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Year: 2017

Compact CityTree: Vertical Micro-Garden Packs a Forest’s Worth of Green Benefits

Packing the environmental impact of as many as 275 actual urban trees, these multi-functional CityTree units are dense and efficient fighters of urban air pollution (the single largest ...

The Bizarre, Chaotic Geometry of a Frank Gehry Building in Progress

Depending on how you feel about Frank Gehry’s work, this building in progress could either be fascinating, monstrous or a combination of both. But it’s hard to argue with the fact that seeing ...

Happier Campers: Take Your Gear to a New Level With These 15 Innovations

Elevate your camping style with the latest high-performance gear like twig-burning stoves, tree tents, bear-proof coolers and portable loungers. These major upgrades will keep you dry, warm, fed ...

Inflatable Interventions: Soft Spikes Bring Roofless Ruins Back to Life

A series of architectural installations in Scotland contrast sharply with the centuries-old stone architecture and natural landscapes, featuring spiky white inflatables filling in aged cracks and ...

Oru Origami-Inspired Folding Kayak is Back with an Updated Design

City dwellers with small apartments and limited storage can now own a kayak that folds up into a suitcase-sized package perfect for toting on your bike or public transit. The Oru Kayak originally ...

Bold Bamboo: 8 Dramatic Organic Structures by Chiangmai Life Architects

With the completion of their latest project, a spectacular sports hall made of prefabricated bamboo trusses, Thai firm Chiangmai Life Construction (CLC) shows off the stunning architectural ...

Blade Rollers: 11 Retro-Style Knife Sharpener Vans

Charming and quaint hand-painted knife sharpener vans are one of the few remaining holdouts from the golden age of hand-delivered household services. There's never a dull moment when the ...

Calm & Centered: Cemetery Tunnel Trek Reveals Huge Hill-Wrapped Buddha

A massive landscape intervention near Sapporo, Japan by architect Tadao Ando both conceals and reveals a 40-foot statue of the Buddha in the midst of a rural cemetery. The designer ...

Cylinder House: This Residence is Just a Cluster of Glass Tubes

You know those glass tubes at the bank drive-through that shoot your deposits and withdrawals back and forth between you and the tellers? This house is like living in a cluster of them. Sadly, ...

Cones on Poles: Field Guide to Elevated Traffic Cones in Everyday Contexts

Like some many things in the built environment, once you start noticing cones on poles you will see them everywhere -- Cones on Poles, an "unofficial sequel" to The Subconscious Art of Graffiti ...

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