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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 ...

Magic Cement: Hidden Concrete Patterns Appear with Water

The writing is on the walls, but only when they get wet - that is when the secret messages or hidden designs appear in these seemingly innocuous concrete surfaces, like a durable and built-in ...

Coming Next Year: World’s First Floating Apartment Complex

Living in close proximity to ever-rising water can be a difficult prospect, and while the Dutch have come up with all sorts of ways to work with instead of against it, this is a new achievement: ...

Modified Water Bike: Inventor Commutes San Francisco Bay

Both the first person to bike across the San Francisco Bay and over the Hudson River is great, but being able to skip traffic jams and cycle to work over the water daily is even better, according ...

The Fallen: 9000 Figures Hand-Drawn in the Sand for D-Day

To commemorate those fallen on D-Day in France - civilians, Axis and Allies alike - a pair of sand artists used stencils and solicited volunteers to create a highly temporary art installation, ...

Glassless Bottles: Ice Beverage Containers Keep Cola Cool

No amount of insulation can hope to keep your beverage quite as cold as a bottle made entirely out of ice, as found in this limited-edition container design from a marketing firm working for Coca ...

Walk on Water: Hydro-Floors Hide Secret Swimming Pools

Adding a swimming pool or hot tub means displacing something else - usually a outdoor lawn, yard or deck or dedicated room inside a house. But what if you could have the best of both worlds: a ...

Floating on Ephemerisle: Seasteading Event ala Burning Man

For all its art and controversy, the desert is perhaps the most unique defining characteristic of Black Rock City, home of the Burning Man Festival in rural Nevada. Potentially even more ...

Botel: Floating Hotel with Modular Detachable Room Boats

You may have to move rooms when you arrive at your hotel, but has your room ever had to move you? Instead of static spaces, the sleeping areas in this hotel are dynamic vehicles you can use to ...

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, ...

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