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Rising Floodwaters Threaten Mies Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House
It’s a good thing that Mies Van der Rohe’s iconic 1951 Farnsworth House is built on stilts! Just a couple of days ago, the nearby Fox River flooded its banks due to continuous rain and above-freezing...
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Cozy Daylit Home in the Netherlands Uses Locally Sourced Wood to Keep Dry
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John Grade’s Luminous Capacitor Sculpture ‘Breathes’ in Response to Weather...
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Smart Satellite Technology to Help Combat Poaching in Kenya
One rhino is killed every 11 hours in Kenya, leaving just over 500 of the animals out of the 20,000 that existed in Kenya in 1969. To help keep tabs on the remaining individuals, Cambridge Consultants...
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Will Los Angeles Move Forward with Free, Citywide Wi-Fi Service?
WiFi and Los Angeles images from Shutterstock Los Angeles could become the largest U.S. city to offer its residents free, citywide Wi-Fi service if a motion introduced by City Councilman Bob...
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The Biomimicry Manual: What can the Sunfish Teach Us About Submarines?
With a comically tiny mouth and a blunt cauliflower tail, the ocean sunfish is little more than a swimming head. Which is, in fact, its name in German. Grotesquely oversized, these monsters appear to...
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Glazed Donut House BM Has Trees in and Around it
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Architekturburo Scheder positions a tiny timber house on stilts in Germany
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Henry Island Residence is an off-the-grid family retreat for a Grammy-winning...
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Argentina’s airy RM House floats elegantly above the grassy Pampas landscape
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South Korea unveils plan for near-supersonic hyper-tube train
Transportation that moves close to the speed of sound could be a reality in South Korea before too long. The country’s government-run Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI) is working on their own...
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The Mask House looks like an ethereal mirage hovering among treetops in Ithaca
The Mask House, designed by WOJR , provides privacy while emphasizing views of the natural surroundings, and acts as a sort of habitable passage into another world, commemorating the loss of the...
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This cozy cottage sits on stilts made out of recycled gas pipes
This year-round cottage on stilts in Canada , designed for a couple and their son, floats above a lakeside site prone to flooding and freeze-thaw weathering. Architecture firm DIN Projects designed...
View ArticleHigh House lets you enjoy the outdoors even in the middle of winter in Quebec
As if built out of snow, this discrete house on stilts blends perfectly into the white winter landscape of Quebec, Canada . Parisian architecture studio Delordinaire raised the house above the ground...
View ArticleThis low-cost forest house on stilts is a minimalist dream in Vietnam
This charming forest house on stilts allows two people to experience the beauty and simplicity of living in a remote mountain setting. Architect Chu V?n ?ông designed the structure as a low-cost...
View ArticleThis passively cooled house in Australia features a green roof, recycled...
The residents of Greenacres, Austin Maynard Architects ‘ first completed project in New South Wales, originally asked for a light-filled home and a room with a view. The architects decided to take it...
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