Big Dig House

Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this home was constructed of steel and concrete salvaged from Boston’s Big Dig, using over 600,000 lbs of materials. The Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject that rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief highway through the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, into a 3.5 mile (5.6 km) tunnel under the city.

The home was designed by Single Speed Design, and it won the AIA/BSA (Boston Society of Architects) Housing Design Award. Standing at over 4300 square feet, the structure represents a modern example of what is possible in sustainable building.

Although similar to a pre-fab system, subtle spatial arrangements were designed from highway components. Most importantly, the house demonstrates an untapped potential for the public realm: “with strategic front-end planning, much needed community programs including schools, libraries, and housing could be constructed whenever infrastructure is deconstructed, saving valuable resources, embodied energy, and taxpayer dollars.” The cost is not mentioned, but if the components basically were free, then just cut the basic materials cost (unsure if plumbing was salvaged) from the price of a 4,300-square-foot home to get somewhat close to an estimate.

Earthship of Michael Reynolds

Earthships are the brainchild of American architect Michael Reynolds, who first put the concept into practice in the seventies, during the first oil crisis. Sharp falling energy prices in the 80’s and 90’s restricted the idea for a long time to mostly anarchistic communities and individuals.
Recently however, this revolutionary architecture is slowly gaining credibility in other sections of society. Oil prices continue to climb and uneasiness surrounding global warming grows. Moreover, thanks to 30 years of evolution, many of the initial glitches Earthships faced have been ironed out.

The autonomous nature of an Earthship is not as revolutionary as it was 30 years ago. The technology required to generate energy, filter water and recycle waste water apart from the existing infrastructure has significantly advanced. What makes an Earthship special and interesting these days is that it is mainly built out of waste materials and partly buried into the earth.

Lake Minnewaska Mountain Houses

For most of tourism's history on the Shawangunk Ridge, the Mohonk Mountain House was one of three Smiley family-owned vacation destinations for the well-heeled. All were set above pristine, glacially- formed lakes and astride the Shawangunk white conglomerate cliffs, each hotel's magic drawing parched thousands every year to "take the air."

The other two hotels, the Lake Minnewaska houses, Cliff House and Wildmere, suffered the fate of many of the state's "mountain houses" and large 19th century hotels—hard times and hot fires. This is part of their story, the memory of their last "care-taker," Sam Lewit.

Wildmere and Cliff House had gone out of the hands of the Smiley family in 1955 when the hotels and about 10,000 acres were sold to the property's general manager, Kenneth Phillips, Sr. The new owner had big plans to modernize the hotels' offerings, including building a ski center (Ski Minne), and serving alcohol—a departure from the hotels' Quaker-run first century of operation. The new owners could not stem the flow of vacationers to exotic places as air and auto travel became common. Cliff House was abandoned in 1972 and burned in January 1978. It was uninsured. Wildmere burned in 1986.

Homes, Palm Beach

When the accepted homeowners absitively to reinvent their 1950s Palm Beach home, they alleged aloft Swedish artist Lars Bolander. The aftereffect is a abashing of the curve amid abundant décor and mural design. Tranquil earthtones and bendable dejection are amid the colors that ample the different interior. The arcade walls aloof central the advanced aperture accomplish a dematerialization act, transforming the sitting allowance into a covered patio.

The alone absolute able blush is begin on the tangerine-hued taffeta curtains in the adept bedroom, which contains a four-poster bed custom advised by Bolanger.

He additionally opened up the home to the surrounding area and Florida sun by creating the comfortable calm / alfresco adept bath, area the garden's amplitude provides the absolute in affectionate privacy.

Lighthouse In San Diego

San Diego, California's additional better city, is amid in the southwest bend of the United States and is home to one of the best celebrated and admirable lighthouses in the country. Lighthouse tours are a abundant way to acquaintance the history and functions of these preserved monuments.

From ranger-led to self-guided, these tours will contentment visitors of all ages.

Homes

A home is a abode of abode or refuge.[1] When it refers to a building, it is usually a abode in which an alone or a ancestors can alive and abundance claimed property. Most modern-day households accommodate germ-free accessories and a agency of advancing food. Animals accept their own homes as well, either active in the agrarian or aggregate with bodies in a calm environment. "Home" is additionally acclimated to accredit to the bounded breadth (whether it be a suburb, town, burghal or country) in which a being grew up or feels they belong, or it can accredit to the built-in abode of a agrarian animal.

Sometimes, as an another to the analogue of "home" as a concrete area ("Home is area you adhere your hat"), home may be perceived to accept no concrete location, instead, home may chronicle instead to a brainy or affecting accompaniment of ambush or comfort. Popular sayings forth these curve are "Home is area the affection is" or "You can never go home again".