These 12 jaw-dropping basketball courts stretch the limits of Dr. James Naismith's original vision far beyond the prescient gym teacher's wildest hoop dreams.

Wild do-it-yourself clothing designs, from color-your-own and converted-umbrella dresses to hoodies-turned-tote-bags and color-scanning sewing machines and more.

For the minimalist space-saving fanatic, this collection may be the ultimate all-in-one solution - a set of five boxes, one for each essential home space.

Printers are no longer just the bulky machines that sit on our desks. Current and future printers can create our homes, our toys and even our new body parts.

Combining light art photography and high fashion, these show-stopping runway gowns are manufactured without physical material and composed purely of light.

Just as the Google Maps icon shows us where our destination can be found, it leads birds to their homes in a playful birdhouse design by Shuchun Hsiao.

Modern architecture is the height of contemporary living - so why are we still putting out dowdy old birdhouses for our feathered neighbors?

By playing with materials, functionality and appearances, furniture designer Thomas Schnur makes us totally re-think our preconceived ideas about furniture.

Pay phones used to be ubiquitous - in many places they remain a physical presence, but without a use ... at least until these artists and designers came along.

Though most modern architects avoid using swastikas in their blueprints, a few swastika-shaped buildings are out there, twisting in the winds of change.