Augmented Sandbox: Realtime 3D Topographic Landscaping
Simulating an amazing array of natural environments and phenomena, this dynamic playspace turns ordinary hand-sculpted sand into vividly colorful landscapes in the blink of an eye. A real ...
Tag: Nature
Window Sketches: Minimalist Landscapes of Steam & Glass
No smoke-and-mirrors or post-production here, just fleeting vignettes swiftly staged on steamed windows and set against natural outdoor backgrounds. Jim Osborne is a self-taught landscape ...
Urban Islet: Nordic Nature Retreat Floats in London Canal
Referencing rocky Nordic island sanctuaries, this platform is designed to provide a place to relax and observe local wildlife in the heart of a bustling city. The prefabricated structure was ...
Naturally Us: Stunning Combinations of Nature + Humans
Photographer Christoffer Relander combines nature and human faces to create preternaturally beautiful portraits. The double and triple exposures blend aspects of the natural world and the grace ...
Rural Urbanism: Forest Community of One-Pole Tree Houses
Pristine nature versus urban development seem ever at war, but this designer proposes a low-impact, small-footprint approach for cross-kingdom co-habitation between people and ...
Bubble Hotels: Spacious Spherical Retreats Set in Nature
Somewhere on the scale between tent and cabin lies the bubble hotel, an optionally transparent or opaque plastic retreat that is roomier than normal camping accommodations but more minimal than a ...
Infinite Garden Multiplies Miniature Forest with Mirrors
Peering through a hole in the hovering white skin of an unusual installation at the 22nd International International Garden Festival of Chaumont Sur Loire, France, seems to transport the viewer ...
Geometric Projections: Light Art Radically Reshapes Nature
Everyone knows there are mathematical patterns to be found everywhere in nature - though few such geometries are as explicit and dazzling as those imposed by this projection artist. Javier ...
Treehouse Taster: 3 Wildly Different Types of Tree Houses
Regular readers will know that this site love tree houses of all types, but in researching articles a few have slipped through the cracks, their stories and histories unknown, yet the images of ...
Elemental Elegance: 14 Amazing Photographs of Elements
We all learned about the periodic table of elements in high school, but for most of us that's where our knowledge of the elements ends. Japanese chemist and photographer R. Tanaka is showing the ...
