Origami Shelter: Instant Flat-Pack Architecture on Demand
Take a structure, strip away all of the non-essentials, and squeeze out every last unused bit of air space, and what do you get? Something a lot like a folded sheet of paper. This folding ...
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Go Big or Home: Living Small in 11 Tiny Houses with Style
Tiny houses are growing in popularity because of increasing environmental consciousness and a desire to reject unnecessary material goods. Transitioning from paper books and files to digital ...
Conceptual Construction: 14 Improbable Tower Designs
Apartment buildings as thin as blades, towers topped with wind turbines, sky-high viewing platforms that gather energy from visitors' movements: are these unlikely-seeming designs a glimpse at ...
Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions
City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage ...
Not Just Jail: 12 Modern, Futuristic & Fascinating Prisons
Should architecture be used as a punishment in itself, made as harsh and cruel as possible in a bid to make inmates sorry for what they've done, or should it uplift and rehabilitate them, showing ...
The Coolest 9 to 5’s: 8 Offices that Blow Your Mind
Most people live in cookie cutter townhouses, or bland apartments, and go to work in utilitarian buildings full of cubicles. Most people, but not all. Some of the coolest companies have expanded ...
Smoke & Mirrors: Fire Training Facilities To Beat The Heat
When you're a firefighter, practice makes perfect... but where do they practice? Even the most sophisticated computer simulator can't replicate the hazards real towering infernos pose to ...
Stylish Skyways: 13 Boldly Futuristic Bridge Concepts
Spanning valleys and waterways, bridges perform a basic but essential function: getting us from one side to the other. But what if we expanded on that purpose, inserting everything from opera ...
To Go, Please: 12 Coolest Food Carts and Mobile Eateries
What could possibly be more enjoyable than hanging up your apron for an evening in favor of indulging in restaurant-prepared fare? The correct answer is: “When the food comes to you!” ...
Going … Up? Radical & Subversive Urban Rooftop Dwellings
Rooftops have long been popular urban substitutions for yards; city dwellers use their rooftops for sunbathing, grilling a few hamburgers, hanging clothes out to dry, or even a bit of rooftop ...
