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Fake News: Miniature Signs Around the City Convey Confusing Messages

If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes ...

Domino Effect: Sweet Playground At Old NYC Sugar Refinery

Sweetwater playground at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York is a colorful children's fun park that's dandy as old-fashioned candy. A park with good taste? It's more ...

Skate or Buy: Skateboard Shop Rolls Out Clever Skateable Sidewalk Signs

Most urban designs are at best useful for skaters as an afterthought, or more typically: specifically created to foil skaters, but not this set of signs. The Drive Skate Shop in Vancouver ...

Seven-Story Neoclassical Painting by William Bouguereau Looms Over Memphis

A little girl from William Bouguereau’s 1886 painting 'Au pied de la falaise' looks out over the city of Memphis from the side of a seven-story building, freed from the original work's confines ...

File Under Fiction: Artful Self-Help Book Covers Speak to Human Conditions

Like the old "picture worth 1,000 words" adage, these book covers use just a little language and as context for larger messages. Perhaps the more appropriate phrase would be some turn on: "what ...

10 Architects, 10 Homes of the Future: The 2018 China House Vision Exhibition

Visions for the homes of China’s future actively transform, adapt, provide greater comfort when sharing small spaces, grow food and even prepare for extraterrestrial lifestyles. The theme of ...

Habitat 2.0: Pixelated Apartment Complex by BIG References Design Classic

With an overt nod to Habitat 67 in Montreal by Moshe Safdie (similarly made up of many smaller modules, as show below), this new, undulating, mixed-use megastructure has been approved for ...

Going, Going, Gone: Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs the Moment it’s Sold

In a stunt that should surprise absolutely no one who knows anything about Banksy, the elusive street artist's iconic work Girl with Balloon literally self-destructed the moment it was sold at ...

Donald Dupe : 7 More Businesses Trading On The Trump Name

The Trump name may be famous but it isn't always connected to the business dynasty founded by Fred Trump, as these 7 Trump-named businesses illustrate. If you thought the Trump dynasty was ...

Mobile Moon Museum: A Massive Lunar Replica Exhibit is Circling the Globe

This 23-foot scale model of the moon is making its way around the world, allowing viewers to get close and see the many facets of this amazing celestial object. Each centimeter on the replica ...

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