Unlike other structures, the Sliding House by London-based architects dRMM is actually comprised of “three separate structures, and a garage that are unified by a sliding wall which can envelop them together.” Video after the break.
..the outer wall of the house moves along a 28 meter track and can sit over any part of main house’s 16-meters linear frame, or move to cover any part of the 7-meter annex, or the open space in front of the 5 meter garage.
Hong Kong architect Gary Chang transformed his 344-square-foot apartment into a high-tech fun house, which “can be shifted into at least 24 different layouts.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Turning his apartment into what he’s named a “Domestic Transformer” hasn’t been cheap. It only cost $45,000 to buy, but his latest design efforts came with a $218,000 price tag.
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That’s right, a photographer took pictures of the Trump International Hotel and Tower construction in Chicago, and put them into a time lapse video. Continue reading to see 92-stories rise in just under 2-minutes.
(Thanks, Katy via ChicagoTribune)
No other diner in the world quite matches the strange location of the Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.
(Thanks, Brian)
Built by Japanese architect Kurokawa Kisho in the 1970’s, this incredible “tower rises 14 floors and is composed of 140 individual capsules designed to be either apartments or business offices.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
PingMag has an amazing expose on the building and more on Japan’s Metabolism movement. The Metabolism movement wanted to create a new system of architecture and is probably the forefather of things like stackable prefab housing.
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Instead of just driving to work, these incredible Japanese highways aim to make your commute a little more interesting, with a fascinating network of highways. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Absolutely nuts. Although other structures around the world can rival these, the concentration in Japanese cities is simple astounding. Head to DRB for the entire series. And in case you are interested, here’s how it looks from inside a car.
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Located in Japan, these houses could quite possibly be the world’s slimmest, with all of them making great use of small plots of land. Though a few look like facades, they can all be lived in. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Screw Dubai. Bouncing Red Ball has a a selection of some of thinnest buildings in the world, all in Japan, where land is so scarce.
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When completed, Shanghai Tower will boast the world’s highest observatory, at 632m. This structure “is organized as nine cylindrical buildings stacked one on top of the other with a double-skinned layer on the outside.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
The outside layer is triangular shaped and swivels as it reaches upwards. Designed by San Francisco-firm Gensler, the tower plans on accommodating offices, a luxury hotel, nine sky-gardens and various retail and cultural venues, as well as a new Shanghai Metro stop.
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Located inside the Taiwanese department store Star Place, these spiral stairs were “made by rotating escalators over a central axis.” No word yet on the official cost. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Star Place is a new Taiwanese department store designed by Dutch architects UNStudio. Outside, the building is beautiful, with a curved facade that glows in a weird star-like moire pattern.
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Located in China, the Siduhe Grand Bridge will be the world’s tallest when completed. It’s so far up that workers had to attach “3,200-foot cables to rockets, accurately firing them across the valley to the other side.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
How tall is it? Well, let’s just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn’t touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead.
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