House of Hemp and Blood: 16 Futuristic Building Materials
Future buildings could be made of artificial human bone, hemp, bacterial byproducts or concrete that absorbs greenhouse gas emissions and lasts thousands of years. Innovations in building ...
Tag: Architecture
Floors So Vain: The World’s Ten Tallest Vanity Heights
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH for short) has coined the term “vanity height” to describe the empty, unoccupied space atop the world's tallest towers. Here are the top ...
Chromatic Vortex: 3D Art from 4,416 Sheets of Photo Paper
A site-specific installation in a New York City storefront, this twisting multi-colored tunnel was suspended in mid-air and held together with no less than 17,000 standard office bind ...
Digital Grotesque: Intricate Full-Scale 3D Printed Room
Stacked sections of intricate 3D-printed columns of the most baroque nature imaginable make up a cube-shaped, full-scale room. Designers Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger made 'Digital ...
Panoramic Rainbow: Circular Space Spans Color Spectrum
Rainbows on the horizon are impossible to approach, let alone pass through - they flicker and fade like phantoms, except in the case of this iconic space. Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur ...
Live Between Buildings: Narrow Micro-Homes Fill City Gaps
Playful yet thought-provoking, this project asks: what do we do with small leftover spaces in cities ... particularly in urban areas where even a few square feet of real estate can cost a ...
Indoor Skydiving Inside Concrete Silos & Cargo Containers
Take your pick between a pair of once-abandoned silos: one lets you explore nearly 100 vertical feet of underwater space with hidden caverns, while the other suspends you in virtual free fall, ...
Scanning The Skyline: 10 Bizarre Barcode Buildings
You're gonna need a bigger scanner. These 10 larger than life Universal Product Barcode emblazoned buildings epitomize the digitization of modern society. ...
Micro-Cities: Tiny Buildings Fuel Miniature Urban Renewal
Electrical boxes beware - Evol is back to up to his old tricks, turning urban fixtures and unused walls into tiny cityscapes using a deceptively simple toolbox comprised of cardboard, stencils ...
Parasitic Architecture: 15 Precariously Perched Structures
These parasitic buildings commandeer wasted urban space, often siphoning utilities from their host buildings. Some are additions that make no attempt to blend into the original structures, some ...
