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“La Cabande du Sucre”, built by Richard Greaves in Quebec. “I don’t like concrete. A tree moves and also I’m silent. With a nail or a saw. you’d know I was there. I am like a raccoon” – Richard Greaves Greaves makes inhabitable structures out of garbage that look pretty impressive if not confusing. Having [...]
It could be the house of a pirate king who keeps his treasure buried in the waterbed beneath, but this plywood palace built around a broad-leafed maple tree in Redmond, Washington belongs to a regular Dad who built it for his kids. Sadly, all three of Steve Rondel’s children grew up before he could ever [...]
Until 1970, they were unaware of the existence of any people on Earth besides themselves. Hard to believe with such extensive views from their 140 foot high tree dwellings, but when you’re living in one of the least explored jungles in the world, these things can happen. The indigenous Korowai tribe have been building their [...]
You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home–
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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It’s still a work in progress so I don’t have a whole stack of images but I really
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What would you do if you had founded the largest online retailer in the world? Well, you would go
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you
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When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a
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It could be the house of a pirate king who keeps his treasure buried in the waterbed beneath, but
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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The luxury French resort of a different variety … Photo source: Flick User An Agent Like a
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Last year, Amazon shifted 17 million products within 24 hours. Can Santa even compete with those
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