Monday, February 22, 2010 - 11:59am
How do you enter your home? Through a normal door? Bo-ring! Just take a gander at this ludicrous entrance, which is made to look like you're entering a spaceship (or at least a spaceship from the set of a 70's...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 1:17am
Japan-based design firm Bakoko have a proven knack for turning old, demolition-ready living structures into a futurist's dream, and now the firm has taken that ethos of reinvention a bit more literally. The Comploo house is designed to accept compost...
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 2:13am
Increasingly, the problem of creating sustainable, eco-friendly solutions extends beyond transportation and is moving into the realm of home building. Europe-based design team A&V first came up with a concept design and then executed their vision that is the MercuryHouseOne....
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 3:03am
If you're among the new class of workers allowed to deliver the goods from home, the Archipod was made for you. Designed by a UK firm of the same name, from the outside the Archipod looks a bit like a...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 11:20pm
QR codes are still quite prevalent within Japan but if a new design technology experiment is any indication, the country may become one of the first augmented reality societies. The N Building, located in the Tachikawa district has been layered...
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 12:18pm
If the days of gigantic arcologies ever arrive, architect E. Kevin Schopfer will be at the forefront of their design. After creating that spectacular pyramid-shaped arco for New Orleans, his next trick is a floating city-within-a-city he envisions smack dab...
Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 5:52pm
You may remember MAD Architects from their equally mad designs, such as this star-shaped floating city. Now they've got the wobbly-looking, 1,250-foot-high Urban Forest for Chongqing, China that does away with the traditional walled skyscraper for one that's a series...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 9:32am
Leave it to Australian architects at Peddle Thorp to prove that houseboat architecture has come a long way. They're calling this starship-like floating exhibition space "Fluid," and once it's done showing off its beauty at the 2012 World Expo in...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 8:15am
The Technosphere is an eco-friendly building set to be built in Dubai. Shaped like a sphere, it's a solar powered design with minimal waste, with the whole thing meant to represent the state of the Earth's ecosystem. Oh, and it...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 1:34pm
Facebook has consolidated the entirety of its Palo Alto operation — some 700 employees strong — into an old laboratory from the 1960s, done up all pretty by San Fransisco's Studio O+A. What's that do for them? Well, besides running...
