Frozen in Motion: 24 Stunning High Speed Photographs
Spectacular forms that come together and dissipate far too quickly for human eyes to perceive are captured permanently using high-speed photography techniques. The elusive and temporary shapes ...
Month: August 2014
Architectural Apocalypse: Famous Museums Seen After the Fall
Like that iconic scene in the original Planet of the Apes film, these artists have displaced great works of architecture in time and space to see what each museum might look like after the end of ...
Endless City: Skyscraper Wraps Upward with Walkable Ramps
An urban pedestrian paradise, this conceptual design proposes to turn cities skyward with a system of flexible open spaces that gradually rise as floor plates curve up around its ...
Urban Surfing: City Dwellers Catch Radical Artificial Waves
Until recently, anyone who wanted to surf the artificial waves in a river in Munich's English Garden had to do so under cover of night, with one eye on the shore watching out for police. But in the ...
Offbeat & Off the Grid: 15 Surprisingly Mobile Solar Gadgets
Solar power projects go truly off-the-grid in mobile applications that range from practical if goofy solar panel-equipped Ray Bans to donkeys that stroll around with photovoltaics mounted to ...
Inverted Zoo: Enclosure-Free Design Puts Animals in the Open
Aiming to change the nature of zoo experiences for species on both sides of the glass, Zootopia radically reverses traditional layouts and changes conventional expectations. It almost looks as ...
The Peeling Project: Thinking Outside The Big Box Store
What happened when an edgy architecture firm met an open-minded chain of big box retail stores? The very appealing Peeling Project, that's what. We'll leave it for others to document the ...
City-Sized Artwork: Huge Building Mural Spans 99 Structures
In his most ambitious and large-scale work to date, Felice Varini has created a perspectival piece that wraps around the entire historic core of Hasselt, Belgium, and can only be fully seen from ...
Bloodswept Lands: Poppies Pour out of the Tower of London
Bloodswept Lands and Seas of Red is the appropriately dramatic name for this incredible installation of red ceramic poppies pouring from an upper window into the dry moat around the Tower of ...
Pocket Tent: Tiny Prefab Home Inflates Itself with Body Heat
A brilliant application of material science toward simple living, this portable self-inflating structure folds up into a manageable miniature package but expands to create a small dwelling ...
