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Month: January 2017

Hovering Homes: 12 Cantilevered & Elevated Residences Maximize Views

Supported by nothing but skinny poles, delicately balancing or tethered as if they might float away, these precarious-seeming houses laugh in the face of gravity. Cantilevering architectural ...

See Wall: Graffiti Praising & Parodying Donald Trump

Donald Trump is destined to leave his mark on the world stage but the world's graffiti artists have been leaving Trump-related marks for some time. The notorious “wall” Trump has ...

Guerrilla Guidance: DIY Street Signs Make Urban Life More Interesting

You’re hurrying along the sidewalk on the way to work, running late and not in the greatest mood, when you see a sign in the adjacent field that simply reads “PLEASE WAIT HERE, YOUR FUTURE ...

Waste Not: The Trash Can that Inspired the World’s Tallest Condo Tower

432 Park Avenue in Manhattan has taken criticism for various reasons since well before it was completed, but its source of inspiration makes it almost too easy: the skyscraper was inspired by a ...

Architectural Relics: When Demolition Leaves Behind Nonsensical Structures

Steps that go nowhere, pedestrian walkways that dead-end into elevated bridges, doors that open out into mid-air: these so-called ‘Thomassons’ are what happens when workers demolishing an ...

Modern Mazes: 15 Labyrinths Made of Glass, Steel, Light and Salt

Escaping the convoluted confines of the conventional hedge-in-a-garden, the labyrinth takes on ever more complex forms to better confuse you with, especially when mirrors, glass or mechanical ...

Public Wattway: France Activates World’s First Solar-Paneled Roadway

Developed by Wattway and deployed on the streets of Tourouvre-au-Perche, a 1,000-meter-long solar-paneled roadway in France is the first stretch of a 1,000-kilometer endeavor. The ...

Painting with Light on a Canvas of Night: Alien Blooms by Hannu Huhtamo

The strange glowing figures in these images are so complex, you might think they’re screenshots from a digital animation, or created in Photoshop - but there’s no computer-based trickery ...

High-Elevation Dining: 12 Sky-Scraping Restaurants Around the World

As long as heights don't make you queasy, you could enjoy one of the best meals of your life from as high as 1,350 feet above street level, gazing out onto bustling cities like Dubai, Tokyo, ...

Breaking Vlad: Street Art Takes On Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin of Russia is a polarizing figure to say the least, as these examples of street art, graffiti and stencils from all over the world illustrate. Considering his position at the ...

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