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Skyscape House: Modern Rooftop Retreat Looks Out Over Bangkok

From luxury penthouses to sky-high secret slums, urban rooftop architecture is like a hidden world of its own, often invisible from street level. Most of us go about our daily lives in the city ...

Pop-Up Car Tents: These 15 Rooftop Campers Are Like Portable Tree Houses

Popping up from the rooftops of everything from rugged Jeeps to adorable BMW MINIs or extending from the sides of motorcycles and bicycles, these vehicle-based tents make shelter on the go as ...

Google Sunroof: Search to Save Money With Home Solar Power

Google has rolled out a search engine with a specific target in mind: your house, more specifically how much area of your roof could be covered in solar panels, what that would save you and where ...

Hidden Addition: Stealth NYC Penthouse is Invisible from Streets Below

Unseen above the restored cast-iron facade of this 1857 residential structure in Tribeca, a stunning modern loft extends the building's livable space, its form responding directly to lines of ...

Horror at the Met: Psycho House Replica on Museum Rooftop

Set against the New York City skyline, the house from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has never looked more out of place, elevated high above the treetops on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Slalom House: The World’s First Residential Rooftop Ski Slope

Designed for Astana, the cold capital city of Kazakhstan, this 'white roof' 1,000-foot ski run wraps around an apartment tower, bringing winter sports right to residents' ...

Growing Up: NYC Rooftop Farm Supports 1,200,000 Pounds of Soil

Brooklyn Grange is behind the two largest rooftop soil farms in the world, together growing 50,000 pounds of organic produce per year from 108,000 combined square feet, demonstrating the ...

Secret Slums: Ramshackle Rooftop Villages of Hong Kong

These hidden shanty towns, often invisible from the streets below, sprawl like surrealist suburbs across the roofs of one of the most densely-populated and expensive cities in the ...

Panoramic Rainbow: Circular Space Spans Color Spectrum

Rainbows on the horizon are impossible to approach, let alone pass through - they flicker and fade like phantoms, except in the case of this iconic space. Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur ...

Tall Temple: Bizarre Rooftop Palace on Chinese Skyscraper

The man who built his very own luxury mountain palace atop a condo tower in China - illegally - is hardly alone in his endeavors. A Chinese microblogger spotted what looks like another ...

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