‘Blank Books’ Project is Rebuilding Burned Library in Baghdad
A lone artist is on a mission to restore some of the 70,000 books from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad that were reduced to ash during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...
Year: 2016
A Mirage You Can Touch: Liquid Marble Installation Fools the Eye
Even crueler than a real mirage, this convincing illusion continues to look like a real body of water until you reach down to touch its surface, only to find that it’s as solid as anything ...
Advanced Accessibility: 12 Futuristic Wheelchair Designs & Concepts
Technological advancements could enable wheelchair users to stand up to reach high objects, zoom around on sandy and snowy landscapes, power up hills without an assistant and even climb stairs. ...
1/4 World Trade Center: Tulsa’s Half-Sized, Untwinned Tower
The BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looks uncannily like the vanished Twin Towers of the New York City skyline and this is neither accidental nor coincidental. This skyscraper was constructed just ...
Pigeons on Patrol: Birds with Backpacks Monitor London Air Pollution
Not all pigeons are rats with wings. Some of them actually strap on tiny backpacks and go to their jobs every day, just like the rest of us. In fact, a flock of pigeons in London play a central ...
Living with the Dead: 12 Cemeteries with Surprising Alternate Uses
The living play karaoke among headstones, hang their laundry from mausoleums, put on plays in crypts and golf right on top of graves in multipurpose cemeteries around the world, where the dead ...
Street Smokers: Cabin Sits & Steams Over NYC Manhole Covers
This mobile art installation turns the most congested New York City intersections into an unlikely context for a most rural-looking little cottage, the illusion completed thanks to steam rising ...
Oh Snap! 15 Abandoned & Shuttered Fotomat Film Kiosks
Rendered obsolete by technology, hundreds of abandoned Fotomat drive-thru photo development kiosks still stand in suburban shopping center parking lots. ...
Modest Modernism: Concrete Block House in Brazil Wins Award
An understated but award-winning Modernist dwelling design in São Paulo, Brazil, has turned a narrow lot into a lovely and low-cost habitat suited to the needs of its poor and elderly ...
Play-Doh People: Manipulated Portraits Mimic Old School Horror Movies
Lumps of modeling clay in shades that match human flesh are globbed into the hollows of what should be faces in this series of portraits mixing photography with sculpture. Artist José Cardoso ...
