The company has ambitions for a golf course, a ski resort, a floating hotel and a host of other delights.

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First up is the Orsos Island, a floating, solar-powered, resort-style home that combines the best of mainland real estate and luxury yachts. (It never hurts to dream, right?) At the complete other end of the spectrum is the Camper Kart, a pop-up portable home that fits inside a standard shopping cart, and that could potentially give the world's less fortunate a place to lay their heads at night.

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First came an indoor ski resort in 2005, then a floating palace hotel in the sea in 2008, and in 2011, a record-breaking stratospheric tower pierced the clouds.

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