Earlier this month, several Los Angeles-area architecture firms participated in the Architects for Animals fundraiser benefitting one of our favorite organizations, FixNation. Each architecture firm was tasked with building a creative and functional structure for outdoor cats, and the results are pretty stunning! Feast your eyes on these one-of-a-kind cat houses.
Above: NAC Architecture created this awesome cat tube hideaway using old samples from their materials library, which would usually be thrown away.
HOK designed a modular structure using minimal materials and off-the-shelf products; This colorful structure from Wolcott Architecture Interiors was inspired by the work or artist and architect Rodney La Tourelle.
This lovely wood structure provides a hideaway and a lookout area. Designed by Abramson Teiger Architects.
“The Cat Cube” is a concrete and reclaimed wood structure with multiple entrances, designed by Standard Architecture Design.
This lovely geometric structure is by Perkins + Will; Lehrer Architects’ “ConCATenate” includes many levels for cats to climb and rest.
This beautiful slatted wood structure from RNL incorporates multi-level platforms covered in astroturf.
“The Cat Chalet” by Space Intl provides a cozy shelter for a cat below and a seating area for humans above.
D3 Architecture repurposed some wooden pallets to make this colorful multi-level structure; A cradle of rayon webbing is suspended between large aluminum hoops. From DSH Architecture. (Interesting concept, but I’d be worried about safety with this one. It makes a nice piece of sculpture, but maybe not so cat-friendly.)
Formation Association/Edgar Arceneaux created a shelter that doubles as a bench with passageways below.
Yeah they rayon webbing one is no good my cat likes to eat fabric
Interesting and varied designs; I like the Abramson Tieger design, which is reminiscent of a couple of cat house my ex and I built some time back.
These are sooooo fun!!! I wish that an event like this would be held in NYC; it would be awesome to attend in person! East coast peeps love their cats, too! 😉
Pretty, but given that they are supposed to be for outdoor cats, ridiculously impractical and providing very little actual shelter, for the most part. The Cat Cube might be ok, but I’m wondering how hot it will be in the summer, and how cold in the winter. Certainly it doesn’t seem like it would be easy to make.
I agree that they all seem to be pretty much useless as shelters. Maybe play areas from time to time, but lots of work for a play area. I am sure they probably will cost lots of money to build, or especially prebuilt!