Hanging Hotel: Camp in a Trunk-Friendly Tree House Retreat
Without harming the forest that supports it, this streamlined tree house design is stabilized by a central trunk but ultimately suspended from the branches above to minimize negative ...
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Mountaintop Tent: Airlifted Alpine Retreat Built at 8,000 Feet
Created as a tribute to a mountain guide killed in an tragic avalanche, this tent-shaped shelter of wood and steel was helicoptered in pieces and assembled at an elevation of 2531 meters in ...
Long-Exposure Faces: Moody Light Art Painted with Sparks
Light painter Diliz has worked for three years to twist, turn and perfect his single-line sparkler sketches in urban settings around the world. Each successive shot is related to a new time and ...
Bike Tire Tent: Compact Travel Shelter Wraps Inside Wheels
For the cycling nomad, this design uses space you never knew you had, and helps free up room in front-of-handlebar baskets or on above-back-tire racks for other uses in the ...
Mobile Hotel: Converted Double-Decker Bus B&B Still Drives
Quintessentially British, this boutique suite sleeps six, features a wood-burning stove and much more, but perhaps most amazing of all: the vehicle remains road-worthy, despite its conversion to ...
Hot Cup of Tub: Portable Wood-Fired Outdoor Soaking Pool
No need to plug in this particular hot tub - heat naturally circulates as you burn wood, keeping yourself warm outside by throwing logs on the fire much like you would in front of a living room ...
HoJo’s Lost Mojo: 10 Deserted Howard Johnson’s Locations
Hundreds of orange-roofed Howard Johnson's hotels, motels and restaurants once served fried clam strips and ice cream to tired, hungry American travelers. ...
Rough Sleeper: Mobile Backpack Shelter for Urban Homeless
Amid the various conceptual designs for addressing large-scale homelessness, this working prototype stands out as refreshingly realistic, practical and applicable to the everyday needs of those ...
Tree Tombs & Cliffside Coffins: 13 Unique Cemeteries
In America we have a seemingly endless succession of near-identical cemeteries, filled with orderly rows of bland stones that tell us nearly nothing about the people buried underfoot. But in ...
Aren’t We Nautical: 10 Swell Ship-Shaped Buildings
From the fish out of water department: Landlubbers leery of getting their feet wet can live vicariously by visiting these 10 swell ship-shaped buildings. ...
