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Sailor’s Tales and Modern Architecture

Check-in Wooden Floorboards Interesting Headboard Breakfast Room 2 Breakfast Room Exterior View I’ve always thought that the art...

Sleepbox – Funny Hotel Pods from Russia

Russian architects continue to surprise. This time it is the Moscow based studio Arch Group who has come up with an interesting mobile hotel pods called the Sleepbox. Basically it is a small hotel room that can be placed anywhere, but the place that makes most sense is airports. In fact, one of...

Amazing Architecture 1 – Resort Druzhba in Yalta

It looks like a huge planetary gearset from the sky but when it was built in 1985 Turkish spies thought it was another dangerous military object built to support the Cold War effort. No, it’s a seaside resort “Druzhba” built on the shoreline of Yalta on Crimea, Ukraine. The uniqueness of this...

How Can We Save UK Construction Industry

Although the overall economy prospects look positive at the moment, the construction industry of the UK is still suffering. According to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), the first quarter of 2011 saw 24,000 UK builders losing their jobs. That’s 277 builders every day dropping out of the system. A...

Clean Air – 80 Trees or One House

Imagine how life in big cities would change if the houses had the ability to… emh… clean the air. Mad fantasies, you say? Not really. Alcoa Architectural Products has created a process to apply titanium dioxide coating to an aluminium surface by employing Reynobond and EcoClean technology. It can...

Co-Housing Project in Leeds Taking Shape

A new interesting co-housing project is about to take off in Leeds. Lilac Mutual Home ownership society – the group behind the unique project – had acquired a disused school site in Bramley (nothing to do with the apple, though). They’ve applied for a planning permission and now actively...
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