Bar The Rays: 15 Closed & Abandoned Tanning Salons
These closed and abandoned tanning salons, spas and studios made hay while the sun didn't shine but sooner or later they (and their clients) felt the burn. "Sun-Tan-Drews" may not have ...
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Shadow Graffiti: Typographic Sundial Transforms Building Facade
Integrating the shadows cast by everything from stop signs to public benches into street art often requires the luck of seeing the piece in action at just the right time of day, when the shadow ...
Neglected Riverside Steps Revived with Form-Fitting Sunbed Seats
Designed to help citizens of Wroclaw, Poland, reclaim neglected parts of their city this site-specific "microinstallation" provides comfortable urban furniture for an otherwise hard-to-occupy ...
Cyberpunk Sunset: Artificial Sun Lights Up Warsaw Skyscraper
The developers behind a new tower rising in downtown Warsaw, Poland, have added a sunny surprise to the side of the building, aiming to brighten the moods of citizens during dark and cold months ...
Marble Earth: 7-Mile Scale Model Timelapse of Our Solar System
Starting with a model planet Earth the size of a marble, a team of filmmakers set out to simulate our entire solar system in motion and capture the results in a compelling short ...
Future of Fenestration: Every Window Will Generate Solar Power
Better, cheaper and easier than solar windows, this newly-patented flexible coating can be applied to existing glass and plastic surfaces, turning any aperture into a source of electricity. With ...
New Artificial Lighting Tricks Human Brain into Seeing Sunlight
Access to natural daylight has long been one of the biggest limiting factors in building design - some solutions involve reflecting real daylight from the outdoors, but until now no solution has ...
Solar-Powered Art Etched with a Magnifying Glass & the Sun
Magnifying glass clutched in his fist, Jordan Mang-osan uses nothing but focused rays of sunlight to burn detailed drawings onto panels of wood. A native Igorot from the Cordilleras of the ...
House of Glass: Cabin Facade from Antique Window Frames
On an unusual kind of cross-country road trip, this couple visited garage sales, antique dealers and added these to other roadside finds, all toward the quest of assembling an an eccentric ...
Lunar Power: Solar Spheres Energized by Both Sun & Moon
Magnifying light by a factor of 10,000, this liquid-filled, sun-tracking, energy-harvesting glass sphere is so powerful that it can not only harvest solar rays directly but is even able to draw ...
