Seabed City: Japanese Company Designs Underwater Ocean Spiral
Slated to cost over $25 billion and take 5 years to complete, this incredible proposal starts a with a living sphere that spans over 1,500 feet below the surface of the ...
Month: November 2014
Wax On, Wax Off: 12 Closed & Deserted Drive-Thru Car Washes
Abandoned car washes are oddly abundant - you'd think they invented the self-cleaning car! Here are 12 more car-less washes left high, dry and brushed-off. ...
Under Construction: World’s First Concrete-Printing Robot
An interdisciplinary team of architects and material specialists is developing a commercially-viable 3D-printing machine capable of creating complex objects using one of the planet's most ...
Herringbone House: Tiny Tokyo Residence Split into 7 Levels
Measuring just 280 square feet, this tiny house in Tokyo by architecture firm Flathouse includes a public biscuit shop on the first level and manages to fit a lot of function into an irregularly ...
Iconic Camouflage: Painted People Disappear into Cityscapes
Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates ...
The 6th Borough: 9 River-Based Proposals for New York City
While the waterways connecting the five boroughs of New York City are already home to everything from food-producing barges to boats reclaimed as hotels, they could become an even more productive ...
Ghost Creeks: Resurfacing Vanished Waterways on City Streets
Half-forgotten historical urban rivers are set to resurface in San Francisco as part of a civic installation project designed to fill in their historical footprints with a bright blue work of ...
Modular Micro-Pad: 85 Sq Ft Loft Full of Slide-Out Surprises
Using a system of large sliding doors and functional-filled drawers to transform a maid's quarters into a whole home, this small-footprint apartment in Paris gives a (much more positive) new ...
Tape Tunnels: Crawl Inside a Human-Sized Spiderweb in Paris
Stretching from one end of the Palais de Tokyo gallery in Paris to the other, these strange translucent tunnels look like human-sized versions of the funnel-shaped webs of grass spiders. Instead ...
Forbidden Islands: 7 Abandoned & Isolated World Wonders
From a mile-long strip of land packed with over one million corpses just off the shores of New York City to a floating fortress in England used by a developer to escape his creditors, these 7 ...
