Star Crossed: 10 More Abandoned Observatories
These closed and abandoned astronomical observatories once gazed skyward into a star-spangled universe, revealing hidden wonders of time and space. Once. You'll typically find ...
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Spiky Shipping Container Home Blooms Like a Flower in the Joshua Tree Desert
Since shipping containers are made to be stacked, that’s how they’re usually arranged when reclaimed for architectural projects. It just makes sense, right? They fit together in a certain way. ...
Blooms: Hypnotizing 3D Printed Sculptures Come Alive Under Strobe Lights
It’s really easy to lose a chunk of your day getting lost in the hypnotizing effects of these trippy 3D-printed sculpture animations by artist John Edmark. Drawing from spiral patterns and ...
Starchitect Spotlight: 9 Wooden Wonders by Kengo Kuma & Associates
Acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma brings traditional Japanese building techniques and aesthetics into the 21st century with dynamic structures making creative use of wooden elements. Known ...
Lush Life: 12 Verdant Architecture Projects Making Plants a Main Priority
Not all architecture incorporating lots of living greenery is doomed to remain an unrealistic rendering, depicting buildings that can't structurally support the weight of all the soil and water ...
Like a Music Festival, Minus the Dirt: Social Hostel Offers Indoor Camping
If you love the sense of community at multi-day outdoor music festivals like Glastonbury, Coachella and Bonnaroo but hate the mud, dust, noise and filthy porta-potties, this hostel was designed ...
Book Box Bonanza : 12 Freaky Little Free Libraries
Since 2009 over 50,000 Little Free Library book exchange boxes have sprung up on lawns worldwide, though some are worthy of a surprised second glance. You've probably passed a Little Free ...
Mobile Urbanism: Wheeled Benches & Planters Let Public Reconfigure Square
A former parking has become a Green Oasis in front of Poznan, Poland's city hall, but beyond providing seating and greenery the redesign adds another key element: effectively endless ...
Somewhere Outside of Time: 13 Classic Retro-Futuristic Architectural Visions
Retro-futuristic architecture seems to exist outside of time, perhaps in parallel universes where the versions of the future envisioned by their creators actually became reality. They combine ...
No Windows, No Problem: These 12 Houses Are Bright, Beautiful & Private
Windowless houses might sound dark and depressing, but the careful control of apertures in a building’s facade can actually be a brilliant technique for enhancing privacy, making views more ...
