Archive for April, 2006
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Bamboo Living
Bamboo’s become all the rage, from furniture to flooring, to huts to homes.
Bamboo is versatile with a short growth cycle. It can be harvested in 3-5 years versus 10-50 years for most softwoods and hardwoods.
Bamboo can be harvested and replenished with virtually no impact to the environment and is a viable replacement for [...]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Earth Block Home
Earth Blocks are blocks of compressed soil that are aesthetically pleasing as well as cost and energy efficient, fire and pest resistant, virtually soundproof, durable and structurally sound. They provide complete architectural freedom and are made from a non-toxic readily available natural raw material dirt.
The cost of building with Earth Blocks is competitive with other [...]
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
House o’ Beer
Aluminum Siding 12 Ounces at a Time!
Who doesn’t love a frosty mug? John Milkovisch does. He consumed 39,000 cans of beer over 18 years to create a magnificent Homage to Beer at his house in Houston, Texas. He linked pull-tabs into long streamers to make curtains that chimed when the wind [...]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Ricky Boscarino’s Luna Park
Ricky is artist-in-residence at this fabulous, fanciful and phantasmagoric house, cozily nestled in a forest glade amidst the wilds of woodland New Jersey. Surrounded by an elaborate profusion of flora and populated by an exotic menagerie of fauna ranging from pigs to peacocks, Luna Parc is a continuously evolving expression of Boscarino’s creativity and provides [...]
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
The Living Barge
The Living Barge Project is a large-scale, temporary public art installation by Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler that is moored on Seattle’s Duwamish River during April 2006. Native plants will be installed on an industrial barge, creating a temporary floating island full of ferns, shrubs and tree seedlings. The barge will be moored on [...]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Hawaii Honeymoon Hobbit House
Quote from Best Places to Stay in Hawaii “This is one of the more unusual places to stay I have ever seen…If you want a bit of mystery and imagination in your vacation, and little stories lying in wait around every corner, you’ll appreciate it here. It’s enchanting, rather like you’d expect a hobbit’s [...]
