Das Bus: 15 Quirky & Kitschy German Bus Shelters
These 15 bus shelters from Germany express a distinctive design aesthetic that reflects the tension between stolid practicality and startling creativity. These two bus shelters face each ...
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42 Buried Buses Form North America’s Largest Underground Nuclear Fallout Bunker
Composed of dozens of school buses surrounded with concrete, there may not be room for two of every Earthly animal in this "Ark Two" but there is space for around 500 humans (kids and adults) to ...
Puphaus & Meyou: 2 Designer Dog & Cat Houses for Modern Pets
Whether your furry friends are canine or feline, this pair of posh pet architecture companies have your Modernist domesticated animal needs (quite literally) covered. And for those ...
Banksy’s Dismaland to be Reused as Refugee Housing in France
The dystopian bemusement pop-up theme park known Dismaland, a project of UK artist Banksy, is now closed but its dismantled pieces and parts will find second lives as architecture and ...
Tone Tunnels: Huge Forest Megaphones Amplify Sounds of Nature
Large enough for visitors to enter and sit within, three gigantic wooden megaphones constructed in the forests of Estonia amplify ambient sounds of the environment. Nearly ten feet in ...
Hive Habitats: Modular Floating Survival Shelters Band Together
Providing secure enclosures and other critical safety features in the face of tsunamis, floods and accidents at sea, this system of survival pods adds another critical dimension as well: ...
Retired Buses to Become Mobile Homeless Shelters & Showers
A fleet of still-functional city buses in Hawaii sits idle simply because the vehicles have too many miles for continued use in their current capacity, creating a unique opportunity to redeploy ...
IKEA to Produce & Ship 10,000 Flat-Pack Emergency Shelters
With 40 test units created and deployed since 2013, IKEA is now ready to begin mass-producing its $1,000-per-unit temporary flat-pack house to destinations in need around the world. Much like ...
3-in-1 Cargo Shelters: Expandable Containers Triple in Size
Shipping container shelters combine the appeal of ultimate portability with rugged durability, but these structures add another dimension lacking in the default configuration: three times as ...
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 ...
