KEG Apartments, a stunning design of a house inside a lorry by Aristide Antoinas. Aristide Antonas’s work is the occasion to recover some projects that recycle transport devices to create architecture.
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Designed by SeARCH, a Dutch architecture firm, and Christian Müller Architects, this incredible hobbit hole house almost completely embedded in the side of a hill, yet it still has a seriously stunning, panoramic vistas.
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This amazing lift bridge is located in the city of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. The long lever arm and cantilevered weight opposing the floating street surface is a powerfully cool and elegantly simple design. It’s a smart solution for a small bridge, even though its size is a bit ungainly, and they somehow thought painting cute post-modern pastel colors was interesting.
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This Room with a Mobile Rooftop by architect Kalhöfer - Korschildgen is located in Köln Lövenich - Germany. A skylight under the staircase slide into a vertical wall, with shelves built into the back. Open the glass door, mount the table, open the deckchairs and enjoy the sun and sights…
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The 54-story condo building is a green skyscraper proposed by architect Daniel Libeskind. Standing over 900 feet tall, the building incorporates a series of sky gardens at different parts of the building and a glass-tube-enclosed vertical garden running up the center of the skyscraper. Cutaways built into the building’s exterior would mean that both residents and onlookers could enjoy the greenery. More details on the project can be found on new york magazine.
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When completed, the Shanghai Tower will be the highest skyscraper in China, at 632m. Designed by San Francisco-firm Gensler, the tower plans on accommodating offices, a luxury hotel, nine foyer sky gardens and various retail and cultural venues, as well as a new Shanghai Metro stop. Enclosed with the inner layer of the double-skin facade, the Tower is comprised of nine cylindrical buildings heaped one on the other. While the building cover or the second skin is finished with a triangular exterior layer that swivels as it gets higher.
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Sphere Hotel will be located between Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the UAE, about 300 meters from the beach on an artificial island, with which it connects the bridge. Designed by Milla Rezanova, visitors will be transported in a helicopter because the hotel is located on a cliff. As a prototype, there will be 200 rooms, entertainment areas and public business zone (conference room), boutiques. This unique design should relax and promote a healthy and comfortable rest.  

It is an amazing city that’s built at the bottom of a lake. It’s the ancient city of Seuthopolis, in Bulgaria, which was discovered in 1948. But six years later, it was covered in water, ending up at the bottom of a lake. Now, the city is being unearthed via the construction of a huge circular dike that’ll be a whopping 1,377 feet in diameter and 65 feet high. People will be able to access the recessed city by boat, heading down into it to see the city.
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French designer Jean-Marc Felix created this concept “Itinerix“, a mobile, foldable and transportable apartment. As the winner of concours Lepine regional 2008 in Strasbourg, “Itinerix” weights 3.5 tonnes and while folded, its dimensions are 8 meters long and 2.5 meters wide. Made of lightweight composite material and resistant (750 kg / m²), its chassis is made of steel and aluminum. “Itinerix” is French-made and can have multiple uses: emergency housing, office, school … The prototype was produced in 18 months.
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Powerhouse Company created this awesome villa named the Villa1. Located in the woodlands of Holland, the Villa1 is oriented optimal towards the views on the terrain and the sun. Half of the program is pushed below ground to meet local zoning regulations. This creates a clear dichotomy in the spatial experience of the house - a glass box ground floor where all mass is concentrated in furniture elements and a ‘medieval’ basement, where the spaces are carved out of the mass.
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