Adaptive reuse used to be a tactic of necessity - people didn't have the time, energy or money to build something new so they made the best with what they had. Today it is a way to stand out, ...
[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 ...
Has it really been that long? It is hard to believe how much the site has evolved in just one year. Many regular readers have likely noticed a number of significant recent changes to the site ...
Why waste money and add to the world's usable waste by buying art materials when there are so many strange and interesting objects out there to use for design projects instead? From small found ...
Featuring everything from argonauts to astronomy, theme hotels and themed hotel rooms have popped up all over the world in recent years in order to accommodate niche groups of travelers with a ...
Green architecture comes in many forms though lately it seems like these forms are stranger than ever. Urban skyscraper farms? Floating eco-cities? Glowing solar towers? Turbine-driven ...
After the overwhelming praise for our previous post on cargo container homes and offices we simply couldn't resist doing a follow-up with even more amazing shipping container architectural ...
With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are turning to cargo container homes for green alternatives for office, and even new home, ...
New and innovative products from ordinary objects are being conceived and produced all the time, but what about new ideas for already-familiar materials?What would it take to get you to see ...
Hidden passages have a long history of appearing in fictional novels and films but an even richer past in reality dating back to Egyptian tombs passages for Christians to worship in hiding from ...
