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Month: September 2016

Crate Core: Shipping Container Tower Hidden Inside a Carriage House

When glimpsed from above, this stack of vivid orange shipping containers on a Brooklyn rooftop looks like an add-on structure, but it doesn’t end where the original house’s roof begins. It ...

World’s First Non-Rectangular Soccer Fields Activate Asymmetrical Spaces

Turning disused spaces in Bangkok into odd-shaped soccer (or: football) fields, this project provides much-needed places to play in dense cities where conventional lots are hard to find. It also ...

Wild & Scrappy: 3D Trash Sculptures of Animals Pop Up in Urban Spaces

Literally popping out of city walls in three dimensions, wild animals emerge from a jumble of car parts, corrugated metal and random industrial objects masterfully layered and painted by Bordalo ...

Check Out These Books: 18 Home Libraries for Ravenous Readers

Short of actually curling up in a relaxing space to get lost in the words on a page, there's nothing reading enthusiasts love more than gazing at photo after photo of beautiful libraries, ...

Blow-Up Party: Inflatable Black Plastic Dance Club & Bar

Deliberately dark and pipe-like to recreate the feel of being in a secret subterranean space, this inflatable nightclub and bar by Bureau A comes complete with blow-up benches, tables and a DJ ...

Still Standing Tall: 7 Monumental Statues of the Ancient World

Perhaps we’ll never know what it was like land on a Greek Island and gaze up at the long-lost Colossus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but there are many ...

Smart Body Art: MIT Temporary Tattoos Turn Your Arm into a Touchpad

Simple but powerful, these conductive tattoos communicate data and actions to paired electronic devices, translating touch actions into digital activations. As biohacking and other transhumanist ...

Invisible Arts: Hydrophobic Games, Poetry & Pokémon Surface When Wet

When the hydrophobic NeverWet spray came out, it promised to waterproof everything, but users found they had mixed results in applying it to things like clothing and touchscreens - it discolored ...

Rebuilding Blocks: Mobile Factory Turns Disaster Debris into Modular Bricks

In the wake of intentional demolition or unexpected disasters, the Mobile Factory system can be shipped inside just two cargo containers and begin to turn rubble from ruins into building blocks ...

Wet Look: 12 (More) Cool Creative Water Tanks & Towers

Due to their sizes and shapes, water tanks and towers lend themselves to artistic embellishment as these dozen creative examples refreshingly illustrate. A waterpark? In the middle of ...

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