Miniature Museum: Scaled Scenes with Jaw-Dropping Details
Before special effects went digital with CGI, part of the magic of movie making included artists laboring over tiny scaled-down sets, creating little worlds that look totally real until a ...
Month: September 2015
Tone Tunnels: Huge Forest Megaphones Amplify Sounds of Nature
Large enough for visitors to enter and sit within, three gigantic wooden megaphones constructed in the forests of Estonia amplify ambient sounds of the environment. Nearly ten feet in ...
Droneport: New UAV Hub to Ship Medical Supplies Across Rwanda
This architect-designed drone airport will be the first of its kind, created to facilitate an unmanned aerial vehicle supply chain servicing remote areas of Africa, addressing urgent medical ...
Soviet Bus Stops: Surreal Architectural Roadside Wonders
Standing stark against silent desert backdrops like sculptures made for Burning Man, these leftover Soviet structures are actually bus stops scattered throughout one of the most sparsely ...
Hot Pop-Up Shops: 14 Imaginatively Risky Retail Designs
The temporary nature of pop-up shops seems to inspire a bolder, braver, more experimental approach to retail design, encouraging architects to make use of unexpected materials and play with ...
Floating Blue: Bold Plan to Expand Dense Cities into Open Seas
Ocean cities are a longstanding Utopian dream, but the majority of such schemes fail to address the immediate need of cramped urban centers, many of which around the world are bordered and ...
Dirt Cheap: World’s Largest 3D Mud Printer Makes Green Homes
Able to print full-sized structures from mud and clay, this 40-foot-tall 3D printer represents a huge step toward printing affordable housing from free materials. The project was unveiled ...
Abandoned Ship: Artist Paints Figure Onto Floating Ruins
Hawaiian artist HULA paints the head and arm of a floating woman onto the rusted steel surface of an abandoned ship, all while balancing on a surfboard. The woman’s face appears and disappears ...
Blowing Up: 16 Impressive Inflatable Works of Balloon Art
The clown you hired for your kid’s birthday party probably can’t make balloon iguanas with tiny scales, swirling three-story inflatable sculptures inspired by mythology, or floating ...
Sweet Transit: Japan’s Cute Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops
Originally built for a 1990 travel expo, these fruit-shaped bus stops from southern Japan still look as tasteful (and tasty!) as they did 25 years ago. ...
