Living Staircase: Spiral Stairs Wrapped in Organic Greenery
Boldly curved and cantilevered into midair, these plant-wrapped stairs are designed to provide more than just a means of moving from one floor to another. Stepping onto them takes ...
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Bunker City: Underground Suburb for Survivalist Community
Preparing for doomsday means going solo for some, but most see survival needs including some sort of micro-society, be it for mutual defense and cooperation or, in the most extreme cases, perhaps ...
Storefront Transformer: Magic Box Reprograms Empty Space
From urban blight to versatile site, one modular cube can convert unused storefronts of New York City into flexible destinations - community workshops one day, performance spaces or pop-up shops ...
Nextdoor App Lets You Get to Know Your Neighbors, Virtually
If you long for the days when everyone in the neighborhood knew each other's names - and business - you'll either be delighted or horrified by Nextdoor, an app that lets you get to know your ...
3D Floating Graffiti: Interactive Alleyway Color Art Illusions
Our minds are addicted to making order out of chaos and finding patterns in noise. This stunning perspectival art project takes the wonderfully windy streets of São Paulo, Brazil and layers a ...
Interactive Urbanism: 5 Simple Street Art Projects
Transforming how we see the cities around us by forcing us to look at our surroundings - and each other - in new ways, these 5 street art projects are simple yet powerful. Artists are spreading ...
Digital Suburbs: Logic-Defying Fictional Aerial Views
The carefully-crafted streets and avenues of the suburban neighborhood rarely strike anyone as artistic, though they do demonstrate a certain orderly attractiveness. The artwork of Ross Racine ...
Leisurevilles: The Strangest Secession Since the Civil War
[Andrew D. Blechman is the author of Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias (Grove Atlantic)] Imagine what America might look like if a sizable minority of its elders secede ...
