Category: architecture & design

House On The Rock The House on the Rock, in Iowa County, Wisconsin, has been described as creepy, bizarre, an evil Disneyland, and the tackiest place in America. This article from Roadtrippers and the accompanying photos give a glimpse of the whole experience of actually going there. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

From Guns to Pastries: How 3D Printing Will Change the Way We Make Practically Everything TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Walking City: An Evolving Video Sculpture Morphs in Response to Architecture In this 8-minute digital animation the simple act of walking continually and slowly morphs from a blocky form into successive shapes of varying degrees of fluidity. It’s better to watch than to read a description of it, so Watch. [via: colossal] TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

Failed Inventions Documentary Cars with nuclear engines, or turbine engines, amphibious cars, all were unable to find traction (pun intended). Flying cars are another breed of vehicle that didn’t really soar (pun intended). How about rocket belts? As we may recall, they fizzled (pun, blah, blah). Even Thomas Edison had his flops, like a device […]

20 Eye-catching pieces of recycled urban furniture. From a shopping cart chair to a dishwasher drum table to a chair made from old CDs and more, this stuff is looking pretty spiffy. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

You can live mortgage free in a tiny house, like this family of four does. It might be too cozy for some but having no debt would be a great off-setting advantage. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

If you’ve seen one staircase you’ve seen them all. Whoa! Not necessarily. Here are 20+ beautiful modern staircases unlike any you’ve ever seen before. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

What would it be like to live in a 1978 Bluebird bus? Looks pretty good to me. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

12 luxurious outdoor showers. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious