This is the Artemis Pod: a luxury lodge inspired by the moon base of the Artemis project that gives you plenty of room for an office, studio, and extra
An eco pod sounds appealing doesn't it? Learn all about eco pods here, including what one is, how they are eco friendly, eco pods for sale and pod holidays.
We generally don't see round houses built by the major home construction companies. Many of us think that only ancient Mongols used to live in strange-looking circular houses called Yurts many centuries ago. Nowadays we
As the US population rapidly ages, we see assisted living apartments sprouting left and right. However, many of us just recently realized that our elderly parents would be much safer staying with their families instead
Granny pods, backyard cottages, ADUs (auxiliary dwelling units), garden huts, in-law cottages – whatever you call them, this tiny home […]
As the US population rapidly ages, we see assisted living apartments sprouting left and right. However, many of us just recently realized that our elderly parents would be much safer staying with their families instead
Check out these wooden yurt kits for sale. Depending on the size, wood yurts can be assembled in 3 to 5 days by 2-3 persons.
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As the US population rapidly ages, we see assisted living apartments sprouting left and right. However, many of us just recently realized that our elderly parents would be much safer staying with their families instead
As the US population rapidly ages, we see assisted living apartments sprouting left and right. However, many of us just recently realized that our elderly parents would be much safer staying with their families instead
Pickle Barrel House in Grand Marais, Minnesota The Pickle Barrel House is a two-story cabin built to resemble two barrels. This bizzare house design is
Looking for a nice, comfortable place for your elder relatives to live out their golden years on your property? Here's a list of some lovely granny pods.
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As the US population rapidly ages, we see assisted living apartments sprouting left and right. However, many of us just recently realized that our elderly parents would be much safer staying with their families instead
Loop Phone Booths are private soundproof pods designed for increasingly open office work environments and a world that is on the go. Our modern phone booths improve productivity of open-concept offices, allowing workers to take private phone or online calls without occupying conference rooms or having to wander far from their work station. Offered in a wide range of finishes, Loop Phone Booths are high quality, fully customizable furniture fit for any open interior space.
In the South of Poland there is a picturesque highland region known as Podhale, the beginning of the Carpathian Mountains. I made a stop in the touristy town of Zakopane, a place that since the mid 19th century is a rising resort area. What is special regarding architecture, is a particular building style called Zakopane Style or Witkiewicz Style architecture. When the place began to become a mountain resort the swiss chalet- or austro-hungarian alp-style where common for cabins and villas. Until Stanislaw Witkiewicz, an art critic, architect, painter, novelist and journalist, was chosen to design a villa for Zygmunt Gnatowski around 1892. In his plans, Witkiewicz decided against using these foreing building styles and instead chose to utilize the local traditions used by the native people of the region (the Górals) and their modest but richly decorated houses, incorporating selected elements of Art Nouveau. This building is now known as Villa Koliba (Koscieliska Street in Zakopane) and is now a museum of the Zakopane Style of Architecture. Today even new villas and hotels are built in this style and give the area that special atmosphere. More works by Stanislaw Witkiewicz "Dom pod Jedlami" in Koziniec (picture source) "Dom pod Jedlami" in Koziniec Villa "Oksza" Zamojski Street in Zakopane Church of the Holy Family on Krupówki Street inZakopane Korniłowicz family chapel in Bystre Stanislaw Witkiewicz once wrote on the idea of the Zakopane style: "The idea was not to build yet one more beautiful, typical house. The focus was something else entirely: to build a home which would settle all existing doubts about the possibility of adapting folk architecture to the requirements deriving from the more complex and sophisticated needs of comfort and beauty. To design a home that would inherently withstand all common grievances and undermine all customary prejudices. To erect a house that would prove that one can have a home, a dwelling in the dominant style of Zakopane and yet be confident that this home will not disintegrate, that it will effectively protect one from storms, gales and the cold, that it will possess the full range of comforts yet simultaneously be beautiful in a fundamentally Polish way." The Zakopane Style soon found proponents among other outstanding architects, including Jan Witkiewicz-Koszyc, Wladyslaw Matlakowski, and Walery Eliasz-Radzikowski. A beautiful example of Zakopane Style (picture source) This is the fifth post of my little itinerary through Eastern Europe Prague-Brno-Ostrava-Krakow-Zakopane-Presov-Beograd. First post: Soviet Style Architecture in Prague Second post: Brno Architecture Third post: Socialist Realism in Ostrava Forth post: Brutalist architecture and soc realism in Krakow
I have lived in some strange places, having had a Southern Baptist minister for a dad who uprooted us every two years, and my ex- spouses being of a very different cultures/races than mine. So I asked myself, would I live in these nutty places?...
