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18 Weird and Wonderful Places To Live: Churches, Bunkers, Water Towers and Caves
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Spotted on MBP, here is a completely renovated apartment located in a historic building in Melbourne, Australia. This three bedroom, two bathroom residence is on sale and according to the agent, “this superlative warehouse conversion in “Leicester House”, an historic 1880′s building, provides privacy and vast spaces. It features soaring warehouse ceilings, huge original arched timber windows, exposed red brick walls, imposing brick archways of 65 cm depth and high gloss timber floors. By day it is imposing and by night dramatic.” The exposed brick walls and the high concrete ceilings make this apartment feel like a loft.
Beautiful Warehouse Conversion in Melbourne
Fascinating Underground Homes
We received a great response from our feature on Klima Hotel (Bella Vista) , the semi-sumerged underground hote in Bozen, Italy , so we were pleased to come across 6 Fascinating Underground Homes on Inhabitat. Of course, you can’t book a stay in these places like you can a hotel, but they just might change your idea of a dream home. Green enthusiast and British football star Gary Neville’s house-to-be is hidden under the ground, save for the petal-shaped openings that flood the interior with light. The one-story, nearly 8,000 sq ft structure was designed to keep energy consumption to a minimum.
Future Homes
Also known simply as an earth home , a dwelling that is partially or totally underground (see underground home ) or that has earth berms around some or all of its exterior walls (see bermed earth-sheltered home ).
earth-sheltered home
Like something straight from a science fiction or horror movie scene, this underground nuclear missile silo was once a dank, dark and deserted structure of interest to no one – until man saw past the pooled water and cracked concrete and began to build by hand the ultimate underground dream house for himself in the family.
Ultimate Underground Home: Converted Nuclear Missile Silo « Dornob
Shelters and Small Houses
Living off the grid: simply prefab at TRENDWATCH DAILY
For you gentle people that read green blogs like Treehugger , magazines like Dwell , or liberal online newspapers such as the New York Times you’ve probably read an article or two about prefabricated homes. First off, these aren’t anything like your grandpappy’s mobile home .Incredible Space Maximization in a Small Studio Apartment
You’ve seen a lot of ingenious ideas on how to decorate small studio apartments on Freshome. Here is another tiny apartment that manages to maximize space and create a cozy living environment as well. The East Village Studio Apartment comes from JPDA Architects , stretches over an area of 46 square meters (500 square feet) and was built as a little “nest” for the owners who also work here.
Adam Kalkin isn't the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers .
Would You Live In A Shipping Container? | Cannell | Fast Compan
If you’d love to do a little at-home gardening but don’t have much space to do your planting, a simple gutter garden might be the perfect option. Alaskan news site Juneau Empire features a smart, simple idea for planting a small vegetable garden with very little space: A windowbox garden built from gutters. In Alaska, this idea solves a few problems for the author:
Gutter Gardens Grow Produce Without Taking Up Space
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architecture | 03.25.13 the mathematical principle that determines the aesthetic concept of the concrete structure recalls the memory of the land's previous cultures in a space that merges creator and spectator.Apartment Therapy DC | Prefab and Portable Living Best of 2008
To those who harbor dreams of hitting the open road or shacking up in a tiny modernist prefab cabin in the wilderness: this roundup is for you.dirks diy camper trailer
Holspeed Mk11 a homebuilt camper - on a budget Like many camper trailer owners we started out tenting. After a number of successive wet camping trips late in 2007 our 10 year old tent was showing its age and I figured there must be a better way to stay dry but still retain the camping atmosphere. Friends of ours had a camper trailer and after checking out their setup I concluded this was the way to go. As the subtitle says this was to be a budget build - sourcing well priced materials, utilising what hardware I already had, and doing as much of the work as possible myself. Like a number of CamperTrailers members have done I simply intended to purchase a complete tent top off the internet and bolt it to our old box trailer.ShareThis Airstream, the proud manufacturer of the world's finest travel trailers, has combined creative forces with Victorinox Swiss Army to produce the Victorinox 125th Anniversary Special Edition Airstream. This limited Special Edition 19 foot travel trailer is unlike any other Airstream ever produced, featuring Victorinox-inspired design elements coupled with Airstream's famous quality construction. The result is a stunning and unique travel trailer that represents the pinnacle of both design and functionality.