School buses are so much fun. The springy seats, the awkward-to-open windows, the rumbling engine—it all hearkens back to a time in your life when you were younger, happier and worry-free. But did you ever imagine living in one? Hank Butitta did.
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Cleaning sucks, but just be happy you don’t have to do it from dizzying heights. New York City’s window washers cleaners have to be some of the ballsiest cleaners out there, and they dangle from buildings everyday like it’s nothing. The New York Times took a closer look at their squeegee-ing heroics, and it’s terrifyingly awesome.
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At first glance, we weren’t entirely sure what Radiant Soil, a massive installation by architect Philip Beesley, actually was. An industrial-sized Lite Brite crossed with a giant set of K’Nex maybe? A sentient being sent here to lord over us? Either way, it’s mesmerizing—and we wouldn’t mind being beamed up inside of it.
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Thirty percent of the U.S. population are baby boomers, according to the
American Association of Retired People (AARP), and a recent survey
conducted by the group found that 84 percent of us want to stay in our
homes after we retire. If you are a member of that majority, you might
need to think about doing some remodeling to make your home more
accommodating to your needs as you age.
Combining art and nature is nothing new, but having live animals as participants in exhibitions is a bit more unusual. Luckily, these hermit crabs don’t move too fast, particularly since they have entire artistic cityscapes on their backs, fashioned meticulously out of plastic by Japanese artist Aki Inomata.
Humans have been obsessed with the weather—and how to control it—since the dawn of time. We talk about it constantly. We spend millions of dollars trying to change it
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In case you had dreams of one day building a giant stone fortress atop a towering apartment building without asking anybody’s permission or attempting to get the proper permits, let this be a warning to you: eventually, someone’s going to ask you to tear it down. That’s what’s happening to Zhang Lin, a wealthy professor who made a fortune in medicine and then spent six years turning the top floor of his apartment building into an illegal stone Shangri-La.
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Once again, World of Concrete magazine is looking to award the most innovative products in the masonry and concrete industries. If you’ve been tinkering in the construction field, it may be time to shine!
This red-sided house, rotting on a quiet street of York, Alabama, was once a symbol of the town’s struggle with blight. But over the past two years, with the help of the citizens who invited him there, artist Matthew Mazzotta has disassembled the abandoned structure and rebuilt it—as a tiny home that unfolds into an open-air theater. It’s like the circle of life, for architecture.
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