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.
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.
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.
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.
