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Month: August 2018

Measuring Wheel: Ditch Roll-Up Tape for a Coin-Sized Pocket ‘Rollbe’ Ruler

Architects, carpenters and other design and construction professionals often carry measuring tape wherever they go, but this small wheel makes for a much less bulky companion ...

Airstream’s Rugged Basecamp X Lets You Go On Rough Roads for Bigger Adventures

Smaller than an iconic "silver bullet" Airstream trailer but cuter than the brand’s compact lightweight Nest model, the new Airstream Basecamp X is designed to go farther than ever. An upgrade to ...

Pigeon Portraiture: Photographer Highlights Beauty of Everyday Urban Bird

An oft overlooked wonder of the urban wilderness, the common pigeon is much more than it appears, with a rich history of aristocratic breeding dating back centuries. Photographer and ...

Ghostly, Plant-Filled Abandoned Houses in Tehran Symbolize Toll of War

A series of abandoned houses in Iran’s capital city overflow with vegetation in varying states of vitality and decay, making them feel untamed, out of control and perhaps impossible to save. In ...

Sleep in a Legend: Bauhaus School Opens Student Rooms to Public Guests

A pivotal institution in the early development of Modernism, the iconic Bauhuas school in Germany has been renovated to match its 1926 look and feel, complete with studios and sleeping spaces ...

Urban Rewilding: Reverse-Engineering Cities to Save Nature – And Ourselves

In an age of mass extinctions and climate chaos, can we reverse-engineer some aspects of our built environments to live in greater harmony with nature? Many of our cities are built on former ...

Out Of Time: Abandoned Virginia Renaissance Faire

The abandoned Virginia Renaissance Faire in Fredericksburg, Virginia was a short-lived medieval-themed festival whose days (and knights) were numbered. It seemed like a good idea at the ...

Mobile Phone Airbag: Spring-Loaded Legs Deploy to Save Dropped Devices

Protecting better than conventional cases or edge bumpers, this "active dampening" unit acts like an airbag for your portable handheld gadget, springing to action as it heads toward the concrete ...

History Unzipped: Installation Reveals the Guts of an Abandoned Factory

This is no illusion - what you're looking at is literally the facade of an abandoned building peeling away from the structure itself, a gigantic metal zipper running down the center. The surreal ...

Recycled Islands: Floating Dutch Park Constructed from Waterway Waste

A fresh new type of park-on-the-water in Rotterdam is turned plastic trash that once polluted the area into a series of hexagonal pods now open to the public. The design is built to scale, too -- ...

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