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Month: July 2013

Learn Modern Architecture Principles with New LEGO Kit

If you've always wanted to design modern buildings, but don't have any plans to attend architecture school, LEGO has just the tool you're looking for. The toy company has revealed a LEGO ...

Desolate Desertions: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Antarctica

At the end of the earth, in some of the most remote places known to man, the remains of ill-advised human exploration and activity can be found in the form of rusting equipment, buildings almost ...

Leisure Dives: Planking Meets Parkour & Midair Photography

Parkour and free-running are fine for athletic types, while planking and the lying-down game are great for lazies, but suspended somewhere in between we find the leisure dive. Blending the ...

Dense City: Photos Show Tightly-Packed Hong Kong Towers

Twice as dense as New York, and four times as crowded as London, Hong Kong is a fascinating mix of natural landscape edged by incredibly dense human construction. Michael Wolf, a German ...

Painted Shadows: Dark Art Haunts Deserted Psychiatric Hospital

Eerie shadows float out of empty wheelchairs, trailing up cracked and peeling walls and slinking under doorways in a series of paintings in an abandoned mental hospital by Brazilian artist ...

Small Space Design: 15 Fold-Up, All-In-One Bathrooms

Making the most of limited living space requires modular solutions that can be moved around and altered at will, and that includes bathroom fixtures. Smart, compact modular or all-in-one bathroom ...

Time-Lapse Tagging: Short Film Reveals Secrets of Graffiti

You see the finished pieces all over - ornate, curved and layered - but rarely get such a vivid and complete all-angle, real-time view of how their tags come together. If you are even remotely ...

End Of The Story: 12 Abandoned & Forgotten Bookmobiles

Remember bookmobiles? Bookmobiles were bus-like rolling libraries that brought the joy of reading to folks who didn't have easy access to books. Remember books? ...

Escher + Inception: Tour a Digital World that Defies Physics

This video thrives on convention - specifically: breaking with it. In the same vein as M.C. Escher, The Matrix or, more recently, Inception (or even the building flips and slides in ...

Reflections: China’s Lost Lakes Resurface in Urban Beijing

As China has transformed from a largely agricultural society to an industrial superpower, vastly changing its landscape with both construction equipment and the unintended effects of climate ...

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