Guest author Andrew Boyd is an expert on travel hacks
After the overwhelming praise for our previous post on cargo container homes and offices we simply couldn't resist doing a follow-up with even more amazing shipping container architectural designs from around the world. From self-transforming shipping container rooms ...
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10 (More) Awesome Architectural Shipping Container Designs: From Loft Spaces to Emergency Housing
Guest author Andrew Boyd is an expert on travel hacks
After the overwhelming praise for our previous post on cargo container homes and offices we simply couldn't resist doing a follow-up with even more amazing shipping container architectural designs from around the world. From self-transforming shipping container rooms ...
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 ...
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.
10 Impressive Parkour and Free Running Videos: Urban Buildering and Building Jumping in Action
Parkour and free running have increasingly hit the big time, being featured in mainstream movies and prime-time commercial spots. Still, it's important to remember that these amazing arts of urban building jumping, climbing and running originated in offbeat locations and abandoned buildings. These videos feature some of the more raw and original free runners who made this extreme urban sport what it is today. Scroll to the end for some awesome medleys and remixes!
5 Urban Design Proposals for 3D City Farms: Sustainable, Ecological and Agricultural Skyscrapers
Imagine the world in 2050 with almost 80% of the planet's population living in urban centers and our fruit, vegetables and even animals are grown in ... skyscrapers? One man's vision has sparked a series of designs leading closer and closer to what will be the first real-life vertical urban farm in Las Vegas, Nevada of all places. Here are five of these remarkable architectural designs for sustainable (and stylish) urban farm towers that may revolutionize agriculture as we know it. In the long run such structures may not only provide food for hundreds of thousands of people per building but they will also relieve much of the burden on other flat landscapes where fewer and fewer usable growing spaces exist.
