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<title>At The Rainbow Master's House II</title>
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        many wonderous wonders await you at the Rainbow Master's house<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/550">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Boeing 727 Conversion Home</title>
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        Mid Stage conversion of a retired plane into an 1100 square foot home. Tours given, Hilarious Website http://www.airplanehome.com/<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1419">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-09-19 03:18:17+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>At the Rainbow Master's House</title>
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        Many interesting sights await you on the grounds of this house.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/549">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-07-30 00:10:36+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Ultimate Secure Cave Home</title>
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        Strategically located in the awesome San Juan mountains of Southwest Colorado, this patented steel-reinforced concrete earth home was built to withstand almost any natural or man-made disaster you can name. It is more secure, safe, and functional than any conventional house could ever be, yet still has a level of comfort that one might not expect to find in an underground home.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1421">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Earth Sheltered Home For Sale Near Wilmington, NC.</title>
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<dc:date>2005-09-19 04:41:58+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>martial ART gallery</title>
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        to provoke critical and underrepresented discussions on topics surrounding public interaction.  Founded 1998 - Disbanded 2002 - Resurgence?<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1440">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        It's a tiny blue shed, but somebody lives in it. It even has a basement. A bleeding heart bush grows next to the front steps and the back garden is a wonder.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1888">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-24 12:03:49.969621+00:00</dc:date>
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        Stainless Steel Mystery Dwelling, Near Cathedral Park.  <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1997">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        groovy modern house built like a shell.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32332">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 01:26:50.578429+00:00</dc:date>
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        305 451 2343
info@jul.com

This is basically an under water hotel. They even do weddings.

For the first time in history an authentic underwater research habitat is open to the average person--sport divers and even those who have never before dived. And although Jules' still functions as a research lab, you will be pleased to know that it has air-conditioning, hot showers, stereo music, VCR/DVD, a fully stocked galley, and unlimited diving for certified divers!

Visit Innerspace and experience what was once only a dream of science fiction writers: living within the sea! In fact, Jules' Undersea Lodge is named after Jules Verne, and our goal is to be sure that Mr. Verne would be proud.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/86289">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-25 12:35:47.051947+00:00</dc:date>
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        this where I'm liveing to let ever buddy  know that <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3832517">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-08-10 11:01:15.233239+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Autopia Ampere</title>
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        from popular mechanics

Autopia Ampere will begin as a series of wire-mesh armatures anchored atop a sea mountain. Once in place, they will be connected to a supply of low-voltage direct current produced by solar panels. Over time, electrochemical reactions will draw minerals from the sea to the armatures, creating walls of calcium carbonate, which is what us landlubbers commonly call limestone.  In much the same way that a household sponge absorbs water, the oceans absorb CO2. By removing carbon-containing compounds from the oceans, the mineral accretion process would help reduce the buildup of CO2, which is a greenhouse gas.

A huge limestone dam will surround the city, Hilbertz says, and building components will be grown in the sea. Solar and wind generators will furnish power. So too will a thermal energy conversion system that will extract power from temperature differences among different ocean currents.

One of the cornerstones of the new city's economy would be "limestone farming." The mineral accretion technique that has built reefs in the Caribbean and that could one day build marine cities could also make building components for use on land. Using appropriately shaped wire forms, the minerals deposited from seawater could grow building blocks, wall panels or complete building components just like those that would build a sea-born city, but for use on dry land.

Hilbertz envisions these products being lifted directly out of the sea into barges and ships, which could deliver them to seaports around the world. A limestone farm in the Caribbean could efficiently ship the building materials to coastal areas of North and South America, Europe and Africa, to inland North American ports on the St. Lawrence Seaway and Mississippi River systems, to most of Central Europe via the Rhine, Rhone and Danube rivers and to most of the Amazon basin in Brazil. A farm in the South Pacific could service the west coast of North and South America, and booming Pacific Rim countries.

Hilbertz also envisions others of his cities becoming centers for an undersea mining industry. The seafloor is believed to be littered with metal- and mineral-rich nodules, from which refiners in a city will produce pure metals. The fact that metals refining is an energy-intensive activity isn't the least bit daunting. He enthusiastically describes a plan in which the sea would "grow" limestone conduits that would tap deep, slow-moving ocean currents and guide them through the blades of giant hydroelectric plants.

