How about a truck that can be transformed into a two-story home at the push of a button? Look no further than this custom vehicle, created by Japanese engineers. It comes complete with kitchen, hot tub, and more. Video after the break.
(Thanks, Madison)
We have seen the future of skyscrapers, and they look like giant pixel clouds, or so this design wants us to think. This structure is “constructed from 3866 cubes of varying opacity, and serves as a physical manifestation of the intangible: digital information floating above the green landscape.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Embodying “xin” (or “new”), visitors are beckoned inside by music to post their dreams of tomorrow, to incite innovation.
[via Gizmodo]
Dubbed the En Suit Sky Garage, this “elevator recognizes your car automatically and brings you up to your floor; you then pull forward into your garage, and the elevator goes back down.” Video after the break.
A steal at $3 million dollars. (You can’t put a price on this kind of car convenience in Manhattan.)
The Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany is touted as the world’s largest model train railway, spanning 11,840 square feet. It features “800 trains, over 10,000 train cars in total, running several hundred kilometers every day, [and] one train is 47.5 feet long.” Video after the break.
It took 500,000 working hours to build, going from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden to North America, through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland – complete with the Grand Canyon, 20-foot tall Swiss mountains.
[via Gizmodo]
Designed to look like a crashed UFO, this creative home “includes various green design strategies including gray-water rain storage and solar power — are hardly noticeable against the incredibly varied design of the building’s facades and roof.” Continue reading to see the interior.
If you’ve ever wanted to live in a crashed UFO, this is your dream house. A cracked open sphere with a roof that looks almost shredded, the house only gets weirder as you get closer.
[via io9]
In addition to being the world’s largest swimming pool, “the coast-hugging pool is all man-made with a bit of patented technology that uses water from the nearby Pacific Ocean to fill it.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
[via LaTimes]
For $300,000 on eBay, you could purchase your very own cave house. Supposedly, “this property used to be some sort of musical venue called ‘Caveland’ where the likes of Bob Seger and Ike and Tina Turner once performed.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Apparently the house is finished, but most of the photos show the house in an unfinished form. But whatever, because the main point here is that these people are living in a cave.
While this house may look small from the outside, it features plenty of space for all your gadgets — wall-mounted LCDs, etc., 1000-square feet to be exact. On the downside, it’s being offered at a whopping $699,000. Click here for first picture in gallery.
If only this 3-bedroom in Lower Pac Heights were abutted by another tall building on the other side – then it’d win the award for most “Little House”-like home in San Francisco.
[via NBC]
Why waste a perfectly good, decommissioned oil rig, when you could transform it into a luxury hotel/resort? Morris Architects plans “to convert this space into exclusive, self-sufficient eco-friendly, high-end resort islands off the Gulf of Mexico, dubbing it our very own American Dubai.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
What do you do with 4,000 decommissioned oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico? With a deck of each oil rig at 20,000 square feet, that creates about 80 million square feet of usable space.
[via Gizmodo]
Built entirely from aluminum panels, this “24-foot by 24-foot box demonstrates how economy in size and fabrication can lead to surplus in style and coolness.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
The prototype is located in the Saga Prefacture at the southernmost tip of the Japanese archipelago. Perfect for either commercial or residential use.
[via Inhabitat]