Category: Architecture & Design
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The cake server by Joseph’s Machines
Brooklyn-based inventor Joseph’s Machines makes comical DIY contraptions. His latest video shows a chain-reaction machine deliver him a piece of cake. It also includes a baby poking an iPhone, a string of melting butter, and a chandelier. The video took 3 months to make. Piece a cake! Joseph’s gadgets are inspired by the cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg…
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Meet the flying train, a hybrid train and plane
While Elon Musk is helping to combine hyperloops and space travel, the Russian architecture firm Dahir Insaat wants to build a hybrid train and plane that transports 2,000 people at a time. The flying trains reach speeds up to 300mph, not much faster than the speediest train in the world, the 267 mph Shanghai Maglev.…
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A timelapse of the Pas-de-Calais region
The Pas-de-Calais department hired a creative agency to promote travel to Northern France. After taking 350,000 photos, the result is a beautiful look in both timelapse and hyperlapse formats at the diversity of the Pas-de-Calais region’s environment with an emphasis on architecture, landscape, and sport. This video project was commissioned by the Pas-de-Calais department to…
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New York’s Park Avenue once included a walkable park lane
Park Avenue in New York City used to have a dedicated park lane that ran down the middle of 5th Avenue. Hence the name “Park” Avenue. Even more, the term parking was first referenced in association with trees, not driving lines. From The Etymology of Parking: According to the 41st Congress, the proper way to…
