Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data
An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of post-apocalyptic green overgrowth to major cities around the ...
Month: March 2014
After OZ: Dorothy’s Storm-Ravaged House Remade of Scrap
In a remarkable 24-hour collaboration, a series of artists banded together to build a replica of the infamous house from the Wizard of OZ - that ill-fated structure that carried Dorothy Gale so ...
Temporary Legacy: Large-Scale Ice Typography Installations
Ephemeral messages ranging from eight inches to eight feet in height stand in public settings for just hours before they begin to disappear, melting into the snow or concrete beneath them. Artist ...
Abandoned Underground: 10 Long-Lost Subterranean Cities
Subterranean spaces now silent, dank and cobwebbed once bustled with activity - often of the illicit variety - housing secret speakeasies, opium dens, bootlegging operations and hubs for human ...
Cool Million: Famous 420 Square Foot SoHo Condo for Sale
A multifunctional masterpiece built with crowd-sourced design ideas and a small-space vision by the founder of TreeHugger, this New York City apartment is now for sale for ...
The Way We Wore: 12 Clothesed & Abandoned Dry Cleaners
Martinize THIS! Factors such as cost, convenience and the creeping casualness of modern life have condemned countless dry cleaners to in-solvent-cy. ...
Tree-Inspired Tower: Condo Balconies Unfurl Like Leaves
An iconic new mixed-use development in the heart of Montpellier in southern France, L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) grew out of a design concept tied to the outdoor traditions of this temperate ...
HalfBike: Compact Standing Cycle Design Goes Anywhere
How compact can a bicycle get, enabling it to go anywhere in the city that you do? The Halfbike is an intriguing step forward for ultra-packable bikes ideally suited for the urban environment, ...
Transforming Furniture: Fitting 5 Rooms into 640 Square Feet
With a mostly-open floor plan tucked into 60 square meters of space, the design challenge was to effectively fit the functionality of five rooms into the footprint of two. The De Rotterdam ...
Facing Destruction: Entire City to Be Relocated 2 Miles Away
No hoax, it is happening - 20,000 occupants of Kiruna, Sweden, are being forced to pull up stakes and relocate their entire urban center to avoid having it fall off the face of the ...
