Archive for February, 2006
Saturday, February 25th, 2006
“Flexible House” find a new home
The “Flexible House” that we wrote about in an earlier post (“Free House - You Haul”), has finally found a home.
Faced with demolition, the Mount Baker house built in the future fantastic, “Jetsons”-esque spirit of the 1962 World’s Fair has been saved by a Gig Harbor couple.
The Seattle Times reports “I saw it on the [...]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Paper Tube Structures.
Japanese architect and designer Shigeru Ban is a pioneer of paper tube structures (PTS). He investigated the substance and found that not only could recycled cardboard be molded into load-bearing columns, bent into beautiful trusses and quickly assembled, but it could also be made waterproof and fire resistant.
Shigeru Ban Paper Loghouse
He Builds [...]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Ocean Dome
Manmade Beach in Japan — Ocean Dome
If you can’t find a nearby crowded beach, make one! Only in Japan…
Ocean Dome is known as the world’s largest indoor water park
with a retractable roof. The air temperature is always kept around 30º C and the water temperature is kept at around 28º C.
The name Seagaia is a [...]
