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Month: November 2018

Daring Glass Observation Deck Opens Atop 77-Story Tower in Bangkok

Over 1,000 feet above the streets of Bangkok, thrill-seeking tourists creep out onto the glass floor of an observation deck at the top of a futuristic-looking tower. The new observatory is the ...

From Pompeii to Gaza: The History of Street Art as a Voice for the People

Over the past half-century, street art has evolved from squiggled lettering on subway cars to a cultural force practiced in virtually every corner of the globe. It began unsanctioned and ...

Nera: The World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Motorcycle Features Airless Tires

All black, electric and completely 3D-printed: BigRep's Nera Motorcycle is here, and ready to change the game. The electronic components of this brand new, futuristic-looking motorbike are the ...

Contain Us: Apartment Made Of 140 Shipping Containers

Drivelines Studios is a low-rise residential apartment building in Johannesburg, SA, constructed from 140 re-purposed metal shipping containers. Drivelines Studios is a residential ...

Boats + Yards: Dutch Architects Convert Cargo Ships into Waterfront Homes

Lifting cargo ships out of boat yards in the water up onto adjacent land, a Dutch design firm is creating a series of creatively recycled estates using maritime vessels that are no longer ...

Life-Sized Interactive Drawings by Levalet Envision a Parallel Universe

Life-sized street art interventions play out scenes from a parallel universe on public surfaces all around us in the interactive works of French artist Levalet. Raised in Guadeloupe, France, the ...

Four-Dimensional Murals: Artist Folds Space Inside Architectural Facades

Folding and flexible geometric forms seem to weave in and out of the structures graced with murals by David Louf (known as Mr. June), seeming to imply what a blank facade could have been in the ...

Designed for Disassembly: Architecture Built with its Own End in Mind

Few of us make plans for our lives with our own deaths in mind, so perhaps it's not surprising that architects don't usually spend much of the design process thinking about the virtually ...

Bought to be Destroyed: Artist Ron English Will Whitewash His New Banksy

Street artist Ron English paid over $730K for a work of art by Banksy - and he plans to paint over it. It might sound like some kind of silly high-profile artist feud, but English harbors no ...

Troll Train: Brazil’s Steamy Mundo a Vapor Museum

The front facade of the Mundo a Vapor train museum in Canela, Brazil recreates a spectacular Parisian train wreck from 1895 in steamingly accurate detail. No doubt the worst – or at ...

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