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March 3 Yesterday, after three fortnights at sea, we made landfall in Catan. Here we will make our new lives. Upon stepping off the boat we fell to... → Read More
When I became a first grade teacher I knew that it wouldn’t be an easy job. But what I never imagined was that these kids would end up teaching me ... → Read More
Not only are these 3D-printed cityscapes, known as Microscapes, a great little toy for any architecture lover, but they serve as a perfect snapshot of a point in time in the life of a city. Made from aerial scan... → Read More
This visitor center on the Cape Verde island of Fogo, designed by Lisbon-based Oto Arquitectos, took seven years to complete. It was inaugurated last April, was named cultural building of the year in Archdaily's Building of the Year 2015... → Read More
The cubicle has given way to the big long table, but a new product from architect Dymitr Malcew aims to supplant even that. Imagine an office that's just a big empty loft with a bunch of little work pods... → Read More
A castle in Maryland inspired by Redwall Abbey from Brian Jacques' Redwall series of children's fantasy novels about a group of anthropomorphic woodland creatures who live in Mossflower Woods and fight off other, evil woodland creatures in between eating... → Read More
The most terrifying bridge in the history of the world is now open in China. People have walked on it. What is wrong with them? The 430-meter long bridge is 180 meters off the ground. It is made completely... → Read More
We're not really fans of taxidermied animals in general, but to be fair this taxidermied cougar in a $1.5 million Idaho mountain retreat isn't so hot on us, either. Wow, the cougar is saying, with its (fake) eyes. You... → Read More
Famed horror author H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and moved back there after a brief stint in New York City, into a house at 10 Barnes Street. He stayed there for the next seven years, and... → Read More
The word that comes to mind when scrolling through the pictures of this five-bedroom mansion on the market for $4.45 million in Saint George, Utah is texture. A lot of texture. Texture on the walls primarily, sure, but also... → Read More
Landscape architect Charles Jencks created this enormous installation, called the "Crawick Multiverse," in Scotland's Nith Valley, and in addition to being incredibly cool—the different parts are meant to be physically representations of theoretical physics concepts—it is really going to... → Read More
If you're a priest, what do you do to prepare for Pope Francis's imminent visit to the East Coast? That's not a rhetorical question—we really don't know. Apparently, neither do they, because one Philadelphia priest just made a replica... → Read More
It's difficult to imagine having a desire to eat a ceiling, but, well, here we go. This ceiling designed for a chocolate store in Girona, Spain by Arnau Architecture Studio looks like it's made out of melting chocolate, and... → Read More
Architecture-Studio has completed its six-year renovation of the Créteil Cathedral in Paris, leaving the 49-year-old cathedral looking not unlike an alien spaceship that has crashed into the earth. The unique shape is not haphazard, though—the two spherical shells meet... → Read More
The great thing about the Camera Restricta, an invention from German designer Philipp Schmitt, is that it in no way encourages people to take good pictures. It simply prevents them from taking the same cliche pictures that everyone else... → Read More
The owner of a lavish 1930s Georgian mansion in Melbourne, Australia recently faced the problem of needing to build a garage to accommodate his (or her, but we're just assuming it's his) collection of very expensive cars without detracting... → Read More
Wood might not seem like the best material to construct a spaceship out of, but this one, constructed by the Soviets during the Space Race and left to rot in an airfield for more than two decades, was only... → Read More
From architecture studio Penda comes this very cool entrant in a new Bauhaus Museum design competition, with a ground floor made up of two rotating platforms, which would allow the museum to function as a normal building or, alternatingly,... → Read More
As we continue our unrelenting march toward a future where robots do everything (except blogging—we'll always need bloggers), New York-based Construction Robotics has created a semi-automated mason, a.k.a. SAM, that can lay bricks like a human, but better because... → Read More
This conceptual Tokyo music center design from German firm Fly Architecture takes the idea of a space designed for an audience to the furthest extreme by sheathing the entire thing in glass. The main concert hall on the top... → Read More