Illegal Skyway: Chinese Homeowner Bridges 2 Highrise Condos
Sky bridges are a common sight in many cities, but are generally used to create a semi-public pathway from one building to the next, not to illicitly join two private highrise units in ...
Tag: metal
So Metal: Intricate Sculptures Made of Nothing but Nails
Most people use nails just to hang art on the wall, but Maine-based sculptor John Bisbee collects thousands of them to craft incredibly intricate sculptures into spiked balls, undulating waves, ...
Drawn & Quartered: Architect-Designed Log Wedge Birdhouses
Applying architectural logic to a bird's eye view, these natural-material dwellings utilize fallen trees to create familiar and eco-friendly habitats for your feathered friends. With ...
Urban Dog Tags: Wear City Grids Around Your Neck & The World
Like giant-sized fingerprints, urban grid patterns are unique to each city - this project turns that individuating property into an wearable asset, allowing you to hang you hometown or favorite ...
Sewer Pipe Sofa: Rusted NYC Tubes Recycled as Urban Seating
The latest in a long line of city-centric upcycling projects, this modular couch turns the ultimate in untouchable urban infrastructure into a chic industrial work of furniture. Carlo ...
Magnetic Furniture: Modular Blocks Connect via Unseen Forces
Magnetized to stick together when you arrange them, these boxes take LEGO-style furniture construction to a new level by leaving exposed surfaces connector-free in any ...
Typographic Shelter: Most Obvious City Bus Stop in the World
If you cannot spot this giant bus shelter in Baltimore, you may have bigger problems than missing the bus and getting to work on time. Standing 14 feet high, the ...
House of Metal: 15 Steel and Aluminum-Clad Residences
Durable, reflective and often becoming even more beautiful with exposure to the elements, metal is an unusual choice in exterior treatment for houses. These 15 metallic residences range from ...
Free to Forge: Open Source 3D-Printed Metal Mesh Furniture
Completed by a robot programmed to extrude material in midair, the world's first fully 3D-printed metal furniture shows off a fresh range of possibilities for creating intricate structures ...
Liters of Light: DIY Solar from Used Bottles, Bleach & Water
Now setting its sights on a million homes, the organization behind this remarkably cheap approach to solar home lighting has already transformed the lives of thousands who were previously living ...
