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an aerial view of a floating village in the water

NLÉ | 'Makoko Floating School' | Makoko is a old, sprawling shanty town supported on stilts above the waterfront of Lagos, Nigeria. Increasingly battered by rising seas, the settlement was becoming dangerous, and the government forcibly cleared part of it last year. Kunle Adeyemi, a Nigerian architect, had a better idea. He and his team devised a floating school that provides a flexible and robust prototype for housing and other potential structures. | Lagos, Nigeria | 2013…

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a group of people sitting on top of wooden buildings

The stilt house (Diaojiao House), a kind of folk residence built on the stilts of different heights, is usually built beside the river or in steep mountain areas in Fenghuang Town

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an old wooden structure sitting in the middle of the ocean on top of some water

“Sadly, other than a few still in operation and some kept as exhibits at maritime museums, they're mostly gone. This was the Northwest Passage Light (1855) in Key West, FL, shortly before it burned down in 1971. Only the iron pilings remain today.”

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