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In-Floor Wayfinding: Textured Tiles Guide Blind Client Through New Home

To address the needs of a visually impaired client, architects in Thiene, Italy, worked from the start to integrate a custom wayfinding system into the structure and layout of this home, ...

Out-of-Place Artifacts: The Perpetual Puzzle of Reverse-Engineering Mysterious Objects

It can be hard to resist the allure of a mysterious object found in a context that doesn’t seem to make rational sense, suggesting that it’s proof of time travelers, lost civilizations or ...

Fertile Grounds: Low-Tech “Sand Dams” Breathe New Life into African Drylands

When it rains, it can pour, but in the world's drylands the net result can be disastrous: flows of water washing away useful soil and what little gets left behind dries up, forcing locals to take ...

Honeymoon Cruiser: A Bizarre Russian Wedding Coach

This 'Exclusive Limo' based on Chrysler's late and unlamented PT Cruiser was designed to transport Russian about-to-be-weds in, er, style. You had one job, wedding coach designer... and ...

Green Machines: India’s First IKEA Boasts Fleet of Solar-Powered Rickshaws

When in India, do like the Indians do -- at least that seems to be IKEA's approach -- which in this case means spinning up an array of small, nimble vehicles able to duck and weave through ...

Fishing for Plastic: Amsterdam Puts Tourists to Work Cleaning its Canals

It’s not often that tourists line up to collect trash in the cities they're visiting, and pay for the privilege, too. But in Amsterdam, ‘plastic fishing’ is a surprisingly popular way for ...

Virtual Fixer Uppers: Buy, Renovate & Sell Homes in “House Flipper” Game

For those who enjoy fixing and flipping homes, this video game could be a dream come true, virtually speaking, letting you purchase rundown shacks and turn them into market-ready ...

Distorted Shapes Made of Tape: Mesmerizing Installations by Darel Carey

Step into one of Darel Carey's art installations and you'll quickly lose your sense of the room's actual dimensions, your confused eyes tripping over illusions of ridges and voids that aren’t ...

Reframing Modernism: Famously Severe Homes Softened by Lush Landscapes

The site and setting of Modernist masterpieces is a key ingredient of their aesthetic, so what, wondered one architect, would happen if these famous buildings were repositioned, set instead in ...

Concrete Skies: Reclaiming the Urban Wilderness of Disused Underpasses

As cities grow and change, complex networks of elevated concrete highways and railways sprout up like vines, twist around each other and radically transform the space beneath them. Formerly ...

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