Google Maps-Inspired Birdhouse Guides Birds Home
This little orange icon tells us just where we need to go on Google Maps - and now it shows birds where home is, too. Designer Shuchun Hsiao has created a series of birdhouses modeled after the ...
Month: January 2013
City Camouflage: Ugly Public Buildings in Disguise
Electricity substations, bathrooms and other less-than-aesthetically pleasing public buildings can stand out as eyesores on the street, taking away from the beauty of their surroundings. Dutch ...
Incredible Shrinking Building: Top-Down Demolition in Style
Japanese culture is commonly thought of as being centered around quiet politeness and public respect. If so, this may be a physical representation of that interpretation - a remarkably subtle and ...
Crafty Modernist Birdhouses Sing Mid-Century Melodies
Modern architecture is the height of contemporary living - so why are we still putting out dowdy old birdhouses for our feathered neighbors? These gorgeous modern birdhouses are a step forward ...
Prototype to Reality: Super Space-Saving Bedroom Set
Starting as a compact rectangle measuring just 13 square feet, the Matroshka all-in-one furniture set just continues to unfold, slide out and transform again and again until you think there can't ...
Rein-Vend: 7 Converted, New & Reverse Vending Machines
Things have come a long way since the world's first vending machine - a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was slipped into a slot. Some now-vintage models dispense art or ...
Tagtool iPad App Lets You Paint Your City with Light
An iPad, a projector and an app called Tagtool are all you need to turn your city into a virtual canvas for your own custom light art and animations. Created by Vienna-based OMAi, Tagtool enables ...
Futuristic Fashion: 35 Out-of-this-World Designer Looks
Looking straight out of a gritty sci-fi movie, these 35 futuristic and sometimes bizarre high-fashion looks envision a future of metallic artificial hair, dresses that dispense actual cocktails, ...
Mirrored Street Facade Art Turns Pedestrians into Acrobats
At first: vertigo. You are moving along the sidewalk, when suddenly you see the front of a structure, only on its side, extruded from the ground below you. But then you look up, and realize you ...
Trouble Brewing: 12 De-alcoholized Abandoned Breweries
The spice must flow but the beer? Not always, and last call for breweries large or small is only a question of timing. These dozen decrepit, decommissioned and de-alcoholized breweries are the ...
