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"Floating school" by NLE Architects, 2012, Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria.<br><a href="http://www.nleworks.com/case/makoko-floating-school/" target="_blank">http://www.nleworks.com/case/makoko-floating-school/</a>

Floating house in Huron Lake by the office MOS (a collective of architects and designers), USA.<br><a href="http://www.mos-office.net/" target="_blank">http://www.mos-office.net/</a>

Sahuina floating island, Titicaca lake, Peru.<br><a href="http://twotravellingbirds.blogspot.fr/2012/09/lile-flottante-de-sahuina-toujours-au.html" target="_blank">http://twotravellingbirds.blogspot.fr/2012/09/lile-flottante-de-sahuina-toujours-au.html</a> (written in French)

"Boathouse" by MHM Architects in Seeboden, Austria.<br><a href="http://www.mhm-architects.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mhm-architects.com/</a>

Project "Floating eternity cemetery" by BREAD studio, Hong-Kong, China.<br><a href="http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html" target="_blank">http://www.breadstudio.com/project%20index/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html</a>

"Floating houses for flood-risk areas" by Finot Group.<br><a href="http://www.finot.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.finot.com/index.html</a> (written in French)

"Amphibious House" by Baca Architects in the Thames River, United Kingdom.<br><a href="http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house" target="_blank">http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house</a>

The "Manta Resorts Underwater Hotel" in the eastern coast of Africa by the swedish company Genberg Underwater Hotels.<br><a href="http://underwaterroom.com/" target="_blank">http://underwaterroom.com/</a>

"ARK" floating hotel and group housing project by Remistudio, Alexandre Remizov.<br><a href="http://remistudio.ru/en/pages/52.htm" target="_blank">http://remistudio.ru/en/pages/52.htm</a>

"Amazon Research Center + Amazon Research Module" by Estudio Arkiz on the Amazon in Brazil, 2011.<br><a href="http://www.arkiz.com.br/" target="_blank">http://www.arkiz.com.br/</a>

"Floating gardens", a project for a spa and floating gardens by Studio Noach, Anne Holtrop.<br><a href="http://www.studionoach.com/" target="_blank">http://www.studionoach.com/</a>

"Monolith" by Jean Nouvel for the national exhibit "Instant and Eternity" at Morat in Switzerland, 2002.<br><a href="http://element.ch/f/ref/monolith.htm" target="_blank">http://element.ch/f/ref/monolith.htm</a> (written in French)

"Adamant, Esquirol hospital" by Seine Design, Gérard Ronzatti in Port de la Rapée in Paris, France, 2011.<br><a href="http://www.ronzatti.com/architecture_flottante-en" target="_blank">http://www.ronzatti.com/architecture_flottante-en</a>

"IBA dock" by Slawik architekten in Hamburg, Germany, 2010.<br><a href="http://www.slawik.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=2" target="_blank">http://www.slawik.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=2</a>

"Kaluga floating sauna" by the Finnish firm Rintala Eggertsson Architects for the Russian Landscape Objects festival.<br><a href="http://www.ri-eg.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ri-eg.com/</a>

The "Waterflux" museum is an evolutive structure which interacts with its environment. Made in ice, water and wood, proposed by R&Sie(n) in Evolene, Switzerland, 2007.<br><a href="http://www.new-territories.com/" target="_blank">http://www.new-territories.com/</a>

The tomb of the emperor Tu Duc, built on stilts on the lake Luu Khiêm in Hue, Vietnam.<br><a href="http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/vietnam/hue/tuduc.php" target="_blank">http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/vietnam/hue/tuduc.php</a>

"Waterpod" is an eco-floating habitat by the New York-based artist Mary Mattingly, that evokes the works of Buckminster Fuller, Andrea Zittel, Robert Smithson & Constant Niewenhuis. This floating living sculpture demonstrates future pathways for nomads, mobile shelters and water-based communities, docked and roaming. It embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. "We can live more artistically and efficiently".

"Ithaa underwater restaurant" in the Indian Ocean is the first all-glass underwater restaurant in the world, placed five meters below sea level. Surrounded by a coral reef, it offers 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views. Designed by a New Zealand firm and constructed in Singapore, the restaurant was installed in November 2004 and took 13 hours to set in place under the waves. To enjoy a meal in one of the 14 seats of the restaurant, one has to take a staircase to reach the glass tunnel.

"Jules'Undersea Lodge" is an underwater hotel located in the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon, in Key Largo, Florida. It's placed 30 feet (9 m) under water and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms. The front door is 21 feet (6,4m) under water. In the picture at the center, you can see a preparatory sketch and in the other pictures the plan and the built interior. The hotel was opened in 1986, the name comes from the novelist Jules Verne, author of "20000 leagues under the sea".

The "Woonhuis" house in Vreeland in the Netherlands by Tjaarda Mees is a renovation of an existing cottage. It's location has a view on the lake. A zinc curved roof was formed over the original house using four steel trusses. It provides greater privacy from the route and opens the house to the water. The original foundations are based on piloti in the water. The house is heated or cooled by means of a heat pump with the surface water providing a thermal buffer.

The Otter Inn (or "Utter Inn" in Swedish), a hotel created by Swedish artist Mikael Genberg is part art project and part underwater as well as floating accommodation. A single room is submerged in nine feet of water below a strangely floating traditional Swedish red house. Guests access the hotel by taking a boat from the city of Västerås, near Stockholm. They also receive an inflatable boat with their booking that they can use to visit uninhabited islands along the lake.

"Schoonschip" is an Amsterdam based building group that aims to develop and build their own sustainable floating neighborhood. In 2011, "space&matter" and "Drijvend Duurzaam Wonen" were asked to do a feasibility study with a limited budget. The main concept is based on a growing structure builds around a collective jetty. "Schoonschip" is working hard on acquiring the water plot in Van Hasseltkanaal in Amsterdam Noord, which has been declared as a DIY construction zone by the municipality.

Different works of the Copenhagen-based art collective N55, founded in 1994, in collaboration with Erling Sørvin: "Floating platform", "Modular boat" and "N55 Spaceframe". "Floating platform" is a modular construction which can be used as a floating foundation for lightweight constructions. The "N55 Spaceframe" is a low-cost, movable lightweight construction. <br>To learn more:<a href="http://www.learningsite.info/N55BOOK2004.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.learningsite.info/N55BOOK2004.pdf</a>

Examples of traditional Canadian floating houses particularly present in British Columbia (Canada).

"Anthenea" is a nomad houseboat created by architect Jean Michel Ducancelle. This circular floating habitat advocates a new form of autonomous and ecological housing that respects marine ecosystems. Converted into a 50m2 floating studio for up to six people, Anthenea offers the largest space possible for the given volume and minimum amount of materials (10,20m in diameter, 50m2 of livable space for 6 tons). Its vocation is the discovery of wildlife and marine flora.

Red Sea Star, an eccentric restaurant in Eilat, Israel, was designed by architect Sefi Kiryaty. The engineers Moshe Dreemer and Nitai Dreemer calculated the metallic structure that was then fabricated by Kadmani Metal Works. Situated 70m from the coast a part of the restaurant is submerged 5m under the sea level. Under water, the plan is shaped like a star to augment the window surface and be able to accommodate 105 people. The interior is designed as if an extension of the marine world.

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