Read the rest of Guilherme Torres Recycles Brazilian Artist’s Home Into A New Live Work Space
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Talk about a “face” lift! Making waves with his street art that transforms enormous abandoned structures into giant portraits, Russian artist Nikita Nomerz uses details already present at the sites he chooses to create his crazy faces. Nomerz travels to cities across his native country to make these creative pieces and as opposed to painting over a wall to create s... weiterlesen...
Talk about a “face” lift! Making waves with his street art that transforms enormous abandoned structures into giant portraits, Russian artist Nikita Nomerz uses details already present at the sites he chooses to create his crazy faces. Nomerz travels to cities across his native country to make these creative pieces and as opposed to painting over a wall to create s... weiterlesen...
by Miyoko OhtakeWhen the plan to add a second story to a century-old Montreal house crumbled due to a weak foundation, architect Marc-André Plasse eked out another 500 square feet with a clever multilevel addition on one side.
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by Miyoko OhtakeWhen the plan to add a second story to a century-old Montreal house crumbled due to a weak foundation, architect Marc-André Plasse eked out another 500 square feet with a clever multilevel addition on one side.
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Read the rest of SOM Wins Master Plan Competition for Beijing Bohai Innovation City Along High Speed Rail Line
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Researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have been hard at work on a mission to create 3D-printed dinosaur robots. It may sound crazy, but 3D printing will allow the researchers to cheaply and efficiently replicate bones that previously were cast with plaster molds. The new digital technique lets the team create small, scale models of large dinosaurs and t... weiterlesen...
Read the rest of Playful Never Never Land House is Built Around Trees in Ibiza
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Read the rest of Artist Makes Giant Winter Crop Circles Just by Walking in the Snow!
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Read the rest of Green Roofed Vancouver Residence Was the First LEED Platinum Home in Western Canada
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Read the rest of TEST DRIVE: We Get 40 mpg From a Non-Hybrid Hyundai Elantra!
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Read the rest of Finland’s Beautiful Lilja Chapel is a Pop-Up Prefab Church
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Make your living room the bomb with Stockpile Design’s upcycled furniture and lamps made from decommissioned missiles and ammo. Designed by ex-military brat Jake Wright, the furniture and housewares will fuse some hard edge into your interior design. Available at his Etsy store, each piece is chock full of history repurposed into functional furniture.
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Getting the whole family to eat their vegetables can be a challenge – but thanks to this super cool Sprout Table by Swedish student, Lena Louise Meyer, you can harvest and grow veggies right in the middle of your kitchen table! Unveiled at the recent Stockholm Furniture Fair, the table combines traditional craft and modern design to bring eco-friendliness and env... weiterlesen...
Taking inspiration from the famous tale of ‘The Tortoise and the Hare‘, Japanese artist Natsumi Honda created these fantastical sculptures made from recycled watch parts. Dubbed “Time to Be Included”, the works are the product of hundreds of hours where the artist painstakingly glued thousands of tiny pieces together. A graduate from Tama Art University, Honda r... weiterlesen...
Read the rest of Buenos Aires’ Magnificently Restored Hippodromo Racing Venue Keeps the Old and the New in Harmony
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Harvard researchers recently created a miniature mechanized bee called the Monolithic Bee or MoBee using a new technology that produces self-assembling three dimensional machines from flat sets of components. The bee robot is assembled using layers of differing materials on an assembly scaffold – the body of the bee folds together like a pop-up book, and once released from... weiterlesen...
The tiny Swiss ski town of Tenna recently put itself on the map with the world’s first solar wing-powered chair lift! While solar-powered lifts are popping up in ski resorts all over the world, this is the only one with a string of photovoltaic “wings” that float on a string above the lift chairs all the way up the mountain. The little lift is quite popular ... weiterlesen...