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Month: December 2018

Who Owns Your Face? Welcome to a New World of Hacking Headaches

The question of who owns your face sounds absurd on the surface - of course you own it, it's attached to your body after all. But in an era of facial recognition technology, in which your face ...

Sheet Happened: Page Turns On Abandoned Paper Mill

A proud chapter in the story of American industry came to a close when an abandoned paper mill in Richmond, VA was re-purposed into loft-style apartments. Richmond, a city of approximately ...

Street Films: 7 Top Urban Transit Design Videos from Amsterdam to Zurich

Amsterdam, Zurich, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Vancouver, Oslo and more are all great cities of the world which are succeeding in making the lives better for their residents via innovative ...

What Can You Find in This 24.9-Billion-Pixel Panoramic Photo of Shanghai?

Commissioned by the Shanghai government, this 24.9-billion-pixel panoramic photograph captures an incredible amount of detail, and it's easy to lose hours zooming in on every individual scene. ...

Flying Nest: Minimalist Nomadic Container Hotel Travels the World in Style

Currently perched atop the Avoriaz Mountain in France so guests can flip from their beds straight onto the ski slopes, this traveling minimalist hotel made of shipping containers signals a new ...

Cool Vernacular: How Regional Ceiling Heights Shape Room Temperatures

Modernism sought to bring a healthy uniformity to architectural design, in part through with clean lines and material minimalism. New technologies like air conditioning also allowed for an ...

Gingerbread City: Hyper-Detailed Edible Replica of New York Built to Scale

It’s not unusual for architecture enthusiasts to drool over elaborate scale models, but edible materials definitely add an extra dimension to our hunger for accurate miniature details. More ...

Tinsel Towns: 10 International HOLLYWOOD Sign Homages

The iconic 'HOLLYWOOD' sign has loomed over La La Land for almost a century, inspiring overseas wannabes to “sign” up with homegrown copies. Hurray for HOLLYWOOD signs - may they be ...

The Great Wave: Iconic Hokusai Work Splashes Across Moscow Apartments

In Moscow, the iconic “Great Wave off Kanagawa” woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai has reached greater heights than ever before as it breaks across the facades of six ...

Best of the Year: 10 Projects Honored at World Architecture Festival 2018

When you’re judging thousands of architectural projects from all around the world, even the process of narrowing down the shortlist to 535 has got to be hard. This year, the World Architectural ...

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