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Month: February 2017

Modern Babylon: Hanging Plants Serve as Green Walls & Window Shades

A single-story house in Vietnam echos an ancient world wonder, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but on a domestic scale and with minimalist contemporary design sensibilities and a functional ...

Teamlab Jungle: Step Inside a Massive Musical Instrument Made of Light

Anyone who visits ‘Music Festival, TeamLab Jungle’ this summer will get to immerse themselves in a space made of light, interacting with moving beams to help produce collaborative ...

Build & Unbuild in 1 Day: Deconstructable Prefab House Moves with its Residents

No stakes to pull up or new foundation to pour for owners of his prefabricated dwelling, an open-plan home designed to be built, taken apart, moved and reconstructed on demand. Its factory-made ...

The People’s Fridge: Free Excess Food for Anyone Who Needs It

Considering that the United Kingdom leads the European Union in food waste at over 15 million tons per year, spreading the concept of free community refrigerators could make a huge impact. ...

Worlds Under Glass: 33 Miniature Cities & Architectural Sculptures

Sheltered by glass vessels like tiny self-contained biomes, these miniature buildings and cities seem to have their own atmospheres and variable gravity, with houses teetering on the edges of ...

Absurdism: Artists Fight Over Use of World’s “Blackest Black” & “Pinkest Pink”

For the past few years, British artist Anish Kapoor has been making use of his exclusive rights to something called Vantablack, a high-tech pigment touted as the blackest shade of black. His ...

Art History in Contemporary Life: Classical Figures in Modern Scenery

Dressed in garments from centuries long past, figures from classical paintings peer out the windows of metro cars, vend souvenirs, browse comics and otherwise interact with unlikely scenes in ...

Sort of Subterranean: 15 Partially Underground Modern Home Designs

While fully subterranean homes can feel like grim bunkers, homes built partially into hills, cliffs and bluffs peek out from underground through glassy 'eyes' to gain daylight access and views of ...

Ouroborus Buildings: Artist Loops Infinite Skyscrapers Back on Themselves

What would architecture look like if it had no beginning or end, no ground floor as starting point nor rooftop terminus? Artist Vasco Mourao explores exactly that question in his series ...

Last Dance: A Dozen Hustled & Bustled Abandoned Discos

Disco ducks and dancing queens can no longer shake their booties since these dozen decrepit abandoned discotheques took down their mirror balls. The 1970s haven't aged well and the ...

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