With our city now so laughably unaffordable, thousands of Vancouverites are stuck imagining wonderful homes instead of living in them. “Spaced” is a record of our minds wandering the world of architecture and design, up and away from the unrewarding realities of shoebox condos, dark basement suites, and sweet fuck all on Craigslist.

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(via) This seemingly straight-forward, tiny hideaway – dubbed “Tom’s Hut” – blends into a rural slope just outside of Vienna in Austria. Designed in 2011 by Vorarlberg-based firm Raumhochrosen Architekturerzeugnisse, the building stands on the shell/footprint of a much older construction. It’s topped by a stainless steel roof and clad in wood with drawbridge shutter windows that allow for multiple outdoor exposures. It’s meant to be both a personal, contemplative refuge/retreat and a space that would also allow for hospitality. Either way, it sounds entirely sublime. We’ll take ours with some firewood, a bottle of good schnaps, a record player and the appropriate Strauss album somewhere near Alice Lake off the Sea-To-Sky Highway. — Photos by Albrecht Imanuel Schnabel.