If you were walking down the street and someone handed you a completely colorless Rubik’s cube and asked if you wanted to have a go, chances are you’d hand it back with a quick, "nahhhh, I’m cool." And you would just keep on walking. BUT! What if you looked up and saw the device was actually controlling an entire, rainbow-hued building all lit up and shining right in front of you?
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On stormy days and windy nights, Tribeca residents say their neighborhood is filled with a strange, high-pitched whistling sound coming from the redeveloped World Trade Center site. It’s an inopportune location for howling (although, really, where is?), but it’s hardly the first building to surprise its neighbors by humming or whistling.
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Hanjie Wanda Square, a high-end mall designed by Dutch architects UNStudio, opened in the Chinese city of Wuhan this week. There are 42,300 stainless steel orbs strung along the facade, each embedded with an LED that, together, turn the building’s skin into a multi-colored screen at night. [Domus; image by Edmon Leong]
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The construction of 432 Park, located a block south of West 57th in New York City, on the former site of the 80-year-old Drake Hotel. When the building reaches completion in mid-2014, it will stand as the tallest residential building in the western hemisphere
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The Church of Scientology has reportedly spent roughly half a billion dollars buying up buildings in U.S. cities over the past few years—but, in many cases, these huge buildings have remained vacant. Now, the city of Philadelphia is taking the church to court over an empty tower.
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While everyone is freaking out about Amazon’s plan to unleash an army of delivery drones
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25 Sao Paulo firefighters were hurt over the weekend as they battled an electrical blaze at the Latin American Memorial, designed by celebrated Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died last year at 104. The original plans for the building may have been destroyed in the fire. [Images: Andre Penner/AP]
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San Diego’s airport has been too small for almost a hundred years—the city made its first plans for a replacement back in 1923. Now, after decades of failed expansion plans, private investors are slated to begin construction on their own solution: Build a pedestrian bridge to the nearest airport… in Mexico. The market finds a way!
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By reading my articles on this site you have probably understood by now that Brazil is a very inventive and innovative country. Most likely only few people know that it has an "Antarctic Program", which sets foundations on the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station. After the occurrence of a fire back in 2012, there was the need to rebuild the station. The works should start in 2013 and continue during 2014.
And you thought breaking down your Amazon boxes for recycling was creative—Japanese gamer and amateur modeler Upuaza Touryou just trashed the competition, turning his stack of old flimsy cardboard into an insanely elaborate Buddhist temple.
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