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Owing to climate change and global warming, the level of sea continuously rises with frequent and severe flooding. People prefer to live and enjoy leisure activities on the water according to the increased income level. So proper countermeasures such as floating technology are required. This paper aims to investigate the trends of floating technology application through the survey of floating structures in Europe and to suggest some reference ideas for the new structure planning on the water. The conclusions can be summarized as follows; gradual expansion of floating structures from low-income house to every kinds of structures, reinforcements of environment-friendly approaches through renewable energy usage and application of echo-friendly construction/material, catalyst usage of urban regeneration by providing the public space of recreation/social activities and recognition of landmark by sculpture-like shape. By applying the floating technology, large scale of floating city needs to be studied for preventing the disaster due to sea level rise and the expansion of human residential area.