Guest author Andrew Boyd is an expert on travel hacks
With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are looking for green alternatives for office, and even new home, construction. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the ...
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10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo Containers: Shipping Container Homes and Offices
Guest author Andrew Boyd is an expert on travel hacks
With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are looking for green alternatives for office, and even new home, construction. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the ...
7 Creative Approaches to Building Big with Paper: Adaptive (Re)Uses of an Everyday Material
New and innovative products are being conceived and produced all the time, but what about new ideas for already-familiar materials? What would it take to get you to see a well-known building material in a new light? Some designers are doing just that now with forward-thinking furniture and ...
10 Private Islands You Can’t Afford to Live On: Amazing, Exotic and Remote Luxury Retreats
Guest author Brian Thibault lives and breathes (and occasionally writes about) international real estate as the CEO of International Listings LLC.
Feeling a little cramped in your thousand square foot Manhattan apartment? Got a few extra million to blow? If so, you too can join the elite of the elite ...
12 Compelling Monuments Dedicated to Peace: Reversing the Typology of the War Memorial
"Peace is always beautiful" - Walt Whitman
Humans really know how to commemorate their fallen and the incredible monuments dedicated to war stand as evidence. Seeing those, a few will probably say that death is beautiful but this article will continue the series and will focus ...
5 Modern Secret Room Dreams (and Nightmares): From Creative Hideouts to Dreadful Spaces
Hidden passages have a long history of appearing in fictional novels and films but an even richer past in reality dating back to Egyptian tombs passages for Christians to worship in hiding from Romans. Over the years hidden passages have been used to arrest kings and evacuate popes, hide shogun warriors, facilitate guerrilla fighters, enable drug smugglers and conceal serial killers. In recent times, however, many more modest individuals have created (or discovered) secret passages in ordinary everyday households and there are even companies dedicated to designing secret doors, rooms and passages in middle-class houses. In some cases the discovery of a secret room is a wonderful find but it can also be a twisted nightmare.
