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The City of Staples

The City of Staples

Named “Ephemicropolis“, Root’s staple model, depicts a fragile micro city that could collapse at the slightest wind blow or vibration. Creative artist, Peter Root, showcases his latest project, a city model created only out of stacked staples. He used over 100,000 staples, for this project, and spent 40 hours stacking them. Some of the staple [...]

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Norwegian Prison Looks More Like a Holiday Resort

Norwegian Prison Looks More Like a Holiday Resort

Norway’s second largest prison cost 1.5 billion kroner ($252 million) and took 10 years to complete, but the result is truly impressive. Located on 75 acres of pine forest, Norway’s Halende Prison is unlike any of the American prisons, smelling of sweat and urine. Here, inmates are respected and probably live a better live than [...]

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Riverhouse Niagara in Canada

Riverhouse Niagara in Canada

Riverhouse is a new model of single-family designed by Zerafa Studio and lies in Niagara Falls Ontario. The house is divided into three distinct horizontal volumes, each with a specific material quality. The north south massing is defined by 2 overlaid rectangular shells within which the glass, cedar and granite clad volumes for the interior [...]

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The Ross Street House by Richard Wittschiebe Hand Architects

The Ross Street House by Richard Wittschiebe Hand Architects

Richard Wittschiebe Hand as young architect this imposing home belongs to Carol Richard,an architect who has always dreamed of designing her own place like Ross Street House.The Ross Street House has captured the attention of green enthusiasts throughout the country for far exceeding the requirements to achieve the highest LEED rating of Platinum. Even though [...]

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Sustainable Quinta do Buraco III House in Portugal

Sustainable Quinta do Buraco III House in Portugal

Sited in a sloping terrain of land of Quinta do Buraco condominium, Carlos Castanheira in collaboration with Bastai Architects created a beautiful sustainable house. The exterior covering is constituted by wonderful manufactured copper, glass and slate on the floor areas adjacent to the interior floors. The colours are, and will remain, the natural colours of [...]

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Stone Paintings from Malaysia

Stone Paintings from Malaysia

Suzi Chua lives and works in Malaysia, creating beautiful stone paintings for everyone to enjoy. These creative works of art can be used as decorative items, paperweights, door stoppers, or as gifts for any occasion. You can even order your own custom stone painting at suzichua.com

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The Headphones That Captured All

The Headphones That Captured All

It’s hard to even know what category this gadget belongs in because it does so much. It may look like a weird headphones/ear warmers combination, but it’s much more than that. The headphones do, in fact, play music over a wireless connection. But do you see those little dongles on the outside of the ear [...]

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Luxurious Southern Ocean Lodge

Luxurious Southern Ocean Lodge

Behold the luxurious Southern Ocean Lodge, designed by Max Pritchard Architect on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. Floating atop a secluded cliff on a rugged stretch of coast, the architecture has a close relationship with the dramatic locale. The Main Lodge is tucked back into forty meter high cliffs, with large sweeping window walls capturing [...]

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Old Aircraft Never Die, They Just Land on Desks

Old Aircraft Never Die, They Just Land on Desks

Using recycled materials is nothing new when it comes to making furniture. But rarely are the results – literally –this polished. Using pieces of vintage aircraft ranging from B-25 bombers to DC-9’s and B-747’s, the Los Angeles-based MotoArt liberates the sleek, metal beauty of planes and re-purposes the pieces as distinctively modern tables, beds, couches, [...]

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Unique Shell-Shaped House

Unique Shell-Shaped House

How do you feel if you live in this house? A build like a snail shell at Mexico City, Nautilus House so beautiful and fun. Its suitable for family house with small children or the couple who like a something unique. This house inspiring of imagination and story tell with technique involving a frame of [...]

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