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None of Your Beeswax: Urban Anti-Hives Designed for Solitary Bee Species

Talk of bees usually conjures images of buzzing hives acting in concert, but most species around the world are actually lowners, hence this series of chic abodes for less social bees. Honey bees ...

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 ...

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