#purpose-built

Lotshuset (translates to the pilot house). Formerly used as the quarters to the pilots that worked on the pilot station in Järnäsklubb, Sweden

The station was active for since the late 1600s and was closed down end of the 1960s. As an old military building it was unavailable even to the locals until 2014 when the village bought it back as the building has a special place in the hearts of many families in the old fishing village — many families have lived in the area for centuries. Now renovated and available to rent (summertime).

Contributed by Paula Quinones / @lotshuset_gasthem

Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada

Duncan Ferguson / @duncanmferguson

Sugar Shack in New Hampshire

Built with chainsaw hewn logs on an old stone foundation.

Carefully nested on the edge of the surrounding woodland, this Dark Room was developed by students of the Architectural Association’s Design + Make ( @aadesignandmake ) masters programme in Hooke Park, Dorset, southwest England.

The small building is a meditation on the act of image making — housing a wondrous alchemy of mechanical and chemical processes in its dark belly. Alongside the processing of analog photography, through the structure’s resemblance to a large format camera, students have employed the building itself as a camera — using pinhole techniques to produce images of the surrounding woodland.

Students: Francisco Adriasola, Tom Dawson, Jack Fogel, Unha Park, Florencia Rodriguez, Lucas Wilson

Tutors: Martin Self, Emmanuel Vercruysse, Zachary Mollica, Jack Draper

Writing hut built by author Henry Williamson in Georgeham, North Devon, UK

Henry Williamson built his writing hut in 1929 from oak and elm with slate roof tiles with a brick fireplace. Williamson spent up to 15 hours a day working on his acclaimed natural history and social history novels.

Williamson described the hut in an interview from 1969: 

"I wrote a book about an otter and it won a prize of a £100. I bought a 2-acre field on a hill with it. Later I built an oak hut, rather solid, and it still stands today. I go there and I write. It's a most lovely place — the trees are very high I planted them about 40 years ago.”

Tarka the Otter, published in 1928, brought the Devon countryside to life through the eyes of an otter.

Submitted by Beth Evans / @picturestring

Sugar shack in Vermont

Boathouse in Almsee Lake, Austria 

Brännö, Sweden

Brännö is an island in the Southern Göteborg Archipelago. Different types of shelters define its landscape. This one arises on the top of the hill as a lookout point.