Just A Little Home Improvement.

If you think that your apartment isn't large enough anymore & you need some more space, here is the perfect way out for you. Rucksack House - designed by the German team at Convertible City, its a great new way to expand your living space. It functions as an extra room, & is designed as a walk-in cube consisting of a welded steel cabin, using steel cables anchored to the roof of the existing house. If you want an extra room, then this might be a real great idea to expand the apartment size.








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Bubblegum Art.
Art Of Sleeping.
Humor In Uniform.
Official State Cars.
Funny Toilet Writings.

Futuristic Radio Station.

This is a radio station which looks like a scene out of a movie or a part of a futuristic space city. The exterior of this station looks like its from 22nd century. Its the headquarters of Polish Radio Station, RMF-FM. This radio station broadcasts throughout Poland, & also to audiences in other countries.









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Other Posts:
All In Line.
Art Trucks.
Painted Laptops.
Ads Using Escalators.
Ads Using Bus Stops.

Interesting Pedestrian Bridge - Pulau Langkawi, Sky Bridge.

Do you like heights? Then here is a bridge for you from Malaysia. Its 2300 feet above sea level, spans 125 meters, 1.8m wide & has viewing platforms twice the width of the bridge. So what makes this bridge interesting? Its supported by one column which is set at an angle, apart from this its supported by eight strong ropes which converge at its top.






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Really Cool Art.
Creativity With Cans.
Custom Painted Cars.
Interesting Bookshelves.
Mailboxes With A Difference.

Alternate Use Of Containers.

This is Redondo Beach House which received the 2007 AIA Honor Award for Design Excellence/Special Innovation. Eight shipping containers painted white, with windows, door openings & they make up different wings of a contemporary-style house that has a 20-foot-high living room.
Lot more construction pictures at: Demariadesign.


The Stankey brothers built their container cabin from 2 shipping containers over the period of 9 years at a total cost of $15,000. Located on their family property in northern Minnesota, one container is made into a sleeping unit while the other is made into a kitchen & storage room.





12 container house.

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Freitag flagship store, Zurich, Switzerland, made from seventeen recycled freight containers. (Architects: Annette Spillmann & Harald Echsle.)

Container corridor for Dutch people who never step off their bike.


Container house by Ross Stevens: built against a hill in Wellington, New Zealand, designed & built by Ross Stevens. This one uses beautifully the spaces between the containers & the hill to overcome the space of standard container & expand its living space.
Lot more pictures at: Petra Alsbach's Flickr site.

Container city:


Outside the container:


Inside the container.



Containers city - Cholula.

Paul & Sarah's shipping container house.

Another container city.

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Upside Down Houses.
Houses With A Difference.
The Simpsons House In Reality.
Now Who Wouldn't Like These Houses.
Houses That Reminds Of The Town Of Bedrock.

A One-Room Hotel In Paris.

Hotel Everland, the creation of Swiss artists Sabina Lang & Daniel Baumann, on the roof of Palais de Tokyo is an art consisting of an actual one-room hotel. It offers 1970's-style glamour, a turquoise-tiled bathroom, a record player with a collection of vinyl discs, & a spectacular view of the Eiffel Tower but remember no TV.
If you are interested in the room in the hotel, you can actually stay in it & is offered at a price of 333 Euros per night during weekdays & 444 Euros at weekends. But do remember it will remain atop the Palais de Tokyo until the end of 2008 only.











Other Posts:
Hotels With A Difference.
World's Largest Ice Hotel.
Interesting Seven Star Hotels.
Amazing Resort In The South Pacific.
The Hidden Truth Behind Hotel Drinking Glasses.

Orestad Gymnasium.

This isn't a mall, it's an Orestad College, Copenhagen, Denmark (actually a high school) designed by 3XN. 3XN 'has successfully integrated the traditional Scandinavian aspects of functionality with clarity & beauty in form'. It offers courses in science, social science & human science. Apart from this every student is given a laptop & to provide the needed connectivity the school has installed wireless internet access. Just one other thing the hallway looks really comfortable with those orange pillows.





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Army Food.
Mobile Toilet.
Custom Painted Cars.
Ads Using Bus Stops.
Not Always Invincible.

Hingarae - Futuristic Resort In New Zealand.

Hingarae a futuristic six-star "environmentally sustainable" resort built overlooking Lake Taupo's western bays. This 40.5-hectare resort features solar power, electric cars & energy-efficient appliances. Expected to attract a 'global pool of wealthy Generation X buyers aged between 30 & 50 years old'. The development will offer twenty-eight opportunities to own a fully furnished Hingarae Module, built on 0.4-hectare sections, each will have two to three bedrooms & be 200 square meters in size with a median price of NZ$3.2 million.




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Caves of Crystals.
Funny Toilet Writings.
Now Who Wouldn't Like These Houses.
Spaghetti Cabling & Need For Cable Management.
Under Construction Of The Most Famous Structures.

