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Mirage: Mirrored House Reflects Snow-Covered Landscape in Switzerland

Mirrored inside and out, a new installation set in a snowy valley in Switzerland will never look exactly the same twice. Created as part of this year’s alpine arts festival Elevation 1049 by ...

Fully Cocked: 10 British ‘Cock’ Pubs & Taverns

Call it a Cock & Bull story but a disproportionate number of British pubs, bars and taverns have 'cock' in their name. What's up with that? Ye Olde Cock While we're on the topic, why ...

Project Bunker Makes a Tiny Home out of a Diesel Oil Tank

People convert all kinds of unlikely objects into homes: sheds, shipping containers, school buses and even decommissioned wartime bunkers. These creative reclaimed homes can range from tiny to ...

Stackable School Desks: Multifunctional Designs for Rural Mexican Schools

Stacking chairs have long been a space-saving staple of offices, homes and schools, but getting a complex shape like a desk to stack up is a challenge -- one these designers decided to take on ...

Universal Design: Creating Better Buildings & Cities for All

Conventional design only welcomes a certain type of person: the one arbitrarily deemed "normal." It’s easy for designers, or even the casual observer, to define the most typical user of a space ...

Mojow: Modern Flat-Pack Furniture with Inflatable Cushions

Flat pack furniture makes shipping and moving a lot easier, but it doesn't leave much room for comfortable cushions. A French furniture brand called Mojow came up with a clever workaround that ...

Somnambulist Manifestos: 10 Graffitied Old Mattresses

Abandoned mattresses are a graffiti artist's dream: street-level billboards ideally placed to expose art and opinions to a society sleepwalking thru life. In De Nihilism They say nothing ...

Underwater Hotel in a Formerly Abandoned Quarry Now Open to Guests

The concept renderings for this wildly unusual hotel design in an abandoned Chinese quarry debuted on the internet over a decade ago, and now the finished complex is welcoming guests. The ...

Reading the Road: River of 11,000 Glowing Books Flows Down City Street

Thousands of books spanned from sidewalk to sidewalk in Ann Arbor's Literature vs Traffic installation, creating a space for quiet reflection on the value of pedestrian-friendly public spaces ...

How Smart Home Technology Could Change Architecture

Whether you're an early adopter or believe smart technology could invite a host of new headaches into our most private spaces, connectivity and automation are coming for us all. We’re still in ...

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