Uncanny Volley: 15 Abandoned Tennis Courts & Clubs
Shed no racket tears for these abandoned tennis courts as there's no bawls in tennis... OK, that's out of line but these courts ARE out of service. ...
Month: January 2016
Trail Blazing: ‘Freezeway’ Path for Ice Skaters Opens in Canada
The new Freezeway pilot project now live in Edmonton aims to draw residents out of hibernation, encouraging them to skate along an iced trail system slated to double as a seven-mile commuting ...
Halfway House: Townhouse Duplex Split Straight Down the Middle
It looks more like an optical illusion or photo edit than a real dwelling, but this hundred-year-old halved townhouse really stands (out) on the streets of Toronto. 54 1/2 St. Patrick ...
Dyslexic Designer Creates Custom Typeface Addressing Disorder
Designed to address the visual processing problems associated with dyslexia, this font uses a set of tailored strategies to make reading easier for those with the disability. Christian ...
Masterpiece Mashup: Genre-Crossing Digital Art Compositions
Diverse artistic disciplines from graphic design to architecture come together, crossing boundaries and merging eras, to bring the likes of Marina Abramovic and Marcel Duchamp together in this ...
The Droids You’re Looking For? 10 Amazing DARPA Robots
No need to get too concerned about a robot uprising just yet, if the finalists at last year’s DARPA Robotics Challenge are any indication, but that doesn’t mean the field hasn’t made some ...
Full of Hot Air: Clever Urban Monuments Conceal Exhaust Shafts
Fenced off or set back from streets and sidewalks and often raised on platforms as well, civic monuments are oddly ideal candidates for concealing a peculiar secondary function: the ventilation ...
Super-Deluxe Swim Platform: Rent This DIY Floating Sauna
In Finland, where the tradition of sitting in steamy saunas is even more appealing in frigid winter, a group of enterprising DIYers has built their own multi-level floating spa, sun deck and dive ...
Architecture as Art: 13 Unusually Sculptural Buildings
When fine art and architecture intersect, especially in our modern era of parametric modeling and 3D printing, the results can be strikingly different from the structures that surround them, in ...
Pavement Bowie: 20 Street Art Tributes to David Bowie
Ashes to ashes, Stardust to dust: having left life's stage, cultural icon David Bowie also leaves behind a global imprint through street art and graffiti. ...
