Container Urbanism: Reclaimed Pop-Up Structures
When urban populations outgrow the pace of new construction, and suitable homes and offices spaces are difficult to find, what are property hunters to do? Perhaps more of them will start coming ...
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Home Within Home: Architectural Fabric Art Installations
They hover, diaphanous, among their solid surroundings like ghosts of structures that have come and gone. These fabric installations by Korean artist Do Ho Suh transform the structures where ...
Maritime Museum Mimics Village Shapes & Ocean Waves
Simultaneously airy and solid, 'Kaap Skil' by Mecanoo Architects is a new maritime and beachcombers museum on a Dutch island accessible only by plane, boat or ferry. The building features a ...
A Cookbook You Can Actually Cook… And Eat
Imagine reading a recipe, mixing up your ingredients, placing the recipe page in a pan with some tomato sauce and cheese, baking it and then consuming it with relish. It's not a likely scenario ...
Musical Coca-Cola Beatbox for the 2012 Olympics in London
Bold and interactive, the Coca-Cola Beatbox by London architects Pernilla & Asif will beckon visitors inside to play music and gaze out at the London 2012 Olympic Park. The eye-catching ...
Incarnate: Skull Carved from Outdated Computer Books
Artist Maskull Lasserre specializes in transforming ordinary objects into amazingly intricate, often somewhat unsettling works of art. His most recent work, 'Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty ...
Augmented Reality: Awesome 3D Hand-Held Architecture
In a weak world economy where everyone is trying to be conservative with cash, new architectural projects go unbuilt more often than not. That doesn't stop architects from designing incredible ...
Paper Architecture: Intricate 3D Sculptures by Ingrid Siliakus
From flat sheets of paper, entire cities emerge, rich in unexpected details like balconies, tiny windows and even little people. Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus uses an initial 90-degree fold to ...
Manifest Destiny! Parasite Cabin Clings to San Francisco Wall
Jarringly out of place, a tiny, rustic cabin clings to the wall of an urban high-rise in the unlikely location of San Francisco, California. The cabin, which is fitted with a rocking chair and ...
Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions
City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage ...
