No I did not spell party wrong, this weeks crib was designed by Marcio Kogan Architects in the city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro). The name of the house should just drop one of the A’s though, and be named the Party House, because it is clearly set up for entertaining and partying.

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French fashion giant Hermes has recently teamed with a Monaco yacht builder Wally to create probably the most badass yacht the world has ever seen. The eco friendly yacht is full of windows to allow natural light along with solar panels that cover the roof and sides to generate energy that is projected to save 200 tons of diesel fuel a year. This boat is more like your own movable island rather than a yacht. The price tag is 90 million if you feel like picking one up.

Designers know that building a model can provide unique insides of a place, be it a building, public square … or an entire miniature folk-art model of downtown San Francisco that took nearly 35 years to construct, toothpick by tiny toothpick.

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No, a crazed Simpsons fan did not replicate the cartoon’s famous home. This $120,000 house was constructed for use as the grand prize in a contest sponsored by Pepsi, Fox, and the homebuilder. The contest was known as “The Simpsons House Give Away”. The 2,200-square-foot 4 bed room home was part of a national promotion coinciding with The Simpsons season premiere. A drawing determined the winner of the $150,000 home which is located in a new subdivision in Henderson, Nevada, about 10 minutes from downtown Las Vegas. The house was done by Kaufman and Broad architects who spent hours watching episodes of The Simpsons to capture every detail.
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With a recent post by my colleague, friend, and brother Rza, I had the idea to bring you an awesome crib of the week. By the way Rza leave the architecture stuff to me, your list of weird houses were all commercial buildings haha. This week I bring you a residence in the Dominican Republic, which I want to call it “Skaters Paradise”. Done by the architect firm A-cero, the house is composed of sleeping zone and living zone, and was organized into 2 blocks and connected by a covered veranda, while featuring curved volumes emerged from the ground. With a singular architectural idea and a certain level of risky, peculiar of the team that Joaquin Torres directs. There appear two blocks well separated from that there arises a game of curved volumes that look for the vertical position from the covering. The housing is projected by demand of program of needs of the client, in only one plant. There is dressed the whole house of an indigenous stone of Coralline of clear tones (white – beige) that, to part of the proper quality of the material, a visual aspect that prospers with the abundant solar light, and the marine reference.

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