Revealing Exceptional Residences Worldwide: Discovering Extraordinary Dwellings Around the Globe

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    A house built on a rock on the Drina River is seen near the western Serbian town of Bajina Basta, about 160 km (99 miles) from Belgrade, on May 22, 2013. The house was built in 1968 by a group of young men who decided that the rock on the river was an ideal place for a tiny shelter, according to the house’s co-owner, who was among those involved in its construction. #

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      A toilet-shaped house, Haewoojae, which means the house for satisfying one’s anxiety, in Suwon, about 46 km (29 miles) south of Seoul, on November 9, 2007. South Korean sanitation activists marked the start of a global toilet ᴀssociation by lifting the lid on the world’s first lavatory-shaped home that offers plenty of water closet space. #

      Jo Yong Hak / Reuters

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    An airplane house in the village of Miziara, Lebanon, on May 12, 2015. Miziara prides itself on building residential homes that resemble ancient Greek temples and Egyptian ruins, or this one, built in the shape of an Airbus A380. #

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    A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-story residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, on April 11, 2014. The construction, which takes up an area of about 40 square meters, was built 10 years before. Local law enforcement department discovered the construction back in 2012, but have failed to find the owner since then, local media reported. #

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    An interior view of a room inside of the Heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house, in Cosswiller in the Alsacian countryside near Strasbourg, France, on August 4, 2011. The house is designed as a giant three-dimensional sundial, set on a fixed angle in relationship to the sun’s movements to provide shade during the summer months, keeping the inside temperature cool. During Fall, Winter, and Spring, sunlight enters the large windows as the sun’s position is lower in the sky, thus warming the living space. #

    Vincent Kessler / Reuters

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    The Heliodome, a bioclimatic solar house in Cosswiller, eastern France, on August 4, 2011. The house is designed as a giant three-dimensional sundial, set on a fixed angle in relationship to the sun’s movements. #

    Vincent Kessler / Reuters

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    A view of about 70 dome houses, which were built by U.S.-based Domes for the World, for villagers who lost their houses to an earthquake in Sumberharjo village, near Indonesia’s ancient city of Yogyakarta, on May 8, 2007. #

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    Thierry Atta sweeps the courtyard of his house, built in the shape of a crocodile, in Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan, on September 11, 2008. Atta was an apprentice of the artist Moussa Kalo who designed and built the house but died two months prior. #

    Thierry Gouegnon / Reuters

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    The Cabin, under construction on the site of TreeH๏τel in the Swedish village of Harads, on July 5, 2010. A lofty new H๏τel concept is set to open in a remote village in northern Sweden, which aims to elevate the simple treehouse into a world-class destination for design-conscious travelers. #

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    Liu Lingchao, 38, carries his makeshift dwelling as he walks along a road in Shapu township of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, China, on May 21, 2013. Five years before, Liu decided to walk back to his hometown Rongan county, Guangxi, from Shenzhen, where he once worked as a migrant worker. With bamboo, plastic bags, and bed sheets, Liu made himself a 1.5-meter-wide, 2-meter-high, “portable room” weighing about 60 kg (132 lb), to carry with him as he walked an average of 20 km everyday. To support himself, Liu collected garbage during the journey. #

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    Lucero Hernandez, granddaughter of Benito Hernandez and his wife Santa Martha de la Cruz Villarreal, stands in the doorway of her family’s home near San Jose de Las Piedras, in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, on January 17, 2013. For over 30 years, the Hernandez family has lived in an odd, sun-dried brick home with a huge 40-meter (131 foot) diameter rock used as a roof. The dwelling is found close to the town of San Jose de Piedras, a remote community located in the arid desert of Coahuila, some 80 km (49 miles) from the border with Texas. #

    Daniel Becerril / Reuters

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    A Japanese television presenter looks at a disaster resistant Japanese soccer-ball-shaped home designed by Kimidori Housing on May 25, 2006, in Gifu, Japan. The 32-sided geodesic sphere, which floats and has the structural strength to resist earthquakes, was priced at less than $15,000. #

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    A woman walks in front of the “China House” in Tianjin on January 5, 2008. The house is decorated with hundreds of millions of ancient porcelain flakes, ancient bowls, dishes, and vases, inlaid everywhere in the architecture. #

    Reinhard Krause / Reuters

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    A statue stands in front of a pyramid house in the village of Miziara, northern Lebanon, on May 12, 2015. #

    Aziz Taher / Reuters

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    Dai Haifei, 24, from China’s Hunan province, looks out from his egg-shaped mobile house where he has been living for the last two months, located near his office in Beijing on December 1, 2010. The house cost about 1,000 USD to build, and is made of bamboo strips and a mattress, covered by a layer of heat preservation and water-proof material, with patches of bags stuffed with processed wood peels and grᴀss seeds that could grow grᴀss when spring comes, covering the house like a quilt. #

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    Dai Haifei, 24, from China’s Hunan province, rests in his egg-shaped mobile house near his office in Beijing on December 1, 2010. #

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    Houses sit on the rooftop of a factory building in Dongguan, Guangdong province, on September 10, 2013. According to local media, the government said the size of the houses was not in line with the original design submitted, thus the construction should be deemed illegal. #

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    Inside the home of Brazilian gardener Estevao Silva da Conceicao, which he calls the Casa de Pedra, or House of Stone, that he built himself in the Paraisopolis slum of Sao Paulo, on October 2, 2012. Silva da Conceicao built his house using every kind of imaginable object in a style very similar to that of Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, but without ever having heard of Gaudi. #

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    Bohumil LH๏τa, a 73-year-old builder, turns the house he built in Velke Hamry, near the town of Jablonec nad Nisou, 100 km (62 miles) northeast of Prague, on August 7, 2012. LH๏τa conceptualized the idea of the unique house and started to build it in 1981, close to nature to benefit from cooler ground temperatures. #

    Petr Josek / Reuters

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    Bohumil LH๏τa operates a mechanism that allows him to adjust the height of the house which he built in Velke Hamry, Czech Republic, on August 7, 2012. LH๏τa’s house, which was built in 2002, is able to move up and down and rotate on its sides, which allows him to adjust to his preferred window view. #

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    Bohumil LH๏τa stands in front of the house he built in Velke Hamry on August 7, 2012. #

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    A Tumbleweed brand Cypress 24 model Tiny House is towed down the highway near Boulder, Colorado, on August 4, 2014. The Tiny House Movement started some years ago, with people around the world building really small living spaces and loving their new simplified lives. These tiny houses can range from 1,000 square feet down to less than 100 square feet. #

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    A man takes a picture of the one of the world’s narrowest buildings, built as an artistic installation wedged between two existing buildings, in Warsaw, Poland, on October 23, 2012. The building is just 92 cm (36 inches) wide at its narrowest point. #

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    A car-shaped dwelling, built for a family of four, by architect Manfred Voglreiter, in the town of Langwied, in the Austrian Salzburg province, on June 23, 2004. #

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