Sidewalk Disco: Wayfinding Lights to Dance Down Streets
Will dancing lights one day help us find our way in a crowded urban center? Research suggests this low-cost crowd control technique could be very effective.
Eccentric Hideaway: Secret English Underwater Billiards Room
What lurks in the murky waters of a man-made lake in Surrey? A fantastic glass-roofed billiards room accessible only through a series of secret entrances.
8 On Demand Social Shopping Sites You Need to Share
Social shopping, online marketplaces that revolve around innovative communities, is one of the greatest developments spawned by the social media revolution
More Than Words: 14 Architectural Typographic Illustrations
Text is used as the medium of choice to illustrate urban cityscapes in these typographic works of art, with some translating architectural styles into typeface.
'BUMPS In Beijing': Breaking Free From Drab Slabs
Call it “urban jungle lite.” Keiichiro Sako's neo-Metabolist “BUMPS In Beijing” mixed-use complex brightens up the Chinese capital's slab-sided skyline.
Letters Loom Large When Typography Meets Architecture
Far from a postscript, the signage in these 13 structures serve as integral parts of each design, covering entire facades or standing hundreds of feet tall.
Drawing Conclusions: Documenting Every Building in New York
New York's architecture is inspiring and truly memorable - now one artist is documenting every single building in the city, one drawing at a time.
Paint + Sound = Sculpture? [Wild Photos & Videos Included]
Paint and sound combine in an elegant way to create these perfectly impermanent sculptures of color, sound and space which are gone in the blink of an eye.
Great Grandiosity! 9 of the World's Most Expensive Houses
The World's most expensive houses include a high-rise residence that takes up an entire skyscraper, to a tree houses larger than your residence.
Spectacular Spain: 15 Standout Hotels from Madrid to Ibiza
These 15 hotels are some of the most stylish, design-oriented accommodations Spain has to offer, from the beaches of Barcelona to Rioja wine country.



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