Saving Time: Ten Trippy Retro & Future Time Capsules
Time capsules... messages from today to the world of tomorrow! Everything from perishable beer & cigarettes to an entire car have been sealed in vaults for 25, 50, 100 years or much longer. ...
Tag: Architecture
Playful Minitecture: 15 Ultra-Modern Dollhouse Designs
Dollhouses have a long history, beginning in the 17th century. They were originally used to display interior designs, but eventually came to be used as children's playthings. Today, they're still ...
Smokin’ Stacks: 10 Ways To Upcycle Industrial Chimneys
Once soaring symbols of the Industrial Revolution and material progress, smokestacks later became the poster kids of environmental degradation. Today, legions of artists, urban planners and ...
Work It: 30 Cargo Container Offices, Stores & Businesses
Shipping containers are great for living in, but how about working in one? Given the enormous success of low-cost, environmentally-friendly recycled shipping container homes, some architects and ...
Trick of the Eye: 13 Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art
Hyper-realistic paintings and drawings can make us pause and wonder whether they're real, but there's another, even more deceptive, form of super-realistic art that's been in use since ancient ...
Crazy Cargo: 30 Steel Shipping Container Home Designs
Steel shipping containers are the temporary homes of countless consumer items being transported all around the world. Items are packed into the cargo containers in their country of origin, then ...
Building an Appetite: Foodie Architecture With Good ‘Taste’
Hungry for some "tasteful" architecture? These 10 mouth-watering buildings may look delicious but their designs serve a greater purpose: to project a brand image that warms the heart (while aiming ...
Tread on Me: 15 Crafty Metal, Wood & Spiral Staircases
Stairs aren't just a boring, utilitarian part of our homes and public buildings. They're an opportunity for an architect to really make a statement and do something bold and distinctive. From ...
Gargoyles: From Gothic Garglers to Grotesque Guardians
If the words "gargle" and "gargoyle" sound similar that's no coincidence, but from their original function as decorative downspouts gargoyles have evolved into whimsically sculptured, cathedral ...
All Aboard! 15 Recycled Train Car Homes, Offices & Hotels
Railroad cars are big, heavy, and cumbersome. They're notoriously hard to move into new locations off of their tracks, and because of their odd shape most people wouldn't think of using them for ...
