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Lilypad - A Floating Ecopolis For Climate Refugees

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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Maison Go

The p¨¦riph¨¦riques architects designed this three story house in Thionville, France. It bulit with the huge amount of glass and a metal frame. This metal-frame house is fixed on a concrete basement. The facades are made of glass outlines called "profilit", offering thermal isolation as well as intimacy protection. And each layer is angled the opposite of the one below creating a wobbly effect. Pretty!
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Joshua tree

Joshua tree designed by Hanger Prefab. I love this house. A steel skinned mobile house with a wooden interior.
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Sculp(IT) Live/Work

It is a 2.4 meters(7'10" wide) building. This five story bulilding, even include a bathtub on the roof, I love this bathtub. Four wooden floors between two existing walls, hanging in a steel skeleton, organize this house: downstairs for work, dining on 1st, relaxing on 2nd, sleeping on 3rd, and on the roof, go and enjoy the view.
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BloomFrame

If you believe your window can be open as a balcony? BloomFrame($TBD) is an window frame which can be transformed into a balcony(very cool design!). Opening the Bloomframe balcony offers the possibility to step outside. It is a good solution for compact apartments. The BloomFrame features can be installed in new and old buildings. And this design is the winner of a 2008 Red Dot Design Award. Designs can be customized and made to order. Check out more see the video of the BloomFrame.
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Complex at the Centre of the Universe

Wow! Just see the building, I love it, very cool! It likes the city in the future. By the Marek Staszek, Poland. The Complex at the Centre of the Universe is the 1st work in the NVArt competition. NVArt is CGSociety and NVIDIA were running a competition. NVArt: Art Space, which was designed to test the vision of artists form around the globe. The winner Staszek Marek is a 3D modeler and sculptor, who created this Complex at the Centre of the Universe. "Lush turquoise colors emphasizing positive vibes, something I've never seen. I wanted to achieve complete integration of future architecture with nature, complete with green parks, trees and gardens."
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Pink Project in New Orleans

While filming on a set in New Orleans. Actor Brad Pitt noticed a pink fabric house that was being used as part of the set. He saw the pink structure as a metaphor, representing the future of renewed housing for those displaced by the recent disasters. With the vision fresh in his mind, he picked up the phone and described the concept to the Los Angeles office of Graft. The Pink Project in New Orleans, Timber houses will gradually replace the temporary pink tents as monetary donations clock up. Launched in December last year.
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Gravity Defying Homes

PointClickHome has posted a gallery of the Gravity Defying Homes. Architecture that gives "living on the edge" a whole new meaning. The left pic is the Gangster House(Archangelsk, Russia), which is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring thirteen floors to reach 144 feet. The homeowner or gangster, Nikolai Sutyagin, had all intentions of finishing the construction but his dream went on hold when he got locked up behind bars for his third jail sentence. The right pic is Floating Castle (Ukraine), which is supported by a single cantilever, this mysterious levitating farm house belongs in a sci-fi flick.
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A Death-Defying house

This Coloful house designed by artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa as physical experiment in defeating mortality... They called it A Death-Defying house. See more pictures of the house jump more. I am afraid of dead, so I decided to paint my room colorful.
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Serero Architects and his redesign Eiffel Tower Project

Paris-based Serero Architects have claimed victory in the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower's public reception and access areas.. The project will extend the top floor plate of the tower by grafting a high performance carbon Kevlar structure on it. The structure will be temporarily bolted to the slab without requiring any modification of the existing structure. It will expand the usable floor area from 280 m2 to 580m2. I wonder what parisians will think?
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Nomadhome - Transportable and Extendable House

Nomadhome gives the largest possible efficient use of space and geographical flexibility. Living space that is transportable and extendable at all times. A home that moves with you when you change location. On a building plot from as little as 200-300m², maybe not even bought but rented or leased. Nomadhome can be used as your house, a coffee lounge, showroom, temporary office, shop, or colleagues apartment...
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The Newspaper House

The interactive artwork by artist Summer Erek, was created with the help of the public who brought old newspapers to fit into the structure. The 5ft high building has been installed as a piece of public art in Gillet Square in Dalston, Hackney. The artist erected the wooden structure in a local church and residents were encouraged to bring and place newspapers into it. Train companies donated about two tonnes of newspapers left by commuters while another 10,000 papers were collected by Project Freesheet. [ Link ]
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Backpack House

In this city, if you need a floating house, your own house that you can see the streets from the house's floor? Its name is Backpack House. As mobile as a "rucksack ", adds extra space at the front of each residential building attached. The Backpack House consists of a cube-made element with the dimensions width 2.50 m, 2.50 m in height and 3.60 m deep. The construction is a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The height of the top floor of the cube element is approximately 10.50 m, and the total weight of the sculpture is approximately 2.0 t. For the fearless high person!
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Spittelau Viaducts Project

Spittelau Viaducts project in Vienna, Austria by Zaha Hadid nearing completion. The site is formed via the culmination of densely overlapping infrastructural elements: the "Spittelauer Leande" is one of Vienna's most highly traveled roadways; the Danube Canal connecting Germany to Hungary. The housing is built along the Donaukanal, over Otto Wagner's elevated metro viaduct.



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Beijing Airport - World's Largest Airport Building

The new Beijing airport new terminal set to open. Designed by Foster + Partners, the Beijing Airport is the "world's largest and most advanced airport building - not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability." A symbol of place, its soaring aerodynamic roof and dragon-like form will celebrate the thrill of flight and evoke traditional Chinese colours and symbols. Jump more to see the video.
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