Larger Than Life: 10 Monuments Honoring Nelson Mandela
Though Nelson Mandela's passing will spur the creation of memorials worldwide, a number of larger-than-life tributes are already extant or planned. ...
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Urban Wraps: Neighborhood Scarfs Make Videos Wearable
Cut. Print it. That's a wrap. One section (or scene) at a time, these designers are turning areas of Brooklyn into fashionable products that abstract the motion and colors of a place, converting ...
Disused Salt Mines Converted to Stunning Subterranean Museum
Between the eerie glowing lights, the otherworldly cavernous spaces and the long strange trip it takes to get there, this subterranean museum feels like it could be located on an alien planet. ...
100 Cubic Meters: Split-Level Urban Micro-Condo in Madrid
Good home design is not just about a perfect product but about process and context, as illustrated in this case through diagrams, videos and photos of how to make a small space work on multiple ...
Half Invisible: Deserted Desert Cabin Remixed with Mirrors
Unlike a mirage on the horizon, this quaint little abode is entirely real, even if it seems to half-disappear through alternating wood and (seemingly) see-through slats. A project by ...
Modern Gingerbread Museums: Realistic Edible Architecture
The pyramids of the Louvre shine in hard candy, the Guggenheim gleams in solid sugar, and gingerbread makes for convincing concrete on Zaha Hadid's Maxxi museum in this series of edible modern ...
The Crumbling Shire: 7 Abandoned Wonders of New Zealand
Sheep have taken over the Shire, lost industry created ghost towns and the major earthquake of 2011 has left much of Christchurch cordoned-off and left to decay. While New Zealand may be best ...
Real-Time Billboard: Sign Points at Actual Planes Flying By
The ability to track planes in mid-flight has produced many apps and websites for following jets through friendly skies, but this ad campaign applies this same data in a fun new way. The ...
Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition
Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove - interlocked fingers were, in fact, part of the conceptual inspiration for ...
Surreal Subterranean Space: Hand-Carved Cave for Sale
If you've always dreamed about having your very own network of cathedral-like hand-carved caves (who hasn't?) you're in luck - such a dreamscape can be yours for less than the average cost of a ...
