17 Extreme Real Houseboats & House Boat Design Ideas
(Check out our complete collection of Underwater and Oceanic Oddities.) Whether a luxury habitat or humble floating home, do you ever dream of sailing off into the sunset in your very own ...
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10 Amazing Tree Houses: Plans, Pictures, Designs, Ideas & Kits
As a young child (or perhaps even an adult) who hasn't dreamed of living tree houses? Some structures are built on trees or hung from trees, but some unusual tree house building designs are even ...
Local Materials: Sustainable Clay-Fired Desert Architecture
Imagine a sustainable building system that requires only the skills of a potter to complete. A basic earthen structure is formed and finished by traditional clay-firing processes. This remarkable ...
Historic Home: Frank Gehry’s First Deconstructivist Building
What happened to Frank Gehry? Some call it a midlife crises, others chalk it up to a moment of revelation. Whatever occurred, this rather conventional middle-aged architect changed virtually ...
Extreme Mobile Living: Garbage Trucks to Luxury Campers
There's nothing like the freedom to move and live where we want. Perhaps the greatest expression of postmodern mobility is when transportation devices are combined with living spaces. Creative ...
16 of the Most Creative & Weird Hotel Rooms in the World
Ever wonder what it would be like to live upside-down, sleep like a vampire or break out of prison? More and more hotels are breaking out of the tradition of cookie-cutter rooms and are ...
Philadelphia City Hall: Tallest Masonry Building in the World
Did you know that brick or stone-clad buildings you see today almost invariably hide a steel support structure that does the actual work? Before steel was used to create rigid frames, buildings ...
Small & Surreal: 3 of the Most Strange Little Micronations
Have you ever wanted to rule your very own country? Bizarre as it sounds, a micronation is an area of land claimed by one or more persons to be independent from any major recognized nation in the ...
Pipes to Capsules: 7 of the Smallest Hotels & Hotel Rooms
(Check out our complete collection of 70+ Amazing Theme, Castle, Jail and Art Hotels.) Think your last apartment or hotel room was small? Believe it or not, there are a lot of contenders for the ...
8 Great Green Roofs: Brief History of Eco-Roofing Systems
(Check out our complete collection of Green Art, Design and Technology.) A green roof can be much more than just a lawn on a building, and the concept is much older than many people realize. ...
