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Future Architecture : Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

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According to the less alarming forecasts of the GIEC (Intergovernmental group on the evolution of the climate), the ocean level should rise from 20 to 90 cm during the 21st Century with a status quo by 50 cm (versus 10 cm in the 20th Century). As a solution to this alarming problem architect Vincent Callebaut came up with this ecotectural marvel that could serve as a luxurious future retreat for 50,000 inhabitants seeking refuge from rising waters due to global warming. He believes the world will be desperately seeking shelter from the devastations of climate change, and hopes the auto-sufficient amphibious city will serve as a luxurious solution. To bad that right now we are close to 7 billion people and this luxurious future retreat is just for 50,000 inhabitants ( just for rich people ).

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Vincent Callebaut called this project “Lilypad“, but this ecotectural marvel is also called as “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees”. The whole structure is covered in green walls and roofs, the top portion covered in grasses with the inner portion featuring a palm oasis, and the under portion serving as a bed for natural sea planktons and oceanic plants. Finally if you were already planning to reserve a place to this luxurious future retreat stay calm, because Vincent Callebaut hopes that “Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees” will make the transition from design to reality around the year 2100.

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Furniture That Transforms Into a Little Gym

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Last month I’ve presented an idea called Sports Furniture, that was a solution for a small gym in your home. Today for those of you who liked that idea, here is something even better. I’m pretty sure that most of us don’t have apartments large enough so that we can have our own gym at home, and if you still want to be in shape Gabriel Prero has a solution for having a “little gym” in your home. Gabriel Prero decided that the best way for having a “little gym” in your home is to create a piece of furniture that also functions as a piece of top quality fitness equipment, and this is how the Otto Bench was born. Fitting easily in to our living rooms, this latest equipment combines a fully functional Olympic Bench Press, Multi-Adjustable Bench, and modular magnetic free weight storage into a beautiful long ottoman, as you can see from the pictures below. – Via

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Kitchen Furniture Ideas at Low Prices

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A lot of people when they want a good piece of furniture at a reasonable price, they go at IKEA, but IKEA is not the the only place where you can find inexpensive stuff. French site CoteMaison.fr features other inexpensive kitchen suppliers in France, including a few options for the space-challenged, like this Dolcéa “cuisine d’aujourd’hui” from Castorama starting at 499 euros with an integrated dining table. If you’re not from France you can still take a look at this post at least to get some inspiration, I personally love the first kitchen, and I have serious thought to create a similar design for my kitchen. For more cost-conscious kitchen ideas from Cotemaison.fr, you can go here. – Via

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Compact Desk for Apartments with a Limited Amount of Space

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At a first glance this piece of furniture looks like a simple cabinet, but if you take a closer look you’ll see that this cabinet can be coverted into a 55″ full-size desk, making it a clever solution for studio apartments and multipurpose rooms. This innovative compact desk is an awesome piece of furniture that can be very useful in tight spaces. When open, the top of the cabinet reveals generous storage space for a laptop, plus cubbies with removable dividers to stow paper clips, rubber bands and other smalls. Below are a storage drawer and one letter and legal-size file. Integrated wood handles run the length of the drawers, which slide smoothly on ball-bearing glides. You can buy this piece of furniture from here for $499.00

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Furniture from Giant Lego Bricks : LunaBlocks

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For those of you who loved Lego when you were young here is something that might remind you of that period. Designed and created by Thierry Nahon & Philippe Landecker, LunaBlocks are based on an original concept, the transformation and enlargement of bricks used in building games for children. Easily stacked together, functional and totally versatile, LunaBlocks are designed for the world of decoration and for the home. Like traditional Legos, these blocks come in a variety of colors and configurations all you need to finish a project is some glass, a pillow or cushion, some creativity and loads and loads of disposable income. Unfortunately, each one of these bricks will set you back $20-$55, which could make your dream of turning your pad into a mini Legoland quite costly. You can buy the bricks online from Homology. The good part is that you can create your own piece of furniture, and change it’s shape from time to time. – Via – Dvice

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