Miniature Museum: Scaled Scenes with Jaw-Dropping Details
Before special effects went digital with CGI, part of the magic of movie making included artists laboring over tiny scaled-down sets, creating little worlds that look totally real until a ...
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Recycled Skylines: 8 Green Urban Tower Typologies for 2050
Exploring eco-friendly strategies for cities, this series of conceptual 'Smart Tower' skyscrapers and mid-rise structures incorporates design elements to reduce pollution, create renewable energy ...
IKEA Flips Condo Sideways to Create Furniture Climbing Wall
Furnishings become footholds, supports and resting spots as you scale the flipped-over floor of this fanciful apartment, opened to the public as a method to market a new IKEA store ...
The City’s a Playground for Cartoon Characters by OakOak
Anything from a crooked cinder block to an ephemeral beam of light falling across the street can inspire a playful interactive scene by French street artist OakOak, making passersby stop and smile. ...
Tree-Inspired Tower: Condo Balconies Unfurl Like Leaves
An iconic new mixed-use development in the heart of Montpellier in southern France, L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) grew out of a design concept tied to the outdoor traditions of this temperate ...
Guerrilla Upcycling: Public Furniture Made of Parisian Trash
As darkness descends these guerrilla activists hit the streets, not to protest or graffiti but to build and install community infrastructure from the discarded roadside scraps of Paris, ...
Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition
Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove - interlocked fingers were, in fact, part of the conceptual inspiration for ...
Little People in Paris: 5 Tiny Street Art Scenes by Slinkachu
The tiny figures of Slinkachu play out surreal scenarios ranging from dramatic to comedic, all against the backdrop of life-sized props that seem giant by comparison. His latest set of little ...
Bubble Hotels: Spacious Spherical Retreats Set in Nature
Somewhere on the scale between tent and cabin lies the bubble hotel, an optionally transparent or opaque plastic retreat that is roomier than normal camping accommodations but more minimal than a ...
The Fallen: 9000 Figures Hand-Drawn in the Sand for D-Day
To commemorate those fallen on D-Day in France - civilians, Axis and Allies alike - a pair of sand artists used stencils and solicited volunteers to create a highly temporary art installation, ...
