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Microlino: Tiny Electric Car With Front “Hood Door” for Easy Urban Parking

The smallest of the small, this two-seat micro-machine features just one (quite literal) front door positioned where one would expect to find its engine, perfect for navigating and parking on ...

Requiem for Pianos: Dilapidated Instruments Photographed Among Ruins

Once standing as symbols of prosperity within the luxurious interiors of grand European villas, these broken pianos have played their last tunes, now rotting among ruins. Photographer Romain ...

Alien Architecture: Modern Buildings Recast as Extraterrestrial Ships

Composition, color and contrast and go a long way toward reframing photographic subjects, in this case: making familiar architectural forms seem like parts of dark and looming alien ...

Warming Signs: Clet Abraham Rewrites Rules Of The Road

Guerrilla street artist Clet Abraham may be the Banksy of the boulevard, hacking road signs with stickers and encouraging people to question authority. Our lead image dated August 31st of 2013 ...

Urban Legend: Why Are European Cities so Much Denser than American Ones?

At a glance, it seems obvious New York City would be more densely populated than Paris, but in fact the reverse is true: New York has only half the population density of its French competitor. In ...

Floating Greenhouse: Mobile Barge to Grow Food & Cruise Danube

Designed to float down the Danube river in Europe, the Eco Barge is a solar-powered floating greenhouse illustrating the possibilities of offshoring urban food production. In addition ...

Aperture Art: 360 Doors & Windows of the World Sorted by Country

This gorgeous collection of photographic montages highlights regional similarities and differences between types and styles of door and window designs all across Europe, starting with Porto, ...

14,000 Refugee Life Jackets Wrap Berlin Konzerthaus Entrance

In an effort to raise awareness about the growing refugee crisis, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has wrapped six giant entry columns to a landmark concert hall in central Berlin with ...

Cities of Tomorrow: Refugee Camps Require Longer-Term Thinking

Former mayor of the world's second-largest refugee camp, humanitarian Kilian Kleinschmidt notes "the average stay today in a camp is 17 years. That's a generation." These places need to be ...

Cruelty of Concrete: Harsh Architecture in Berlin & Beyond

There is an innate coldness and harshness to concrete that lends it a sinister air, as if unsavory practices are carried out within, even if the structure is actually in use as a church or ...

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