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Waking, sleeping, recreating, loving and living, we spend so much time at home it seems a shame not to make your place of residence both functional and radical - the dwelling designs featured here will shock, amaze, intrigue and inspire you to rethink your housing situation and improve the spaces you inhabit.

Expand on Demand: Secret Deck Spaces for Small Dwellings

What if you could push a balcony outward on demand, rather than adding an entire deck or patio? Here are three designs to expand outdoor space in creative ways.

Nest-Like 3D Printed House Will be Assembled in a Day

Another contender for the first 3D printed house, 'ProtoHouse 2.0' looks like a spider's nest and can be assembled without screws or welding in a single day.

Möbius Strip: Plans to Build World's First 3D-Printed House

An unusual collaboration between an architect, an inventor and a mathematician-plus-artist is producing the world's first 3D-printed home in real life.

Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More

You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized you were being duped - until now.

Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch

Planned for a rural area outside Chengdu, 'Great City' will be entirely car-free, organized around central vertical housing with green spaces easily accessible.

Trap Streets & Rooms: Cartographic Errors Catch Copycats

It started with trap streets and phantom settlements, introduced to through off the maps of copycats - but what about trap rooms and other indoor spaces.

Gone Fission: 11 Unfinished Nuclear Power Plants

These 11 unfinished, abandoned, canceled, mothballed and/or suspended nuclear power plants will, for better or worse, never know the warmth of split atoms.

Church Bells To Doorbells: 8 Churches Turned Into Homes

When churches grow old, they can be purchased, and renovated into amazing houses that uniquely introduce religious elements into a pedestrian environment.

Abandoned Cement Factory & Silos Transformed into Offices

An abandoned factory complex in Spain has been transformed into a massive office for an architecture firm, leaving much of the old machinery intact.

7 Abandoned Wonders of Residential Architecture

From palatial chateaus to the world's largest vertical slum, these 7 abandoned wonders of residential architecture are stunning examples of waste and decay.

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