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Crazy Apartments in Tokyo

Posted on 03 October 2010 by admin

Designed by architect Sou Fujimoto and built in Tokyo, the house, which was named Tokyo Apartment Building, has five separate apartments, intricately connected with each other ladders. The house has an informal name “crazy apartment.

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Melting house in Paris

Posted on 24 June 2010 by admin

The Melting Building Mural is a spectacular Mural created at Georges V Ave. in Paris France. This illusion involves three dimensional imagery instead of the standard two dimensional murals. The French name for this is Trompe-l’oeil Meaning trick of the eye.

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Auto Residence

Posted on 03 June 2010 by admin

It is dubbed the Voglreiter Auto Residence and it has been designed by German architect Markus Voglreiter. Simply amazing, this auto residence is located in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria and the surrounding areas make it look even more beautiful. Transforming the structure of the house into a car was a big challenge as it was originally a 70’s style house and then the architect also had to come up with two separate dwellings to incorporate two generations of a family.[1]

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The ultimate dream of Diogenes

Posted on 25 May 2010 by admin

The inhabitants of ancient Athens were laughing at the fact that Diogenes lived in a barrel.  But the residential module Rollit, created by students of the Germanic University University of Karlsruhe, he hardly wanted to make fun of. Indeed, though he looks like a barrel, but is spacious and multipurpose.

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Flying Sauna

Posted on 15 May 2010 by admin

Flying Sauna  above the Elbe River. Sauna is a cube measuring approximately two by two by two meters. A climb into the sauna of the H3T will have a boat.

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Villa Metamorphosis

Posted on 10 March 2010 by admin

Themed on Franz Kafka`s novel The Metamorphosis, based on the idea that a flat roofed modern house is transformed into a black house.

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7 amazingly unique bridges

Posted on 02 March 2010 by admin

Juscelino kubitschek bridge, Brasilia, Brazil

The JK bridge in Brasilia is a lesson in elegant bridge design. the 3 huge arches diagonally hopping over the deck of the bridge give the structure an amazing visual fluidity and make the whole 1.2km bridge look effortlessly cool.

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Miraculous and Unique Castle

Posted on 28 February 2010 by admin

The Octagonal Castle

When the Emperor Frederick II built this castle near Bari in the 13th century, he imbued it with symbolic significance, as reflected in the location, the mathematical and astronomical precision of the layout and the perfectly regular shape. A unique piece of medieval military architecture, Castel del Monte is a successful blend of elements from classical antiquity, the Islamic Orient and north European Cistercian Gothic.

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