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Special Editions: Three-Story Bookshelf Mural Speaks Volumes in Utrecht

Few avid readers can display their collections quite so publicly and loudly as Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed, who painted this bookcase across one entire of a three-story brick ...

WeWALK: Smart Cane Incorporates Google Maps for Easier Navigation

If smartphones can fit a whole world of functionality within our pockets, why can’t the same features be incorporated into useful tools for people with disabilities? In a particularly cool ...

Cough Inns: 10 Smoking Shelters That Really Kick Butts

Smokers gonna smoke, even if the decades-old War Against Cigarettes has exiled the persecuted puffers to outdoor shelters where no one wants to linger. Forever A Logan Someone oughta point ...

Skyscape House: Modern Rooftop Retreat Looks Out Over Bangkok

From luxury penthouses to sky-high secret slums, urban rooftop architecture is like a hidden world of its own, often invisible from street level. Most of us go about our daily lives in the city ...

Leafy Landscapes: Artist Reshapes Autumn Leaves into Mazes, Circles & Suns

Famously beautiful ginkgo trees provide the raw materials for this falling leaf artist, which are carefully raked to create site-specific, all-natural art on the campus of Sacramento State ...

Beach Please: Abandoned Surf Cincinnati Waterpark

Wave goodbye to Surf Cincinnati, an abandoned water park and associated banquet hall complex that once entertained overheated Ohioans but now only breeds mosquitoes. Cincy You've Been ...

Transforming Quadrant House: Rotating Terrace Follows the Sun

More than anything, the owners of a new transforming house in Poland wanted constant, direct access to sunlight. They commissioned the local firm KWK Promes to realize their unusual vision, and ...

Zaha Hadid Architects Make Flood Protection Look Elegant in Hamburg

As urban planners grapple with the need for creative flood management systems in cities around the world, Zaha Hadid Architects provides an interesting example in Hamburg. Located along the ...

Shipping Container Transformed into a Giant Camera & Darkroom

Pretty much anything that can be hollowed out and made light-proof can be used as a camera. Just ask Brendan Barry, who’s made a career from transforming ordinary objects like watermelon, ...

Dairy Err: 10 Closed & Abandoned Australian Milk Bars

Chain store competition is creaming Milk Bars across Australia, leaving independent store owners, desperate smokers and the odd lost droog thirsting for more. Milked Dry Milk bars have a ...

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