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Building with Cardboard
Would you build your new house out of cardboard? Perhaps you think that is impossible! Well here is a picture of me outside the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand. The cathedral was built as a temporary replacement for the…
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Living in a Silo
Would you like an unconventional house? How about a Silo? Well you can try out the idea in a 4 star silo hotel in New Zealand. I came across this concept while holidaying in the South Island a couple of…
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Miss The Army?
Roll Over House
Don’t like the 2 storey house? Well simply roll it over and have a single storey house! PrefabNZ is running a competition for the best designed building of less than 65 square metres that can fit in a backyard. Out of…
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Dracula’s Kitchen?
Star Wars House?
Is it a crashed Starcruiser, or Darth Vader’s bunker. . . . or what? The house was designed by the architect Errol J Kirsch and is located in Oak Park a suburb of Chicago. For more unusual photos, and Fails,…
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Solar Power Fail
I was walking along a street in Chicago and saw these two workmen who seemed to be repairing a solar power panel. I couldn’t help wondering if the problem was the panel never actually saw any sunlight as it was…
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Shed On Stilts
This is a photo of me last year on holiday in Vancouver. . . . . but what is that strange shed above me. Well it is actually a cast aluminium sculpture called the ‘Light Shed’ Apparently it “recalls the…
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Clown Face
Character Fail
Lots of people say they like houses with ‘Character’ I don’t know what they would think about this house I saw the other week in Melbourne. It appears to have a complete lack of character to me. For more…
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