18 Award-Winning Tree Houses, Hotels & Schools
Luxurious and eco-friendly, Blue Forest's imaginative and playful tree houses, lodges and educational facilities seem to be designed to bring out every adult's wide-eyed inner child. Blue Forest ...
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Power Houses: Toronto Hydro’s Camouflaged Substations
Hiding in plain sight to provide energy and light! That's not Toronto Hydro's motto but it could be – for the better part of a century, the Canadian utility's policy was to design hundreds of ...
Sea Food: 14 Floating Restaurants Around the World
From massive illuminated Chinese restaurants to cute little BBQ tables for ten, these 14 floating restaurants make smart use of available space and turn the dining experience into something of an ...
City-Shaped Design: 13 Urban-Inspired Objects
Despite the crowded sidewalks, the cacophony of traffic and the sky-high cost of living, there's no denying the romanticism and sheer energy of big cities like New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. ...
Frying-Pan Planets? Dirty-Dish Art Photography
Have you ever looked at a scratched, worn-down frying pan and thought, 'hey, that looks like a planet'? Artist Christopher Jonassen did, and the photos that he has taken are surprisingly ...
Billboard House: Reclaiming Sky-High Commercial Space
Some billboards are just begging to be subverted, while others take us by surprise with their creativity and ingenuity. But whether you hate these humongous advertising platforms or think they're ...
Abandoned Hollywood Theater Hidden Above NY Shop
As a bodega in New York's East Village closes and questions arise about the historical building's fate, a photographer has captured a hidden gem located on the floor above the shop: an abandoned ...
Invisible Edges: 15 Death-Defying Infinity Pool Designs
The edges of these pools seem to just drop off into space, threatening to whisk swimmers off a cliff, into the sea or over the edge of a skyscraper. Infinity pools, also known as zero-edge pools, ...
Rooftop Riverboat House Unveiled: A Room for London
Sailing through the clouds in a riverboat perched atop Queen Elizabeth Hall in London may sound like a strange and surreal dream, but some travelers are set to do just that as 'A Room for London' ...
Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality
Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate citizens. But the problem was always that you had to ...
