Let’s Make A Dill: 11 Closed & Abandoned Pickle Factories
The Age of Pickles ended when home refrigeration arrived, souring prospects for pickling businesses and leaving abandoned pickle factories hither and yon. Folks living in tropic and ...
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Inverted Roofs: Bowl-Shaped Rain Collectors Naturally Cool Desert Homes
Iranian architects have developed a Concave Roof system to collect rainwater in arid climates with low precipitation, helping cool buildings in hot and dry regions of the world. The water can in ...
Baubotanik: German Botanical Architect Grows Buildings Out of Trees
Taking arbosculpture to the next level, German designer Ferdinand Ludwig is working to build not just sculptures but bridges and buildings from living trees. Many of his designs will take years ...
Plastic Village: Tropical Housing Estate Built from 1MM Recycled Bottles
At a glance, it would be impossible to guess that the finished houses in Panama's Plastic Bottle Village featured walls packed with recycled drinking containers. What started as a recycling ...
Rebuilding Blocks: Mobile Factory Turns Disaster Debris into Modular Bricks
In the wake of intentional demolition or unexpected disasters, the Mobile Factory system can be shipped inside just two cargo containers and begin to turn rubble from ruins into building blocks ...
Art Exhibitionism: Neighbors Threaten Lawsuit Over Museum Voyeurs
Visitors to the new panoramic rooftop deck of the Tate Modern are being told not to take pictures ... and not just of artwork on display inside the galleries: voyeuristic snapshots inside ...
Science City: Futuristic Research Complex to Vitalize Egyptian Desert
A new 125,000-square-foot science complex to be built outside Cairo will combine research, learning and museum facilities in a future-focused structure designed by competition-winning ...
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 ...
Tag, You’re It! Banksy Shows Softer Side, Makes Mural for Kids
Best known for biting political commentary and poignant artistic critiques, mysterious artist Banksy showed a somewhat friendlier side of his personality in gifting a mural to elementary ...
Space Age 3D Furniture: Skyscrapers & Rockets Support Stellar Tables
Furniture designer and sculptor Stelios Mousarris has added a new twist to his latest 3D-printed creation, taking a leap from sweeping cityscapes to impromptu launch platforms with a ...
