Queen Elizabeth Hotel has 325 rooms and was been built to look like a cruise ship. The total cost? Around $50 million to build, and can be found “between the legendary Toros Mountains and the sparkling turquoise Mediterranean in Göynük, Antalya. Just on the first row of Shopping Center in Göynük.”

The hotel’s website and some additional photos can be found here.

I wonder how much does a room costs…

Antalya is a great destination for tourist and I plan to visit it this summer.

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PF1 (Public Farm One) is an urban farm concept built with inexpensive recyclable materials such as cardboard tubes that form a continuous surface to offer space for growing plants in a crowded city.

This could be possible one of the greatest ideas of the future regarding growing plants in a city. Because there is no much space for nature, the suspended farms will turn your city in a green one.

The Queens County Farm Museum and the Horticultural Society of New York gave the plants greenhouse space and assisted with other aspects of the project. The watering system and weekly farmers’ market were created with the help of the Council on the Environment of New York.

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A ‘Demolition Party’ is a party where they VIPs are invited to smash, wreck and generally annihilate anything left standing in the building: corridors, stairways, lobbies, rooms, etc.

Belgian designer and artist Arne Quinze created a temporary installation at the 5 star Parisian hotel Le Royal Monceau last month, before the hotel’s closure for a year with Philippe Starck designing the new interiors.

The installation called REBIRTH is a unique futuristic wooden sculpture, the hotel didn’t plan to go quietly giving an exclusive party.

The installation features 15 km of fluorescent red wood and 40 video screens to offer the public a mind-bowing and unique experience.

“REBIRTH reflects the transition moment in which the building’s DNA reveals its disorder, history and countless stories. It bursts out all it’s captured energy of the hotel’s last decades.

It is an organic fragmentation bomb that hangs still in the air, just for one moment, in perfect formation, before dissolving, disappearing and turning into a new, well-structured pattern again…”

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Recently I wrote an article asking my readers if they would live in an Earth House, and the success was huge, all of them liked the idea. So today I will show you more brilliant ideas of houses made from earth from around the world.

Earthships are ecological houses build mostly from old tires or other recycled waste, built on the earth for the purpose of living “off the grid.”

They are using solar and geothermal energy which allows the home to be heated without gas. What is amazing is that many people who live in earthships say they pay anywhere from $0 to $100 per year for utilities. It even recycles rain water.

When is winter outside, the sun’s low rays hits the tire wall and the heat slowly permeates throughout the house.

Electricity needs can be generated from the installed solar panels.

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Earth House is a project from a swiss architect whos aim is not to live under or in the ground, but with it!

The Earth House is a very flexible construction which can be built according to the wishes of its owners, being environmentally friendly construction, energy saving and it’s using the surroundings as an advantage. The house is shaped in order to preserve the natural environment.

Although they are build from earth the houses features the latest interior finishing like modern kitchens, bathrooms and house-control systems.

I really like this idea because it is eco friendly and doesn’t harm the environment when it is built. We should think more of using old techniques of contruction because sometimes they are the best.

And YES, I would live in a house like this .

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