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Month: June 2016

Versailles Transformed: Palace Artificially Obscured by Fog and Mist

Approaching the Grand Canal of Versailles from the palace, something seems off about the landscape: a tower of water pours from a seemingly invisible support, as if a hole has opened up in the ...

Not Just a Facade: 15 Dynamic Modern Exterior Treatments

The word 'facade' implies illusion, and that can be true even when it's used to refer to the faces of buildings, as secondary structures wrap around them like veils, obscuring their true form and ...

Colorful 24-Hour & 365-Day Clocks Tell Time in Hues & Seasons

A revolutionary desk and wall clock design overlays a time-telling dial on a gradient of colors balancing dawn, noon, dusk and midnight to show you the time passing as a function of 24 rather ...

Mobile Museums: French Train Cars Filled with Impressionist Art

Commuters traveling from Gare Saint-Lazare to Vernon-Giverny in France get to gaze up at a selection of impressionist art from the Musée d’Orsay applied right onto the walls and ceilings of ...

Urban Human Habitats: 13 Compact Concepts for Growing Cities

  How will various cities around the world adapt to rapid population growth while maintaining quality of life and responding to their unique environments and cultural context? In some ...

World’s Biggest Indoor Vertical Farm Near NYC to Use 95% Less Water

AeroFarms is on track to produce 2 million pounds of food per year in its 70,000-square-foot facility in Newark, under construction less than an hour outside of Manhattan. Their efficient ...

Cows Of A Different Color: The Moooving Art Project

The Moooving Art project in Shepparton, Australia, promotes the region's dairy industry via dozens of fiberglass cows creatively painted by local artists. ...

Subtractive Art: Botanical Wall Graffiti Crafted by Cutting Vines

Taking cues from both tree sculpting and reverse graffiti traditions, SpY's work in Besancon, France, turns pruning into a mural-making technique, shaping vines into a circular work of wall ...

High Tech DIY Decor: 15 3D-Printed Home Accessories

Take DIY home decor to a whole new level with 3D printing, whether you're just purchasing a pre-printed geometric aquarium ornament or custom-designing an object you just can't find anywhere ...

Diverging Diamond: Novel Highway Design Eliminates Hazardous Left Turns

The diverging diamond interchange has been heralded as the new cloverleaf and condemned as pedestrian unfriendly, but it does do at least one thing remarkably well: it eliminates dangerous ...

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