Marble Earth: 7-Mile Scale Model Timelapse of Our Solar System
Starting with a model planet Earth the size of a marble, a team of filmmakers set out to simulate our entire solar system in motion and capture the results in a compelling short ...
Month: September 2015
Fictional Libraries: Images Make Information Inaccessible
All of the books in the world still exist, yet are just out of reach, locked up in an impenetrable fortress or stacked so high we can’t hope to reach them, in this dystopian vision by ...
40-Foot Cargo Container Turned into World’s Tallest Periscope
A brilliantly low-tech way to provide a unique view of the surrounding landscape, this massive yet cost-efficient shipping container periscope uses the same elementary construction principles ...
Abandoned Ship: Spacecraft Discovered in Huge Derelict Hangar
Remarkably intact and beautifully documented by a Russian urban explorer, this space shuttle prototype rests in a massive above-ground graveyard at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, deserted due to the ...
Paris Safari: Projected Wildlife Gets Chic in the City
Soaring up to six stories in height, these lemurs, deer, gorillas, eagles and other carefully clothed creatures projected onto buildings all over Paris are mocking your fashion choices. The ...
Modern Wooden Architecture: 16 Fresh Takes on Timber
Wood may be most closely associated with cabins, stick-frame housing and other conventional forms of architecture, but a new wave of architects is adapting its usage for this century and beyond, ...
Silicon Greenery: World’s Largest Green Roof to Span City Blocks
Aiming to turn Cupertino into the green center of Silicon Valley, this expansive green roof design rolls over 30 acres of central urban real estate, capping a massive mixed-use redevelopment ...
Dark Water: Take a Boat Ride Through a Flooded Museum
In order to take in the new, dimly lit installation at Palais de Tokyo by artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, you’ll have to pilot a small boat through dark waters inside the flooded museum. ...
Blurring Boundaries: 14 Modern Houses That Open to the Air
Ceilings retract and glazed walls swing open to connect intimate indoor spaces with courtyards, terraces and gardens in these modern residences blurring the lines between indoors and out. Located ...
Vegan Antlers: Mount Wall Trophy Plants Instead of Animals
Combining a Japanese floral arrangement tradition (ikebana) with the hunting convention of mounted trophies, these plant holders allow for clever, colorful and ever-changing organic ...
