This year’s West Coast Green, showstopper, is made from five 40-foot-long shipping containers that once roamed the high seas, packed with washing machines and the like. From the outside, the two-story, 1,700-square-foot house, dubbed Harbinger for its potential to influence home construction in the years to come, looks like the sort of modern dream home [...]
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A British farmer named Robert Fidler is fighting to keep the city from bulldozing his castl that he built by hiding the construction with hay bales. Officials were unaware of the elaborate castle because hundreds of bails of straw concealed it for four years, the UK Daily Telegraph reported Friday. After Fidler, 59 unveiled [...]
