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Month: November 2013

12 Worthy Winners: 2013 World Architecture Festival Awards

Dynamic, surprising and visually stunning, the winners of the 2013 World Architecture Festival awards represent the very best in recent architecture across a range of categories, from hotels and ...

Phonebloks Unlocked: Google Backs Modular Mobile Phone

More than the sum of its parts, the conceptual swappable-piece mobile phone design that went viral but is now being backed by Google-owned Motorola and is suddenly much closer to becoming a ...

Rural Urbanism: Forest Community of One-Pole Tree Houses

Pristine nature versus urban development seem ever at war, but this designer proposes a low-impact, small-footprint approach for cross-kingdom co-habitation between people and ...

Skinned Buildings: Latex Casts of Derelict Urban Surfaces

Draped like the macabre souvenirs of a serial killer, ghostly skins of old buildings billow on clotheslines, bearing the grime of the surfaces from which they were cast. Amsterdam design studio ...

The Art of Tranquility: 14 Modern Tea House Designs

In Asia, tea houses are typically striking examples of traditional architecture, reflecting the culture and history of the nations in which they're built. But many architects are re-imagining ...

Free T-Shirt & Final Tag: Banksy’s Goodbye to New York City

After an intensive month-long residency in America's biggest city with daily updates, street artist Banksy is leaving behind a strangely mixed legacy of his trip. Here are some of his last works ...

Sounds Of Sirens: 10 Alarmingly Abandoned Firehalls

Made to last and styled to please, these abandoned firehalls silently linger on long after the factories and buildings they were built to protect have gone. ...

Interactive Sculpture Echoes the Movements of Spectators

Artist Daniel Rozin creates installation pieces that watch you even more closely than you watch them. His Angles Mirror installation features a triangular base with hundreds of yellow pegs. As ...

Steampunk Flea: Mechanical Insects by Dimitry Valchev

Spark plugs, kitchen strainers, springs and other random metal parts come together into a 'steampunk flea' that looks like it could jump away at any second in this mechanical insect sculpture by ...

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