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Not Your Dive Bar’s Pool Table: 13 Modern Game Furniture Designs

Most game furniture looks like it belongs in a musty basement smelling of spilled beer and body odor, but high end tables for billiards, foosball, ping pong, shuffleboard and other popular indoor ...

Huge Color-Coded ‘LEGO House’ Designed by BIG Now Open in Denmark

Designed by architects from BIG, the new LEGO House is itself huge: a 130,000-square-foot 'experience center' welcoming people of all ages to play with and appreciate this ubiquitous ...

MAD Architects Redesign Turns Ugly Paris Tower into Giant City-Scale Mirror

Tall, dark and brooding, the infamous Maine-Montparnasse Tower is an unexciting skyscraper, especially by Parisian standards, but that could all change if MAD Architects converts it into a ...

Elegant Energy-Free Air Conditioner Can Drop Temperatures by 26 Degrees

At a glance, the honeycomb structure of terracotta tubes looks more like large-scale work of handmade sculpture than a highly designed air conditioner. Developed for an electronics factory in ...

Prefab Plyscraper: World’s Tallest Timber Building Tops Out at 173 Feet

On the University of British Columbia's campus in Vancouver, a new record-setting wood structures highlights the many advantages of a growing trend: vertical timber construction. Brock Commons ...

Concrete Like You’ve Never Seen It: 15 Unexpected Furniture & Object Designs

Concrete might typically be cold, hard, impersonal and impermeable, but treat it right and it'll soften right up into surprisingly comfortable, accessible and usable everyday items, from pens and ...

Mobile Micro-Lending: 17th-Century Book-Shaped Library Hides 50 Tiny Books

Back in the 1600s, long before science fiction authors dreamed up digital e-readers, this Jacobean traveling library was making the rounds, housing dozens of small books in a larger book-shaped ...

Mobile Urbanism: Wheeled Benches & Planters Let Public Reconfigure Square

A former parking has become a Green Oasis in front of Poznan, Poland's city hall, but beyond providing seating and greenery the redesign adds another key element: effectively endless ...

Cellular Urbanism: Analyzing the Anatomy of Functional City Block Designs

We all understand intuitively that different urban layouts lead to different kinds of cities, but a new book analyzes these on a block-to-block basis to illustrate how this civic anatomy works on ...

Oru Origami-Inspired Folding Kayak is Back with an Updated Design

City dwellers with small apartments and limited storage can now own a kayak that folds up into a suitcase-sized package perfect for toting on your bike or public transit. The Oru Kayak originally ...

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