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Compressive – An Intuitive Parking Lot For Abu Dhabi

The newest addition to join Abu Dhabi’s list of cutting-edge and futuristically designed sky-scrapers is a parking lot named Compressive. Yes, you read it right, a parking lot. However, it is no ordinary parking lot, as this one boasts of an intuitive thinking which reacts to the weight of both you and your car. This [...]

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Hydrogenase: The 100% Self-Sufficient Organic Airship Of The Future

The airships of the future will soar up using seaweeds. Well, this exactly what Vincent Callebaut, a Belgian architect has conceptualized. His unique transport system involves airships powered by seaweed. These new air mobility means will be 100% self-sufficient as far as energy is concerned and will release zero carbon emission. Headed under the project [...]

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Sitting Pretty in Nagoya City

That’s right! Nagoya! Do you know where that is? The exact location of this project is 3-38-10 Osu Naka-Ku Nagoya City – Aichi, Japan. The project? A cafe! Yay for coffee and snacks! This place of business, art, and design goes by the name “AG Cafe” and aims to tend to artists and consumers of [...]

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Solar-Powered Ascension Origami Crane to Bless Visitors at Coachella Music Festival

Inspired by the Japanese tradition of folding a thousand cranes in order to receive a wish, the LA-based Crimson Collective has come up with a massive origami crane named the “Ascension” that will be displayed at Coachella music festival this weekend. Finished in modular aluminum tubes covered with a white mesh fabric, Textilene, the structure [...]

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Stealth – New Maribor Museum

architectures david tajchman received an honorable mention for his proposal ‘stealth’ for the competition to design the new maribor museum in slovenia. slovenian lacework tradition the external enveloppe uses a pattern shown in various treatments. perforated, it works as a brise – soleil and filters natural light for exhibitions spaces. on floors the same pattern [...]

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