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3d printing
Artists Are 3D-Printing a Room That Looks Like an Alien Cathedral

Who cares about plastic 3D-printed models of your head when an amazing, ornate room is being 3D printed out of sandstone? Digital Grotesque, as the project is called, looks like it was ripped from the frames of a sci-fi film. Read More >>

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photography
These Mesmerising Landscape Photos Turn Infrastructure into Art

The term "landscape photography" usually conjures up visions of green vistas and sublime natural landscapes. But photographer Toshio Shibita takes a different approach in his series, Constructed Landscapes. Rather than focusing on what's natural about the landscape, he focuses on how humans have changed it. Read More >>

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space
Even Boring Weather Is Stunning Through a Satellite’s Eyes

This dynamic GIF of the Earth was created by images captured by NASA's GOES-14 weather satellite on May 22. There's nothing outstanding about the weather report on this particular day, but look at how the GIF shows our blue marble moving and breathing in black and white. Lovely! Read More >>

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chatroom
What Is the Prettiest Gadget You Own?

Beautiful design isn't good design, and even the prettiest gadgets can still suck. But all that said, there's something to be said for devices that are just easy on the eyes, and if they're good too, that's a bonus. What's the prettiest gadget you've got hanging around. Or, if you're living in a trash-heap or something, what's the prettiest one you aspire to someday own? Read More >>

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htc
Watch How HTC Makes the HTC One So Beautiful

The HTC One is very probably the most beautiful looking smartphone on the planet right now and very possibly the very best phone that money can buy you. How did it get that way? The detail is in its design. HTC's design team talks about the impressive process of turning a slab of metal into so much more, in this video here. Read More >>

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design
Shake This Curvaceous Spice Grinder For Perfectly Pulverised Seasonings

If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin — or shake — on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. Read More >>

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architecture
This House Has a Pool With an Island and Nothing Else Matters

Do you need to know anything else about the Canterbury House once you find out it has a pool with an island in the middle? Nope. Sold! Read More >>

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design
These Awesome Floating Vases Are Practically Invisible

An expensive, ornate vase can be as much of a centerpiece as the flowers that are in it. These floating vases designed by the Japanese group oodesign take things in the opposite direction by making them look like water ripples. Read More >>

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art
A Sculpture Made of 10,000 Balloons Redefines Balloon Art

Jason Hackensworth is a balloon artist, but not the kind that wears oversized shoes and has been the villain in a 1990 horror movie. He's known for his balloon sculptures of biological forms and creatures, like this anemone-like sculpture, currently on display in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Read More >>

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architecture
The Rio Bonito House Fully Lives Up To Its Name

The The Rio Bonito House is set in a lush mountainous area in eastern Rio De Janeiro. It looks the the perfectly pleasant weekend getaway, but more than that, the design is notable because of the balance of both delicate and strong materials. Read More >>

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design
Beautiful Collapsable Cubicles Are an Office Rat’s Dream Come True

The cubicle is a horrid monster of office design. While it might be functional, it's never pretty to section off your office into endless false walls, resigning workers into their own little pockets of a giant ice cube tray. The designers at Taylor and Miller Architecture and Urban Design have a beautiful solution that even packs in some extra features. Read More >>

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architecture
Of Course This Stunning Building Is an Aquarium

Blue Planet Aquarium is the most aquarium-like aquarium you've ever seen. Cloaked in aluminium shingles that evoke fish scales, it's shaped like an ocean wave. Read More >>

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websites
Google Image Search Has Never Looked So Good

Stop what you're doing right now and start scrolling through this Tumblr of colourful images of planes and bridges and mats and packaging and other everyday items morphing into each other. It's called I'm Google, an ongoing art project that finds beautiful patterns in otherwise benign and boring images Google Image search results. Read More >>

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design
21 Wonders From the Future of Decor

The Architectural Digest Show — running from Friday through Sunday in New York — will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy cooker hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the best things we saw. Read More >>

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architecture
Iceberg Ahead! Oh Wait, That’s a Block of Flats

You know what trumps boring terraced houses after boring town houses after boring mansion blocks? A block of flats that looks like a giant iceberg, like this one in Aarhus, Denmark. Read More >>