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Month: May 2016

Univers-Sel: Salt Labyrinths Swirl Inside 13th Century French Castle

Gazing down at foamy-looking swirls of white on black from a niche in an ancient castle, you almost feel as if you're an astronaut watching a hurricane form above the ocean on the distant Earth. ...

Small Space Shape Shifters: 13 Transforming Furniture Designs

  Almost no space is too small to live in when you've got furniture that lowers from the ceiling, pulls out of the walls, transforms for multiple functions or even folds up flat to hang ...

Painting in VR: Kingspray Graffiti Simulator & Google Tilt Brush

Virtual reality is not just about interacting with people at distance, or engaging with static worlds designed by others - it can also be a place where users are invited to create their own works ...

Minimal Luxury: Monumental Concrete Hotel by Tadao Ando

Master of minimalist architecture Tadao Ando has remodeled a small boutique hotel on Japan’s Shikoku island in a refreshingly spare yet luxurious aesthetic, with few distractions to break up ...

Holy Art! 13 Spectacular Secular Installations in Sacred Spaces

Imbued with a sense of reverence, not to mention all those beautifully vaulted spaces, cathedrals and other sacred spaces can be stunning settings for art installations of all kinds, from ...

Off-Grid & Self-Sufficient: ReGen Villages with Vertical Farms

Presented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Bienalle, these new communities are designed to be entirely self-reliant, recycling their own waste, generating their own energy and producing their own ...

Souped Up: 12 Larger Than Life Campbell’s Soup Cans

The red & white Campbell's Soup can has been a huge pop culture (and occasionally pop art) icon for decades. HOW huge, you might ask? THIS huge... The classic Campbell's Soup ...

Inverted Umbrella: Drip-Free Design Turns Canopy Inside Out

Like tableware or sliced bread, the umbrella is the subject of many reinvention attempts but few approach the sheer cleverness and ingenious simplicity of this design solution, which tackles ...

METALmorphosis: Kinetic Sculpture by Controversial Czech Artist

A giant metallic head splits into segments and rotates in a ‘metamorphosis’ worthy of its subject, author Franz Kafka. All 42 of its layers spin independently, catching the sunlight on their ...

Detroit Agate: Auto Factory Paints Accidentally Form ‘Fordite’

Culled from paint deposits in old car factories, these may look like exotic gemstones, but their colors reflect years of layering and hundreds to thousands of assembly-line stops. They are ...

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