Secret Slums: Ramshackle Rooftop Villages of Hong Kong
These hidden shanty towns, often invisible from the streets below, sprawl like surrealist suburbs across the roofs of one of the most densely-populated and expensive cities in the ...
Tag: space
Slices of Home: Modular Mobile House-Shaped Micro-Rooms
Spatial separation can be as much about a feeling of enclosure as a physical divider, like this set of portable lounge structures that provide a semi-secluded experience in an otherwise wide-open ...
Reconstructionism: 88 Dramatic Deformations of 1 Building
His world-famous photo manipulations span the globe but this time with a twist: a single seemingly-unremarkable structure bent, broken, shattered, turned, twisted and reformed in dozens of ...
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 ...
100 Cubic Meters: Split-Level Urban Micro-Condo in Madrid
Good home design is not just about a perfect product but about process and context, as illustrated in this case through diagrams, videos and photos of how to make a small space work on multiple ...
Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition
Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove - interlocked fingers were, in fact, part of the conceptual inspiration for ...
Ship Shaped: Undergound Maritime Museum in Dry Dock Void
Using the existing vessel-shaped space of a six-decades-old dry dock, the Danish National Maritime Museum in Helsingor, Denmark takes visitors on a unique subterranean tour of the areas used to ...
Living Staircase: Spiral Stairs Wrapped in Organic Greenery
Boldly curved and cantilevered into midair, these plant-wrapped stairs are designed to provide more than just a means of moving from one floor to another. Stepping onto them takes ...
Sucking Smog: Electronic Vacuum Cleaner Clears City Skies
It sounds so preposterous and yet is sufficiently plausible that its designer is now talking to the mayor of Beijing about how to develop for urban use in this notoriously congested capital of ...
Urban Nest: New Round Amphitheater Section for High Line
New York's elevated park is expanding in new directions both physically and proverbially, its new addition a stark circular shift from the overall linear nature of the existing ...
