The FLEDERHAUS
This amazing structure is an urban oasis situated in Vienna Austria designed by architects Heri & Salli. Visitors can hang out, quite literally. (Pics)
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Sweden’s hotel of treehouses
Tree Hotel in Sweden
Sweden’s unusual Tree Hotel does away with standardized rooms and instead puts guests up in a variety of design-y treehouses. A variety of architectural firms and the Tree Hotel partnered up to design distinct and unusual spaces all built in trees except for the ground-touching sauna. (Pics)
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The Wing House – an amazing recycled 747 airplane house
The guts of a retired Boeing 747 jumbo jet rests in the hills of Malibu, California. These parts aren’t just strewn around in the hills of Malibu. They have been constructed into the “Wing House,” which, as you can see, is aptly named: the roofs used to be wings. (Pics)
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Steve Jobs Reveals Plans for the New Hi-Tech Apple Headquarters
Apple’s new high-tech headquarters.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, made an unannounced visit to the June 7 City Council meeting in Cupertino, home of the computer giant, to reveal plans for a new, state-of-the-art Apple headquarters, reports the Cupertino Courier. (Video and pics)
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Metropol Parasol – World’s Largest Wooden Sculpture
Metropol Parasol – Seville, Spain
The Metropol Parasol is the world’s largest wooden sculpture. It was built by Jurgen Mayer H. Architects and it is located at Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville, Spain. (Photos)
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Incredible Tiny “Lego” Apartment Transforms Into Infinite Spaces
Christian Schallert in his 258 square-foot “Lego” apartment.
How do you fit a kitchen, living room, dining room, bedroom, shower/toilet and a table into a tiny 258 square-foot apartment? If you’re Christian Schallert, you cram it all inside of custom-built walls and furniture that when transformed, creates a surprisingly cozy “LEGO” apartment. (Pics and video)
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Arc Island – An Artificial Floating Island the Size of Manhattan
Arc Island
Entrepreneur Bernard Way has created a Kickstarter Page for an incredible project: building an artificial floating island the size of Manhattan.
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Metropol Parasol – World’s Largest Wooden Structure Opens in Spain
Metropal Parasol
March 27 marked the opening of the “Metropol Parasol”, the Redevelopment of Plaza de la Encarnación in Sevilla, designed by J. MAYER H. Architects. The final completion of the project is scheduled for April 2011. (Pics)
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New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH) – Floating U.S. City to Shelter 40,000
New Orleans Arcology Habitat
Designers in Boston have created a unique Noah’s Ark that can house 40,000 people at a time and is a city in itself, complete with hotels, shops, casinos and schools. (Pics)
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Skyscraper Building Boom in China
Shanghai Tower illustrations are displayed outside its construction site in Shanghai.
Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao, in Chicago today, will see a city famed as the birthplace of the skyscraper, for decades the towering symbol of U.S. economic ambition and power. These days, China has taken over as the skyscraper’s home.
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‘The Ark’ – A Floating Hotel Designed to Withstand Even the Most Extreme Floods
The Ark
Speaking to the world’s rising sea levels, Russia-based architectural firm Remistudio proposes this arch-shaped floating hotel as a refuge from even extreme floods. Called (quite appropriately) the Ark, the futuristic structure has the ability to exist autonomously on the surface of the water. Designed to be a bioclimatic building, the Ark incorporates several innovative green strategies and elements to ensure that its residents can survive aboard for months at a time. (Pics)
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