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Month: September 2018

Flight to the Future: How Airport Design is Adapting to a New Age

Would you ever go to an airport just to hang out? Chances are, unless you’re an avid people-watcher, the answer to that question is no. Modern airports aren’t typically pleasant places to be, ...

Lizard Men at Work: Denver Airport Construction Signs Confirm Conspiracy Theories

The Denver International Airport has long been a hub of conspiracy theories, a number of which seem to be confirmed by signs put up by the DIA on walls blocking off areas under ...

Step On It: Life-Size LEGO Teardrop Trailer Travels Well

A plastic fantastic, life-size LEGO teardrop trailer made from over 200,000 assorted LEGO bricks boasts electric power, running water and a fold-up bed. Given enough LEGO bricks, plenty of ...

Out of Focus: Blurred Street Scenes Capture Cities as Cinematic Moments

Like stills from some rainy noir film, these paintings are deceptively realistic in part due to their abstraction -- unresolved details look like a trick of the lens rather than the work of a ...

Ephemeral Figures Loom Large in Biodegradable Land Art by Saype

Most graffiti artists never get the chance to paint a human figure measuring a staggering 100,000 square feet, but most of them aren’t working directly on massive mountainsides, either. Swiss ...

In-Floor Wayfinding: Textured Tiles Guide Blind Client Through New Home

To address the needs of a visually impaired client, architects in Thiene, Italy, worked from the start to integrate a custom wayfinding system into the structure and layout of this home, ...

Out-of-Place Artifacts: The Perpetual Puzzle of Reverse-Engineering Mysterious Objects

It can be hard to resist the allure of a mysterious object found in a context that doesn’t seem to make rational sense, suggesting that it’s proof of time travelers, lost civilizations or ...

Fertile Grounds: Low-Tech “Sand Dams” Breathe New Life into African Drylands

When it rains, it can pour, but in the world's drylands the net result can be disastrous: flows of water washing away useful soil and what little gets left behind dries up, forcing locals to take ...

Honeymoon Cruiser: A Bizarre Russian Wedding Coach

This 'Exclusive Limo' based on Chrysler's late and unlamented PT Cruiser was designed to transport Russian about-to-be-weds in, er, style. You had one job, wedding coach designer... and ...

Green Machines: India’s First IKEA Boasts Fleet of Solar-Powered Rickshaws

When in India, do like the Indians do -- at least that seems to be IKEA's approach -- which in this case means spinning up an array of small, nimble vehicles able to duck and weave through ...

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