Pools displace space. But what if you could have the best of both worlds: a usable space or surface replaced by a body of water when you want it?

A wide strip of bold geometric patterns in bright colors painted onto the asphalt disrupts the muted historic visuals of a small city in France.

Liven up your home decor with fun 3D-printed accents like lamps, espresso cups, planters and kits to make three-dimensional geometric objects out of pencils.

Potentially even more challenging than harsh heat and dust storms of Burning Man: Emphermisle, a temporary autonomous zone on the water.

Rest stops and welcome centers are to highway travel what oases are to desert caravans, with one exception: when an oasis dries up, the camels unload anyway.

Need a reason to be generous? This innovative can from Coca-Cola encourages sharing by splitting into two halves - one for you and one for someone special.

'Hell is Other People' is a smartphone app that will show you where all your friends are in a map based on social media check-ins - so you can avoid them.

Tagging is typically considered an urban art. At the very least you need walls to write on, right? Not necessarily - there are translucent alternatives, too.

Out of four recent proposals for a radical overhaul of Penn Station in New York City, this concept is far and away the most dramatic.

A massive wooden egg bobs on the surface of a river in England, in use as a live-in laboratory for an artist studying the natural cycles of the estuary.