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Who Needs Walls? 13 Split Level Interior Layouts Maximize Small Spaces

Tall, narrow volumes and awkward stepped sites are no problem when you arrange your interior spaces in a continuous flow of open platforms without walls. These unusual split-level home designs ...

Sensei-tion: Kyoto U’s Much-Defaced Orita Bust

A bronze bust of the late educator Hikoichi Orita was vandalized so often, Kyoto University administrators put it into storage – still, the students persisted. Orita-sensei played an ...

Vernacular Void: Wood Walls Warm Negative Space in Gray Brick Home

In a stark play of contrasts, a rich wooden passageway tunnels through this otherwise modern residence made up of small colorless masonry blocks, slicing like a house-shaped cookie cutter through ...

I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That: ‘Flying Brain’ Will Assist Astronauts

What would Stanley Kubrick think? With its nonthreatening, simplistic stick figure face set in a spheroid plastic housing, CIMON the ‘flying brain’ is probably more analogous to GERTY, the ...

Animate Objects: Urban Artist Breathes Life into Everyday Street Scenes

Looking at everyday built environments with an eye toward artistic adaptation, Oakoak turns exhaust pipes into elephant trunks, wild shrubs into micro-farms and more. Pablo Picasso's ...

Luminous Alien Landscapes: Light Art Photography Made with Drones

Take some of the most alien landscapes on our planet, illuminate them in unnatural ways with the help of drones and the resulting images look like they can’t possibly be real. You can gaze at ...

All Aboard! 15 Modern Houseboats, Boatels & More Floating Architecture

Often designed with potential climate-change-induced flooding in mind, these houseboats, floating hotels and other water-based structures prove you don't need land to live a life of luxury. The ...

Redesign on the Fly: 5 Fresh Zippers Improve Upon Traditional Fasteners

Designers are always trying to reinvent the chair or improve the shoe, but zippers have stayed largely the same for a long time, which begs the question: is there room to innovate on this simple ...

Synchronicity in the Streets: Photo Series Captures Uncanny Coincidences

An almost superhuman sense of alertness, a lightning-fast trigger finger and the world’s luckiest timing come together in one photographer to produce amazing coincidental images that couldn’t ...

Stairs As Light as Air: 13 Floating Designs That’ll Raise Your Heart Rate

Staircase mishaps cause a surprising number of accidental deaths every year (second only to car crashes), but the sleekness of these floating designs might make you want to live dangerously all ...

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