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World’s Weirdest Buildings Article by Elizah, filed under Offices & Commercial in the Architecture category. Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the unique global jewels that convey a quirky sense of personality tucked within an even more wackadoodle shell. While it may be hip to be square, these slightly left of center buildings demonstrate that marching to the beat of one’s own drummer – whether you’re of the animal, vegetable, mineral or architectural persuasion – is actually a whole lot more fun.
Ferdinand Cheval’s Le Palais Idéal or “Ideal Palace” (Hauterives, France) Earthbag Building Index. 上海地图,上海市地图,上海电子地图,上海三维地图,上海公交地图,上海交通地图_E都市. Rapid Prototyping for Microcontrollers. Near Future Laboratory. A world of tweets. Living in a Shell – Nautilus House.
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Your Monolithic Dome home can be everything you need and everything you want in the home of your dreams. It can be small and cozy or spacious and luxurious; one-storied or multistoried; at ground level, totally underground or earth-bermed; built in virtually any location and environment. Flexibility is the key idea behind our home designs. The interior of your Monolithic Dome home can be partitioned into rooms or areas that fit your needs and wants.
International Dome House. Styrofoam dome homes. Styrofoam dome houses at Aso Farm Land (Photo by: Erika Snyder) While styrofoam may be most commonly associated with disposable coffee cups, meat trays and packaging, prefab home manufacturer Japan Dome House Co., Ltd. uses it to construct easy-to-assemble modular kit homes.
Dubbed the "habitat for the 21st century," the Dome House is an igloo-shaped structure built from snap-together wall sections made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam (styrofoam). It might seem like an odd choice of material for a house, but the company lists a number of advantages that styrofoam has over traditional materials. Unlike wood and metal structures, for example, the styrofoam Dome House does not rust, rot or attract termites.
It is also highly resistant to earthquakes and typhoons. Dome House interior The styrofoam used in the Dome House's 175-millimeter (7 in) thick walls is significantly denser and stronger than ordinary packing foam. Construction of the Dome House shell is quick and easy. Aso Farm Land. Buying, Designing and Building Cargo Container Homes. How To: Buy, Design or Build DIY Cargo Container Homes Article by Steve, filed under Houses & Residential in the Architecture category.
What’s involved in buying, designing and building cargo container homes that are more than just art projects? Cargo container homes are a perfect example of thinking outside the box while living inside one, but thinking is one thing and doing is another. Careful planning is required before building and moving in. (image via: Midwest Storage Containers) There are several fun and practical reasons to live in a cargo container home.
(image via: Sea Box and American Mobile Office) Finding a cargo container isn’t all that difficult. (image via: LOT-EK) Depending on what the plans are for the project’s final use, designing cargo container homes is relatively uncomplicated. Whether it’s a single-family home, small or large apartment, school or community center or even an office complex, cargo containers allow for fast construction and long term sustainable use. NeoVictorian Computing. Everyone saw the focus, the insistence, and the scorn for bozos – for people who were happy enough to get by.
What people always missed about Jobs at Apple was the agile mind, able and eager to shift from the inside to the outside and back again. Apple was not saved by design or innovation. What saved Apple is the constantly iterated shift from design to execution, from surface to depth, from style to science and back again. Jobs learned from bad times but did not let bad times shape him. When he was kicked out as a dreamy incompetent, he went elsewhere, made a couple of new fortunes, came back, and kept dreaming. The original iMac, Steve’s machine, was Bondi Blue. Apple built the iMac into a nice little business, and then wrecked its own business with laptops.
Mac OS was clearly a better UI package than its competitors. After Apple had brought color to computers and everyone else was trying to slap juicy colors on their cases, Apple seized white. Look at the Apple stores. A Low Impact Woodland Home.