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The kingdom of Bhutan is planning a “mindfulness city” that, if built, will cover some 2.5% of the country — an area larger than Singapore. Plans show the 1,000-square-kilometer city…
New Yorkers love complaining about their blocked views
New York City has many fine museums — it isn’t one. Yet. But New York is the home of the nation’s second-dumbest urban political ecosystem (in this, if in nothing…
Houses of Parliament (Great Britain) Fast Facts
CNN — Here’s some background information about Great Britain’s Houses of Parliament, located on the Thames River in London. The meeting place of Great Britain’s bicameral legislature – composed of…
British man climbs 72 floors up the outside of South Korea’s Lotte Tower in Seoul
Seoul, South Korea CNN — A British man made it more than halfway up the exterior of the world’s fifth tallest building Monday before he was stopped and handed to…
This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside
Last October, I returned to London after working abroad for nearly a year in Central America and Southeast Asia. Finding an apartment on a budget wasn’t easy. The average cost…
Indonesia needs earthquake-proof houses. Building them is a huge challenge
CNN — A deadly earthquake that reduced buildings to rubble in West Java, Indonesia has once again exposed the dangers of living in poorly built homes in one of the…
Inside Sienna Miller’s captivating English nation cottage
Written via Leah Dolan, CNN British actor Sienna Miller is not any newcomer to the geographical region. In reality, she purchased her idyllic rural bolthole over a decade in the…
A 5-story construction in China ‘walks’ to new location
Shanghai citizens passing in the course of the town’s japanese Huangpu district in October may have stumbled upon an bizarre sight: a “strolling” construction. An 85-year-old number one college has…