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Month: February 2013

Sleek Internet Logos Echo Metal-Etched Japanese Cameras

There is something simply elegant about type-embossed metal - in part the association with classic high-end manual cameras. This logo series takes that typology and applies it to a series of ...

Going Postal: 12 Stamped Out & Abandoned Post Offices

Since the only thing rapid about "snail mail" is the speed it's fading into disuse, no one should be surprised at the growing number of abandoned post offices. These once-proud centers of commerce ...

Expand on Demand: Secret Deck Spaces for Small Dwellings

When it comes to tall apartment and condo buildings, the idea of adding more space is almost always out of the question - but what if you could push a balcony outward on demand, rather than ...

Surreal La Balade des Gnomes Hotel Offers Fantasy Getaway

If your idea of a romantic getaway is to sleep in surreal, vaguely medieval rooms within a Trojan horse, perhaps you should be spending your Valentine's Day at the bizarre La Balade des Gnomes ...

Nest-Like 3D Printed House Will be Assembled in a Day

Dutch architects Universe Architecture hope their möbius strip 'Landscape House' will be the first home constructed with 3D printing technology, but London's Softkill Design aims to beat them to ...

Möbius Strip: Plans to Build World’s First 3D-Printed House

An unlikely and unique collaboration is in the works between an architect, an inventor and a mathematician-plus-artist to produce a first-of-its-kind printed house in a single shot using ...

Printing Prospects: 10 Hi-Tech Printer Prototypes & Concepts

Printers have become much more complex than simply machines that spit out pieces of paper with ink on them. Designers are envisioning all kinds of futuristic printers that will give us ...

Subterranean Quarry Hotel to Extend 328 Feet Underground

Construction has begun on an incredible 19-story, 5-star hotel that will be located deep within a 100-meter (328-foot) abandoned quarry near the base of Tianmashan Mountain in the Songjiang ...

Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More

When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka a) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized ...

Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch

Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...

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