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Styrofoam Dome House - Mushroom House?
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These mushroom shape houses by Japan Dome House company. Its unique shape and material(polystyrene) that enable energy savings(green) and many benefits. The Dome House is an igloo-shaped structure built from snap-together wall sections made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam. Use the styrofoam?! Unlike wood and metal structures, it is also highly resistant to earthquakes and typhoons and the walls with the flame retardant features it will no toxic fumes in a fire. The best part is can be built in quick and easy. The prefabricated pieces, which each weigh about 80 kilograms (175 lbs), can be carried by 2 or 3 people and assembled in a few hours. Once the shell is put together, coats of mortar and paint are applied for further protection from the elements(watch the video, check out more). Interior of house's pics, see here.
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Clingstone
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Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. The house was abandoned in the 1940's until it was bought by Henry Wood in 1961 for $3,600. Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall.Check out see more house's pics
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CASA de RETIRO ESPIRITUAL - a Book House
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CASA de RETIRO ESPIRITUAL was designed by Emilio Ambasz in 1975. It localed at approximately 25 miles (40Km) north of Seville, Spain. The house is surrounded by the splendors of the Spanish countryside , perched on a low peak in the lush, green Sierra Morena mountains overlooking a man-made lake and a vast 1,000 Has estate where olive trees, evergreen oaks, and wild flowers grow and fighting bulls, horses and wild boar roam. Its rural setting provides a dramatic contrast to its stark ascetic look. "The design that first brought Emilio Ambasz to international attention as an architect is one of the most compelling architectural images of our time. Unforgettably, two tall white walls rise like sails from a green sea of grass. A steep cantilevered staircase climbs each of the walls to meet at the right-angled juncture of the two white sheets. This dual mirror like image soars mysteriously above a square sunken courtyard. Beyond this lies the house itself, waiting to be discovered, its alcove-like-rooms spread out amid serpentine skylights and openings." A crazy house! Watch the video, here.
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Sand Hotel
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The Sand hotel at the Weymouth beach, UK. One night only 10 pounds. If rain?! It is available until it's rained away and offers both a twin and double bedroom and provides an unparalleled British seaside experience. Built by sand sculptor Mark Anderson. To make a reservation to stay in the Sand Hotel, call LateRooms' sand hotel booking hotline, quoting "Under the Stars" on 020 7841 6682, rooms are available on a first come first served basis - book before the tide comes in. Fun! Check out see more pics.
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Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
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An exhibition called Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is holding in the Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition has invited five architects to each build a house on a vacant New York. One of houses by Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor Larry Sass. This project was called Instant House and attempted to "harness the speed and precision of laser cutters to fabricate simple shelters quickly and inexpensively". The design features grooves and notches so that the laser cut plywood panels can interlock without any traditional fasteners. The first prototype was assembled by five students who were equipped with only rubber mallets. Amazingly they were able to fully assemble the entire house in just two days. It's estimated that in large scale production the houses would only cost about $40 000.

Mobile Performance Venue by Various Architects
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The Mobile Performance Venue(MPV) is completely mobile, unlike the traditional performance venue, thank its inflatable modules and collapsible design. It is a 90 x 60 metres dynamic oval structure capable of holding 3500 people in a central performance space of 2000 sq m. The venue can also range from 10m to 17m tall. MPV consists of the central performance chamber separate from an outer circle which hosts backstage and green rooms, office space, cloakrooms and toilet facilities. The outer MPV constructed from hexagonal inflatable module which is 100% recyclable. Optional mesh or solid pvc covers. The entire project can be transported in 30 standard 40 ft containers (or 20 without the optional roof). The structure will require 2 weeks for assembly and one week for disassembly. Designed by norway's various architects.
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Bones Architecture
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The House made of bones? This building inspired of the bone shape. Transforming a bone shape into an architectural structure. By Roger Kellenberger.

A Blue-Sky Space Solution
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Designed by the architect Winy Maas, Didden Village is a colorful addition to the Rotterdam landscape. A spiral staircase floats, almost magically, just above the floor.
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Octo-Pied Building With Inflatable Tentacles
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This Octo-Pied Building by Deviantart user FilthyLuker. This tentacled building like a huge green octopus want to escape from this building, it located somewhere in France with collaborator Pedro Estrellas. A house with tentacular cancer, FilthyLuker said.

Defenestration in San Francisco
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The concept of "Defenestration", a word literally meaning "to throw out of a window,". Located at the corner of Sixth and Howard Streets in San Francisco in an abandoned four-story tenement building. Created by local artist brian goggin. Tables, chairs, lampsgrandfather clock, a refrigerator, and couches... flood out of windows like escapees, out onto available ledges, up and down the walls, onto the fire escapes and off the roof. Defenestration was created with the help of over 100 volunteers. A amazing building! Check out see more pics.
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Living Room House by Seifert Stoeckmann
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If you feel you house has not enough windows, see this project. The Living Room House by German Seifert Stoeckmann. It located in a historic district of Gelnhausen, Germany. It Clad with a powder-coated-aluminum skin, included 52 windows in this house, amazing! The bedroom hangs in a sliding drawer that can be opened over the street for alfresco sleeping, very cool design. As Seifert explains, the house responds to the exterior environment in a way that's akin to breathing.

Dynamic Tower Skyscraper
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Italian architect David Fisher designs first rotating skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower. The Dynamic Tower offers infinite design possibilities, as each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in a unique and ever evolving shape that introduces a fourth dimension to architecture, Time. The Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly, with the ability to generate electricity for itself as well as other buildings nearby making it the first building designed to be self-powered, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor. An 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant. The Dynamic Tower is also the first skyscraper to be built entirely from prefabricated parts that are custom made in a workshop, resulting of fast construction and of substantial cost savings . this approach known as the Fisher Method, also requires far less workers on construction site while each floor of the building can be completed in only seven days, units can also be customized according to the owners needs and styles. The first two towers are to be built in Dubai and Moscow. Completed building in Dubai by the end of 2010. Pre-sales for at least part of the $700 million cost of building the 80-storey skyscraper.
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Cocobello - Can be Lifted Up Two-storey
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Cocobello is a modular cabin whose functionality and flexibility allows it to serve a variety of purposes. It can be used as a showroom, workplace, press cubicle, mobile living space or artist's studio. The module consists of three interlocking elements, which can be moved apart horizontally and vertically to form a two-storey studio unit. The "Cocobello" module is defined as a Fliegender Bau ("flying building") and is thus permitted, as a temporary structure, to stay in place for up to 5 years; a veritable plug-in. More pic download this Pdf.
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Longitude 131 Hotel at the Ayers Rock
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"Luxurious, eco-sensitive and romantic, Longitude 131(AUD 3,204; about $3,400/2night Sole Use) offers immersion in the World Heritage listed wilderness of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, complete with 5-star plus luxury and private views of the sun rising and setting over Uluru (Ayers Rock)."
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Lilypad - A Floating Ecopolis For Climate Refugees
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The Lilypad is a project for the Climate Refugees - A Floating Ecopolis For Climate Refugees. It is a solution for the water rising, each floating cities designed to hold around 50,000 people. Lilypad travels on the water line of the oceans, from the equator to the poles following the marine streams warm ascending of the Gulf Stream or cold descending of the Labrador. And it is a a prototype of auto-sufficient amphibious city. It enables to live in the heart of the subaquatic depths. It also feature with green technologies(solar, wind, tidal, biomass), the double skin is made of polyester fibres covered by a layer of titanium dioxide (TiO2) like an anatase which by reacting to the ultraviolet rays enable to absorb the atmospheric pollution by photocatalytic effect...
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