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Mobile Building Can Travel by Land and by Water

the world’s first moving building

I know only a handful of people who still haven’t seen Up…. I think it’s one of the most creative, touching, and meaningful movies ever made (with a touch of quirkiness and a whole lot of cool on the side). One concept the movie unknowingly introduced to the world

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September 12th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Famous Robie House Gets LEGO Treatment

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We love LEGO around here, and when you get to build real world stuff out of LEGO, I like it even better. I know nothing of architecture. Out of all the world’s architects, the only name I recognize and associate with specific designs is Frank Lloyd Wright.…

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September 4th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

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Is Raleigh, NC Building a Death Star?

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The Death Star plans may not be  in the main computer, but it does look like they are floating around Raleigh, North Carolina these days. I spotted the first of these mysterious photos over on Flickr and they sure make it look like a junior Death Star is under construction…

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June 13th, 2011 by: Technabob

Jeffrey Stephenson Visits the House of Wright with His Usonian Pc Casemod

Usonian PC Case Mod

Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of his own right who came up with the simplistic design for middle-income homes he dubbed as “Usonian.”
So what happens when you cross Usonian houses with PC Cases? Well, see for yourself. The design features design elements from the Backman-Wilson house which was…

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May 17th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Tiny Tokyo House is Built in a Parking Space

All I know of Tokyo is what I learned from that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer had the three Japanese businessmen sleeping in his dresser. I know space is at a premium in the city and Tokyo is just about the opposite of Texas where we tend to have lots…

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November 17th, 2010 by: Shane McGlaun

Millennium Falcon Blueprints: Maybe You Can Build Your Own Now

millennium falcon han solo star wars blueprints

Are you total Star Wars… fan? Well, then this should be right up your alley. Here are some detailed blueprints of the Millennium Falcon, and it does show that Han Solo skimped on some details in order to make the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs.

Han Solo won the

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November 10th, 2010 by: Range

Level 5 Offices: Your Gaming Dollars at Work

level 5 office

Japan-based developer Level-5 has made some of the most loved video games in recent times – Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy, Dragon Quest 8 & 9 and the Professor Layton… series to name a few. With such successful titles under their belt, Level 5 can afford to build fancy

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September 26th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Video Game Console Buildings Will Never Actually Exist. Boo.

nintendo ds nes building video games joseph ford

These new photos are the work of Joseph Ford, who’d like nothing more than to have a enormous Nintendo DS building. The only place that this could ever be made would be Japan.

Still, it kind of looks awesome. Just imagine, sitting in your office and peering out to the…

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May 21st, 2010 by: Range

Only Gadgets Can Read the n Building’S Qr Code Facade

N-building QR code

Are machine-readable codes the the future of advertising? Teradadesign and Qosmo worked together on the facade of the N building, a commercial building in one of Tokyo’s shopping districts. The team felt that the ads or billboards usually attached to commercial buildings “undermines the structures’ identity.”… So what they did

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January 29th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Augmented Hyper(Reality): Pop-Up Ads Take Over Your Walls

augmented_hyper_reality

When I first watched Keiichi Matsuda’s Augmented (hyper)Reality… video, I wasn’t sure if I should be awed or frightened by his vision of the world that lies in front of us.

Matsuda’s stunning video clip was created as part of his Masters’ program at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and

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January 26th, 2010 by: Technabob

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