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Month: November 2015

Drawing with Wire: Scribbled Sculptures Make Sketches 3D

Scribbled sketches seem to leap off the page and hover in mid-air, filling out in three dimensions, in this impressive series of sculptures made from bent wire. Artist David Oliveira captures the ...

Liquid Stop Sign: Emergency Laser Projection on Sheet of Water

Serving as a bright and bold last-chance warning for vehicles about to enter tunnels, this wall of water painted turns into a kind of hovering hologram designed to STOP impending drivers from ...

Fortified Farms: In the Svanti Mountains Every Home is a Castle

Facing threats from all sides, the Svans of Georgia became highland gatekeepers of their mountain passes, each distributed dwelling turned into a individually defensible ...

Your Own Slice of Sky: Pop-Out Windows for Urban Apartments

Few city dwellers are lucky enough to have an outdoor space to call their own, but this pop-out window design offers a view of the sky, even if your window looks directly onto another building. ...

Classic Art in a Modern World: 35 Masterpieces Reimagined

Masterpieces from Greek antiquity through the nineteenth century are literally seen through a modern lens, remade into action figures or inserted into contemporary settings, in this collection of ...

Got Your Goat: Portable Drinking Horn Coffee Mug is Good to Go

Its shape inspired by goats, the creatures that helped humans discovered coffee, this modern-day drinking horn is curved to make drinking easier and capped to let you take your java on the ...

Sunken Ruins of Alexandria to be World’s First Underwater Museum

The Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt is planning to turn submerged ruins of ancient Alexandria into an underwater museum, allowing tourists access to 2,500 of subsurface stonework dating back ...

Blooming Street Lights: Giant Flowers Interact with the City

Step beneath these massive red flowers in Jerusalem’s Vallero Square and they’ll bloom before your eyes, offering light after dark and shelter from the rain. The interactive installation by ...

Ugly Architecture: 15 of the World’s Most Hideous Buildings

Some buildings are so ugly, the only thing that could possibly improve them is a wrecking ball. It's even worse when the structures are high-profile and expensive, making you wonder how many ...

New Spin: Rotating & Sliding Walls Turn 1-BR Apartment into 3

A combination of walls on wheels and sliding wall panels make this modular home infinitely adaptable, able to transform from a spacious single-family abode to a series of divisible spaces for ...

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