Shattered Sunsets: Broken Mirror Photos of Evening Skies
Spanning multiple feet in each direction, these giant-sized photo prints transform the light and color of ordinary sunset scenes, reflecting them through a chaotic lens ...
Month: April 2014
Cracked-Earth Desert Canopy Shelters Underground Oasis
Splitting at the seams like sections of sun-baked desert, this expansive park opens to the sky between a network of gaps and provides shade for people and plant life below. A sunken oasis ...
Jenga-Like Hotel Made of Stacked Shipping Containers
Shipping containers plastered in stark graphic branding are stacked in a Jenga-like configuration within a steel frame at the Hive-Inn, a concept hotel by OVA Studio. Individual units can easily be ...
7 Deadly Engineering Disasters of the Industrial Age
Messing around with money-saving shortcuts or failing to understand basic physics can have deadly consequences when it comes to engineering structures like suspension bridges, dams, towers and ...
3D-Printable Connectors Make DIY Furniture Assembly Easy
Leveraging the best features of available 3D printers and the materials they can print, this kit-of-parts approach opens up an amazing array of possibilities for do-it-yourself furniture ...
Invisible Barn: Mirrored Surfaces Create Camouflaged Folly
Like a mirage on the horizon, the structure seems to shimmer into and out of existence, playing tricks on the eye with a combination of see-through portals and reflective ...
Beats on Fire: Music Visualized with Movement of Flames
We've seen what audio frequencies look like in mesmerizing resonance experiments using sand - so how does the same concept translate to a more volatile medium? The science video blog Veritasium ...
No Lot Too Challenging: 13 Ingenious Odd-Shaped Houses
The lot purchased by a homeowner might be seemingly impossible - clinging to a sheer cliff, squeezing into tight spaces, or consisting of an odd geometric shape - but by god, architects will find ...
Shape-Shifting Furniture: Interactive 3D Surfaces from MIT
The Tangible Media Group from MIT has developed an approach to responsive design in physical space that is both conceptual and plausible, futuristic yet already a reality. Displaying ...
Brushed Off: 12 Dried Out & Abandoned Car Washes
Hold the hot wax and spare the soap, these abandoned car washes have blow-dried their last vehicle and will no longer thank you for coming again. ...
