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Although the color doesn’t grab me, I really like the way this design embraces the shipping container lines while combining them into a more dynamic space than the usual single rectangle.

Created as a getaway in a heavily wooded site sits a home that strives for a functional, monetary, material, and poetic ‘essentialism’ so as to create nothing extraneous and make opportunity of every element. With recycled shipping containers as a key sustainable and building element, the design and concept culminate in creating a modern, yet rustic home that speaks to the nature and history of the site as an …
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Take a walk in the sky. Check out Tomás Saraceno’s pod-like Cloud City on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It’s great to see but better to experience. Visitors can walk on and through the structure of clear plexiglass, polished steel, and open windows which create an exhilarating (and occasionally frightening) sensation of walking on air.

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More of a studio or backyard “escape pod” than a mini-house, Manuel Villa’s work of garden geometry is a touch of coziness in a get-away.

For those who want a home away from home, but on a budget, consider the “Habitable Polyhedron”, a small geometric pod that’s a small private getaway from domestic life. The project was built for clients with young children as a secondary, “doll-house” structure situated adjacent to their suburban home just outside of Bogota. Tucked away in a garden several yards away from the main house, the shed offers a cozy retreat where the family …
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It’s a bold and wonderful piece of architecture. I love how it stands out from its setting while at the same time seeming harmonious with it.

2D3D‘s My Green World pavilion is stained bright orange (a color traditionally associated with the Dutch monarchy), creating a dramatic statement. The massive form stands out against the surrounding landscape, attracting a host of visitors to the exhibition.

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Officially, it is a gorgeously designed ocean vessel / skyscraper powered by renewable energy for a sustainable human presence in the world’s imperiled seas.  Unofficially, it is my future super villain base from which I will repel the world’s so-called heroes with batteries of lasers and ion disrupters while launching my plans for world peace/domination.

The brainchild of French architect Jacques Rougerie, The SeaOrbiter would also be the world’s first vertical ship standing at an impressive 170 feet (51m) tall. However in order to make the vessel as stable as possible, two-thirds of its structure would remain underwater, giving the …
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