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    There’s A Sauna Inside This Grassy Hill Overlooking An Apple Orchard

    Tucked into a small hill sitting on the edge of an apple orchard, you’ll find the Applesauna and Wellness Centre, the latest addition to the Apfel (Apple) Hotel, designed by noa*. Located in Saltusio, Italy, the sauna and relaxation room offer ...
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    Tiny Sci-Fi-Esque Pod Cabins Make the California Desert Look like an Alien Planet

    A series of tiny pods have descended on the high desert outside Joshua Tree National Park, making the bizarrely beautiful landscape look almost like an alien world. The micro-cabins are the brainchild of artist Andrea Zittel, who installed ten of ...
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    Movable Wooden Walls Front Benjamin Garcia Saxe’s Ocean Eye House

    Wooden walls can be folded back from the front of this house on Costa Rica’s coastline, opening up ocean views for the bedrooms and living spaces within (+ slideshow). The Ocean Eye House was designed by San José-based architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe ...
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    This New Hotel Is Built Around The Surrounding Rocky Landscape

    Instead of blasting away all of the rock to create a flat area to build on, this hotel worked with the landscape, and incorporated it into the design.   Photography by Xu Xiaodong Designed by C+ Architects and Naza design ...
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    Autonomous Tent Cocoon

    The word ‘tent’ does not quite call to mind a sense of permanence or even a whole lot of free space, but all the same, people and companies like the Autonomous Tent Co. based out of Colorado are turning out ...
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    Thinking Inside The Box

    There are two types of travelers. Over-packers and those who only require the bare essentials. For the latter, places like the the InBox Capsule Hotel in Saint Petersburg are the perfect pitstop between adventures. The 24 pint-sized accommodations provide everything ...
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    The Slumber Hotel

    This hotel designed by Zahra Safaverdi at Harvard Graduate School of Design is a mixture of an exclusive entertainment club and a bizarre hotel, curates an amplified manipulated atmosphere for sleeping, harvests the dream data via MRI scanners, and mix ...
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    Greenland Is Building the Perfect Place to Watch the World End

    A stunning structure built 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle will serve as a crucial research center for glaciologists. But perhaps more importantly, it will be a place where humans can travel to see the real-time impact of climate change. ...
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    Let’s Go Glamping at the AutoCamp

    Sunset Magazine tours 11 modern “glampgrounds”, a portmanteau of glamorous campgrounds. They show one glampground full of custom Airstream trailers,AutoCamp Russian River. This is a concept that we have discussed on TreeHugger for years: if you are going to live ...