Fine Faux Finishes: Awesome Plywood & MDF Architecture
Plywood and other manufactured wood building materials are like the undergarments of architecture – foundational elements that are then covered with a more stylish, finished layer. But their ...
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Futuretecture: From Sea Cities to Space Colonies
Are we on the brink of a new era in construction? With commercial space travel finally within our reach, will we see space colonies within our lifetime? And with Earth's resources running low, ...
Shrink Your Footprint: 10 Little Examples of Tiny Houses
Tiny houses have never truly gone out of style. From the very early days of home building, when the construction was done by hand and usually by the people who would be occupying the home, small ...
Starry Knights: 14 Stellar Star-Shaped Forts & Fortresses
The military buildings of today are relatively bland and plain, but in centuries past military architecture was something to be admired. Military forts, whether they were stand-alone ...
Bricks and Scones: British House Built Entirely of Legos
Who didn't want to live in a house of Lego bricks as a child? James May, host of a new BBC series called James May's Toy Stories (also a life-long toy enthusiast and the host of Top Gear) had to ...
Clonehenges: 20 Creative Recreations of Stonehenge
Stonehenge, the historic and mysterious monument on the Salisbury Plain in England, has intrigued humans for centuries. While no one is really sure what it was used for or how it was built, one ...
Retrofuture Space Flight: 15 Visions of Future Past
In the hopeful years following the Second World War, armed with new technologies and vivid imaginations, almost anything seemed possible to a society straining to break free from the cycle of ...
16 Lifesaving Temporary Emergency & Disaster Shelters
A political or environmental crisis can be devastating to populations and families - forcing people from their homes and property. To lessen the human damage and provide a measure of safety and ...
Off the Walls: 5 Wild Works of Insane Architectural Genius
(Check out our complete collection of 70 Works of Recycled Art and Design.) How many people does it take to envision, design and build a typical building? Architects, builders, carpenters, ...
Clean Vandals: Invisible Paint & Reverse Graffiti Artists Work in Gray Areas
The word "graffiti" usually conjures images of people with spray cans illegally making murals or jotting down tags using colorful paints. A lot artistic interventions use other tools and ...
