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Month: May 2016

Advanced Accessibility: 12 Futuristic Wheelchair Designs & Concepts

Technological advancements could enable wheelchair users to stand up to reach high objects, zoom around on sandy and snowy landscapes, power up hills without an assistant and even climb stairs. ...

1/4 World Trade Center: Tulsa’s Half-Sized, Untwinned Tower

The BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looks uncannily like the vanished Twin Towers of the New York City skyline and this is neither accidental nor coincidental. This skyscraper was constructed just ...

Pigeons on Patrol: Birds with Backpacks Monitor London Air Pollution

Not all pigeons are rats with wings. Some of them actually strap on tiny backpacks and go to their jobs every day, just like the rest of us. In fact, a flock of pigeons in London play a central ...

Living with the Dead: 12 Cemeteries with Surprising Alternate Uses

The living play karaoke among headstones, hang their laundry from mausoleums, put on plays in crypts and golf right on top of graves in multipurpose cemeteries around the world, where the dead ...

Street Smokers: Cabin Sits & Steams Over NYC Manhole Covers

This mobile art installation turns the most congested New York City intersections into an unlikely context for a most rural-looking little cottage, the illusion completed thanks to steam rising ...

Oh Snap! 15 Abandoned & Shuttered Fotomat Film Kiosks

Rendered obsolete by technology, hundreds of abandoned Fotomat drive-thru photo development kiosks still stand in suburban shopping center parking lots. ...

Modest Modernism: Concrete Block House in Brazil Wins Award

An understated but award-winning Modernist dwelling design in São Paulo, Brazil, has turned a narrow lot into a lovely and low-cost habitat suited to the needs of its poor and elderly ...

Play-Doh People: Manipulated Portraits Mimic Old School Horror Movies

Lumps of modeling clay in shades that match human flesh are globbed into the hollows of what should be faces in this series of portraits mixing photography with sculpture. Artist José Cardoso ...

Forage-Friendly Barge Brings Fresh & Free Produce to NYC Docks

A food barge full of fruits and vegetables is coming to the waterways of the Big Apple this summer, stopping at scheduled increments to let people pick produce as it passes from one dock to the ...

Metallic Life Forms: Kinetic Sculptures Undulate in the Wind

There’s something alien about the way these metallic structures move, a fluidity that makes them seem as if they’re alive. Each one transforms so completely as it spins, the results almost ...

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