Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Marble Caves, Chile Chico, Chile The Gardens at Marqueyssac Ice Canyon - Greenland Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada Multnomah Falls, Oregon Seljalandsfoss Waterfall on the South Coast of Iceland Petra - Jordan (at night) Verdon, Provence, France Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia Norway Alesund Birdseye of City Benteng Chittorgarh, India Riomaggiore, Italy Keukenhof Gardens - Netherlands.
Sky Lantern Festival - Taiwan. Mount Roraima - Venezuela. Seychelles East Iceland. Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. New York City. The Universal Packing List. 10 Unbelievably Beautiful Places You've Probably Never Heard Of. Earthbag Construction. EarthBag Homes - you're standing on the building materials... earthbag home Long sandbags are filled on-site and arranged in layers or as compressed coils. Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or sodium carbonate may be added to an ideal mix of 70% sand, 30% clay. Straw may also be added. The earthbags are then plastered over with adobe. Arquitectura en Equilibrio (Architecture in Balance) flickr.com earthbag home Plastic bags recycled into plastic bags -- if plastic does not break down for a thousand years, this building is sure to last several lifetimes.
Earthbag construction Foundations differ as per site. Earthbag construction The time consuming part, filling the bags. Earthbag construction Testing the strength of an arch. Earthbag home Project Seres, Guatemala. projectseres.org, flickr.com earthbag home CalEarth -- Emergency Shelter Village, Hesperia, California. Earthbag home Cal Earth -- Emergency Shelters. Earthbag home CalEarth let the layers show. Resources: Lessons: More Pictures: Milan's Vertical Forest. Wednesday, 12 October 2011 GreenMuze Staff Milan’s Vertical Forest from Stefan Boeri Architects.
The Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) will be the greenest building in Milan when completed, which is one of Europe’s most polluted cities. Designed by Stefan Boeri Architects, as part of their BioMilano vision to incorporate 60 abandoned farms into a greenbelt surrounding the city. The Bosco Verticale building has a green façade planted with dense forest systems to provide a building microclimate and to filter out polluting dust particles. Each apartment balcony will have trees (900 plantings are planned for the two buildings) that will provide shade in the summer and drop their leaves in winter to allow in winter sunlight. Visit: Via Inhabitat. Hydrogen produced by earth friendly WINDHUNTER Maritime Hydrogen Generation System - Alternative Energy That Works - StumbleUpon. Spaceship Yacht Being Built For Hong Kong Couple! & MTV Geek. We’ve talked about a few spaceship-looking yacht concepts here before, but this one from John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs takes the cake.
Why? Well, because it’s not a concept -- it’s actually being built in China for a couple from Hong Kong. Dubbed Adastra, this super-yacht comes from 5 long years of design work. When it’s completed it will stretch 139-ft and cruise along at about 22.5 knots. The interior features everything you would expect to find in a yacht of this caliber -- a dining area, bathroom, sunbed, lounge, bar and bedrooms. You see that last photo? Perfect Urban Penthouses: 7 Radical Rooftop Homes of NYC | Designs &Ideas on Dornob. Picture this: all of the vibrant activity that comes with living in the heart of New York City … but up away from the noise, with your own yard, porch and/or patio. If not an urban utopia, this is most certainly a significant step up from the sardine-can experience of a typical cramped apartment or shoe-box condo. They are a strange and fascinating anomaly – whole houses ranging from traditional to modern, modest to luxurious, perched atop other (larger) multistory buildings right in the middle of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
And who better than film-location scout Nick Carr (featured on The Huffington Post and Inhabitat, as well as his own site: ScoutingNYC) to find and capture these on camera, from ski-chalet-style retreats and ultramodern condo pods to big brutalist monstrosities. Some even have chimneys along the side, green gardens out front (or back) or share their rooftop space with other small stand-alone residences. The worlds coolest hot tub? The two-tiered jacuzzi which comes with its own bar, flat-screen TV and inbuilt sound-system. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 19:02 GMT, 6 May 2012 | Updated: 19:26 GMT, 6 May 2012 Spread over two decks this incredible jacuzzi is bigger than most New York apartments.
It seems no extravagance has been spared to create what looks like one of the most over-the-top hot tubs to date. The ultimate backyard accessory, the Luxema 8000 boasts a huge flat-screen TV and its own bar. Fancy: The huge hot tub spread over two levels boasts an inbuilt hi-fi system, flat screen TV and even a bar And the amazing tub has no less than 130 separate jets and nine water pumps to keep occupants happy. Although the tub would likely impress friends and add value to a property, it will set buyers back thousands of dollars. SPAmbient, the Slovenian firm who make the hot tub, list another of its tubs, which is a fraction of the size, at more than $26,000 and that is in a sale.
Innovative: Another of the hot tub models has an inbuilt rowing machine in one section and a jacuzzi for when you're feeling lazy. $1.6 million just bought the world's most expensive dog. Big Splash, or “Hong Dong” in Chinese, is an 11-month-old Red Tibetan Mastiff. He already stands nearly three-feet-high at the shoulder and weighs more than 180lbs. He was recently purchased by an unidentified Chinese coal baron. - StumbleUpon. FPS Gaming Vest Brings Reality To Shooting Games - Page 1 - The Best Virtual Reality News from Virtual Generation.