Transparent Home: Glass Dwelling Puts Urban Life on Display
A beautiful and boldly open design, this see-through structure uses glass to reveal (and staggered layers to conceal) different parts of the everyday lives of its occupants. Designed ...
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City Cinemagraphy: Animated Photographs of Urban Motion
With compelling attention to depth, detail and movement, French photographer Julien Douvier uses cinemagraphic techniques to capture everything from fleeting moments to frustrating routines that ...
Anti-Object: A Public Bench Designed to be Everything-Proof
While many individuals desire multi-functional and space-saving furniture, many cities want quite the opposite: an object that one can sit on but that foils attempts at anything from sleeping, ...
Aerial Urbanism: Hyper-Dense ‘Cloud City’ Redefines Skylines
A complex spanning in seemingly all directions, this sky-oriented, cloud-shaped, forward-thinking design has just won the Shenzhen Super City Competition in China. It represents a critical way ...
Urban Glider: Compact Portable Electric Unicycle for Cities
Light, small and surprisingly fast, this single-wheeled cycle is designed to let you zip around cities, then stop and pick it up like a suitcase when you arrive at your destination - a sweet ...
What If? Apocalyptic Art Explores Ends of Industrial Worlds
What if we filled the world with nothing but cars, or skyscrapers, or if we simply started building an industrialized mountain (like a modern-day Tower of Babel) that reached forever ...
Istanbul Demolishing 3 Skyscrapers to Preserve City Skyline
After a huge and lengthy legal battle fought on various fronts by developers, municipalities and the Council of State, the Turkish government has ordered the partial destruction or total ...
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 ...
Unstealable Bike: Theft-Proof Bicycle Frame Doubles as Lock
If you are sick of worrying about your bike being stolen or taking a lock with you wherever you go, this design will solve both of those every problems faced by bicyclists around the ...
Endless City: Skyscraper Wraps Upward with Walkable Ramps
An urban pedestrian paradise, this conceptual design proposes to turn cities skyward with a system of flexible open spaces that gradually rise as floor plates curve up around its ...
