Sneak Peak: Inside the Homes of 8 World-Famous Architects
Where Architects Live, a special exhibit scheduled for Milan Design Week 2014, features a rare glimpse into the residences of leading designers including Shigeru Ban, Zaha Hadid, Daniel ...
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Tsunami Ark: Handmade Flood-Proof Floating Wood Capsule
Former Facebook and PayPal employee Chris Robinson is two years into an epic backyard project rising behind his home in Palo Alto: a structure dubbed the Tsunamiball. A veteran of Silicon ...
Futurbanist: 10 Award-Worthy 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Designs
From 3D-printed towers of sand to garbage-powered architecture of the seas, these eVolo Skyscraper Competition entries push the envelope in every possible direction, and a few impossible ones ...
After OZ: Dorothy’s Storm-Ravaged House Remade of Scrap
In a remarkable 24-hour collaboration, a series of artists banded together to build a replica of the infamous house from the Wizard of OZ - that ill-fated structure that carried Dorothy Gale so ...
Tree-Inspired Tower: Condo Balconies Unfurl Like Leaves
An iconic new mixed-use development in the heart of Montpellier in southern France, L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) grew out of a design concept tied to the outdoor traditions of this temperate ...
Transforming Furniture: Fitting 5 Rooms into 640 Square Feet
With a mostly-open floor plan tucked into 60 square meters of space, the design challenge was to effectively fit the functionality of five rooms into the footprint of two. The De Rotterdam ...
Cubicle Typography: Unique Desks as Office Furniture Font
One of the most dreary aspects of daily life in a cubical farm is the relentless sameness that pervades each office pod - perhaps it would help if each workspace were different, easy to assemble ...
Nailed It: 3D Printed Manicures Are Frighteningly Awesome
We knew that 3D printing would make the creation of all sorts of amazing and unpredictable things possible, but we honestly didn't see this one coming: frighteningly intricate, claw-like ...
Kinetic Facade: Awesome Adaptive Window Shading System
Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world - light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn ...
Rooms on Wheels: Mobile Kitchen, Bedroom & Office Spaces
A step beyond flip-down beds and foldaway furniture, this series of modular rooms packs whole kitchens, bedrooms and offices into a highly portable form, so much so that they be bought online at ...
