Last Stop: Photo Book Documents 150 Vanishing US Rest Stops
For the last five years, this photographer has been traveling around the United States and capturing an eclectic but dying breed of roadside architecture: the American rest ...
Month: December 2014
Vertical City Farming: Undulating Mixed-Use Urban Community
Designed to provide a spaces for public gardening as well as senior living, this hybrid complex has a rich array of green roofs, terraces and facades allowing for locally-grown produce as well as ...
Future Materials: Lightweight Carbon Fiber Architecture
The buildings of the future might just look as lightweight as a spiderweb, seeming as if they could blow away at any moment, while actually being incredibly strong. In the past, architects had to ...
Grottos to Game of Thrones: 16 Jaw-Dropping Restaurants
You'll have a hard time chewing with your mouth closed as you dine at these incredible jaw-dropping establishments around the world, from a hanging cliffside restaurant in China to a cantilevered ...
Making Faces: Huge Military Warehouse Mural Spans 48 Windows
Covering two sides of a three-story building in Rome, this ground-to-roof artwork is massive, even by the standards of a big-thinking street artist like BLU used to large-scale ...
4D Printing: Programmable Robotic Self-Assembling Materials
Imagine a shelter that unfolds itself in the rain, flat-pack furniture that deploys without instructions or tools when exposed to water or a temperature-sensitive spoiler for your sports car that ...
Street Pong: Play with Fellow Pedestrians at Traffic Lights
You might not be too concerned about how many light cycles go by before you actually get to cross the street if you're too busy playing pong with the person waiting on the other side of the ...
Built for Bond: 10 Impossibly Luxurious Spy-Inspired Designs
Over the past half-century, the James Bond movie franchise has inspired countless suits, man caves and cheesy spy gadgets, but it has also led designers and architects to create some pretty ...
Lowline for NYC: World’s First Underground Park in Manhattan
Using fiber optics as "remote skylights" to pipe illumination down from the surface, this bold plan aims to transform a century-old trolley station into a bright and green subterranean park. New ...
Automotive Acid Trip: The Graphic 3D Art Of Chris LaBrooy
Chris LaBrooy loves vintage vehicles, but with a twist: the digital artist's far-out 3D illustrations are an automotive acid trip into the 4th dimension. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Chris ...
