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Ships In Concrete – Best Maritime Inspired Architecture

By On November 30, 2010

gCaptain searches the web each week to bring you the world’s most interesting and inspiring ships, but you don’t need to be a naval architect to design an imaginative vessel. [...]

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Bridge Designs – 5 Most Ambitious of Today

By On June 23, 2010

History is littered with bridges designed to do the impossible. One example, Euroroute (pictured above), would literally take drivers through the White Cliffs of Dover to an island five miles [...]

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Shipping Container Dormitory

By On May 2, 2009

Keetwonen, 1000 shipping containers from China modified into student housing in Amsterdam, is the largest shipping container housing development in the world.  It has been praised for its innovation, cost [...]

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New Wing for National Maritime Museum – Sketches Released

By On March 5, 2009

C. F. Møller Architects have recently published sketches of the extension for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The Danish firm won the international architectural competition for the 5200 [...]

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Oil Rig Resort – Reusing Decommissioned Oil Rigs in Gulf of Mexico

By On February 24, 2009

While this may or may not fit your idea of the perfect luxurious destination hotel, you have to admit, the concept is an interesting one.  In fact, the conceptual project [...]

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Hong Kong Ship Shopping Mall – Ship Docked In The Middle Of City Pleases Shoppers

By On July 26, 2008

Is it just me, or does something seem out of place here? Located in the middle of Hong Kong’s largest private housing estate, Whompoa Garden, this cruise ship is  actually [...]

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A Solution For Dubai’s Future – Floating Buildings

By On May 2, 2008

NPR brings us the latest developments from Dubai… Constructing floating houses or restaurants or even villages is an idea that first came to him in his native Holland, where land [...]

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Nautical Scavengers – The Ferry Houseboat

By On May 2, 2008

Inhabitat brings us the RECYCLED FERRY HOME. They write: How many of you have wished you could trade your apartment & crappy office space for a floating live/work houseboat in [...]

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