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Mirrored Minimalism: Glass Retreat Reflects Surrounding Forest Landscape

Cozy on the inside and virtually invisible on the outside, this Modernist home has a reflective facade allowing it to blend in with the natural environment. Meanwhile, residents can enjoy views ...

MAD Architects Redesign Turns Ugly Paris Tower into Giant City-Scale Mirror

Tall, dark and brooding, the infamous Maine-Montparnasse Tower is an unexciting skyscraper, especially by Parisian standards, but that could all change if MAD Architects converts it into a ...

Disappearing Architecture: 15 Mirrored Buildings Distort Perception

Dazzling in the most literal sense, architecture clad in mirrored glass or stainless steel almost seem to become part of the sky and landscapes that surround it so you can't quite tell where the ...

40-Foot Cargo Container Turned into World’s Tallest Periscope

A brilliantly low-tech way to provide a unique view of the surrounding landscape, this massive yet cost-efficient shipping container periscope uses the same elementary construction principles ...

Broken Mirror: Shard Hotel Views Reflect Next-Door Rooms

Splintered corners, giving The Shard in London its iconic multifaceted look, are now also responsible for letting guests of Europe's tallest hotel see into the spaces of their nighttime ...

Shattered Sunsets: Broken Mirror Photos of Evening Skies

Spanning multiple feet in each direction, these giant-sized photo prints transform the light and color of ordinary sunset scenes, reflecting them through a chaotic lens ...

Invisible Barn: Mirrored Surfaces Create Camouflaged Folly

Like a mirage on the horizon, the structure seems to shimmer into and out of existence, playing tricks on the eye with a combination of see-through portals and reflective ...

Invisible Tree: Trunk Wrapped & Camouflaged to Float on Air

A simple illusion with so much potential - wrap an object, paint the wrapping plastic and presto, a central section appears to disappear before your eyes. In the the case of this ...

Infinity Rooms: Mirrored Spaces Reflect Endless Starlight

The experience calls the mind the climactic moment of the classic 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, in which our protagonist stares into the void and proclaims "it's full of stars" in ...

Half Abandoned: Twin Townhouses Tell Two-Sided Stories

Physically conjoined but separately sold upon construction, the lives of paired buildings (ones that share a common wall) can diverge dramatically as this photo series poignantly illustrates. In ...

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