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Month: August 2013

Beautifully Simple: School Bus Turned Minimal Mobile Home

You could make a strong case for this vehicle being barely recognizable as such. The dimensions, fenestration and over spatial configuration give good clues that this space may have once been a ...

Trouble Feature: 10 Abandoned Drive-In Movie Theaters

Drive-in movie theaters stand for the great American auto-centric suburban dream, though as time goes by fewer and fewer of the outdoor screens remain standing. ...

Taking Names: Famous Logos Without Their Brand Names

All around the world, people are inundated daily with advertisements hawking everything from soda to furniture to vacations. We're so used to seeing the ads and logos almost everywhere that we ...

Bubble of Fear: Surreal Photo Series Highlights Fukushima

A gas mask hangs in a red box mounted to a tree in an otherwise peaceful forest, a jarring reminder that all is not well in Fukushima. French photographers Carlos Ayesta and Guillame Bression ...

Porta-Park: Mobile Urban Square the Size of a Parking Spot

Compact and portable, this crafty collaborative design-build project is part art installation and part impromptu gathering space. This student-built platform pushes people to think about the ...

Mountaintop Museum: Underground Rooms Tunnel into Peak

In a bold yet beautifully contextual move, this embedded mountaintop museum structure is part of a series of buildings set high in the mountains of Tyrol, Italy, and designed by Zaha Hadid ...

LEGO Brooklyn: Artist Recreates Borough with Plastic Blocks

Familiar scenes from Brooklyn, from the local flower shop to the train station, are lovingly rendered in pixelated plastic by local resident and artist Jonathan Lopes. Lopes loves BK so much, he ...

Rad Restroom Designs: 15 Actually-Awesome Public Potties

Little architectural effort is typically spent on public restrooms - they're perfunctory, with looks reflecting embarrassment about the functions carried out within. But they're a necessary part ...

Second Skin: Kevlar Backpack for Life & Travel in War Zones

For many of the world's citizens (and travelers), the threat of bodily harm from war or terror attacks is a daily fact of life. Constructed of bulletproof material, this backpack is designed to ...

Ghost Architecture: Unconscious Art of Building Demolition

When a free-standing building is razed there is often little left to tell its story, but in places where structures directly abut one another there are sometimes amazing traces of not just ...

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