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These Buildings Are Made Out of Ships
It's the ultimate form of recycling — just build your house out of old ocean vessels and ships. Here are some of the most incredible ways that people have turned boats into buildings, and vice versa.
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Underwater hotel room
This is a Suite at Hilton Maldives Resort and Spa, Rangali, Alif Dhaal Atoll, Maldives.
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These Photos Of NYC's Subway Project Are Astonishing
New York City is doing some serious work on the Second Avenue Subway, the first new line built under the city since 1932. The $4.5 billion project aims to decrease commuter congestion for east Manhattan. Check out these pictures. They are incredible.
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One Building, One City: World's tallest prefab, Sky City, is breaking ground in June
Sky City will be 2750 feet tall, 220 stories, housing 30,000 people in 4450 apartments. That's sustainable design.
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How To make Your Backyard Wonderful This Summer
Summer is almost here lets get started to make your outdoor space into a fun place.
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The world’s tallest building will basically be a giant stack of trailer homes
The world’s tallest building might be the sort of place you wouldn’t want to live. Sure, Sky City One, which will rise from an empty field in Changsha, China, will be a miracle of efficient construction that will be built in only 90 days, resist magnitude-9 earthquakes, and save energy just by allowing its residents to travel less.
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Dubai: 1991 compared to 2013
What oil money can do.
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Room for sex: Can architecture improve our sex lives?
Most architecture is designed to make us efficient and civil. Where are the buildings that allow us to experience passion and pleasure?
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Why China loves to build copycat towns
China is well known for its pirated DVDs and fake iPhones, but this "copycat culture" extends to architecture too - with whole towns sometimes replicated. As you enter Thames Town, the honking and chaos of Chinese city life fall away.
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2 women on clay stairs
Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri near Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
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Underground house
I'd live there.
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The Physics Behind waterslides
t the top of the Summit Plummet waterslide at Walt Disney World's Blizzard Beach in Orlando, Florida—which stands some 120 feet (37 meters) above the ground—thrill seekers have been known to turn back. It's not hard to see why: The 12-story waterslide has one of the tallest and fastest drops in the world. Riders reach speeds of up to 60 miles (90 kilometers) per hour as they plummet down a free-fall slide with fake snowbanks on each side.
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House in a cave
Straight from a fairy tale
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The Largest Building Ever Constructed Has Opened in China
At what point does a building become a city? At 1.7 million square meters, the New Century Global Center lands somewhere between the two.
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The world's most spectacularly-designed houses
These images show just how the other half live, and how architecture really is pushing the boundaries on home living. Sixty of the planet's most spectacular homes have been pulled together for a Collection in magazine Architecture Now!
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Inside China’s crazy plan to build the longest, most expensive, most dangerous underwater tunnel on the planet
Deep beneath the Bohai Sea, Chinese engineers may soon begin boring the longest submarine tunnel on the planet. At an estimated 76 miles (123km) long, it would surpass the combined length of world’s two longest underwater tunnels—Japan’s Seikan Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France.
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6 Things You Won't Believe Were Built by a Single Person
Sometimes unlimited imagination is paired with both inspiration and obsession, and this sexy three-way of abstract concepts gives us some truly awesome feats.
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Tiny Living
Chris Tack made seven trips to Goodwill to get rid of his stuff, before moving into the 140-square-foot home he and his wife Malissa Tack designed and built. Constructed on a trailer bed and parked in Snohomish, Washington, the house is more than enough space for them, the couple says. And one advantage of a home on wheels, the 29-year-olds say, is that you can always move.
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Infinity pool on top of the world
What a view. Must be thrilling.
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Cool Architectural Alternatives For Living Without Air Conditioning
With the heatwave sweeping the country, an urban air conditioning addiction is also on the rise. For those of us lucky enough to have it at work or at home, the generated air is an easy (if pricey) comfort that often leaves us avoiding the foreign realm of the outdoors. However, air conditioning wasn’t always there for us to fall back on so easily. Believe it or not, architecture can help us alleviate some of the heat.
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