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Itty-Bitty Baths Inspire Daft Designs

August 3, 2010
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While urban dwellers enjoy ready access to city amenities, a trade-off is the distinctly urban micro-bath. Why, I could fit most of these city loos inside my obnoxious suburban garden [...]

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Power Toilets: Because we’re all the same inside (the restroom)

July 14, 2010
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This proves even the most powerful people can’t feel secure anywhere! Working from secret photos taken of what must be one of the world’s most closely-guarded loos, the Danish group [...]

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Aqua in Chicago: 82 Stories of Inspiration

June 23, 2010
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While visiting Chicago recently, my hotel was right next door to the much-praised new Aqua building…and really, I just couldn’t get enough of staring up at it’s unusual form.
The 82-story, [...]

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Architects Gone Wild: Water Inspiration for Yeosu 2012

February 20, 2010

Big-time international design competitions encourage architects to “design and build feats of wonderment” and for the ocean-themed Yeosu, Korea World Expo 2012 (“The Living Ocean and Coast”) we can see [...]

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Sewer Pipe Suite Life

January 4, 2010

A concrete sewer pipe as hotel room? That’s repurposing for a practical purpose! DasPark Hotel is the sort of wild idea you’d expect to be just another conceptual prototype, but [...]

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Nemo, txt u l8r

October 27, 2009

What if you could send a text message to the fishes and find out first-hand how they’re doing? U R SO FINNY, LOL! Sound crazy? Of course, this is just [...]

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Next Up: The Air-Water Nexus

June 11, 2009

As we run great rivers nearly dry, suck our aquifers empty and pump, pump, pump, in increasingly futile attempts to meet unsustainable water demand, hope springs anew as a vision [...]

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