20 Fantastic Dollhouses Designed by Famous Architects

Zaha Hadid's This Must Be the Place dollhouse is a puzzle structure made of wood and resin pieces. Image: Thomas Butler Its current bid is 10,500. Image: Thomas Butler 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 Chris Ofili, a long-time Adjaye collaborator, created custom miniature artwork for the home. Image: Thomas Butler MAKE Architects' Jigsaw House is made up of 26 fully-designed houses and another 20 empty houses that can be combined. Image: Thomas Butler 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 Individual, hollowed-out oak rooms in bright colors can be inserted into the house. Image: Thomas Butler Coffey Architecture's Inside Out dollhouse is built out of concrete and includes a bonsai tree and herb garden. Image: Thomas Butler 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 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 Glenn Howells Architects built the The Extra-Ordinary House out of robust timber. Image: Thomas Butler 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 SHEDKM's Outside/In is a collection of exterior-like spaces that rotates like a Rubik puzzle around a spiral stair. Image: Thomas Butler Guy Hollaway designed the Jack in a Box, which at first appears to be a simple house. Image: Thomas Butler Until it inflates to be a life-size playhouse. Image: Thomas Butler Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan's dollhouse is a vibrantly colored, multi-level structure. Image: Thomas Butler James Ramsey RAAD Studios 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 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 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 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 Lifeshutz Davidson Sandilands dollhouse is made of three-sided rooms that can be stacked. Image: Thomas Butler Amodels' Elviss 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 The tree house includes a swimming pool in the branches and, of course, Elvis. Image: Thomas Butler

Zaha Hadid's This Must Be the Place dollhouse is a puzzle structure made of wood and resin pieces. Image: Thomas Butler

Its current bid is 10,500. Image: Thomas Butler

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

Chris Ofili, a long-time Adjaye collaborator, created custom miniature artwork for the home. Image: Thomas Butler

MAKE Architects' Jigsaw House is made up of 26 fully-designed houses and another 20 empty houses that can be combined. Image: Thomas Butler

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

Individual, hollowed-out oak rooms in bright colors can be inserted into the house. Image: Thomas Butler

Coffey Architecture's Inside Out dollhouse is built out of concrete and includes a bonsai tree and herb garden. Image: Thomas Butler

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

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20 Fantastic Dollhouses Designed by Famous Architects