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# international inspiration

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Shopping with the kids is a nightmare, right? Not in Japan.
Colourful banking? Not something you usually want to hear about...
Here's what affordable housing looks like in the Netherlands...
Here's an environmentally-friendly school kids will actually want to go to
Prefabricated concrete gets a new look in Puerto Rico
Check out this woodland getaway - on stilts
Fancy an apartment at the top of the Smith Tower?
This hotel is away with the birds... literally
This futuristic seaside resort has been inspired by plankton
Is this a museum of modern art or a truck driving school?*
Mirror mirror on the... exterior wall of your house
Fancy living in the world's first underwater city?
Spectacular saunas that make us want to take our clothes off