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CAMOUFLAGED STONE HOUSE

Monday, 8 February, 2010

Embedded in the exotic Antiparos lands in Greece, this stunning home comes to demonstrate, once again, that stone homes are a real trend of the 21st Century. The amazing architecture plans belong to Deca, a company based in Athens.  This place literally fusions with the environment, and its design “is a dual response to the particular topography of the site and to the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped the raw ‘Cycladic island’ landscape”. The architects took advantage of the meeting between two slopes in order to build the “Aloni” residence, which seems naturally camouflaged in its environment.

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THE NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM

Thursday, 2 July, 2009

the-new-acropolis-museum-at-yatzer_22The new Acropolis Museum located in Athens, Greece recently opened a few days ago on June 20th, 2009 for the public to see.  This architecture and environment is quite a site, only being 980 feet away from the Parthenon. The project took about 8 years to complete and cost 181 million. Check it out!

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