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I bet you’ve dreamed of living on your very own island, away from the stresses of everyday life, surrounded by beauty, great weather and stunning fauna and flora. It was a line in Robinson Crusoe that resonated with me when Daniel Defoe wrote “I was absolute lord and lawgiver, they all owed their lives to [...]
Posted by bigoak on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Filed under All Houses, Islands · Tagged absolute lord, Acre, attractive locations, billionaire, british virgin isles, camels, Canada, canadian islands, Caribbean, caribbean island, caribbean location, Cayman Islands, daniel defoe, desert island, egomania, fauna and flora, Government, home, house, island paradise, Nature, paradise island, Recreation, related articles, relocations, richard branson, robinson crusoe, summer breaks, undeveloped islands, unique
We posted a pic of this before, but here you have a guest post on the Toilet House! What happens when you combine an architect, activism, and a latrine? Don’t be alarmed. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that is a toilet-shaped house and it’s real. Sim Jae-Duck, an architect from Seoul, Korea, is the mastermind [...]
Posted by Strange Houses on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 8:00 am
Filed under All Houses, Shaped like something else, Strange Mansions · Tagged activism, architect, art, Bathroom, births, BP, Dana Bashor, Drinking water, fog, garden, general assembly, glimpse, guestrooms, house, House (TV series), latrine, masterpiece, Nature, night visitors, organizing committee, pun, Seoul, seoul korea, sim, Singing, summer olympic games, suwon, tall, toilet, world cup
The Swedish are so cool. Seriously. I think Sweden is an awesome place. Now they’ve created a hotel that is unlike any other – the rooms are mirrored cubes that sit high up in the trees. The mirrors make the cubes practically invisible from the outside, so that the natural setting is not disturbed by [...]
Posted by Elizabeth on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 8:37 am
Filed under All Houses, Green Houses, Off the ground · Tagged architect, architects, arctic circle, art, birds, boreal forest, circle, cool, cubes, flora and fauna, forests, golden eagles, harmony with nature, house, natural beauties, Nature, nest tree, Recreation, reflections, Sweden, Taiga, tree house, Treehotel, trees, unique homes, unique houses, unique log cabins, weird, weird houses, window strikes, windows and skylights, work of art