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Video: old tires converted to eco-friendly homes in Colombia!
In Colombia, people have invented a new alternative green construction method for their homes, using old tires. Small buildings resembling igloos are becoming more and more frequent in the outskirts o...
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Photo gallery: "Nail houses" resisting demolition in China
Have a look at a photo gallery of "lonely" homes resisting demolition! In China, the term "nail houses" is used to describe buildings whose owners deny to give them away for the construction of...
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3-storey residential unit made of shipping container material!
A residential model unit built exclusively out of recycled steel shipping containers is now a reality on the southwest corner of Trumbull and Pine, just north of Interstate 75, in Detroit. The ho...
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Dispute Over Frank Lloyd Wright Design in Great Britain
While on a 2004 business trip to Phoenix, Arizona, British electrical engineer Hugh Pratt visited the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. As a lifelong admirer of Wright and a fan of midcentury modern arch...
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Explosion in NYC Levels 3 Buildings
Around 250 firefighters responded last Thursday after a gas main leak caused an explosion that demolished three buildings in Manhattan’s East Village. 22 people were injured, four critically, and two...
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