Vertical Garage: Hide Cars Below or Lift Your Ride to the Sky
There are all kinds of houses designed to showcase your prized luxury vehicle or custom cruiser, but few can boast so blatant a mechanism to quite literally put your sports car on a ...
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Chindogu: 14 Hilarious and Strange Japanese Inventions
The first rule of Chindogu is, Chindogu inventions are essentially useless. The Japanese art of creating bizarre and funny tools for everyday life aims to solve basic problems in ways that are as ...
Modern Design Meets Tradition in 12 Japanese Homes
Modern architects preserve the traditions of Japanese residential architecture while meeting 21st century needs in these 12 strikingly well-balanced homes. Adaptable rooms that can change size or ...
Only in Japan : 13 Odd Houses by Suppose Design Office
Houses that look like little more than concrete or steel boxes from the outside offer exceptionally creative, efficient and welcoming interiors conceived by Japan's Suppose Design Office. The ...
Japan’s Urban Spaceship: The Omiya Rocket Building
Let's do launch! The shiny, streamlined, sc-fi styled Rocket Building dominates an otherwise unremarkable downtown street near Omiya Station in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, Japan. Home to rental ...
Deep Sea Mystery: Diving to Solve Underwater Crop Circles
At a depth of nearly 100 feet, what could possibly explain these radially-symmetrical patterns appearing on the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, like some kind of extra-terrestrial snow angel ...
Striking Gravel-Covered Japanese House is a Study in Contrasts
Monolithic and dramatic, the two-story Ginan House by Keitaro Muto Architects is a wedge-shaped residence with a dark gravel-covered exterior that contrasts beautifully with a stark white ...
Watching Wisely: 7 Owl-Shaped Japanese Police Stations
Never accuse Japan's police of not giving a hoot... they must be, since they're working in owl-shaped police stations! These seven Fukuro Koban (literally “Owl Police Boxes”) help put a ...
Sci-Fi Fortress of Skyscrapers to Surround & Defend Japan
This is a conceptual project with a breathtaking scope: to create a perimeter of citadels surrounding Japan, protecting the island nation above, on and below the ground. ...
Foreign Ramen: 12 Cup Noodle Soups You Can’t Get Here
All hail Cup Noodle instant ramen, the iconic styrofoam-packed snack (or sometimes meal) that's sustained American college students, office temps and basement-dwelling gamer geeks since 1971! While ...