Houses That Reminds Of The Town Of Bedrock.

Here are a few houses that remind us of town of Bedrock in the Stone Age era - The Flintstones.







Though The Flintstones used technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals, but here we have prehistoric atmosphere combined with modern furniture & facilities.

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This is a familiar site to anyone driving north on Interstate 280 from the San Jose area to San Francisco.

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Tinfoil Art.
Artificial Reefs.
Bathroom Ads.
Humor In Uniform.
Art With Computer Parts.

Houses With A Difference.

Most of the houses are built from usual stuff. But these houses are the ones we don't see regularly; they have something different & unique in each of them. The main material used in their construction is …………

House made from paper.

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The Paper House is an actual house made from paper. It was built in 1922 by Mr. Elis F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer, who created building block material purely out of newspaper (about 100,000 newspapers were used). The only wood used in the house was for the frame, floor & roofs. The house was built with electricity & had running water but no bathroom.

Edible house.

Home built with 100% living nutrients.

House made from scrap.


Standing at over 4300 sq. feet, the awe-inspiring structure is the house made out of scrap. Designed by Single Speed Design, won the firm AIA/BSA Housing Design Award.

Here is another one:


This is what you get when you challenge a rockstar team of San Francisco architects, artists, contractors, city officials, & engineers to construct a house using only scrap. This one was constructed by using material from junkyards, spending less than $3,000 on the whole house!

The cardboard house.


An excellent environmentally sustainable option for housing & being extremely low cost & transportable, these could be used in a wide variety of applications.

House made of straw.



Another one of the eco-friendly & recyclable material. Using straw bales a well insulated incredibly sturdy, beautiful house can be created.

House made from bamboo.

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Building material which is up to 50 times stronger than oak yet lighter than steel & concrete, which is flexible & aesthetically pleasing & is highly rated for its green credentials - bamboo.

House made of steel.


To be precise 110 tons of steel is been used in the cool design by Robert Bruno, architect for his own house in Texas & the construction took about twenty-three years.

House made of gold.


We aren't sure of this one, as somewhere it doesn't make practical sense. Perhaps can this be the work of photoshop or a palace of some Sheik?

House made of ice.


Microsoft's "Digital House" made completely of ice.

House made of balloon.

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House made from bottles.


What better way can it be to recycle numerous empty bottles than to build a house from it!

House made from cans.


This house is made from cans, certainly living up to the green spirit perhaps.

House made of mud.

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House made of glass.

Glass house - any takers for this one!

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World At Night.
Under Construction.
Presidential Palaces.
Rainbow Vegetables & Fruits.
Interesting & Funny Men's Restrooms.

Roman Colosseum.

'Colosseum' the Roman amphitheatre is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture & engineering, & is located on the marshy land between the Esquiline & Caelian Hills. Construction for this is stated to be started between 70 & 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian & was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign.
Originally capable of seating 50,000 spectators, it had approximately eighty entrances that helped in easy movement of crowd, as they could arrive & leave easily & quickly. It was used for gladiatorial contests & public spectacles. The Colosseum remained in use for nearly 500 years & what we see today are the remains of the greatest amphitheatre of the antiquity.




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Other Posts:
Vegetable Art.
Elevator Floor Illusion.
Artwork With Eggshells.
Austria & It's Unique Named Village.
Now Who Need Electric Defense Fence!

Now Who Wouldn't Like These Houses.

Each of these houses has something unique & interesting in them that makes anyone like them.

Organic House:


This is a low impact woodland family house of Moabi in Wales. It was built by Moabi, & his father-in-law with the help from passers by & visiting friends. It took about 4 months, about 1000-1500 man-hours & £3000 to create it.

Narrow Houses:



This is a one-meter wide by ten-meter tall house in Madre de Deus, Brazil, the designer & the owner is 'Helenita'. It has three floors; 3 bedrooms with washrooms, 2 rooms, kitchen, & a veranda.


And this one is in Tokyo (an area of 71.4 meters).

This is from Italy.

Tree Houses:

All of us in our childhood have built tree houses but what we have here is something more than what we must have thought back then.

One of the largest wooden tree houses in world.


Sprit Spheres Tree House:





These Spheres can be attached to the trees or from any other solid objects like buildings or rock faces.

4 Tree house:


To form a structural foundation for this tree house, a swing was attached from the four trees. And it resulted in a delicate balance between swaying trees & the slat wall enclosure.

This tree house is from Germany.




O2 Treehouse.





Houses With Magnificent View.

Its something like from fairyland or rather these houses are like a dream come true. Many of us want to have a vacation home or place where we can forget & get away from the daily rush of our lives. And these houses, their perfect location amidst nature, with their beautiful view are the perfect place where one can feel at home away from the population & the skyscrapers of the cities.






And here are the rest.

Some more with beautiful water view: