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Year: 2016

Invisible Buses: Photorealistic Prints Provide Moving Urban Camouflage

The streets of Vilnius, Lithuania are full of ghost buses that blend right into their surroundings while passing through intersections as if only existing in translucent ethereal form. Matching ...

Spiraling Skyscrapers: Rounding Up the World’s Tallest Twisting Towers

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an organization responsible for world records in architecture, has announced its definitive list of the world's highest twisting ...

Book City: Retail Space for Reading Mimics the Look of Urban Spaces

The appearance of the city outside - complete with crosswalks and grids resembling aerial views of urban blocks - acts as a transition space between the entrance of a bookstore and the quiet, ...

The City Is Your Living Room: 15 Modern Street Furniture Designs

Smart, well-designed urban seating encourages more interaction with the cities we live in and with each other, infusing them with vibrancy and a sense of connection. It's even cooler when it's ...

Circular Reasoning: How Rounded Homes Resist Storms & Save Lives

Combining the physical benefits of circular plans with the practicality of straight lines and corners, octagonal houses are uniquely positioned to resist hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes ...

Twisted History: Archival Photos Augmented with Surreal Animations

Black-and-white images and footage from the past, plucked from public domain collections, become absurd animations as moving elements are transposed on top of them in this series of images by ...

Prefab Office Pods: 14 Studios & Workspaces Made For Your Backyard

A backyard refuge to work, practice, paint or meditate separates you from the activities inside your home and gives you prime views of your backyard, garden or urban rooftop space. Adding a ...

Solar-Powered Pipe to Desalinate 1.5 Billion Gallons for California

Designed to address the pervasive drought and long-term water problems of the West Coast, The Pipe is an offshore water purification plant that combines sustainable energy, public works and ...

My Space: 15 Creatively Painted High School Parking Spots

So custom-painted assigned high school senior parking spots are a thing now, and it appears students are expressing a LOT (ahem) of creativity. The concept looks to be a win-win for ...

Open-Air Hotel: Infinite-Star Accommodations on the Swiss Alps

Above and beyond your typical five-star hotel, this open-air room sits at nearly 6,500 feet in the mountains of Switzerland with panoramic views of the Alps. A bed, side tables and lamps ...

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