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triplex penthouse atop Brooklyn's iconic Clock Tower building in DUMBO
has stunning views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. It also has a
private elevator, 7,000-square-feet of space, and currently on sale for
$18 million.
People can live virtually anywhere — but some do it better than others.
These beautiful, wacky, and unique living structures are a testament to human creativity and ingenuity.
From a home with an airplane on top to an innovative sundial home
that heats itself, these are 18 of the most interesting houses on the
planet.
70 dome houses were built for villagers who lost
their houses to an earthquake in Indonesia’s ancient city of
Yogyakarta. The monolithic domes can withstand earthquakes and winds up
to 190 mph.
These homes in Rockland Ranch, Utah are built
inside the blasted cavern of the cliff. There are approximately 100
people living in this tiny town, which was originally founded 35 years
ago as a safe-haven for fundamentalist Mormons.
Architect Gary Chang has made his
105-square-foot apartment in Hong Kong into an innovative “domestic
transformer.” The walls move and storage spaces unfold to create 24
individualized rooms.
This Bulgarian woman lives in a car-sized wine
vat in central Spain. There are about 40 people living in this makeshift
camp who came to pick grapes during the six-week annual harvest.
This Heliodome is a bio-climatic solar house in
Eastern France. The house is designed as a three-dimensional sundial
that keeps the temperature cool during summer months, and warms the
living space in the winter, fall, and spring.
Here, Venito Hernandez stands outside his
sun-dried brick home. The house is in Mexico’s Northern state of
Coahuila, and is 131 feet in diameter with a huge boulder used as the
roof.
A triplex penthouse atop Brooklyn’s iconic Clock
Tower building in DUMBO has stunning views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and
Queens. It also has a private elevator, 7,000-square-feet of space, and
currently on sale for $18 million.
Brazilian artists Tiago Primo (top) and his
brother Gabriel built a vertical “house” on a climbing wall in Rio de
Janeiro. They had shelves, counters, a hammock and a bed, but used the
bathroom inside the art gallery next door.
73-year-old builder Bohumil Lhota created a
turning house in a small village north of Prague, Czech Republic. He
started building it in 1981, and finished in 2002. His home rotates so
he can have the best view at all times, and can also move up and down.
Thought to be the world’s skinniest home
averaging five-feet wide, the Keret Home was built by Edgar Keret in
Warsaw between two existing buildings. Keret said the project is a
memorial to his parents’ family who died in the Holocaust.
This three-bedroom home was made from four
shipping containers in Sydney. It was priced at $130,000, and has two
bathrooms, timber floors, a kitchen, laundry room, and can be pulled
apart and transported if need be.
This home — built in the Ivory Coast’s capital
Abidjan — was made to look like a crocodile. It was designed and built
by an artist, and now his apprentice lives in the home after his death.
These treehouses on the Nine Ladies site in
Stanton Lees, Derbyshire in Northern England were inhabited by
protestors for over four years who were trying to prevent the land from
being quarried for gritstone (they were ultimately successful).
This home in Nigeria was partially designed in
the shape of an airplane. It’s in the city of Abuja, and was created by a
couple to display their love for traveling. There’s a kitchen and
computer room in the “plane” part of the house.
This three-bedroom, octagonal home was built on a
rotating platform in Australia. The house cost $700,000 to construct,
and makes a full rotation every 30 minutes.
This house sits on a rock in Serbia’s river
Drina. A group of young men decided that the rock was the ideal place to
build a shelter in 1968, and it has withstood severe storms and floods
for over 50 years.
Liu Lingchao built a makeshift dwelling to house
himself as he walked back to his hometown in China. He has been walking
for five years with the 132 pound structure made from plastic bags, bed
sheets, and bamboo, and is now less than 20 miles away from his goal.
Chris and Malissa Tack gave up their high-tech
lives in 2011 and condensed their world into a “tiny house” in the town
of Snohomish, Washington. Their new home is only 140-square-feet.
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