CONTEMPORIST Welcome to DeZona! Landscape Magazine.url The Renmen Project ยป art in aid of UNICEF's Haiti Appeal Fashioning Technology NOTCOT.ORG Architect to build home using 3-D printer - CNN.com.url "Landscape House" will be built from blocks made with a 3-D printer, says its creator, Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars. Dutch architect to create the first building done with 3-D printing"Landscape House" would be a huge figure 8 that lets people seamlessly go in and outThe D-Shape 3-D printer will crank out 20-by-30-foot marblelike blocks for itPrice is $5 million to $6 million; the architect hopes to finish it in 2014 (CNN) -- A Dutch architect is thinking a little bigger about 3-D printing than the tiny-to-midsize trinkets we've seen so far. He wants to print a house. And a pretty offbeat and innovative one at that. "Landscape House" is the brainchild of architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars. The house would cost between $5 million and $6 million, according to the BBC, and there's already been interest expressed by museums, private individuals and others, according to Ruijssenaars. All that would be innovative enough on its own. The woman who wants to 'print' buildings
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