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House Inside a Rock Takes Inspiration from Ancient Sandstone Tombs

Humans have been carving architecture into rock for nearly our entire history on this planet, so it's a little surprising we don’t see more modern marvels mimicking spectacular ancient wonders ...

Codex Silenda: Solve Puzzles to Turn Pages in this Crafty Wooden Book

Unlike The Maze and other classic puzzle books, the Codex Silenda brooks no cheating, forcing readers to solve elaborate puzzles on each page before proceeding to the next. Somewhere ...

Neolithic Modernism: History Museum Appears Carved from Stone

A bold break from traditional closed-box museums, this gorgeous open Museum of Indigenous Knowledge design is as much an interactive rock-hewn landscape as a work of contemporary ...

Glacier City: Icelandic Ice Cap Carved Out for Year-Round Use

Burrowing hundreds of feet into the second-largest glacier in Europe, the world's largest system of ice tunnels and spaces (including a chapel and cafe and exhibit spaces) are being excavated to ...

Suntory Time: Crazy CNC-Milled Ice Cubes for Whisky Brand

It's Suntory time - on the incredibly intricate, CNC-milled, pagoda-shaped rocks.  The Japanese whisky brand famously touted by Bill Murray in the film 'Lost in Translation' has enlisted the ...

Cutting Edges: Layered Back-Lit Paper Art Gets Deep & Dark

Together, Hari & Deepti (Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panicker) turn sets of two-dimensional cutouts into vivid and haunting three-dimensional dioramas, often set in shadowy fantasy ...

Surreal Subterranean Space: Hand-Carved Cave for Sale

If you've always dreamed about having your very own network of cathedral-like hand-carved caves (who hasn't?) you're in luck - such a dreamscape can be yours for less than the average cost of a ...

Penthouse Mountain: Stone Villa Tops Chinese Condo Tower

Over six years, one dedicated man has constructed his dream house, complete with (presumably fake) boulders, trees, gardens, pools and ponds. It is the kind of luxury home (or man cave) you might ...

Tower with a Twist: Very Top-Heavy Vancouver Skyscraper

This is what creative design is all about: taking a familiar typology and turning (or twisting) it around ... not merely to show off something new and unique, but to critically respond and adapt ...

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