Chemosphere, Los Angeles
The Chemosphere is an octagon-shaped one-story house in Los Angeles with 2,200 square feet of living space, built on top of a five-foot-wide concrete column that’s approximately 30 feet above the ground. It was created by John Lautner in 1960 and was at one point dubbed “the most modern home built in the world.” It is particularly renowned for its creative design, which accounts for the fact that the house was built on a 45-degree slope.
Chemosphere, Los Angeles
Just Room Enough Island, New York
Hub Island, also known as Just Room Enough Island, is located in northern New York, straddling the Canada-US border in the Saint Lawrence River. The smallest inhabited island in the world, Just Room Enough Island is only 3,300 square feet, yet as its name suggests, it has just enough space for a house, a tree, and a little beach. The Sizeland family bought the island in the 1950s with the intention of using it as a private getaway home. Unfortunately for them, as soon as word of the property spread, it lost its exclusivity.
Just Room Enough Island, New York
