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Month: January 2019

Enhancing IKEA: Small Designer Additions Totally Transform Kit Furniture

IKEA furniture can get your interior design most of the way to where you want it, but another Scandinavian company has enlisted three world-renowned architecture firms to help get you the rest of ...

A Multi-Layered House Becomes a Landscape of its Own in Dense Osaka

When cities are so dense and plots of land so small it seems like you don't have room for a yard, maybe it's time to reconsider what a yard can look like. Presented with the challenge of ...

Catskill Keep: An Abandoned Cursed Castle In Upstate NY

Abandoned Dundas Castle in upstate New York is said to be cursed: its builder died and his family were committed to asylums before they could even move in. Ralph Wurts-Dundas (1871-1921) ...

DIY Pop-Up Prefab: Whole House Anyone Can Assemble with a Screwdriver

Designed to be simple enough for anyone to build in just a few days, the Pop-Up House is made of lightweight and recyclable materials and can be assembled using a simple wireless ...

Skiers Test Out the Slopes Atop BIG’s ‘Urban Mountain’ Plant in Copenhagen

The vivid blue and green artificial ski slope atop Bjarke Ingels Group’s mountain-shaped Amager Resource Center in Copenhagen is ready for action. The novel waste-to-energy plant aims to be fun ...

Imaginary Movies: Graphic Designer Turns Posted Photos into Film Posters

Inspired by gorgeous photographs posted to a popular social media website, one designer has reversed the normal narrative of movie marketing, creating publicity posters for speculative films, ...

Plastic Could Be Fantastic Again if We Make It With These Natural Materials

A material once seen as a breakthrough innovation that could benefit the environment by replacing animal products now litters the Earth to the tune of approximately 6.3 billion metric tons, most ...

Big Data Art: Printed Visualizations Highlight Daunting Tech “Terms of Service”

Everyone knows that actually reading a "terms of service" agreement is rarely (if ever) done by consumers using large digital platforms, but there is something powerful about seeing just how ...

Heart of Malta: Fallen Natural Landmark Rebuilt in a Dazzling New Form

A stunning rock formation in Malta known as the Azure Window drew visitors from around the world until its collapse in a storm in early 2017, but it could be reborn in an unexpected way. In ...

Beware-y Afraid: 10 Weird & Unexpected Warning Signs

Telltale signs of snowflake-ization are all around if one knows where to look but these 10 “Beware Of” signs prove we really are living in a world of hurt. This bit of fore-shadowing ...

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