Hanging Hotel: Camp in a Trunk-Friendly Tree House Retreat
Without harming the forest that supports it, this streamlined tree house design is stabilized by a central trunk but ultimately suspended from the branches above to minimize negative ...
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Pill Pack Printer: Personal Pharmacy Delivered to Your Door
Remembering to take your medicine can be hard if you have lots of pills to pop on a daily basis, but this one-stop, custom-printed packaging solution promises to help you get and stay on schedule ...
5 Preservation Puzzles: Famous Architecture Facing Threats
This year alone we have learned that a Frank Lloyd Wright house must be moved 1,000 miles to protect it from floodwater, a Le Corbusier chapel has been vandalized and a seminal structure by ...
3-Story Floating School in Nigeria Rides on Recycled Barrels
256 plastic barrels support this multistory marvel, which stands up and out even amid a sea of buoyant and stilted architecture in this fishing village alongside Lagos, Nigeria's largest ...
If You Build It: A True Story of Hands-On Design Education
What if high schools replaced shop classes with results-driven, full-scale architectural projects, where the goal was to collaborate and make something substantial for the entire community? If it ...
Touch to Open: Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Life-Sized Origami
Made of rubber, metal, glass and wood, these dynamic flip panel doors tackle perhaps the world's original architectural invention in a series in a fresh, new and interactive ...
Figure & Ground: Surreal Animated Walking City Shifts Shape
Mesmerizing as it morphs forms like some kind of architectural mutant, this latest take on the Walking City is a freshly-animated and anthropomorphic twist on a fifty-year-old ...
Subtractive Street Art: Sculptural Murals Cut into City Walls
Vhils is adept at carving, cutting and peeling to reveal art inside solid surfaces, but his artistic experiments also include carefully-calculated explosions to create pictures and phrases when ...
Rapid Packing Container: Students Reinvent Cardboard Box
Faster, leaner and just plain better, this ingenious resign reduces wasted cardboard, eliminates excess tape and is also more convenient to build, open and store than traditional shipping ...
Blossoming Technology: World’s First Inflatable 3D Print
3D printers are now making it possible to quickly and economically 'print' everything from haute couture to full-scale architecture, medical prostheses to cars. Now, the technology has advanced ...
