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London’s Bold and Bright Wahaca Restaurant Is Built from 8 Shipping Containers

London’s Bold and Bright Wahaca Restaurant Is Built from 8 Shipping Containers

The busy Southbank Center is abuzz with traffic from the visitors checking out the nearby Blackfriars Solar Bridge and Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden, making it the perfect place for a pop-up. Diners can

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Bo Christian Larsson Transforms Old Suitcases into Quaint Hotel Sculptures

Bo Christian Larsson Transforms Old Suitcases into Quaint Hotel Sculptures

Larsson’s creative eye sees a stack of old trunks and suitcases as something more. Adding latticed windows and doors, he transforms the luggage into a sculptural multi-tiered building. With luggage

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Sunken Fort Werk Aan’t Spoel to be Transformed into Gradated Public Park in the Netherlands

Sunken Fort Werk Aan’t Spoel to be Transformed into Gradated Public Park in the Netherlands

Rietveld Landscape and Atelier de Lyon see the new space as an outdoor park lounge, attracting locals from Culemborg for days of relaxation in the sun. The existing landscape is built up into a series of

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Ilan Dei Studio Opens a Shipping Container Pop-Up Store in Venice, CA

Ilan Dei Studio Opens a Shipping Container Pop-Up Store in Venice, CA

Ilan Dei Studio opened its new pop-up shop on July 28th in Venice, CA to sell the studio's designs as well as act as a community living room for the area. Built from three recycled shipping containers,

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Blind LED Handrails Make the Lowly Stairwell the Most Interesting Room

Blind LED Handrails Make the Lowly Stairwell the Most Interesting Room

The LED handrails are still just a concept and there are currently no plans for production, but they seem like a very promising design. The handrails can illuminate in many colors, and potentially change

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7 Ways to Upcycle a Train Station

7 Ways to Upcycle a Train Station

Anila is editor-at-large at Loco2, a small company mad enough to tackle the complexities of European rail by making online ticket booking more accessible, giving expert advice in the Engine Room forum and

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The Summer Cave is a Tranquil Italian Restaurant Tucked into a Cozy Sea Cave

The Summer Cave is a Tranquil Italian Restaurant Tucked into a Cozy Sea Cave

The clifftop Grotta Palasezze has 20 rooms overlooking the Adriatic Sea and the old town of Polignano o Mare. Dimly lit and outfitted with furnishings made simply from natural materials in order to blend

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Atlas Chugged: How GPS Tracking and Mapping Can Help You Save Tons of Money in Gas

Atlas Chugged: How GPS Tracking and Mapping Can Help You Save Tons of Money in Gas

The constant need to fuel your car and the emissions that doing so releases into the air can be incredibly frustrating for motorists, and more so, those that are eco-conscious. With the focus slowly

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Pierre Cardin’s Plans for a Futuristic Venice Skyscraper Finds Opposition

Pierre Cardin’s Plans for a Futuristic Venice Skyscraper Finds Opposition

Millionaire high fashion designer and politician Pierre Cardin’s plans for a futuristic skyscraper near Venice is turning quite a few heads. The proposed 800ft, nearly $2 billion project, dubbed the

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Villages Nature is a Utopian Eco Resort Planned Near Disneyland Paris

Villages Nature is a Utopian Eco Resort Planned Near Disneyland Paris

Just 32 km east of Paris is the 160,000 m2 site slated for Les Villages Nature de Val d’Europe, which will be an eco resort destination for families. Developed by Euro Disney and Pierre & Vacances

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WG3′s Hypercubus Micro Hotel is a Tiny Home Tilted Towards the Sky

WG3′s Hypercubus Micro Hotel is a Tiny Home Tilted Towards the Sky

A new concept for a mobile hotel, the Hypercubus sits on the edge of almost any landscape - as well as on the edge of itself. The designers envision the units used for the tourism industry and for

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Almáa Sintra Hostel Is An Idyllic Eco-Retreat on a Historic 12th Site in Portugal

Almáa Sintra Hostel Is An Idyllic Eco-Retreat on a Historic 12th Site in Portugal

The hostel is set on the idyllic grounds of an ancient fresh water spring, for which it is named (Almáa means water in Arabic). The spring supplies water to the hostel, irrigates the landscaped gardens

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Portable Snoozebox Shipping Container Hotel Can Be Set Up in Just 48 Hours

Portable Snoozebox Shipping Container Hotel Can Be Set Up in Just 48 Hours

Snoozebox’s cozy rooms carry all the comforts of home. The rooms sleep two to four guests comfortably, with double beds and adjacent bunk beds. The adaptable rooms also feature drawers and storage to

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Lisbon Palace Transformed Into an Affordable and Luxurious Hostel

Lisbon Palace Transformed Into an Affordable and Luxurious Hostel

The palace, once home to Lisbon’s regal set, has been transformed into a welcoming travel destination. Each of the upstairs rooms have been converted to sleep 108 separate beds in thirteen affordable

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CitizenM Prefab Hotels Now Provide Affordable Luxury in London and Glasgow

