Fading To Black: 13 Abandoned TV Repair Shops
TV repair shops, once fixtures of our tuned-in society, have faded away as televisions became more reliable and the broadcast medium itself lost its relevance. Take Milbee Radio & ...
Year: 2017
Helping Hands: “Support” Sculpture Braces Venetian Architecture From Below
Historic architecture meets modern art on the canals of Venice, where a pair of gigantic hands emerge from the depths to lend support above the waterline. Designed by Lorenzo Quinn, ...
Ghostly Garden: Classical Wire Mesh Architecture Haunts Abu Dhabi
Seeming like a ghostly image of structures long gone overlaid onto the current reality, these wire mesh architectural creations arch over 75,000 square feet of event space in Abu Dhabi. The way ...
Free Castles & Villas: Italy is Giving Away Over 100 Historic Properties
Anyone who has dreamed of retiring from the rat race to run a grand estate hotel, rural farmhouse bed and breakfast, quaint inn or remote monastery spa could see their wish come true in this ...
City Hack: Cyclists Create DIY Bike Lane with 120 Glued-On Plungers
When the government fails to meet the needs of its citizens, the citizens will go around them and produce their own solutions, whether they’re legal or not. That might mean occupying an ...
The Sky’s The Limit: 14 Promising New Advancements in Solar Power
Even while it feels like certain things are moving backward, efforts to power the world with solar energy instead of fossil fuels continue to reach for the sky, innovating advancements that ...
Ship & Swim: Mobile Cargo Container Pool & On-Demand Hot Tub for Homes
More stable and versatile than a typical temporary above-ground pool and less likely to tank your home real estate value than a built-in one, this modular plug-and-play swimming pool is the best ...
Trainspotting Hotel: Stacked Shipping Containers Overlook the Rail Tracks
The phrase ‘Trainspotting Hotel’ probably doesn’t conjure visions of a cozy, comfortable and safe place to lay your head at night, but this hotel gets its nickname from its location ...
Architecture in Miniature: 13 Modern Dollhouse & Other Tiny Buildings
Fit for the most discerning fans of modern architecture, these dollhouses and other miniature architectural creations feature tiny moving parts, high-end designer furniture, swimming pools, ...
Flat-Pack Life Support: NASA’s Inflatable Hydroponic Space Greenhouse
A key development in the quest to create sustainable ecosystems in space, this expandable greenhouse prototype aims to generate essential food and oxygen for long-term astronaut ...
