London’s Iconic Routemaster Busses Are Being Scrapped For Good

London’s Iconic Routemaster Busses Are Being Scrapped For Good

It’s one of the most iconic vehicles on London’s roads, but the ageing red Routemaster bus, currently serving two routes, is set to be replaced by the modern hybrid "Boris Bus" entirely.

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A Single Night of Sex on This Luxury Hotel Submarine Costs $390,000

A Single Night of Sex on This Luxury Hotel Submarine Costs $390,000

Well here’s a new option for the wealthy tourist who’s seen it all. No, it’s not a trip to space. It’s not a floating hotel room or even a wild safari. It’s a luxury submarine—an underwater palace built for a Bond villain that can be yours for the weekend. But it’ll cost you.

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Escape Your Winter Nightmare In These Five Perfect Dream Houses

Escape Your Winter Nightmare In These Five Perfect Dream Houses

If you’re somehow not sick of winter yet, then you’re sick of hearing other people complain about it. And there’s at least another month of this crap in our future. So sit back, relax, and let Jesus Diaz take you on a calming ride through the world’s best beach houses.

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OK, it didn’t win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting ov

OK, it didn’t win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting over a city near you, but its harp-like cables and rings sure do make a cool structure in the sky. Designed by the London-based firm Architects of Invention for a site in Santiago de Chile, the tower would have included a circular walkway suspended above the city below. For other entries in the call for a landmark radio tower, stop by Plataforma Arquitectura. [Architects of Invention]

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This Stainless Steel Origami Spoon Is Shipped In a Flat Paper Envelope

This Stainless Steel Origami Spoon Is Shipped In a Flat Paper Envelope

Perfect for scooping things out of rectangular containers with flat walls, but not so great with anything round, the real claim-to-fame of David Adler’s Kafolda spoon is that it arrives as a perfectly flat piece of stainless steel and some assembly required.

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12 Buildings Nominated For the Year's Best Design

12 Buildings Nominated For the Year's Best Design

A cemetery in Sweden. A floating school in Nigeria. A cast-iron facade in the UK. The wildly divergent list of nominees for the Design Museum’s annual awards make you wonder: How the hell do you pick a single building to represent such a broad profession?

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Tomorrow's Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are

Tomorrow's Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are

Human bones are amazing—seriously, they’re incredibly cool—but up until recently, it’s been hard to engineer a synthetic material that replicates the super-strong structure of the real thing. Now, scientists in Germany are using a 3D printer to do just that—and it could mean a breakthrough for how we build everything from architecture to spacecraft.

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The New High Line for Queens Could Include This Human Roller Coaster

The New High Line for Queens Could Include This Human Roller Coaster

If you could build your own High Line, what would it look like? That’s the question the QueensWay Project, an effort to turn an abandoned stretch of railway in Queens into an elevated pedestrian and bike path, recently asked designers to answer. Some of the winners announced today are truly wild.

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London's Brutalist Housing Blocks Just Got a Bright Upgrade

London's Brutalist Housing Blocks Just Got a Bright Upgrade

Housing estates in London are a little intimidating from the outside; many of the post-war structures are hulking Brutalist towers surrounded by a complicated labyrinth of monochrome concrete. But one complex in London just got an upgrade—and oh, what a difference color can make.

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Why Olympic Mascots Are Always So Goddamn Creepy

Why Olympic Mascots Are Always So Goddamn Creepy

Every two years, the world takes part in a figurative dance that’s been decades in the making. First, it’s the iconic passing of the torch. Then, an epic, national-pride-filled opening ceremony. And, finally, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. The holiest and most timeless of Olympic traditions: It’s time to mock the mascots.

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