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Urine for a View: Modular Window Image Tiles Reframe Restroom Experience

Stepping into a lockable bathroom stall, one expects a degree of privacy, but for those with shy bladders, this interior tiling strategy may prove problematic. Designed by Gyva ...

Cellular Urbanism: Analyzing the Anatomy of Functional City Block Designs

We all understand intuitively that different urban layouts lead to different kinds of cities, but a new book analyzes these on a block-to-block basis to illustrate how this civic anatomy works on ...

LEGO-Like Architecture: $5,000 Homes from Recycled Plastic Blocks

A company in Colombia is tackling plastic waste issues and affordable housing with a single ingenious solution: interlocking LEGO-like bricks that can be used to build houses for a few thousand ...

Modest Modernism: Concrete Block House in Brazil Wins Award

An understated but award-winning Modernist dwelling design in São Paulo, Brazil, has turned a narrow lot into a lovely and low-cost habitat suited to the needs of its poor and elderly ...

Nesting Architecture: Folding Models of Eastern Bloc Buildings

This series of recycled cardboard models references both the functional styles of postwar Soviet architecture as well as the Russian tradition of handcrafted nesting dolls. In ...

Smart Bricks: Life-Size LEGO-Style Blocks for Human Habitats

Aiming to revolutionize the most basic material units of construction, these building blocks snap together like LEGO bricks while leaving space for insulation and infrastructure inside and ...

LEGO Architecture Studio: Boldly Monochromatic Block Set

A colorless LEGO kit may sound boring at first blush, but consider the spatial advantages of letting form, line and shadow stand apart from the profusion of colors normally associated with their ...

Free Universal Construction Kit Bridges Generations of Toys

LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys ... what do they have in common? They each represent a universe of constructive possibilities, but each is incompatible with the next, like alien planets with ...

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