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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Loaves of Art: Classical Works Revealed in Slices of Glass
This loaf of colored glass may not look like much from the outside, but slice into it and you'll find an incredible recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Virgin on the Rocks. Self-taught glass ...
Dense City: Mixed-Use ‘Urban Alloy’ Transit Hub for New York
Taking advantage of air rights above existing an transportation nexus, this design integrates elevated train lines, apartments, offices and shops to create a nodal point within ...
Shattered Sunsets: Broken Mirror Photos of Evening Skies
Spanning multiple feet in each direction, these giant-sized photo prints transform the light and color of ordinary sunset scenes, reflecting them through a chaotic lens ...
Window Sketches: Minimalist Landscapes of Steam & Glass
No smoke-and-mirrors or post-production here, just fleeting vignettes swiftly staged on steamed windows and set against natural outdoor backgrounds. Jim Osborne is a self-taught landscape ...
Touch to Open: Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Life-Sized Origami
Made of rubber, metal, glass and wood, these dynamic flip panel doors tackle perhaps the world's original architectural invention in a series in a fresh, new and interactive ...
Windowless House of Glass: Solid Walls Hide Invisible Floors
In a surreal reversal of modern architectural convention, this Vertical Glass House trades a tradition of solid horizontals and clear verticals for an opaque shell and see-through walking ...
Constant Motion: Open-Plan, Puzzle-Piece Apartment Design
A small cubic condo with windows on only one side hardly seems an obvious candidate for a complex and dynamic plan, but from concept through execution, this design embodies its creator's and ...
Curved Skyscraper Melts Cars, Starts Fires with Heat of Sun
A nearly-complete London tower is being investigated thanks to reflected daylight that is dazzling (and sizzling) the neighborhood in extreme, surprising and undesirable ways. The structure is ...
Glassless Bottles: Ice Beverage Containers Keep Cola Cool
No amount of insulation can hope to keep your beverage quite as cold as a bottle made entirely out of ice, as found in this limited-edition container design from a marketing firm working for Coca ...
