Need some beautiful things to gaze upon at the end of a long week? How about photos of the restoration of an 138-year-old Brooklyn bank? Or a lighting pavilion that looks like it’s alive? Or a massive Lego calendar that syncs with your smartphone? These things and more wonders from the worlds of design, art, and architecture are the most beautiful items of the week.
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This giant colorful honeycomb is called the SOL Dome. Made from thousands of interconnected fiber optics, the structure responds to its environment as if it were a living, breathing plant.
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Thousands of paper windmills seem to spin effortlessly in The Wind Portal, an installation by Lebanese artist Najla El Zein at London’s V&A Museum this month. However, the production process wasn’t exactly effortless. In fact, extreme accuracy was required to build this massive wall of wind, because it relies on air—and air is volatile.
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Want to know Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia will look like when it’s done in 2026? Know what kind of software can enable a disabled artist to paint hands-free? Ever heard of clothes that decompose with you when you die? The answers to all of these questions and more lie within stories we found from the worlds of design, art, and architecture this week. Here are the most beautiful items of the week:
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Astro Saulter is an incredibly talented artist from Jamaica. He was also born with cerebral palsy, which has confined him to a wheelchair for his entire life. But thanks to some special software, he can exercise his uncanny ability to create art.
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In some parts of Norway, the sun stays away for three long months of winter. While in Russia, the answer might be UV baths, the sun’s absence in Scandinavia has inspired designers Lisa Pacini and Christine Istad to create Traveling Sun, a mobile multihued LED light sculpture that stands in for the sun.
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Combine robots, 3D graphics, and actors and what do you get? Box, an amazing performance by San Francisco-based engineering firm Bot & Dolly. It’s a short film that explores how the digital world interacts with the real world.
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Maybe walking around a life-sized maze made of file folders is a hellish work stress dream you’ve had before. But artist Emmanuelle Moreaux has brought a similar idea to life in a rainbow of an installation for Japan’s Shinjuku Creators Festa 2013.
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Antarctica is an isolated, frigid desert of ice and snow. It’s practically another planet
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Sometimes you have a week that’s just so mind-numbingly long you just want to stare off into space. But if you’re going to stare, why not gaze on interesting buildings, pieces of art, and wonders of the world of design. We’ve got you covered with the most beautiful items of the week.
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