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Month: May 2018

Future Organic: Guggenheim Gallery in Tulum Combines Vines & Cement

What if the architecture of the future was fluid, organic and infused with an enhanced connection to the Earth? IK LAB, a new open-air art gallery in Tulum, Mexico, gives us a glimpse of what ...

Welcome to the Future: 6 Creepy Advances in Potentially Dystopian Technology

All we wanted was flying cars and machines that clean up after us, and all we’ve gotten is a nightmare of dystopian privacy-shattering technology set against a hellscape of irreversible climate ...

Missed Fortune: 15 Closed & Abandoned Psychic Shops

Psychic reader shops and palmist kiosks advertise the promise of a happier, more successful future yet somehow never foresee their own unfortunate demise. The old "botched prediction" ...

Totally Tubular: Industrial Furniture Engineered from Ventilation Ducts

A series of industrial steel ventilation pipes and copper sheet stripped from a scrapyard come together in this industrial-style furniture design dubbed "Tubular." Typically used for heating, ...

Star Man Underground: David Bowie Takes Over Manhattan Subway Station

David Bowie lives on in many ways and in many places, but at the moment, his presence feels particularly acute while passing through the Broadway-Lafayette Station of New York City's subway ...

Shape-Shifting Chinese Smart Home Uses Open-Source Building Technology

Set in a traditional Beijing hutong, this cozy futuristic house has a shape-changing layout and employs construction techniques available for download on WikiHouse, an open-source architecture ...

New Hope for Brutalist Wonder: IKEA May Turn Pirelli Tire Building into a Hotel

The controversial Brutalist Pirelli Tire Building in New Haven, Connecticut was saved from demolition by a compromise with IKEA back in 2002, and now the Swedish retailer is reportedly considering ...

Art Everywhere: 12 Projects Transform Public Spaces into Guerrilla Galleries

Street artists turn entire cities into open-air galleries, but there are countless ways to carry out urban art interventions, and they're at their most fun when they subvert existing structures. ...

Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland

The island of Nordstrandischmoor is connected to mainland Germany by a tiny narrow gauge railway, on which residents (at least those 15 years of age and older and holding a moped license) can ...

Floating Whales & Other Unlikely Creatures Invade Cities in Murals by Nevercrew

Swiss street art duo NEVERCREW recently completed 'Sensing Machine No.3,' a mural outside the historic Paris institution of street art known as Le M.U.R., depicting a whale reflecting the city. ...

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