me that I’m living in a new Gilded Age.
Marco Richter 2 years ago
not so much stunning achitecture but the usual rich people homes. Very few exceptionally great designs.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Too many entries are just blocks of pale concrete with loads of windows. When you've seen one, you've seen them all.
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