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Stealth House ?

It’s actually known as the  ‘Black Desert House’, built in the desert near the Joshua Tree National Park in California. The house is built around a central courtyard, which is set to a backdrop of black walls, midnight quartz, high-gloss anthracite and…
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Home Sweet Dome

Every so often some enthusiast decides to build a dome. This one is in Kewdale West Australia. Its an interesting idea but you would get some odd shaped rooms, and how to you install wall cupboards? If you really fancy this type…
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Scary Shadows

Had nightmares about being lost at night in a forest? Do all those creepy horror films frighten you? In that case this light fitting is not the one to choose for your bedroom For more information see www.piodiaz.wordpress.com   For more…
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Minamalist – Fail

Do you like this? According to the Architectural Press it’s a great example of Minimalist Architecture. Now according to Google Minimalism is  “Characterized by the use of simple, massive forms”. Well this building is massive but would have been anything but…
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Green Wall Fail

One of the big current architectural trends at the moment is ‘Green Walls’. Didn’t work too well at this location! It looks like they grew a creeper up the wall but didn’t think about how the creeper would stay fixed…
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Tasty Door

Well this door takes the biscuit! And you can actually eat it. It was set up by the British company Tate and Lyle as part of a promotion in which they built an edible ‘Hotel’. Thanks to the British web…
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Walk The Plank

Do you like this entrance to a house? It’s from the Wabi House in Southern California, designed by Sebastian Mariscal. For more photos follow this link to Dwell Magazine. Looks like a great site for breeding mozzies. It could also…
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Meringue House

This is certainly a strange looking building! It’s actually an art gallery in France. The designers started out with a fairly conventional building and then added polystyrene The polysyrene was then sculptured into these fantastic shapes. It was then plastered and…
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