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		<title>Giant Shell Shaped Conch House Made from Local Materials</title>
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Spongebob Squarepants, eat your heart out! The Conch Shell House is a beach lover&#8217;s fantasy abode. Shaped like a giant white conch  shell, the rather unusual home on the island of Isla Mujeres is  constructed of concrete and recycled and found materials from the area.  It would be cool if an enormous hermit crab lived inside the home, but it&#8217;s actually occupied by famous artist Octavio Ocampo.
 
The bizarre home,  which sits right on the beach, has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a  swimming pool. ...]]></description>
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		<title>RUX: the vanishing mosque</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New york-based design studio rux has won the &#8216;design as reform&#8217; competition hosted by traffic,
a dubai-based art and design collective. the architecture category of the multi-disciplinary
competition called for a reinterpretation of the traditional mosque with a variety of requirements
such as an ablution area, a women&#8217;s prayer room, and communal spaces. rux&#8217;s design proposal,
&#8216;the vanishing mosque&#8217;, plays with the idea of liberating the mosque from a building form
and incorporating it directly into the fabric of the city, making it more visible, connected,
and integral to the spiritual and cultural workings of a community.
The design ...]]></description>
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		<title>The L41 Prefab Home</title>
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This cute little prefab is only 220 sq ft and was designed for these  unsteady economic times. In other words, it&#8217;s cheap! Called the L41 Home and conceived by architect Michael Katz and artist Janet   Corne, the prefab home is ultra-compact, built with green  materials and energy efficient. Designed to be constructed on piers or a  four-point foundation, the home could easily be located on any site  with minimal impact. Eventually the designers hope that they can produce  it for just $50,000 each.
The ...]]></description>
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		<title>Futuristic Eco-Skyscraper is a Self-Sufficient Solar Spire</title>
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While it looks a bit like something that Queen Amidala might wear on her  head, this incredible  tower is actually a concept for a multi-use skyscraper for the city  of Yerevan in Armenia. Designed by Vahan Misakyan, the  insect-like building consists of “structural geodesics” that link up  via habitable bridges. Another interesting feature is that the tower  will be clad in an “intelligent” skin equipped with rain water  collection systems, photovoltaic  cells, and wind turbines.
The tower is based on geodesics — soft ...]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Gate: Parametric Design Results in Worlds Steepest Leaning Building</title>
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Capital Gate is a  new building forming the entrance to Capital Centre, a major development  project in Abu Dhabi and is designed by RMJM  Architects.  It is an advanced parametrically designed tower  sitting at 160 meters featuring a leaning façade of 18 degrees off  horizontal. This technically has given it the title of the most  substantial lean to a building in the world according to the Guinness  Book of World Records.
The building contains a substantial concrete core slightly off center  that carries ...]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Knitting Nancy / Superblue Design</title>
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This year’s theme for the London Festival of Architecture, “The  Welcoming City”, inspired Superblue  Design to create an installation where all could sit  together to enjoy the space, but also take an active role in making that  place.  Entitled Giant Knitting Nancy, the project is a metaphor for  the “interwoven cultures, spaces and places that help make the London a  distinctive place.”  By collaborating with sculptor Dan Preston and jewelry designer Holly Packer, the team created a  large-scale knitted structure which doubles as ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological Skyscraper</title>
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Green Skyscrapers
In the next few days we will showcase 25 innovative proposals for green  skyscrapers. These projects were submitted for the Annual Skyscraper  Competition from 2006 to 2009.
We designed a building that provides infrastructure, urban  facilities, green zone, office and living space. In our view, the real  challenge of Mediterranean self-sufficient skyscraper lies not in their  design but in integrating these within congested urban areas. What can  be designed without damaging historical centres?
Within a well-known base and in the heart of Barcelona, a four ...]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles Skyscraper in 2040</title>
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As we move toward the year 2040, the demands for energy, mobility and  space in Los Angeles continue to grow in a region already overwhelmed  with urban sprawl, traffic congestion, scarce open space, and inferior  public transportation.  Excessive autonomy of living situations and  transportation are at the root of these problems.  The 25-Hour City  looks to oppose the Los Angeles urban model of autonomy by creating an  urban environment with hyper-density and vibrancy by incorporating  everything, everywhere, all the time.  The hyper-mixing of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative Fashion Museum in Los Angeles</title>
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Architecture students Kim Lagercrantz and Chia-Ching  Yang from SCI-Arc talk about their design for a fashion muesum  in Los Angeles, California.
Exploring the 2D&#38;3D qualities of flatness and contemporary  pop-culture, we intend to develop systems of color, texture and plastics  that will produce multiple affects and various degrees of sensation.  Relating to the urban obsession for the Surface, the envelope becomes  the prime target for an architectural escape that offers immediate  satisfaction. Although our building may appear as a solid from the  exterior, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Skycraper:Is it for real?</title>
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Throughout history, through his need for civilization, man has created buildings that consume resources. The skyscraper is the epitome of this voracious consumption, its highly dense grouping of activities ie work, play, rest etc has become an ominous harbingers of our ecologically bleak future. As a reaction to the modern skyscrapers and its dilemmas the world’s eminent minds have created many variations of the skyscraper in the form of the antithetical subscrapers, groundscrapers and even depth scraper. Yet still they still struggle to achieve zero input/zero output in terms of ...]]></description>
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