CitizenM Prefab Hotels Now Provide Affordable Luxury in London and Glasgow

Back in 2008, CitizenM built its first two prefabricated hotels in Amsterdam as an experiment, and then took the lessons they'd learned to design and build the hotels in the UK. They started with the

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World’s First Nissan LEAF Electric Stretch Limo Hits the Streets in Tennessee

World’s First Nissan LEAF Electric Stretch Limo Hits the Streets in Tennessee

A hotel in Nashville, Tennessee has created the world's first electric Nissan LEAF stretch limo. This is probably one of the last cars that you would ever think of seeing converted into a limousine, but

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Buijtenkeuken is a Mobile Kitchen for the Dutch Countryside

Buijtenkeuken is a Mobile Kitchen for the Dutch Countryside

Part of a multi-year project that has five components (including an outdoor brewery, nursery and mini-hotel), Buijtenkeuken is designed to re-examine the relationship between human activities and the

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Absalon’s Cellule Dwellings Provide All the Essentials of Living in Just 26 Square Feet

Absalon’s Cellule Dwellings Provide All the Essentials of Living in Just 26 Square Feet

Named for the smallest unit of life, the artist designed the efficient living structures after spending time living minimally in a hut on a beach. Each of his Cellules are sleek and white, with

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Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Salt Flat is the World’s Largest Mirror

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Salt Flat is the World’s Largest Mirror

Salar de Uyuni photo from Shutterstock Salt Flat image from Shutterstock Prehistoric lakes once covered Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni near the crest of the Andes. When these lakes dried up over

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Colombia’s B3 Hotel Virrey has an 8-Story Vertical Garden with 25,000 Plants!

Colombia’s B3 Hotel Virrey has an 8-Story Vertical Garden with 25,000 Plants!

Paisajismo Urbano is literally turning Bogotá green with their amazing vertical ecosystems. One of the world's most sophisticated team of vertical gardeners, the group behind B3 Hotel Virrey's

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Beijing’s Encapsulated ‘Parkview Green FangCaoDi’ Has Its Own Energy-Efficient Microclimate

Beijing’s Encapsulated ‘Parkview Green FangCaoDi’ Has Its Own Energy-Efficient Microclimate

Parkview Green FangCaoDi is a 800,000 sq ft mixed-use development and is quite possibly one of the largest sustainable projects in the city. The collaborative design work of Integrated Design Associates

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Luxury Hotel Made from 35 Recycled Shipping Containers Opens Next Month in China

Luxury Hotel Made from 35 Recycled Shipping Containers Opens Next Month in China

The uber-industrial China exported over 3.2 million shipping containers last year alone, far too many to repurpose or recycle them all. The ambitious hotel, in a rural region outside of the city of

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World’s Largest Building Made of Recycled Beer Bottles Opens in Las Vegas!

World’s Largest Building Made of Recycled Beer Bottles Opens in Las Vegas!

The Morrow Royal Pavilion in Las Vegas just claimed the title of the world's largest building made from recycled bottles! Created by Las Vegas Entrepreneur Scott McCombs, the 30,000-square-foot

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The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards Announce Their 2012 Shortlist

The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards Announce Their 2012 Shortlist

Mixed-Use Building of the year: + Steven Holl Architects, with Daeyang Gallery & House, Seoul, South Korea + Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with Tidemill Academy and Deptford Lounge, Deptford,

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Top 6 Must-See Summer Eco Resorts Around the World!

Top 6 Must-See Summer Eco Resorts Around the World!

Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia The Alila Villas Uluwatu combines the best of tropical luxury and sustainable design. The Earthcheck-certified resort on Bali’s southern Bukit Peninsula finds its

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Fiber-Grass Will Be a Self-Sustaining Mixed-Use Development in Greater Noida, India

Fiber-Grass Will Be a Self-Sustaining Mixed-Use Development in Greater Noida, India

Fiber-Grass is a sustainable mixed-use development in Greater Noida, which is located about 25 miles southeast of New Delhi in Northern India. The project, designed by Dinkoff Architects & Engineers,

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Student-Designed Fokka Pyramid is a Landmark Indoor Park for Helsinki

Student-Designed Fokka Pyramid is a Landmark Indoor Park for Helsinki

Each year the Helsinki city planning office and Ruukki hold a design competition for a new and innovative building made from steel. This year's design called for a mixed-use development that combines

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MVRDV Unveils Plans to Transform Almere, the Netherlands Into the Greenest City Ever Built

MVRDV Unveils Plans to Transform Almere, the Netherlands Into the Greenest City Ever Built

Floriade is a national horticulture expo held every decade in The Netherlands - and Almere wants to be the next host in 2022. To woo the judges they've hired MVRDV to create the master plan for their expo

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Sleep in a Protected Forest at Morgan’s Rock Hacienda & Ecolodge in Nicaragua

Sleep in a Protected Forest at Morgan’s Rock Hacienda & Ecolodge in Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a hot place to be right now if you're craving sun, surf, and sand - and Morgan's Rock is definitely the sustainable hotel you'll want to stay at. Located right on the Pacific coast, the hotel

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