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Living City Streets: The Global Drive to Reclaim Routes for Cyclists & Pedestrians

In the mid-1900s, Dutch citizens of Delft were sick of cars driving too fast down their narrow residential streets. The city was slow to respond, so residents took matters into their own hands. ...

Retail Turnover: Suburban Megastores Remade into Libraries, Schools & Shelters

Years ago in McAllen, Texas, an old abandoned 124,500-square-foot Walmart superstore was renovated and put to new use as the largest single-floor public library in the United States. Across ...

Nothin’ But Net: 12 Slam Dunk Artistic Basketball Court Designs

Way cooler than your standard basketball court, these custom-designed settings and hoops turn the sport into something like an interactive art installation in which the players 'perform' in more ...

Stripped: 12 Sleazy Abandoned Adult Movie Theaters

These 12 abandoned adult movie theaters hark back to the days before the advent of the internet let porn aficionados get their kicks without leaving home. The bedraggled Franklin ...

Freaky Florida: 12 of a Weird State’s Weirdest Attractions

There’s a lot more to America’s southernmost state than the headline-worthy misadventures of Florida Man and Florida Woman. Culturally distinct from the rest of the South, Florida has been ...

Art Made Flesh: 35 Sculptures Rendered in Human Skin & Hair

Do these fleshy works of art manipulating human body parts into unnatural shapes make you uncomfortable? That’s probably just what the artist was going for. It’s difficult for us, as humans, ...

Wanksy: Phallus Graffiti Draws Attention to Dangerous Potholes

In a quest to evoke a faster fix from city authorities, a lone street artist going by the name Wanksy is highlighting holes in the ground with (NSFW) spray paintings sharing one thing in ...

Iconic Camouflage: Painted People Disappear into Cityscapes

Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates ...

Almost Human: 15 Frighteningly Realistic Robots & Androids

How would you react if you were chased down the street by a sprinting android wearing head-to-toe camouflage and a gas mask? Probably about the same way you'd react to finding a dead-eyed ...

99% Invisible: 7 Episodes of the Best Radio Show on Design

There is no witty wordplay nor shocking truth in our title today, but that is quite by design - we simply did not want risk underselling Roman Mars, the maker of a radio show that covers ...

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