You could be forgiven for thinking that Arkup's ambitious concept for a floating home would never be realized, but it has indeed been built and is now for sale for a cool US$5.5 million. Boasting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arkup #1, a luxury houseboat in Florida, is at the center of a tax dispute with Miami-Dade County. The debate is whether Arkup #1 ...

Arkup, a sustainable and liveable marine vessel developer, has unveiled its latest solar-electric houseboat before it will be on display at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show this month. This ...

Sea levels are rising, but the solution to the problem is not to fight water but live on it. The idea isn’t exactly new, but here’s a first, concrete proposal towards helping man (and woman and their ...

Imagine for a moment that you don’t have millions of dollars to spend on a home. This is the case for most people. That being said, I've found it. I’ve found the one yacht that doubles as a living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Miami-based firm Arkup announced the first-of-its-kind “livable yacht” ...

Why let sea rise sink your Miami lifestyle when you can go with the flow aboard the Arkup houseboat? Arkup was designed with the ingenious engineering feature of four hydraulic pilings that stabilize ...

The Arkup 75 is an aquatic, self-propelled villa created by Waterstudio.NL. With the core bells and whistles, including furniture, the yacht will cost you $5.5 million, but you can also customize one ...

Dutch architecture studio Waterstudio.NL has created a solar-powered electric yacht-cum-villa with retractable stilts that allow it to be raised fully out of the water to become an off-grid home.

Miami-Dade County has backed off its fight to collect property taxes on a famous Miami Beach houseboat. The property appraiser’s office on Thursday agreed to drop its effort to declare the Arkup #1, a ...

The owner of a green-energy luxury houseboat in Florida has found themselves at the center of a tax dispute with Miami-Dade County. House or boat? On the surface, this might seem like a ...