People are starting for looking unconventional resources as potential building materials. The company Japan Dome House Co., Ltd. has created an “easy to assemble” modular home building kit that uses Styrofoam as a basic material. It creates an igloo-shaped home.

Made of 100% expanded polystyrene foam, the Dome House can be called the habitat for the 21st century thanks to its numerous advantages.

The Dome House is rot-proof, water-proof and termite-proof, thermal insulated and also resistant to earthquakes and typhoons.

What is more interesting is that is possible to construct larger, elongated domes by adding more pieces to be connected into a single structure.

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What can you do with a very small piece of land? Well… 2 rooms, kitchen, 3 bedrooms with washrooms and a veranda!

This extremely narrow house belongs to the lady in yellow named Helenita Queiroz Grave Minho and was designed by her. What is very weird is that the house is 1 meter wide by 10 meter tall!!!

It is situated in Madre de Deus, Brazil and at first, the municipality refused, but in the end allowed the construction.

Something like that could be designed in big cities where the space is really a problem because it is expensive, but to live daily in a house so narrow would be exhausting and not very pleasant.

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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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In an effort to make the La Défense neighborhood of Paris more attractive, this winning design by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, was selected over dozens of other firms.

This 71 floor tower will include offices, hotel, residential and retail spaces. The design is basically made up of four blocks piled one on top of the other with atriums forming huge windows, each facing in alternate directions.

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According to the Intergovernmental Group on the Evolution of the Climate the ocean level will rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century .

As a solution to this problem architect Vincent Callebaut designed a building that could serve as a luxurious future space for 50,000 inhabitants who will want refuge from rising waters.

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