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Cut Grass: Sutured Landscape Installation Stitches Open Lawn Back Together

Ground Operation is a conceptually simple earthwork: an incision made in a grassy landscape is pealed back then stitched back together, much like an open wound after an injury or ...

Excavated Sanctuaries: Building Beneath a Protected Valley in Jordan

Preserving the natural beauty of a UNESCO-protected valley in the Jordanian desert, this underground architectural complex is designed burrow and branch out beneath the surface. This ...

Drawn Up: Architecture Firm Uses Tape for Full-Scale Floor Plans

A clever team of architects in Oslo, Norway, mocks up full-size blueprints using a shared flat concrete courtyard behind their office, allowing colleagues and clients alike to test-drive designs ...

Modular Camping: Flexible Pod Tents Connect & Subdivide

Looking as much like a kind of outer space habitat system as a campground compound, an assembled complex of POD units can be arrayed in whatever pattern suits the available space and user ...

Foundation for World’s Tallest Building Converted to Fish Farm

Ambitious plans construct Sky City in China, designed to be the highest skyscraper in the world and built in just 90 days, stalled at the outset over 2 years ago, leading to an unusual array of ...

Hole in the Ground: 5 Ideas to Fill Downtown Chicago Spire Void

Designed by a world-famous architect, the Chicago Spire was set to be the second-tallest building in the world, but now that plans for its construction have been abandoned local firms are ...

Street Style: Apparel Custom-Printed with Scalable City Maps

Taking customized couture to the streets, Monochome allows you to turn any urban grid at a scale of your choice into a unique tank top, t-shirt, flare or pencil skirt. Using ...

Cracked-Earth Desert Canopy Shelters Underground Oasis

Splitting at the seams like sections of sun-baked desert, this expansive park opens to the sky between a network of gaps and provides shade for people and plant life below. A sunken oasis ...

Fill in the Blanks: Illustrated Sky Spaces Between Buildings

Street art uses roads, sidewalks, walls and infrastructure as canvasses, but one of the brightest and blankest slates of all may be the spaces in between. Thomas Lamadieu, a French artist, ...

Groundbreaking Street Art Smashes Up Through Sidewalks

Oh yes, you read it right: breaking ground was meant in the literal sense - think Sandworms from Beetlejuice, chewing through asphalt on their way to attack and nature's own bright orange warning ...

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