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Month: March 2014

Reading Room (Dividers): 13 Creative Bookshelf Designs

Books make everything better, especially when you're looking to divide a large loft or studio apartment into smaller, more functional spaces. Bookshelf room dividers go far beyond the standard ...

Surrealist Disaster-Proof Structures for Dangerous Locations

Some spots are such beautiful potential locations for a home, yet repeated natural disasters make them inhospitable for all but the strongest and most durable of dwellings. Architect Dionisio ...

Cubicle Typography: Unique Desks as Office Furniture Font

One of the most dreary aspects of daily life in a cubical farm is the relentless sameness that pervades each office pod - perhaps it would help if each workspace were different, easy to assemble ...

Sand Cities: Geometric Architecture Sculpted from Beaches

A serious step beyond traditional sand castles, these sculptural micro-structures range from simple sets of cubes to miniature buildings and architectural complexes. Calvin ...

Nailed It: 3D Printed Manicures Are Frighteningly Awesome

We knew that 3D printing would make the creation of all sorts of amazing and unpredictable things possible, but we honestly didn't see this one coming: frighteningly intricate, claw-like ...

Underground Urban Wonders: 7 Stunning Sub-City Spaces

Far below the bustling cities of London, Paris, Montreal, New York and Helsinki are subterranean spaces ranging from dark, dank and dangerous storm drain tunnels to entire complexes complete with ...

Kinetic Facade: Awesome Adaptive Window Shading System

Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world - light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn ...

Shabby Cabbie: 15 Abandoned Taxis & Cab Graveyards

Taxis have a checkered history and few mourn when one or more of the used, abused and disused private transit vehicles reaches the end of the meter. ...

Window Sketches: Minimalist Landscapes of Steam & Glass

No smoke-and-mirrors or post-production here, just fleeting vignettes swiftly staged on steamed windows and set against natural outdoor backgrounds. Jim Osborne is a self-taught landscape ...

End of the World Cinema Abandoned in the Egyptian Desert

In the middle of Egypt's inhospitable Sinai Desert, stacked on a rocky hillside overlooking a pile of sticks, row after row of worn wooden movie theater seats sit eerily empty. Why would anyone ...

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