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Prefab Hobbit Homes: Build Your Own Shire Dwelling in Just 3 Days

Composed of vaulted panels covered with reinforced soil, these modular hobbit-worthy homes can be adapted to just about any site and constructed in a matter of days. Produced in pieces by ...

Skywalking Stockholm: Bridged Green-Roof Parks to Span Downtown

Fusing height, light, density and greenery with regional vernacular architecture, this ambitious urban Sky Walk plan aims to turn the tops of downtown buildings into a extensive series of ...

Silicon Greenery: World’s Largest Green Roof to Span City Blocks

Aiming to turn Cupertino into the green center of Silicon Valley, this expansive green roof design rolls over 30 acres of central urban real estate, capping a massive mixed-use redevelopment ...

Rooftop Recreation: 12 Vertigo-Inducing Sky-High Hangouts

Test your tolerance for stomach-churning heights by dangling over the edge of the western hemisphere's tallest freestanding tower, zip lining high above the Las Vegas strip, swimming up to the ...

Vertical City Farming: Undulating Mixed-Use Urban Community

Designed to provide a spaces for public gardening as well as senior living, this hybrid complex has a rich array of green roofs, terraces and facades allowing for locally-grown produce as well as ...

Drawn & Quartered: Architect-Designed Log Wedge Birdhouses

Applying architectural logic to a bird's eye view, these natural-material dwellings utilize fallen trees to create familiar and eco-friendly habitats for your feathered friends. With ...

Mobile 3D Clay Printer: Whole Houses from Local Mud & Fiber

Easy to disassemble and transport on demand, this 3D-printing solution uses natural materials to build completely stable homes from readily available resources. Designed by WASP (World's ...

Liters of Light: DIY Solar from Used Bottles, Bleach & Water

Now setting its sights on a million homes, the organization behind this remarkably cheap approach to solar home lighting has already transformed the lives of thousands who were previously living ...

20 Million Sq Ft: World’s Biggest Building Opens in China

Night never comes to this massive complex newly constructed in China. Complete with its own artificial sun (as well as beaches and waves), the world's largest structure is not a skyscraper but a ...

Urban Suburbs: 4 McMansions Atop Chinese Shopping Mall

It sounds like a hoax at best, an architectural student thesis gone wrong at worst ... yet it is entirely real: a series of conventional-looking, a-frame abodes atop a gigantic mega-block ...

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