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In-Floor Wayfinding: Textured Tiles Guide Blind Client Through New Home

To address the needs of a visually impaired client, architects in Thiene, Italy, worked from the start to integrate a custom wayfinding system into the structure and layout of this home, ...

That’s a Wrap: Critics Pan Leather Skirt that Looks Like a Car Floor Mat

It's easy to pan high fashion for being expensive, impractical and out of touch with reality, and all the more so when a fashion item resembles an upcycled everyday item like a car's floor ...

Cheap Seats: Sculptural Furniture Showroom Facade Made of 900 Black Chairs

Using cheap and repetitive materials sounds like a recipe for kitsch, but this furniture-oriented facade clad in generic black chairs (at around $5.00 USD a piece) manages to pull off an elegant ...

Kaleidoscopic Carpet: Interactive Art Projection Unravels in Realtime

A truly magical carpet ride, this immersive project provides a shifting spectrum of colors and shapes that morph in response to user interactions, changing as visitors walk over the ...

Gold Infill: Japanese Pottery Repair Tradition Applied to Concrete

Strands of gold fill the cracks of this apartment in Kyoto, replicating in architecture a longstanding tradition of repairing pottery in a way that tells a true history of its use and ...

Deconstructed: 25 Famous Floor Plans as Architectural Labyrinths

  The most fundamental blueprint of a building is its floor plan, which organizes the spaces to be occupied, creating a footprint to be extruded into three dimensions. In his ARCHIPLAN ...

Nothing to Hide: Open Glass Islamic Culture Center for NYC

Designed to dispel fears surrounding Muslim culture, practices and traditions, a new wide-open skyscraper design for New York City invites people of all faiths to enter, through ...

Mosaic Murals: Tile Patterns Spray-Painted in Deserted Spaces

A puzzle of layers rather than pieces, each of this spray-painted works takes aesthetic cues from historic Barcelona, deploying them in novel contexts using unexpected ...

Stacked Ceramics: Shop Floor Made from 25,000 Pieces of Pottery

A 400-year-old ceramics studio in Japan has completely remodeled their store with a most remarkable addition: a walkable surface constructed from a stack of tens of thousands of scrapped pieces ...

Transparent Home: Glass Dwelling Puts Urban Life on Display

A beautiful and boldly open design, this see-through structure uses glass to reveal (and staggered layers to conceal) different parts of the everyday lives of its occupants. Designed ...

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