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Augmented IKEA: Assembly App Shows Full-Scale 3D Building Instructions

Putting IKEA manuals into augmented reality, this phone app lets buyers scan their product's barcode, then swipe to follow steps in realtime against the actual backdrop of the room being used ...

Brutal Destruction: Photo Series Documents Demolition of Midcentury Buildings

Sure, Brutalist architecture is divisive, but does that mean we should be wiping it all off the face of the planet? It’s true that these structures are rarely beloved by the residents of their ...

Sketched Sculptures: Architectural Models Look Like Physical Drawings in 3D

Looking at one of his sculptures from a single perspective, it would be easy to mistake them for 2D drawings on a flat surface. After all, architects have a tendency to layer lines as they solve ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Street Artist Breathes Life Into Urban Facades

The streets of Brooklyn are a little brighter these days with the addition of two new pieces by Spanish street artist Pejac, including one that appears to be chiseled out of a brick facade. Both ...

It’s All in Your Head: 17 Optical Illusions Prove You Can’t Trust Your Brain

If there's one thing all these illusions can show you, it's that you can't trust your own brain. It'll blot out peripheral colors right before your eyes to help you focus on a fixed point, turn ...

D.C. Metro Rolls Out Color-Coded Escalator Rails to Guide Passengers

The Washington Metro Transit Authority has quietly rolled out a simple but ingenious wayfinding solution: colored escalator railings to guide passengers to their trains. Graphic designer Jen ...

Stay High: 3-Story Container Apartment Built into a Crane in Amsterdam

Transformed into a compact three-story apartment, a decommissioned 1957 crane overlooking Amsterdam’s IJ River from a former industrial harbor now offers tourists a highly unusual vantage point ...

Constructing the Future: 13 Recent Advances in Robotic Building Technology

The buildings and infrastructure of the not-so-distant future might look like they were dropped here from an alien planet thanks to the complex geometries and curvaceous surfaces robotic building ...

Down The Tubes: 10 Closed & Abandoned TV Factories

TV factories once churned out countless cathode ray tube television sets but when the Golden Age of Television faded to black, the TV factories followed. You have to look for the ...

Construction Brew: Rugged Coffee Maker Runs on Power Tool Batteries

Made by power tool-maker Makita, this is the ultimate coffee machine to energize construction workers, charged by the same batteries already in use on work sites. The CM501D is designed to derive ...

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