Sarah Featherstone’s modern green house was sold for a record-breaking £7.2million, or $14.2million USD!

The home is known as Orchid House and is one of the key homes on Lower Mill Estate which is a project to turn a disused gravel pit into a beautiful nature reserve.

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In celebration of Saudi Aramco Oil Company’s 75th Anniversary, the King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture wants to be a breathtaking tribute to the founder of the modern state of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz.

Located on Dammam Dome, the futuristic structure will stand alongside the site of Prosperity Well No.7 which was the first well in the nation to yield oil in commercial quantities.

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With 70 square meters this house is made of two prefabricated modules perched one on top of the other. The designers pivoted the top unit to create a variety of interesting integrated outdoor spaces with indoor spaces.

What is gorgeus is that you can build your house from as many prefab modules as you want and make as big as you want.

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Atkins has won an international competition to design a resort hotel which is going to be built in a 100 meter deep quarry in the Songjiang district near to Shanghai in China.

Although from these pictures the hotel looks almost unreal, the project is expected to be completed by May, 2009.

The quarry will protect the resort from the weather and reduce the energy needs of the hotel. The complex will contain restaurants, cafes, sport facilities, and will even include underwater public areas and guestrooms.

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Ørestad College is the new danish school , built around an open area that can be seen from almost every floor. It looks like a big mall.

It offers fields of study in science, social science and human science. The purpose of the college is to realize the 2005 reform’s aims to strengthen and renew the student’s professional capabilities, to prepare the students better for university and to enhance the science aspect.

The school has wireless internet everywhere and every student receives a free laptop. It even has some orange pillows for students to relax, talk , work on the computer.

This is the school of my dreams!

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