Rolling Stop: 10 Abandoned Roller Skating Rinks
These abandoned roller skating rinks once saw social interaction mesh seamlessly with healthful recreation backed by a toe-tapping musical soundtrack. ...
Month: February 2014
If You Build It: A True Story of Hands-On Design Education
What if high schools replaced shop classes with results-driven, full-scale architectural projects, where the goal was to collaborate and make something substantial for the entire community? If it ...
MegaFaces: Massive Display Enables 3D Selfies at Sochi
Giant faces measuring 25 feet in height emerge in three dimensions from an 'architectural Mount Rushmore' at the entrance of Sochi's Olympic Park. 'MegaFaces' is an interactive installation by ...
Deep Roots: Underground Farm in London Air-Raid Tunnels
100 feet beneath the surface, below even the level of the London Underground, there is another layer of World War Two shelters where something amazing is coming to life. Richard ...
Touch to Open: Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Life-Sized Origami
Made of rubber, metal, glass and wood, these dynamic flip panel doors tackle perhaps the world's original architectural invention in a series in a fresh, new and interactive ...
Invisible Cities: Tweets and Photos as Terrain on a Map
What would it look like if you could actually see all of the tweets and Instagram photos from a Beyonce concert in New York City hovering above the skyline in physical form? A project called ...
Off the Wall: 14 3D Graffiti Designs from Furniture to Homes
Flat paint on two-dimensional surfaces springs to life in surprising ways in these 14 graffiti-inspired projects ranging from sand sculptures to entire apartment buildings. Street art's impact on ...
Point & Click: Street Stencils Show Tourists Where to Shoot
Urban travelers love taking pictures, but ideal angles are not always obvious to visitors - many ultimately either stand in same hard-to-find spot or fail to take an interesting photograph ...
No Exit: Dementia Village Dwellers Live in Alternate Reality
It sounds at first like the dystopian plot of Dark City or The Truman Show, with free-seeming residents unaware they are actually inhabitants of a closed community they cannot leave and in ...
Abandoned Nazi Bunker Converted to Power Plant & Cafe
The words 'Nazi power' have taken on a new meaning in Hamburg, Germany as an abandoned bunker formerly equipped with anti-aircraft turrets has been transformed for a surprising new use. The ...
