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Swallow's Nest castle
The neo-Gothic Swallow's Nest castle perches 130 feet above the Black Sea near Yalta in southern Ukraine. Built by a German noble in 1912, the flamboyant seaside residence is now a popular tourist destination.
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Why you should not buy a house without looking at it first...
A clifftop house that was bought at auction without being seen or surveyed by the buyer has started to collapse after the latest in a series of devastating landslides.
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12 Out-of-the-Box Architectural Oddities
Some cool stuff here.
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Old Photos Of Singapore Before It Became A Gleaming Metropolis
Singapore is one of the richest countries in the world. The city-state's 5 million people, crammed into an area barely larger than Chicago, generate the 6th-highest GDP in the world.
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The Beautifully Balanced Rieteiland House
The residence is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and it was designed and built by Hans van Heeswijk Architects. It sits on a plot of land that is incorporated into a newly established island on the outskirts of the city. The plot offers panoramic views over the surrounding area and landscape.
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Decorating Tips For Smaller En-Suite Bathrooms
With smaller bathrooms and, in particular, en-suites you have to be that little bit more careful with your selections. The first thing to do is to decide whether you can squeeze in a bathtub along with a shower, toilet and hand wash basin. If you can, then select a coordinating range of products that will not steal all of the available floor space.
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Inside the Amazing New Google Offices in Tel Aviv
Just when you thought your office space was cool, here comes a new Google office design. Google has been known to provide great offices for their emplo
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The Titanic time warp: We knew it was being rebuilt, but as these amazing new designs show, it really WILL be 1912 all over again
Australian, Professor Clive Palmer will recreate the Titanic in his new ship the Titanic II (pictured). The millionaire has released plans showing how the new ship will look.
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Abandoned Saucer-Shaped Communist Party Headquarters on a Bulgarian Mountaintop
The Buzludzha Monument is a massive saucer-shaped communist-era building high atop a mountain in Bulgaria. Completed in 1981, the building features a 350 foot tall tower and an enormous circular conference hall. In addition to serving as a monument to Bulgarian socialism, the building was also the headquarters of the country’s Communist Party. However with the collapse of communism in Bulgaria in 1990, the monument fell into disuse and disrepair.
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Syria's priceless heritage under attack
Thousands have been killed and millions made homeless in Syria's civil war, but it has also caused irreparable damage to some of the world's most precious historical sites. The treasures now being destroyed matter to everyone on the planet, argues historian Dan Snow.
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Researchers: Stonehenge started as huge graveyard
British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 B.C.
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The Moses Bridge - Netherlands
Pretty neat.
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Case Closed: 12 Locked Down Abandoned Police Stations
These unlocked, unloaded and unmanned abandoned police stations suggest that when the long arm of the law has withered, the end of society must be nigh.
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An Amazing 240-Square Foot Apartment Works Like a Magical Jewelry Box
Did you think a 420-square-foot apartment sounded impossible to live in? Try 240-square-feet. Somehow, New York City architect Tim Seggerman renovated an Upper West Side space to make that postage stamp-sized space feel like work like magic.
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Building the World's Largest Ship (in 76 seconds)
A timelapse of the construction of Maersk Line's very first Triple-E vessel at the DSME shipyard in Okpo, Korea. The timelapse was produced by Discovery Channel and Maersk, and it consists of 50,000 photos taken over 3 months.
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Can We Please Stop Drawing Trees on Top of Skyscrapers?
Just a couple of years ago, if you wanted to make something look trendier, you put a bird on it. Birds were everywhere. I'm not sure if Twitter was what started all the flutter, but it got so bad that Portlandia performed a skit named, you guessed it, "Put a Bird On It".
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Berlin Wall section removed despite protests
Construction workers tear down parts of historic East Side Gallery to make way for access route to luxury flats.
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North Korea's Enormous, Half-Finished 'Hotel Of Doom' Hits A Major Snag
Ryugyong Hotel, the enormous hotel planned for Pyongyang North Korea that has been in the works for decades, appears to have hit a serious problem.
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Australian Mogul Wants to Open Giant Dinosaur Park in Australia
Australian mining mogul Clive Palmer wants to establish an island filled with giant, robotic dinosaurs — and that’s not an April Fools’ joke, the AFP reports. Luckily, though, Palmer appears to have moved on from his original dream of cloning a dinosaur and instead has decided to fill his island with giant robotic ones. Perhaps someone finally showed the billionaire Jurassic Park.
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Interesting house architecture
Love the shape and colors.
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