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Month: October 2016

Zaha Hadid’s Legacy: Proposal for London by the Architect’s Final Students

The legacy of famed architect Zaha Hadid continues to unfold months after her death at age 65 as a long list of her final projects continue in various stages of development, from those currently ...

The Power to Change: 12 Brilliantly Reclaimed Energy Stations

As cities grow and their power needs change, the historic and often surprisingly beautiful structures holding turbines, generators, coal and gas are decommissioned, becoming prime candidates for ...

Rolling Landscape: Driverless Geodesic Garden Hits the Streets of London

As robotic cars take to the streets, designers are beginning to see possibilities for urban mobility that go beyond human and cargo transport. What if plants, for instance, could be moved around ...

Dear Dairy: 12 Delicious Displays Of Milk Crate Art & Design

Milk crates are like jumbo LEGO bricks: they're colorful, lightweight, plentiful, and can be arranged in an infinite number of artful configurations. Looking a little like a gargantuan ...

Art of Deception: NYC Monument to Giant Octopus Attack Misdirects Tourists

Visitors to Battery Park in Manhattan will find memorials to fallen soldiers, sunken sailors and 400 passengers who perished when a Staten Island ferry was attacked by a giant ...

Real Scale Revealed: Digital Mashups Show Off Oversized Wonders

When you see the Burj Khalifa photoshopped into New York City’s skyline, glimpse a B-2 bomber on an NFL football field or spot the largest scorpion that ever lived creeping up next to a cat, ...

Hybrid Graffiti: Black-and-White Stencils Bring Colorful Tags to Life

Nearly photo-realistic figures stenciled in place make bright surrounding tags all the more vibrant in this series of street art juxtapositions by artist Martin Whatson of ...

GeoOrbital Wheel: Tron-Inspired Add-On Makes Any Bike Electric

Make any bicycle an electric bike in 60 seconds simply by replacing the front wheel with ‘GeoOrbital,’ a gadget made by a team of engineers from SpaceX and Ford. Available in two sizes to fit ...

Totally Transparent: 14 See-Through Homes, Cars, Gadgets & Tech

If all walls and opaque surfaces were to disappear, leaving only see-through materials, what effect would that have on how we perceive the world around us? Designers present transparency in all ...

Modular DIY Dome Kit: Flexible Connectors Join Geodesic Wood Structures

Reducing complexity and difficulty for would-be geodesic dome builders, this series of connective 'Hubs' makes it possible for do-it-yourself types and even kids to collaborate on creating stable ...

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