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Spectacular garden shed offices
If you were to picture the perfect home office it probably wouldn’t be a tiny space in the corner of your bedroom or living room nor a repurposed closet. Those are still fine solutions but only when you don’t have enough space for a real office. So how about a garden shed office?
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Dubai’s Luxury Underwater Hotel
Dubai’s fascination with overblown architecture has moved below sea level thanks to the announcement of The Water Discus — billed as the world’s largest underwater hotel.
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See through Church in Limburg
The picture that comes first in our minds when we think of churches is of big building with high ceilings and statues of saints, a cold sacred place where Christians come to pray.A revolutionary concept of church was designed and build by Gijs Van Vaerenberg, a collaboration between young Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenberg .Their creation consists of a see-through church.
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The Shard, EU's tallest building, opens to the public
The Shard -- eyesore to some, marvel to others -- on Friday opened to the public, most of whom will head straight to the 72nd floor, 244 meters above ground level.
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Canada's Magical Ice Hotel
Canada's Hôtel de Glace, the unique ice hotel, is back this season for its 13th annual reconstruction.
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North Korea's ghostly 'hotel of doom' could open in 2013
The North Koreans started erecting the 330-meter Ryugyong Hotel, the tallest hotel at the time, in 1987.
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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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