Grim-looking staircases of this apartment building in Russia have totally changed when a painter moved into one of the apartments.

This 1848 pumphouse has recently been converted into comfortable dwelling.

This adorable polar bear cub was rescued after poachers killed his mother. He was very weak from hunger but managed to regain his strength and feistiness. He briefly lived in an airplane hangar and then an apartment before being given to the Moscow zoo.

5 Parisians inhabit an apartment built by Swedish furniture company IKEA inside a Paris subway station for 6 days, from Jan. 9 to 14. The 581 square feet (54 square meters) apartment is located in Auber station and equipped with IKEA items. Now all Auber metro station passers-by can see the five housemates and their daily activities from morning to night through the glass walls.

This steampunk apartment is quite a sight. It has been remodeled to resemble a submarine. The living area features large old wooden casts, miniature planes and antique pipes. The kitchen features antique tools and wrenches.

This is one of the most amazing lofts I've ever seen. You can play basketball in there and if you like plants then you can even have a living tree in the floor. And that's not it. Check out the pictures after the jump.

Could you live in a teeny tiny apartment?

This amazing apartment is inside an old warehouse.

This trendy home was once a cement factory. The abandoned cement factory was discovered in 1973 and converted to this upscale home by architect Ricardo Bofill. The renovation took two years. The home contains various plants including cypresses, olive trees, palms, and eucalyptus. It serves as Bofillo’s apartment, exhibition space, model laboratory, archives, and architectural office. His renovation included exposing previously concealed structures, cleaning cement and demolishing some structures.

One Chinese developer wanted to build a factory on the land occupied by one apartment building.

They could find a "peaceful arrangement” with all of the residents of the building except for one family who didn’t want to go. The developer tried everything to evict them but in vain. Then the cruel harsh measures were taken to make this family give up eventually…

There are some very expensive apartments in Moscow, no wonder it is a capital. This one for example is rented for $40,000 per month. I know to each their own, but whoever decorated this apartment has a very poor taste..

To say that this girl loves animals is to say nothing at all. There is a real zoo in her apartment with more than 100 dangerous and not very dangerous animals!

This very small apartment is located on Piazza di Sant’ Ignazio in Rome, an amazing square in the heart of the capital and is overlooked by a huge Renaissance Church. The beautiful view behind it is Palazzo Grazioli, which is a mansion that is rented by the Italian prime minister. The apartment is 55 sq. ft., costs $70,000, and has a single floor, single bath, single window apartment and a ladder that leads to a platform containing a single bed.

Even though this is Rome, it is still crazy to pay such money for 5 square meters.

Check out some other posts on this theme:

Broom Closet That Costs £200,000 (7 pics)

How to Use Space Efficiently in a Small Studio Apartment (13 pics)

A Tiny Apartment That Has Everything (7 pics)

Significant Apartment for Rent (19 pics)

This three-story building is located in Tokyo, Japan. It has its own name – 63.02º because its facade is inclined 63.02 degrees toward the front road. This allows passersby see a wide and deep view of the house that has a small building of a SOHO (2 and 3 floors) and an apartment for rent (1 floor). This project designed by Jo Nagasaka and Schemata Architecture Office is significant and unique.

This 182 square foot apartment belongs to airplane interior designer Steve Sauer. Steve obviously likes everything in its place and a place for everything. It is 11’ 3” wide, by 16’ 2” deep, by 10’ 4’ tall and there is plenty of room for Steve and all of his living accoutrements.

A cardboard world has spread on the streets of Santiago de Chile. This is an artwork of artist Don Lucho who installed them there. These are paper allusions with the theme of a plane crash or road accident. Moreover, the artist draws imaginary cardboard apartments with kitchens, bathrooms and toilets.

It looks fun but useless.

This is an apartment of a single guy who did such a mess in just 3 days…

I just let the pictures speak…

Yes, this is not a mistake, this triplex penthouse apartment located in a clock tower near the Brooklyn Bridge and the Port of New York really costs some modest $25 million.
As it is a penthouse in a tower clock, each facade has a working clock in a 14-foot-high round window. This means you always know what time it is, unless you forget to read the time backwards...
And as it is a triplex, there are 3 floors and a very large area. The first floor which is the main floor is 3000 square feet - it is composed of an open living room, a dining room and a kitchen with a 16-foot ceiling.
At the center of the space, there is a glass-walled elevator surrounded by a staircase that leads to 2 other smaller floors. The 2nd floor is 2300 square feet and consists of 3 bedrooms. Finally, the last floor is "only" 988 square feet - it is an open loft with a 15-foot ceiling.
Another interesting fact, ‘the price is more than double the highest price known to have been paid for a home in Brooklyn.’ Its creator, David Walentas, said that ‘the ClockTower apartment was not timed to the fluctuations in the real estate market, because the apartment was a one-of-a-kind space that would appeal only to a one-of-a-kind buyer...’ The flat offers of course a beautiful view over the city, the port, the bridges and the East River.
So, tempted?)

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