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Month: February 2017

Bike Over Traffic: World’s Longest Elevated Cycling Path Opens in China

China's first aerial bike path spans nearly five miles, raised over streets and highways and connecting six public transit hubs in the heart of Xiamen. If the new route is even close to as ...

Architectural Fairy Tales: Unreal Structures Tell Strange Sci-Fi Tales

These fictional structures seem to be ripped right out of the concept art for a sci-fi film, envisioning a world of architecture that’s totally out of scale with humans but fittingly grand for ...

Handle with Care: 10 Years of Fragile Glass Boxes Broken by FedEx

Packing and shipping artwork is a delicate and costly process, unless your intention is to create new pieces by allowing them to break along the way. Starting in 2005, artist Walead Beshty began ...

Inner Space: 14 Modular All-in-One Living Cubes to Organize Interiors

No shelter is too small or too basic to accommodate a comfortable lifestyle when everything you need, from your bed and kitchen to walk-in closets and mini theaters, is contained in one compact, ...

Winter Carousels: Circular Spinning Ice Islands Carved with Chainsaws

Ice fishing huts and art shanties allow people to enjoy peaceful winters and creative expression on frozen lakes, but for those with something more dynamic in mind: rotating DIY islands of ice ...

Urine for a Beautiful Day: Street Gardens Double as Public Pissoirs

‘Piss in peace’ is the tagline for the Urintrottoir, a recent addition to the streets of Paris that’s part urinal, part composter, part mini garden. City officials are hoping that offering ...

Pop-Up Car Tents: These 15 Rooftop Campers Are Like Portable Tree Houses

Popping up from the rooftops of everything from rugged Jeeps to adorable BMW MINIs or extending from the sides of motorcycles and bicycles, these vehicle-based tents make shelter on the go as ...

Let’s Make A Dill: 11 Closed & Abandoned Pickle Factories

The Age of Pickles ended when home refrigeration arrived, souring prospects for pickling businesses and leaving abandoned pickle factories hither and yon. Folks living in tropic and ...

CloudFisher: Low-Tech Net Turns Fog into Drinking Water for Morocco

In a semi-arid region of Morocco, where tap water is a luxury but fog is plentiful, a fog-harvesting net based on the structure of a spider’s web naturally collects moisture from the air. ...

Invisible Graffiti: Uncanny 3D Overpass Art Simulates Transparency

3D graffiti artist Milane Ramsi has combined two challenging types of urban art into a single installation, making a concrete pillar appear to vanish while producing three-dimensional ...

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