Sculpture Showcases Smart Metals that React to Hot & Cold
A heat-reactive metal sculpture at the Materials & Applications gallery in Los Angeles opens and closes according to environmental conditions, 'breathing' like human skin. 'Bloom' was ...
Month: November 2012
Dynamic Shape-Shifting D*Haus Rotates to Follow the Sun
The shape-shifting D*Haus by UK designers David Ben Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson morphs and rotates to remain comfortable during all hours of the day, and all seasons. Designed as an homage to ...
Life-Sized Dollhouse: Abandoned Home to Giant Playhouse
In what may be the world's strangest residential renovation, an artist-in-residence took this long-deserted and severely-dilapidated house, and restored it into what may be the world's largest ...
Happy Trailers: 11 Cool Campers & Mobile Home Concepts
Is there anything better than hitting the open road and going wherever the feeling takes you? It's so much easier to pick up and set off on a spontaneous camping trip when you've got a camper or ...
Slim Living: World’s Thinnest House is Just Four Feet Wide
A four-foot-wide space between two buildings in Warsaw, Poland has become the world's thinnest house. Architect Jakub Szczesny built a series of vertical spaces into the void including a kitchen, ...
Interactive Light Art Installation Operated by Smart Phones
A five-story 'veil' of light situated along the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany billows and contracts according to users' finger movements on their smart phones. 'Photophore' was installed at ...
Star Wars IV Survives: Real Life Tatooine Located in Tunisia
Yes, you can spend the night in Luke Skywalker's home, see the hermit habitat of Obi-Wan Kenobi up close, and view other remnants of the original Star Wars movie via a series sets turned since ...
A-cero is Awesome: 12 Dynamic Ultra-Modern Dwellings
Spanish architecture firm A-cero is known for its striking modernist villas in its home country, as well as a growing body of international work. Influenced by contemporary sculpture, A-cero's ...
Light’s Out: Seven More Eerie Abandoned Lighthouses
Is a lighthouse still a lighthouse when the light goes out and no one's left to call it home? These 7 scenic sentinels slowly succumbing to the endless onslaught of wind and waves stand – barely ...
Impossible Gadget Turns Digital Photos Into Analog Prints
People around the world shed a little tear when Polaroid announced that it would stop producing the instant film that had become synonymous with the company's name. The folks at The Impossible ...
