House in the Clouds

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The House in the Clouds is a water tower at Thorpeness, Suffolk, UK. It was built in 1923 to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill and was designed to improve the looks of the water tower, disguising its tank with the appearance of a weather-boarded building more in keeping with Thorpeness's mock-Tudor and Jacobean style, except seeming to float above the trees. In 1977 the water tower was made redundant by a mains water supply to the village, and additional living space was created. In 1979 the main water tank was removed to fully convert the building into a house. The building currently has five bedrooms and three bathrooms; it contains a total of 68 steps from top to bottom and is around 70ft (21m) high. link

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Dymaxion House

Interior view of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” house. Photographer: John Philips - 1941  

The Dymaxion House made Fuller suddenly famous on the American architectural scene. The house was a turn away from the orthogonal plan, hexagonal symmetry, a tripod supporting pole in the center from which cables stretch out to the decks- like spokes and a rim from the hub of a wheel. The outer walls of vacuum casein elements are a non-load-bearing screen - opaque, transparent, or translucent. The rooms are lit indirectly by a system of mirror prisms. Publication : 1929
Production : Wichita, Kansas : 1944 - 1945

Interior view of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” house. Photographer: John Philips - 1941

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Mars Bluff

The Only Atomic Bomb Ever Dropped on America, On March 11, 1958, Air Force Captain Bruce Kulka was the navigator and was summoned to the bomb bay area after the captain of the plane had encountered a fault light in the cockpit indicating that the bomb harness locking pin for the transatlantic flight did not engage. As Kulka was reaching around the bomb to pull himself up, he mistakenly grabbed the emergency release pin. The Mark 6 bomb dropped to the floor of the B-47 and the weight forced the bomb bay doors open sending the bomb 15,000 feet (4,572 m) down to the ground below. The resulting explosion created a mushroom cloud and crater estimated to be 75 feet (23 m) wide and 25–35 feet (7.6–10.7 m) deep. It destroyed a local home, the residence of Walter Gregg, and leveled nearby trees. Nobody was directly killed from the blast but several people in Gregg's family were injured from the explosion.. The family went on to sue the Air Force and were given $54,000.

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