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This Cradle Rocks: Basket Chair is All Kinds of Cozy

[ By Delana in Design & Furniture & Decor. ] Everyone should have a comfortable space, a place where the stresses of the world can just melt away. For many, that space is a warm bed or a soft...

16 h ago

Sky High, But Grounded: 16 Incredible Tree Houses

[ By Marc in Houses & Residential. ] A rickety platform in the backyard can no longer be called a tree house… not after seeing these. A real tree house is either a real house built in a tre...

1 day ago

Retro-Future NYC: What New York Could Have Become

[ By Steph in Technology & Vintage & Retro. ] What would New York have looked like, if the futuristic visions of innovative thinkers in the late-19th to mid-20th century had become reality? M...

2 days ago

Decay in Detroit: Feral House Photos by James Griffioen

[ By Steph in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] The word ‘feral’ has a dark and unsettling connotation: wild, dangerous, likely to turn on you at any moment. The word is most often a...

2 days ago

Urban Geodes: Crystal Street Art Hidden in Broken Spaces

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] Break open even the dullest rock and you may reveal amazing quartz or other crystals in radiant whites, blues, purples and reds. This street...

3 days ago

No Mere Puff Pieces: 30 Clever Cushions & Crafty Pillows

[ By Delana in Design & Furniture & Decor. ] Pillows and cushions are more than just a place to lie your head or a thing to turn over when you spill cheese dip. They are the things you hold o...

3 days ago

3Space: Sharing Vacant Spaces with the People

[ By Steph in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Properties that sit vacant and empty for too long tend to invite crime and decay. Many charitable organizations can’t find affordable p...

4 days ago

8th World Wonder in the Works: Tunnel from Russia to USA

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] It sounds like science fiction, but is back on the table after nearly a century of talk: a railway to reconnect the Far East with ...

5 days ago

Cooking Lean: 13 Mini, Mobile, Modular & Motorized Kitchens

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ] Renovating your kitchen, and left without a place to make basic meals? Living in a tiny urban apartment that just doesn’t have room for a sta...

5 days ago

Ten More Creative Crosswalks & Zany Zebra Crossings

[ By Steve in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] Where did the pedestrian cross the road? Unless he or she’s a jaywalker, at the crosswalk of course! These ten creative crosswalks or, as th...

6 days ago

Don’t Burn Rubber: Hand-Carved, Recycled-Tire Art

[ By Delana in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] (all images via: Beautiful Life) The key to becoming a respected artist is not necessarily to do something entirely new and different, but to do it i...

26 may 12

Dive! Dive! Dive! 16 Incredible Submarine-themed Rooms

[ By Marc in Design & Furniture & Decor. ] Adventuring under the sea has a dangerous and classic appeal. These images of incredible submarine-themed rooms and decor are the perfect inspiratio...

25 may 12

Metal Heads: Sculptures Made of Movable Type & Hardware

[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] Sculptor Dale Dunning has been casting the same genderless face in all different kinds of materials for over a decade – placing it on its side, ...

25 may 12

The Candy Room: A Store Delicious Enough to Eat

[ By Steph in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ] Some candy shops are so colorful and chaotic, you’re not sure where to look. That kind of wild Willy Wonka-esque environment can cer...

24 may 12

Super-Sized Urban Plant Tags Identify City-Specific Species

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] So ubiquitous they almost escape notice, the stuff of everyday streetscapes follows certain laws of man and nature alike. Pointing out the o...

24 may 12

The Fifth Facade: A Peek Inside NYC’s Hidden Rooftop World

[ By Delana in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Even for native New Yorkers who are rarely surprised by the secrets offered up by their fascinating home, the hidden NYC that Alex MacLean c...

23 may 12

Mexican Venice: The Man-Made Island City of Mexcaltitán

[ By Steph in Global & Travel & Places. ] During the dry part of the year, Mexcaltitán looks like any other island off the coast of Mexico, save for its unusual shape. But in the rainy season...

23 may 12

Open Secret: The Ghost Town of New York City

[ By Steph in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] Just miles from America’s most populous city is a neighborhood that’s almost entirely abandoned, its streets flooding with three feet ...

22 may 12

Towers of Trash: 5000-Foot Junk Skyscrapers to Fuel Cities

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] The Germans have a dark joke about their low-water-consumption, eco-friendly toilets and cultural history, which goes something like th...

22 may 12

7 Mysterious & Monumental Man-Made Wonders of America

[ By Steph in 7 Wonders Series & Global. ] A stone monument with instructions for apocalypse survivors, lurking ominously in a field in rural Georgia. A castle comprised of stones that each weigh...

21 may 12

Con Jobs: 10 Outrageous Apple Brand Ripoffs

[ By Steve in Design & Graphics & Branding. ] If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then a host of eager entrepreneurs really, REALLY admire Apple Inc. and its visionary founder &am...

20 may 12

Forgotten Tributes: 25 Monumental Relics of Yugoslavia

[ By Delana in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] If you were to travel today through the area that was once Yugoslavia, you would come across some incredible massive objects that allow an unexpected...

20 may 12

Quantum Levitation: Floating in a 3D Magnetic Field!

[ By Delana in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] If you ever needed proof that science is completely amazing, the mind-blowing phenomenon of quantum levitation might just do it. A group...

19 may 12

Bountiful Bento! 25 Not-So Traditional Lunches

[ By Marc in Culture & Cuisine & Global. ] Bento is the Japanese equivalent to the American bagged lunch, but it’s also an art form in itself, and is strongly integrated into Japanese c...

18 may 12

Bubbletecture: Poppable Building Made of Soap Bubbles

[ By Steph in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Is this the most temporary architecture of all time? Fragile and tenuous but undeniably beautiful, these bubble buildings rise for just momen...

17 may 12

Bookcase + Chair Hybrid Now with New Mini-Shelved Ottoman

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Furniture & Decor. ] For those of us not ashamed to show off our favorite volumes, what better way to both keep them handy and apparent than with furniture that b...

17 may 12

Infamous Footwear: 20 Pairs of ‘Fashion Backward’ Shoes

[ By Delana in Design & Products & Packaging. ] Oh, the ways women suffer for fashion. One of the most egregious perpetrators of fashion crimes is none other than that object of burning desir...

16 may 12 1 person likes this

Mini Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Cool Travel Companion

[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ] A man takes a seat on a park bench and opens a pair of suitcases, carefully adjusting a few things inside, placing a few small objects in just ...

16 may 12

Sub(limb)inal Criminals: Faux Legs, Arms & Heads as Art

[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] Whether they’re just the arms of a mannequin attached to inanimate urban objects or gory, all-too-realistic hands clutching violent video ga...

15 may 12

Migrant Skyscrapers Roll Up City Streets Inside Giant Wheels

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Skip all practical considerations for a second and suspend any disbelief – now imagine what a truly nomadic urban society might l...

15 may 12

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