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Tech NewsAppleLatest Flyover Reveals the Truly Epic Scale of Apple’s New $5 Billion HQ
So how does a company spend the hundreds of billions of dollars of cash it has on hand? It builds itself a fancy new headquarters, and the latest drone-shot flyover of Apple’s new HQ reveals the truly immense scale of not just the central spaceship building, but of the entire new campus. Shot using a … Continued
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Tech NewsThese Amazing Trompe L’oeil Illusions Bring Drab City Buildings To Life
Trompe l’oeil (literally “to deceive the eye”) is an ancient technique whereby a painter creates a visual illusion via a trick of perspective. French street artist Patrick Commecy is a modern master of this art form, working with his team of artists at A-Fresco to create huge, hyper-realistic murals on otherwise drab building facades. Per … Continued
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Lego’s 4,000-Piece Disney Castle Is Cheaper Than Taking Your Kids to Walt Disney World
The average ticket price for getting into Walt Disney World is just north of $100, making the magic kingdom less than magical for your holiday budget. But instead of packing up the kids, wrangling them onto a plane, and then waiting in line to get into the park, just grab Lego’s new towering Disney Castle … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThis Building Looks Different Every Hour
This is the “Kiefer Technic Showroom” in Austria and the changing panels are meant to help the people inside regulate the internal temperature. Given China’s “weird architecture” ban, it’s good to see there are still weird buildings around the world.
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Tech NewsVideo Shows Off the Relationship Between Dance and Architecture
The concept behind the short film “Fabricating Performance” by the Interactive Architecture Lab and the study that surrounds it concerns reciprocation in design. Humans interact with space; shapes define space; humans then interact differently with the space after new objects have entered the picture. In the case of the dancer in the video, her movements … Continued
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Facebook’s New Gehry Building Includes the World’s Least Functional Bike Bridge
In 2012, Frank Gehry and Mark Zuckerberg posed for a series of photos that sealed their intertwined fates: Gehry, arguably the world’s most famous architect, would design a new campus for Zuckerberg, arguably the world’s most powerful not-lizard person. Surely with all this money and talent coalescing like a hunk of molten aluminum, Facebook’s new … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Penn Station Would Be So Much More Fun As a Roller Coaster
Many New Yorkers have schlepped to Penn Station to take a train out. We’ve sat in the waiting room, bored, and said to ourselves, I know what would improve my experience. If only I could go on a 1,200 foot amusement-park ride before my train arrived. One group—Brooklyn-based design studio AE Superlab—had the bravery to … Continued
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Iconic Architect Eero Saarinen Designed Weapons and ‘Devices’ For the CIA
Eero Saarinen designed some of the most iconic American buildings of the 20th century. The arch in St. Louis? That was him. The TWA terminal at JFK airport? That was him too. And it wasn’t just buildings. Saarinen also designed the furniture that would define futurism of the 1960s, like the tables in Stanley Kubrick’s … Continued
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Bjarke Ingels Built a Real-Life Minecraft Structure in London
Each year, the opening of the Serpentine Pavilion heralds the beginning of summer with a temporary structure installed in a London garden. This year, the pavilion was designed by Bjarke Ingels, the Danish superstar architect who was recently brought onboard to design Hyperloop One stations. Depending on where you stand, it’s either a very convincing … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Jesus’ Tomb Is Finally Getting the Restoration That Bickering Monks Delayed for 200 Years
The are many reasons one might put off a much-needed home improvement project. Budget. Can’t find the right contractor. When it came to the tomb where Christians believe Jesus was buried, it was two centuries of infighting between some very possessive monks. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, located in the Old City of Jerusalem, … Continued
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Apparently It’s Possible to Live in an Apartment With Too Good of a View
A building boom of supertalls in New York City is resulting in some of the highest residential units in the world—we’re talking apartments that are at a dizzying 90 stories and higher. So where does that leave the people who live in the former-tallest residential buildings? Don’t worry, they’re just fine in their 80th floor … Continued
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Space-Saving Lounge Chairs Disappear Right Into This Tiny Deck
To help maximize the living space in a 400-square-foot apartment in Honk Kong, the designers at Liquid Interiors came up with a clever way to make its tiny rooftop deck feel far more spacious: a pair of lounge chairs that disappear right into the wooden plank flooring. The chairs were built using alternating wooden slats … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThe World’s Most Expensive Hallway Is Under New York City
The exorbitant costs of the new World Trade Center Transportation Hub have been well-reported: the station cost FOUR BILLION DOLLARS. As of today, New Yorkers can now walk through the station in its entirety, but they’ll want to take note of one particularly pricey element: If calculations are correct, a single 600-foot corridor is the … Continued
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An Artist Has Made the Louvre’s Pyramid Disappear
Now you see it, now you don’t. Street artist JR’s latest work has seen him shroud the large pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris with material that, at a glance, makes it look like the structure has disappeared altogether. The trompe-l’œil trick is, of course, often used to hide building works from view on busy … Continued
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A Cathedral-Like Cistern Beneath Houston Is Now Open to the Public
Public infrastructure is known for being utilitarian, uninspiring, and downright ugly. But not always. At first glance, this giant water storage system under Houston looks more like the pillared nave of an ancient cathedral. Now the lost space that’s larger than a football field is open for visits. The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern was built … Continued
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How NYC’s Super Skinny Skyscrapers Stack Up Next to the World’s Tallest Buildings
Over the last two decades, a new type of building has invaded New York City: The super skinny supertall known as a “super-slender.” This new generation of skyscrapers range from 50 to 100 stories, are almost uniformly filled with luxury housing—and some are wedged into the city with astoundingly tiny 45-feet-wide footprints. An update of … Continued
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Tech NewsLego’s Next Architectural Masterpiece Is a Two-Feet-Tall Replica of Big Ben
Lego’s Architecture series gives adult fans the perfect excuse to keep buying the building toy—because they appreciate the design of the buildings, not because they secretly wanted to build spaceships. And while the new Lego Big Ben isn’t officially part of the Architecture line, at 23-inches tall it’s still an impressively-detailed recreation. Assembled from over … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
This Amazing Carbon Fiber Pavilion Was Woven by a Robot
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has unveiled an incredibly intricate robotically woven and biologically inspired carbon-fiber pavilion in its courtyard. The structure, constructed as part of the museum’s new engineering season, is built up of 40 hexagonal components that cover over 2,000 square feet. Each panel is made from a combination of transparent glass fiber … Continued
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The World’s Fastest Elevator Will Zoom Up the Shanghai Tower at 45 MPH
The Shanghai Tower is still the world’s second-tallest building, just a few hundred feet shorter than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. It already has the tallest observation tower—not that that’s stopped people from climbing even higher. As if it needed more to brag about, Shanghai Tower will be equipped with the world’s fastest elevator. According to a … Continued
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These Minimalist Posters of Famous Libraries Want to Hang on Your Wall Just Beside the Bookshelf
Libraries are magical places, and even the smallest local branch over the corner deserves your attention, and you should pay a visit regularly. Artist André Chiote believes in the power of libraries, and has put together an astounding set of posters to celebrate their importance. These minimalist posters below, created by Chiote, an architect and … Continued
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