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Month: November 2016

Excavated Sanctuaries: Building Beneath a Protected Valley in Jordan

Preserving the natural beauty of a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordanian desert, this underground architectural complex is designed burrow and branch out beneath the surface. This ...

Art of Camouflage: Flying Bird Silhouettes Blend into Broken Window Voids

A boy aiming his slingshot into the sky seems to aim both at the broken windows of an abandoned building but also a series of birds that seem to appear in the gaps of cracked glass, transfixed in ...

Rugged Luxury: Take Your Queen Bed On the Road In This Modern Camper

If your camping style is somewhere in between sleeping under the stars and ‘glamping’ with all the comforts of home, Track Trailer’s MK4 ‘Tvan’ camper has your number. Designed to be ...

Modern Home Makeovers: 15 Dramatic Before & After Transformations

Not every radical home makeover turns an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan, but they sure can render the original structures completely unrecognizable, for better or worse. Sometimes no more ...

Retail Micro-Farming: MIT & Target to Launch In-Store Vertical Farms

At the convergence of the localvore and vertical farming movements, Target's new in-store micro-farms are positioned to offer the freshest possible produce to consumers. On offer: leafy greens ...

Spilt Milk: 12 Udderly Abandoned Dairies & Dairy Farms

Now you calcium, now you don't... OK, that was awful but so's the sight of these abandoned dairy farms moldering away 'til the cows come home. The so-called "Scary Dairy" in Camarillo, ...

Datascrapers: Infographic Skylines Overlay Income Inequality on City Grids

Somewhere between data visualization and civic artwork, these info-driven diagrams reveal wealth disparities in the centers of America's second and third largest cities. Herwig Scherabon's ...

Virtual Reality Nature: Helmet Lets Humans See the Forest Like Animals Do

Dragonflies experience their brief lives on this planet 10 times faster than humans, and in 12 color wavelengths as compared to our three, a viewpoint that’s been impossible to comprehend prior ...

Monsters of New York: Creepy Critters Cuddle Strangers on City Subways

NYC subways are strange, dark and oft-overcrowded places where many people retreat into themselves and avoiding engagement, at least until these unusual (and invisible) creatures come ...

Now Complete, the Chicago Riverwalk Reclaims Disused Industrial Shore

The final phase of the Chicago Riverwalk opened to the public this weekend, completing a project that connects the city’s downtown area to a previously neglected industrial waterfront. For ...

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