Camping is the best outdoor recreation activity to get in touch with nature. Everyone sometimes need to get away from the civilization and simply enjoy the nature. But the forest is not the best suitable place for us to live. Dealing with the wildlife, climate, animals might be difficult for us to survive. Why not live like the Ewoks? The Ewoks are the fictional species that looks like a teddy-bear in the Star Wars movie. Their villages are built generally between trees and they use the forest floor to hunt. It might be difficult for you to build your own tree house. What about to own your Free Spirit Sphere? It’s a spherical house that you can suspend on the trees. You can visit the Free Spirit Spheres website to get more information about it.

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If you get a chance to walk on the Overblaak Street in Rotterdam, Netherlands. You could see these 32 cube houses all attached to each other. This set of innovative houses was designed by an architect by the name of Piet Blom in 1984. Each cube house has three floors. The reception, the kitchen and the living room are on the first floor. The bedroom and bathroom are on the second floor. The third floor is used sometimes as a small garden. I’m still amazed how people can live in these tiny houses.

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Our ancient ancestors used to live in an artificial shelter 500,000 years ago. By the time homes were technologically advancing. Does that mean the human evolution depends on how we build homes? A building as a shelter represents a place of comfort and safety of the human habitat. Tell me if you can feel some comfort living in these crazy buildings below. Rock on! :D

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One of my favorite things that rock my world is to watch movies. I saw the trailer of the movie “Silk” which will be released this month. I wanted to know more about the history of Silk. Then I found the Silk Street, The Place, in Beijing. I know the movie is about a French man traveling in Japan and he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron. Nothing to do with Beijing, but the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is coming soon. As we all know, Olympic games will greatly stimulate economic development.

The Silk Street is a shopping center that can accommodates over 1,700 retail vendors. The street is very popular among the international tourists for their wide selection of counterfeit designer brand apparels. Two new retail centers is in development in Beijing’s central business district. You can see between those retail centers a huge suspended LED screen. Five individual displays have been combined to form the giant screen. It was built with an investment of RMB 250 million ($32 million). The Skyscreen is 250 m long and 30 m wide. It was designed by Jeremy Railton, president of Entertainment Design Corporation, who was designer of the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas.

I have added some videos from YouTube. I hope that will amaze your eyes!

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I fall on something very weird today. Did you know that the world’s tallest Hotel could be in North Korea? The Ryugyong Hotel, the 105 Building, is a concrete skyscraper that was once intended for use as a hotel. The construction of the hotel has began in 1987 and has been ceased in 1992. Still today, nobody knows exactly why. Maybe due of the lack of funding, the Japanese newspapers estimated the cost of construction was US$750 million. The North Korean government is trying to invite foreign investment of US$300 million to improve and finish the hotel. In the meantime, it has removed the Ryugyong from maps. If it had it been completed, it would have been the world’s tallest hotel. The Ryugyong’s hotel planned 3,000 rooms and 7 restaurants. The fact that it is so huge, so strange, and incomplete make my mind boggle. I ‘d like to have a look inside myself.

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