Sneak Peak: Inside the Homes of 8 World-Famous Architects
Where Architects Live, a special exhibit scheduled for Milan Design Week 2014, features a rare glimpse into the residences of leading designers including Shigeru Ban, Zaha Hadid, Daniel ...
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Camera-Shaped Cafe Offers Picture-Perfect Cups of Coffee
A giant two-story camera rises from the grass beside an ordinary suburban home in the hills of South Korea. The Dreamy Camera Cafe is housed in a re-creation of a vintage Rolleiflex, featuring ...
Flintstones Furniture: 15 Designs Made of Stone and Lava
Evoking the primitive furniture of mankind's cave-dwelling days, these tables, chairs, stools and desks feel massive and monolithic, yet many are surprisingly lightweight. Some are hewn from ...
Vanishing Vernacular: NYC Storefront Gentrification in Action
Overtly a straight-shot photographic compilation, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York shows the rich vernacular diversity of mom-and-pop shops across all five boroughs. Since ...
IKEA 2014 Small-Space Set: 51 Designs from Cool to Kitsch
The sales pitch for this new 2014 series is compelling: 51 inexpensive designer objects made for young city dwellers, people who may be on the move more often or whose domiciles simply lack ...
Dissected Buildings: Sliced Facades are All Appearances
Ghostly building facades seem to have been sliced right off the buildings that should be attached to them, their skinny silhouettes rising from street level against the laws of physics. These ...
Spite Houses: 12 Structures Built Just to Annoy People
These houses, apartment buildings and commercial structures weren't built as they are because the owners really loved the view or particularly wanted a five-foot-wide house just inches from the ...
Tsunami Ark: Handmade Flood-Proof Floating Wood Capsule
Former Facebook and PayPal employee Chris Robinson is two years into an epic backyard project rising behind his home in Palo Alto: a structure dubbed the Tsunamiball. A veteran of Silicon ...
Art Brake: OZ’s Awesome Traffic Light Signal Boxes
Traffic light signal boxes are found near traffic lights but unlike the latter, the former aren't designed to attract the eye... unless they're in Australia. ...
City vs. Suburb: Walking One Mile in Streets or Culs-de-sac
A tale of two neighborhoods, these graphics (and their hybrid) stunningly illustrate how much further you can get on foot when you take a walk through an urban grid versus the suburban sprawl ...
