Empty Pews: 7 More Amazing Abandoned Churches
Abandoned churches may symbolize to some the weakening of religion in the modern age but that's far too simplistic an explanation – people can move, churches not so much. These 7 amazing ...
Tag: Construction
Paradigm-Shifting Printable House Buildable in Just 4 Weeks
Building a home with traditional methods is a long and drawn-out process often full of delays, disappointments and stress. More importantly, the environmental waste generated by the construction ...
3D Printing Goes Giant: Print Your Own Home?!
Three-dimensional printing has made so many advancements in recent years, researchers have been able to print highly detailed models of castles that are as small as a grain of sand. But what ...
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 ...
Material World: 8 Substances That Will Shape the Future
Advancements in science and technology have opened up a whole new world of possibilities in material science. Our future world won't be made up of the same materials we are used to seeing today - ...
High Anxiety: Rooftop Excavators Tear Down from Up Top
Rooftop excavators? On my multistory highrise building? It's more likely than you think, especially in China where painting one's self into a corner is no longer just for painters anymore. The ...
Road Work: 10 Pointed Examples of Traffic Cone Art
When it comes to ubiquitous utility in the service of street safety, orange traffic cones stand alone... except when they stand together and someone deigns to call the result Art. Traffic cone art ...
Please Don’t Stair: Dozen Spooky Sets of Steps to Nowhere
Like a carpenter who makes stairs, I'm always thinking one step ahead. Unfortunately the builders of these 12 strange staircases never arrived at a landing, leaving us to wonder where these spooky ...
Then & Now: The Stunning Speed of Urban Development
Twenty-one years ago, Dubai was a desert. It sprang up seemingly from nothing into the lively and technologically advanced world-class city that it is today. This is just one example of the ...
Upgrading the Future: Reusable Green DIY Building System
How many exciting design ideas have been put off indefinitely or discarded altogether due to the fear of failure? It's not only the mental and emotional tolls of failure that hold designers back ...
