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Sea Wall: Dark Multi-Story Mural Shows Stormy Waters on City Streets

Lapping up the side of a three-story building in Kiev, Ukraine, this dark mural mixes blue and gray hues to capture dark waters and skies of the Black Sea. Originally from London and ...

Cold Frontage: Storm Leaves Waterfront House Encased in Frozen Waves

When a cold front blew in over Lake Ontario, photographer John Kucko caught wind of the phenomenon and rushed to shoot images of a remarkably frozen home. Located in Webster, New York, the ...

Circular Reasoning: How Rounded Homes Resist Storms & Save Lives

Combining the physical benefits of circular plans with the practicality of straight lines and corners, octagonal houses are uniquely positioned to resist hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes ...

Art of Photography: NYC Blizzard Photo Looks Like a Painting

As roads closed and kids turned staircases into sledding hills and snowboarding slopes across East Coast cities during Jonas, one photographer stopped to shoot a few pictures that turned out ...

Cinematography of Snow: Watch a Film Projected Onto a Blizzard

An idle thought while waiting out a snowstorm led to an accidental artistic discovery: projecting a movie on falling snow can result in an visually rich result bordering on magical, in turn ...

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: ...

Compressed Motion: 14 Hypnotizing Time-Lapse Videos & Images

Movements that may happen to quickly for us to perceive in real time, like the imperceptible swaying of a portrait subject trying to stay still or the multiplication of microscopic crystals as ...

Amphibious Architecture: Foundations Float Above Floods

Floodwaters rise, drench homes, then recede, leaving disaster in their wake - a temporary change renders many structures permanently uninhabitable. But what if houses could ride out the storms, ...

Windbreakers: Bangladesh Cyclone Shelter Architecture

Though cyclones and their associated storm surges have been wreaking havoc on Bangladesh and other South Asian nations for thousands of years, an ongoing program of cyclone shelter construction has ...

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