Remember The Line? If not, it’s basically a part of Saudi Arabia’s ambitious NEOM project, a 170-km-long linear megacity under construction in the Tabuk desert, envisioned as a futuristic, zero-carbon urban hub. Things are well underway and construction is progressing nicely, or so we think.
The first 3D-printed Starbucks in the US opened near SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Brownsville, Texas, at 2491 Boca Chica Boulevard. This is a 1,400-square-foot, drive-thru and walk-up-only location with no indoor seating. Why? It’s designed for quick service, catering to the area’s growing traffic near the base.
Photo credit: ChatGPT
You’ve seen the ChatGPT-powered plush koala bear, now here’s how you can turn yourself into a toy action figure using OpenAI’s service. It’s pretty easy and uses ChatGPT’s picture-making skills, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.
Have $14,000 burning a hole in your pocket and lots of land? You can actually buy a 2-story luxury flat-pack container home on Amazon, complete with a garage. However, there are some major drawbacks including not having a bathroom, or at least the way it ships. Put simply, their descriptions leave a lot to be desired, unlike this real Airbnb shipping container home.
Wolf Ranch kicked off the 3D-printed home communities that we see across the US, and now, ICON has begun work on Mueller in Austin, Texas. Homes – 2 bedroom, 3 bedroom, and bungalow – will range in size from between 650 to 2,400-square-feet, priced from $350,000 USD.
COBOD’s BOD2 3D construction printer was used to complete the first 3D-printed social housing project in just 132 days. Located in Dublin, Ireland, ‘Grange Close’ is a three-unit terraced social housing project with a total floor space of 330 m2 (3,552 ft2), consisting of 3 apartments spanning 110 m2 (1,184 ft2) each.
There’s the Vattenfall wind turbine house, and then this solar-powered tiny home that was built on top of lava flow in Hawaii. Jade has lived on lava in Hawaii for over 15 years with her young son in the Phoenix Tiny House, an off-grid vacation home that she also rents out.
Photo credit: Real Estate Report | Glendon Good
This isn’t the first clifftop home we’ve seen, but Glendon Good’s ‘Ring of Fire’ in Sedona, Arizona is definitely the only one that has its own tram. That’s right, a small tram takes you, along with a few visitors, to the top of the mountain in just 3-minutes and 15-seconds.
