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Winter Carousels: Circular Spinning Ice Islands Carved with Chainsaws

Ice fishing huts and art shanties allow people to enjoy peaceful winters and creative expression on frozen lakes, but for those with something more dynamic in mind: rotating DIY islands of ice ...

Mobile Remix: Cement Mixer Disco Ball Turns Streets into Night Clubs

Cladding a cement mixer in pixelated mirror squares, a French artist has created a giant glittering disco ball on wheels able to turn vacant lots and construction sites into instant party ...

Spiraling Skyscrapers: Rounding Up the World’s Tallest Twisting Towers

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an organization responsible for world records in architecture, has announced its definitive list of the world's highest twisting ...

Dynamic Architecture: 13 Buildings with Moving Parts

Entire Italian villas spin in circles on wheels, solar-powered shades follow the sun, rooms zoom up into the air on telescopic stilts and windowless facades lift up on one end like shoebox ...

New Spin: Rotating & Sliding Walls Turn 1-BR Apartment into 3

A combination of walls on wheels and sliding wall panels make this modular home infinitely adaptable, able to transform from a spacious single-family abode to a series of divisible spaces for ...

Tree of 40 Fruit: Fresh Interview with Nature’s Master Grafter

Seven years into his experiments, the living artworks of Sam Van Aken are bearing far more than just fruit, each new variant of the Tree of 40 Fruit building on experiences learned from the ...

Rotating Condo Tower: Units Take Turns as the Penthouse Suite

Spinning structures is not new territory, but shifting units around vertically as well as in horizontal circles is a fresh dimension of novelty with a likewise refreshed sense of purpose - to ...

Swiss-Army Bathroom: Spine-Inspired Space-Saving Design

Like a giant-sized Swiss Army knife, this narrow column unfolds to reveal everything your bathroom could need - a NASA-worthy, space-age modular design idea. A water-transmitting 'spinal ...

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