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Guerrilla Apparel: Pirate Printers Press Clothes to Painted Public Surfaces

A Berlin street art collective is hitting the streets of Europe again, touring major cities to turn infrastructural patterns into (quite literal) streetwear across the continent. Each of their ...

Trinity River Park: Huge New 10,000 Acre Urban Nature District for Dallas

Designed to restore and augment the city's floodplain, this new green recreation space features thousands of acres of forest as well as playgrounds, lawns and trails. Upon completion, it will be ...

Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students

Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...

World’s First Floating Underwater Tunnels to Span Fjords in Norway

Norway is working to create the world's first "submerged floating bridges," suspended from surface pontoons and engineered to span its vast network of wide and deep fjords. A system of ...

Stopped Steps: 10 Declining Abandoned Escalators

Well, that did NOT escalate quickly. These busted up and broken down abandoned escalators won't be devouring any CROC plastic sandals anytime soon. An outdoor escalator? In damp, rainy ...

Diverging Diamond: Novel Highway Design Eliminates Hazardous Left Turns

The diverging diamond interchange has been heralded as the new cloverleaf and condemned as pedestrian unfriendly, but it does do at least one thing remarkably well: it eliminates dangerous ...

Signal-Free Intersections: Future Streets for Self-Driving Cars

All of our automotive infrastructure is designed around the needs of human drivers, but in a world of driverless cars, a crossroads need not slow anyone down, let alone force someone to ...

Ribbon of Light: Replacing LA’s Most Iconic Historical Bridge

Quite possibly the most filmed and photographed bridge in the world, the Sixth Street Viaduct, spanning the Los Angeles River, is a challenging icon to replace, but the Ribbon of Light aims to ...

Roller Coaster for Cars: Steep Bridge in Japan is Almost Vertical

You’d likely feel more than a little trepidation approaching this bridge head-on, wondering how in the world your car is going to drive straight up a nearly-vertical surface. Spanning Lake ...

Trail Blazing: ‘Freezeway’ Path for Ice Skaters Opens in Canada

The new Freezeway pilot project now live in Edmonton aims to draw residents out of hibernation, encouraging them to skate along an iced trail system slated to double as a seven-mile commuting ...

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