Housing

Paco Cube Contains All Your Living Needs in 3 Square Metres

3:30PM February 19, 2009 | Elaine Chow

Paco, a prefab mobile studio, takes all your living needs and puts it into a single three-square-metre cube. Designed by Jo Nagasaka, the cube is supposed to be a sleek home away from home.

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Rockport Paper House Is Most Ambitious Papercraft Ever

11:30PM July 27, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Back in 1922, a mechanical engineer began building his summer home in Rockport, Massachusetts out of paper. Originally used just as insulation, Elis Stenman soon began to make furniture and decorations out of paper as well. What resulted was Rockport’s Paper House, which is remarkably still standing after 80 years. Stenman’s grandniece is now in charge of the house, which was turned into a museum in the 1930s.

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Alley House Brings Luxury Living to Cockroach Cracks

3:30AM May 10, 2008 | Mark Wilson

There’s plenty of room left to build in the world’s major cities; we just have to be MacGyver about it. Because when one group of architects looked at an alley, they saw the perfect lot for a five-story building that’s less then eight feet wide.

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Geek Out

Infinity Tower to Twist by 90º Over Dubai Marina

12:12AM February 16, 2008 | Addy Dugdale

For the record, I would like to state that I’m really bored of these outsized erections popping up all over the Arabian Peninsula. This one is going up in the Dubai Marina. It’s called the Infinity Tower (because that is how long it seems that we have been covering these giant penile substitutes that are currently littering the Middle East) and its USP is that it twists 90º. This is the blurb on the 1,000-foot, 80-story, twisted monstrosity.

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