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User post: Add-A-Caption Contest Winner Congrats to Shine user - Jasper3636 -- Octo-Mom,Octuplets, Artwork by Devonia

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Congratulations to Shine user, jasper3636 who contributed this great caption, Wed Feb 11, 2009! Thank you to all who participated - there were some really terrific captions and it was hard to select just one.

Chilean Retreat

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Arch Daily is fast becoming one of my favorite new blogs for architectural marvels. Recently featured was this poured concrete house located on a beachside complex called Ocho al Cubo, in Chile. Architect Sebastian Irarrazaval has designed the house to encourage a variety of circulation routes, whether accessing programmatic spaces along the building’s perimeter or through an open patio at the center. The lack of a rigid layout speaks to the main function of the property, a leisure retreat that promotes the wandering of the spirit.

West Virginia Shack

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The American romance with the shed-like home continues with this shack by Maryland-based architect Jeffery Broadhurst. The home, which Broadhurst built with friends and neighbors for his family in rural West Virginia, can be accessed by off-road vehicles only. The front façade is a retractable door looking out from the mountainside, and the steel roof collects rainwater. [More photos after the jump.]

Slideshow: The Tree House

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Whitney Sander , an architect based in Culver City, California, designed this tree house-like home for his sister. The 150-foot beech trees surrounding the small site near Wilmington, Delaware, inspired the architect to think vertically: Framed in wood and clad in long, vertical planks of cedar, the...