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    All-pink Silent Room Creates Quiet Sanctuary Beside a Beirut Highway

    Lebanese designer Nathalie Harb created this pavilion for Beirut Design Week to give residents of the city access to silence.   It is intended to provide residents and visitors with a cocoon-like environment to escape the surrounding noise from traffic, construction sites, electronics and ...
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    This $130 Million ‘Hyperloop Hotel’ Would Let You Travel Between Cities in Luxury Rooms

    When you go out of town, you usually need to buy a few nights at a hotel in addition to a plane, train, or bus ticket. Brandan Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, wants to ...
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    Denmark Will Have This Amazing New Observation Tower Next Year

    Located one hour south of Copenhagen, Denmark, the Treetop Experience begins with a walk through the forest of Gisselfeld Klosters Skove that has various sections to stop and relax, or explore and learn. The continuous wood ramp is 1,970 ft (600m) ...
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    Carlo Ratti Building Digitally Connected Retreat in the Himalayan Mountains.

    Construction has started on a digitally connected co-living and co-working retreat in the Himalayas, designed by Italian architect Carlo Ratti. Carlo Ratti Associati has teamed up with Turin-based architect Michele Bonino on the Pankhasari Retreat, a remote getaway where guests will be able to live and work ...
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    MINI’s Fabric House Concept Explores The Limits Of Low-Impact City Living

    20What can be done to make better use of space in cities for housing using minimal resources? This was the question MINI took to task for an installation at the 2017 Salone del Mobile in Milan. The automaker partnered with ...
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    An Architectural Answer to Road Ecology

    However necessary they are for modern transportation, highways have a huge negative impact on the ecosystems and wildlife in areas where they’re built. Designed for every major intersection, the Green Circle architectural concept aims to vertically restore space otherwise lost ...
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    This Spectacular Treehouse in China Immerses Guests in Nature

    A romantic weekend escape awaits lucky couples on China’s Mount Qiyun. Cambridge graduates Andong Lu and Pingping Dou of lanD studio designed Treehouse M, a prefabricated timber structure perched high in the tree canopy with sweeping panoramic views. The contemporary ...
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    Swim Desk

    While great for your joints I’m not so sure how good the Swim Desk is going to be for your computer and mobile phone. Definitely recommend keeping a vat of rice on hand while work-stroking at it. And also maybe ...
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    Sand Artist’s Giant Artworks Made to be Weathered Away by Tide & Rain

    When walking along a seashore, most of us would probably not see a big, blank, sandy canvas, waiting to be inscribed with some kind of beautiful drawing. But that’s how California artist Jim Denevan sees it when he’s faced with ...