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Lightweight & Portable Egg-Shaped Drone Folds Up Into Shell

Boasting practical portability with an eye to aesthetics, the new PowerEgg stands out against its more ungainly competitors, able to fold up into a smooth oval when not in ...

Smart Move: Domino Loft Maximizes Space in Micro Apartments

A 500-square-foot condo feels a lot larger when you can manage to fit a bedroom, guest bed, dining area, work space and closet in one tiny room without cluttering every possible surface. To prove ...

Using Bullet Holes in Beirut’s Brutalist ‘Egg’ as Camera Obscuras

An abandoned concrete building in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon (known as The Egg) has been everything from a movie theater to a bomb shelter to a water tank, but this intervention would fill the ...

Graffiti to Go: Vibrant Murals on a Fleet of Freighters

The drive along Spain’s highways just got a lot more colorful for thousands of motorists lucky enough to glimpse one of ten semi-trucks decorated with murals by artists like Javier Arce, Okuda ...

Intelligent Design? 14 Strikingly Modern Places of Worship

Dramatic and sculptural, monolithic as a stone monument or light as a bridal veil, these churches, chapels and meditation rooms eschew conventional architectural typologies for places of worship, ...

Underline: 10-Mile Park to Trace Path of Elevated Rail in Miami

Following in the footsteps of the High Line (and Low Line) of New York City, the Underline project aims to take the underutilized space below Miami's elevated MetroRail and transform it into a ...

Urban Microscape: Build Your Own Miniature Metropolis

Display your own little corner of your favorite city - or the entire metropolis of Manhattan - on your wall or table, scaled down to 1:5000 and simplified in white monochrome. ‘Microscapes’ ...

Hiding in Plain Sight: 17 Secret Spaces from Safes to Pubs

If you don’t have a Narnia-themed playroom hidden behind a wardrobe, a zombie-proof shelter accessible via your kitchen island or a gun safe under your 900-pound bulletproof couch, you just ...

Takeout Shakeout: 10 Abandoned Chinese Food Restaurants

What's on the menu at these abandoned chinese restaurants? Stereotypical architecture and signs displaying near-racist “oriental” fonts, for starters. ...

Air Bonsai: Magnetic Levitation Kit Lets You Float Little Trees

Taking bonsai approaches to the next level, a Japanese company based out of Kyushu has raised over half a million dollars so far for its levitating (and rotating) tree system. The fauna ...

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