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When you think of Apple Store locations, the Great Pyramid of Giza probably doesn’t come to mind, but with the right prompt, Midjourney AI can give us an idea of what it could look like. Designer Shail Patel had to carefully think of prompts to feed the Stable Diffusion-based artificial intelligence program in various locations around the world including Egypt and New York City.
If you don’t need to transport an entire city on the Pangeos terayacht, there’s Lazzarini Design’s ‘PLECTRUM’ superyacht, which may be the first to have massive hydrofoil wings that let it glide above water. Measuring 242-feet long, the vessel can hit speeds of up to 75 knots (86.3 mph) in pure luxury.
There’s the Tokyo Cafe with anime maid robots, and then this tiny L-shaped house that measures just 538-square-feet that spans three levels. New York City and Tokyo both are no strangers to cramped living spaces, but architecture firm SALHAUS spent countless hours turning this one into something fit for a family as well as a guest on the ground level.
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Midjourney AI has already shown us what Tom Holland playing Link in a The Legend of Zelda movie, now check out what the program thinks Antoni Gaudi-designed home appliances would look like. This program is currently only accessible through the research lab’s discord bot and requires you to type in a prompt, similar to other AI art generator tools.
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Many thought Saudi Arabia’s The LINE skyscraper city in the desert would remain a concept for years to come, but it is already under construction, according to the latest satellite imagery. No structures appear to have gone vertical yet, although zooming in on the aerial photo reveals a fleet of bulldozers, trucks, and diggers excavating the site.
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You’ve seen a steeplejack atop the Chrysler Building, so why not take a look inside a penthouse at 111 West 57th Street, the world’s thinnest skyscraper? It’s located on Billionaire’s Row, a set of ultra-luxury residential skyscrapers, built along the southern end of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
ICON and Lennar have started construction on a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Georgetown, Texas that combine robotics, software as well as advanced materials. Each Lennar home in the Wolf Ranch community is co-designed by architectural firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, and prices are expected to start from the mid-$400,000s.
First, there was the Starburst House, now Jeep Japan has unveiled their very own modular, solar-powered container house designed for off-the-grid living. The idea is that you would be able to quickly pack up its foldable sides and move to another location without having to worry about disassembling anything.
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Artist duo Studio DRIFT used drones equipped with special software to create life-sized renders of what the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain and other famous structures would look like when finished. The believe that finishing them with light emphasizes the potential positive power of our current high-tech developments in relation to the slow, yet beautiful, building methods of the past.
TinyTendo is more of a novelty item, while the Wee House, or the tiniest house in Scotland, can actually be lived in. The story circulating states that it was built on Loch Shin near the Scottish village of Lairg in 1824 by poacher Jock Broon who was gifted land by a person who owned a large estate in return for being taught how to distill whisky.