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Wild Waste: Giant Trash Animals Nest Inside Abandoned Las Vegas Motel

A classic mid-century roadside motel in Las Vegas has been turned into a fantastically colorful habitat for a series of huge animals, constructed from waste collected from dumpsters, abandoned ...

Habitat 2.0: Pixelated Apartment Complex by BIG References Design Classic

With an overt nod to Habitat 67 in Montreal by Moshe Safdie (similarly made up of many smaller modules, as show below), this new, undulating, mixed-use megastructure has been approved for ...

60 Years Later: Original Le Corbusier Interior Design Vision Finally Realized

When Le Corbusier designed his Brutalist Unité d'Habitation structures in Marseilles and Berlin, the architect imagined these as models for the future of vertical urban living. But, as they ...

Coralarium: Ocean’s First Intertidal Art Museum Doubles as Marine Habitat

A new first-of-its-kind underwater art museum in the Maldives features exhibits and sculptures at various levels, from the seabed through the intertidal waterline and up to the skyline, designed ...

Planetary Textiles: Carpeting Rooms with Organic ‘Sea Floor’ Landscapes

These designs convey all of the diverse wonder of coral reefs without having to walk along an actual sea floor (and presumably slice open a foot in the process. Porto-based ...

Recycling Rockets: Ixion Will Turn Orbital Space Junk into Spacious Habitats

As part of their NextSTEP program, NASA has contracted a space company to turn trash into treasure, converting used rocket sections already being sent into orbit into habitation units rather than ...

Last Stop: 2,800 Drowned NYC Subway Cars Turned Marine Habitats

Since the early 2000s, decommissioned New York City subway cars have been seeded into the waters around New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and other eastern states, creating infrastructure for fish ...

Frontier Finalists: 30 NASA 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Candidates

A set of 30 candidates have been selected for final consideration by NASA in the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, including robot-constructed buildings, ice architecture and underground dwellings, ...

Home Room: Plug-and-Play Modules Make Instant Living Spaces

Resembling a house turned inside out, the Cubitat is a hybrid architectural and interior design prototype designed to be a modular all-in-one solution that can turn any empty space into your new ...

Animal House: Woodland Creatures Adopt Deserted Cabins

These interior photos by Kai Fagerström depict wild forest inhabitants who have made derelict human-owned dwellings their own - domestic portraits-at-home with a undomesticated ...

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