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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Vanishing Beauty: A Photographic Tour of Almost-Abandonments
There's something extra eerie about places that are not quite abandoned just yet, but edging closer and closer to a prolonged death process. Relics of another time, these architectural remnants ...
Box Springs Eternal: 10 Sheet-Kickin’ Mattress Stores
Mattress stores are so omnipresent these days it's become a real struggle for sleep shops to stand out from their stuffed, sprung & padded competition. Mattress stores (along with ...
Buckingham Palace Redesigned as Co-Housing for 50,000
Buckingham Palace could be transformed to convert its luxurious 775 rooms and rooftop space into a solution for London’s housing crisis. At least, that’s the idea behind “Affordable ...
Maximalist Makeovers: Transforming Architecture with Vivid Paint Jobs
Minimalism is chic and trendy, but sometimes, there’s nothing more satisfying than blotting out bland and boring surfaces with bold splashes of color and pattern. That’s especially true when ...
Early Birds Get Free Noodles in Tokyo Scheme to Ease Metro Crowding
Free soba and tempura in exchange for getting on the train a little earlier could be a tasty offer for Tokyo commuters who are sick of the "subway sandwich," which has nothing to do with bread ...
Signs Friction: 10 Unfortunately Named Businesses
Brand power can go a long way in business but as these 10 unfortunately-named shops and stores so sorrowfully illustrate, it can also go the wrong way. To paraphrase RUSH, if a store ...
Print Your City: Custom Street Furniture Made of Plastic Household Waste
Citizens of Thessaloniki, Greece can bring their plastic household waste to a "zero waste lab," use software to design their own custom recycled street furniture and watch it take form via 3D ...
Art of the Chinese Courtyard: Respectful Renovations Keep Hutongs Alive
Building booms around the world can render entire neighborhoods unrecognizable in a matter of days, demolishing historic structures to make way for new developments. In cities like Beijing, where ...
Enhancing IKEA: Small Designer Additions Totally Transform Kit Furniture
IKEA furniture can get your interior design most of the way to where you want it, but another Scandinavian company has enlisted three world-renowned architecture firms to help get you the rest of ...
