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Urban Rewilding: Reverse-Engineering Cities to Save Nature – And Ourselves

In an age of mass extinctions and climate chaos, can we reverse-engineer some aspects of our built environments to live in greater harmony with nature? Many of our cities are built on former ...

Out Of Time: Abandoned Virginia Renaissance Faire

The abandoned Virginia Renaissance Faire in Fredericksburg, Virginia was a short-lived medieval-themed festival whose days (and knights) were numbered. It seemed like a good idea at the ...

Mobile Phone Airbag: Spring-Loaded Legs Deploy to Save Dropped Devices

Protecting better than conventional cases or edge bumpers, this "active dampening" unit acts like an airbag for your portable handheld gadget, springing to action as it heads toward the concrete ...

History Unzipped: Installation Reveals the Guts of an Abandoned Factory

This is no illusion - what you're looking at is literally the facade of an abandoned building peeling away from the structure itself, a gigantic metal zipper running down the center. The surreal ...

Recycled Islands: Floating Dutch Park Constructed from Waterway Waste

A fresh new type of park-on-the-water in Rotterdam is turned plastic trash that once polluted the area into a series of hexagonal pods now open to the public. The design is built to scale, too -- ...

Pothole Pests: Street Artist Repairs NYC Road Damage with Mosaic Vermin

New York City’s most loathed and celebrated vermin are preserved for posterity in a series of new pothole mosaics by artist Jim Bachor. Inspired by the legendary grit of the city and the ...

Zootopias: Forward-Thinking Zoos Designed to Advance Animal Welfare

Historically, zoos have been both productive and problematic for the animals they house, in some cases advocating for and publicizing real issues faced by species but also criticized for locking ...

With Amazon on the Scene, Has Shipping Container Housing Gone Too Far?

Shipping containers may seem like a self-contained drag and drop solution for quick and affordable housing, but the process of making them livable is a lot more complicated than that. The premise ...

Parked Outback: Robert Fielding’s Oz-Some Art Cars

Robert Fielding's Oz-some art cars once lit up desert highways; now they're being painted, illuminated and photographed in their final resting places. One does not simply drive across the ...

Cyberpunk Furniture: City Streets Light Up Through Laser-Cut Wood Table

Iconic cities come to life in this custom wood table series, their resin streets and waterways glowing through grids of raised wooden architecture, all sitting on top of wrapping thin and dark ...

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