Whatever Hilbertz's cities manufactured, their occupants would dine on the bounty of the sea. Wild fish would be guided into nets, and domestic fish would be raised in pens, along with cultured abalone, sea urchins, oysters, mussels and other shellfish. Useful seaweeds will be cultured, and more common vegetables would be grown in hydroponic chambers.

The fact that ocean-grown cities could stand on their own economically and become independent and self-governing entities poses what Hilbertz believes to be one of the biggest barriers to their creation. He says there is no legal precedent regarding national ownership of a newly formed island that is beyond a nation's territorial waters.

He plans to face this issue head-on with an experiment on Skerki Bank, in the Mediterranean Sea. The bank consists of a few-hundred square yards of knee-deep water between Tunisia and Sicily. It's in international waters, but within the area both Italy and Tunisia claim as an "Exclusive Economic Zone."

Hilbertz hopes to start growing an island there before the end of the year. "We'll establish our presence there and stake a claim, and see what happens. If anyone challenges us, we have lawyers ready to argue our case. We've had so many legal opinions that we decided just to go ahead and see what happens," he says.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/932487">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        This round house was recently bought and it is going to be renovated, according to rumor. It is very delapidated. 

from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_House_(Somerville,_Massachusetts)">wikipedia</a>: It was built in 1856 by hardware manufacturer Enoch Robinson, and is considered an offshoot of the Octagon House style popularized by phrenologist Orson Fowler.

More information from <a href="http://stephanierogers.typepad.com/stephanie_rogers/2005/12/round_house.html">Culture Junkie</a>

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<title>The TreeDome</title>
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        Konstantin Kirsch builds living spaces out of trees. From <a href="http://www.treedome.com/">the website</a>:

"Trees are incredible living beings. With their roots deep in the earth, branches high in the sky, and with leaves straight to the sunlight, they stand there for decades and centuries on the same location. They are real living estates. (In German its called "Immobilien" it means not mobile) Can we learn from trees how to build houses? Can we grow houses out of trees? Yes, or better probably, because the mainstream habits are difficult to satisfy in living rooms. We must adapt a bit to the trees if we want to live with, on or in them.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/980860">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-02-22 14:08:32.741322+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>1700's Pig Barn Conversion</title>
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        Such a cool project, <a href="http://www.fnp-architekten.de/">FNP Architekten</a> built a "sleeve" that fits just inside this hollow 1700's stone barn ruin.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766097">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        The amazingly relaxing vacation cabin.  Thanks Betsy!!!<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/979887">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-02-22 09:23:03.945602+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Converted Water Tower in Utrecht</title>
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        Another stunning example of converted use from <a href="http://www.zecc.nl/">ZECC Architecten</a>.  This one an old water tower in Utrech's Soest area (the map does not show the exact location of this building).

I think the heavily riveted basin ceiling in the kitchen is the killer feature here.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766032">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-07-23 21:11:17.487607+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Joanne Ussery's Airplane Home</title>
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        Very similar to the one just outside Portland, OR<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766047">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-07-23 21:16:54.484456+00:00</dc:date>
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        The Benson Ford. The boat was built by Henry Ford and named after his grandson many years ago. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766156">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Not a home for real, but pretty inspirational, this collage of trailers was built as a theatrical stage for the Open Lucht Theatre Company in Amsterdam.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766141">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-07-23 22:05:00.363002+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dome Home</title>
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        Geodesic Bucky Inspired 4 chamber home.  12 Years old, $342,000<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1420">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-09-19 04:23:49+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Utrecht Chapel House</title>
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        <a href="http://www.zecc.nl/">ZECC Architecten</a> have done a wonderful job preserving so much of the original elements, keeping the organ is an important move.

We were looking at a church conversion ourselves in NE Portland, and it would have also included preserving the organ.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766015">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-07-23 21:04:46.235422+00:00</dc:date>
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        There is so much to say about Sealand, so much controversy, so much speculation, so many rumors, that I can only suggest doing some research into the history of this fascinating micronation (and home).<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766149">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        A quote from the roadsideamerica article says it all, "S.S. Encinitas and S.S Moon Light are neither boathouses, or houseboats; they are houses built in the shape of boats, moored on Third St. between F and G in Encinitas, CA, with the blue Pacific beating on the beach behind the hill like a bad child, heard but not seen. The closest they come to water is when it rains."<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3766154">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2008-07-23 22:21:55.933319+00:00</dc:date>
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