Category Archives: Architecture

DIY Home Slide!

I’ve always wanted to do this someday when I get my own house, build both a pole and a slide down from my house to the garage.   Well, it’s sorta similar, this DIY home slide allows kids to safely and swiftly get from their bedroom to the first floor.

Why don’t we do this more often with homes anyways?  Sure looks a lot of fun to me still and I am over 30.

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Light DIY – How to Make a Light Transmitting Concrete!

Can you imagine making your own light-transmitting concrete that will transmit light over air then display it in stellar fashion in your dark room?   If yes, you will want to learn the skills of making a light transmitting concrete.

What can you make with it?  A lot of stuff like this:

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For artists and home architects alike, this could solve your needs where you need light in but want to make an artwork out of it.

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Design – Future of London?

Here’s a rather fantastic design for a future London with “pods” as living spaces.  I don’t know about now but in year 2050, this should be a common scene.

… adaptive ecologies brief explores the emergent logics of adaptation and evolution that are constitutive of ecosystems in nature. our vision is to define an urban ecosystem which supports housing and cultural programs and has the ability to adapt, transform, mutate and adjust according to the specific urban and social char

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DIY Lightfade LED Floor might be GREAT for NightClubs!

As a former nightclub-addict who has been practically to every nightclub in San Francisco and Las Vegas, I have to say this Lightfade LED floor might be perfect for nightclubs where clubbers can enjoy dancing and matching footprint fades.  Boy, would I love to install these in my future home someday, I can have a party in my house!

When a pedestrian walks across Rogier Sterk’s interactive light floor, his or her weight displaces fluid contained within the panel system, leaving “light prints” for about one

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Eco-Friendly KFC-Taco Bell Branch Opened!

Two of my favorite fast-foods are KFC and Taco Bell.   I usually like to order 20 hot wings, corn-on-the-cob, and a large cole-slaw at KFC while I stick to like 5-6 regular tacos for Taco Bell.

Well, the news is that one of the KFC-Taco Bell branches are going “green”.  Way too cool, I will be eating more KFC and Taco Bell for sheezy.

The restaurant is designed according to environmental goals that include cutting energy and water consumption by 30 percent and reducing CO2 emissions. Operations at the new site are also expecte

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Shipping Container Homes Designed and Made!

I’ve seen a rise of homes made with used shipping containers and I have to say, this “was” a redneck practice that has turned into a great way for architects to develop new self-sustaining, green homes.  Now, you will have to just buy a lot of acres of land and move your home (containers) to where ever you want to be.

The best examples that explain his creativity are the Bunny Lane, his own home built with a 19th century clapboard cottage inside an industrial hanger, and the Push Button House, which takes just 90 seconds to expan

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Capital Gate Tower is the Worlds Most Crooked Building in the World!

Developers in Abu Dhabi have made so much money on oil crisis, they are building the World’s Most Crooked Building that is 4 times more crooked than the previous record holder, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

It doesn’t surprise me though, it’s about time modern architecture proves to be somewhat better than stuff that were built over a century ago.  Not that

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DIY – How to Build your own Bat Cave with Hidden Rooms!

Here’s a cool DIY on how to build your own bat cave with hidden rooms just like Batman.

If you’re in the market for a Batcave—or just a place to hide your stamp collection—then Steve Humble of Creative Home Engineering should be your next call. The mechanical engineer turned secret-passageway builder started his Phoenix-based company when he couldn’t find anyone to build a hidden room for his home. “I thought that there would be a lot of people who would want a secret passageway in their house,” he says. “So I took a gamble, qui

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The Dubai Ziggurat – Eco-Friendly Self-Sustaining Pyramid for 1 Million People!

The Dubai Ziggurat - Eco-Friendly Self-Sustaining Pyramid for 1 Million People!

Dubai seems to always spark the public’s interest with things like the tallest buidling in the world.

Well, here’s another great idea that might make it to production, an eco-friendly self-sustaining pyramid that can house 1 million people.

The size of the pyramid should be huge but shouldn’t be a hard task for Dubaians who are already building the tallest building in the world.

The Mayans and Egyptians

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Styrofoam Homes could be the future!

It looks like styrofoam could be used for making future homes as they provide a flexible enough structure to hold up against earthquakes while being strong enough to encase a dome.

Heck, I would want one too so long as peeping Tom’s don’t live in my neighborhood.

Made with 7-inch-thick 100% expanded polystyrene foam modules, the company says that they don’t have the maintenance problems of wood or metal structures, and they are “highly resistant” to earthquakes, fires, and typhoons. Still, the 480 domes at Aso F

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