monolith on Flickr.

architizer:

Under the Water, an installation that gives the sensation of being submerged beneath the island of tsunami wreckage ripped from Japan’s coastline and sent floating into the Pacific.

poptech:

architizer:

For the last 500 years, the locals of Nongriat in Meghalaya, India have grown several hundred bridges across the region’s numerous water channels. Some of the bridges extend over 100 feet in length and are strong enough to support more than 50 people at a time. 

Just wonderful.

Holy crap!

"Architecture, whether it is a work of art or not, must be utilitarian or else fail completely. Art is not utilitarian. When three-dimensional art starts to take on some of the characteristics, such as forming utilitarian areas, it weakens its function as art."

I’m hangin’ out at my parents’ house for the rest of the summer. Just showed this to my dad and he loved it:

“That is cool! You should put that on your website.”

Done and done.

In Hong Kong, cars drive on the left while in the rest of China, they drive on the right. If you’re building a bridge between the two, you’ve got to come up with a clever way to switch lanes without disruption or accident.

(via Jacob Bijani / Kottke)

Mesh (Washington, DC)

"MIT researchers have created a system of floor blocks that generate power when the blocks rub against one another as people walk over them. A crowd of 30,000 moving to and fro could create enough power to run a small electrical system or perhaps bring a subway train safely to a platform in the event of a blackout."

Ohne Titel (Kunstakademie, R 218), Andreas Gefeller

(via erasing:veryverybeautiful)

“Ice house Detroit is an architectural installation and social change project currently taking place in Detroit. Photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune will use one if 20,000 abandoned houses and freeze it in solid ice …”

Ice House Detroit

Subway Architecture