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20 Eye-Catching Pieces of ‘Recycled’ Urban Furniture: Geeky and Green Adaptive Reuse Design Projects

Do you ever get sick of people telling you to recycle? Well, these furniture designers prove recycling can be a lot more interesting than stuffing cans, bottles and cardboard into the proper containers. A ‘bathtub couch’ and ’shopping cart chair’ may not be your cup of tea but there is something for everyone in this […]

20 (More) Incredibly Unconventional Hotel Rooms: Artistic Interior Designs from Around the World

[above: Kids fortress bed with full mini-golf room from the Propeller Island Hotel]
Ever wonder what it would be like to be stuck in prison, live in a museum or stay in a hotel room in space? Art and concept hotels have begun addressing every fantasy you may have had … and some you probably haven’t. […]

5 Incredible Works of Insane Architectural Genius: Wooden Skyscrapers to Recycled Wonderlands

How many people does it take to envision, design and build a typical building? Architects, builders, carpenters, laborers are often just the beginning of a long list of co-creators. Well, these bizarre exceptions were each primarily the work of a single eccentric individual and in many cases took decades (or even lifetimes) to construct. Despite […]

10 (More) Pieces of Clever Transforming Furniture: From Tetris Tables to Rooms in a Box

Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress, the fact that fewer materials for more uses is sustainable or simply a return to the childhood love of things that we can actively change and shape as we wish? Whatever the reason, these designs range from humorous and […]

The House that Shaped an Architectural Generation: Frank Gehry’s First ‘Deconstructivist’ Building

What happened to Frank Gehry? Some call it a midlife crises, others chalk it up to a moment of revelation. Whatever occurred, this rather conventional middle-aged architect changed virtually overnight into an avante garde designer and created what is arguably the most influential residence of the 20th Century. Deconstructivism now pervades the field of architecture […]


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