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    5 Absurdly Cramped Houses and Cramped Homes: Part Four in an Eight-Part Crazy Houses Series

    cramped houses (Check out our complete collection of 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World.) (images via: Wikimedia and Wickedblog and House Alive! and Freshome) As the world's population density climbs and cities become more crowded, it's becoming necessary to fit ...

    8 Pivotal Olympic Villages And Venues Then And Now: From Moscow to London and Beyond

    One of the reasons cities compete so savagely over the Olympic games in spite of the amount of debt that it can plunge them into is the opportunity to completely transform their infrastructure as well as their global image. Atlanta completely rebuilt their international image around being an Olympic city ...

    6 Crazy Condos and Curious Townhouses: Part Three in an Eight-Part Amazing Houses Series

    (Check out our complete collection of 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World.) Design-wise, condos and townhouses are known for being less-than-thrilling examples of architecture. They are typically boxy and boring with little variation between them. Believe it or not, there are some condos and townhouses that are ...

    7 Stunningly Precarious Mountain and Cliff Dwellings: Part Two of an Eight-Part Amazing Houses Series

    precarious clifftop homes (Check out our complete collection of 70 Amazing Houses from Around the World.) (images via: Casa Pauline and Nathan Snider and BurlingameBarley) We humans like a bit of adventure, as a rule. We drive fast, we hang glide, we even ...

    12 Unbelievable Examples of Buildings in Motion: From Floating Churches to Rotating Skyscrapers

    Moving Buildings You may have heard about the impressive and flashy new moving skyscraper set to be erected in Dubai. However, did you know that one man is single-handedly rebuilding his own stone henge (without modern machinery) or that entire Egyptian temples (originally carved out of mountainsides) have been relocated? Here are ...