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Student Designs Flying-V Shaped Plane That Uses 20% Less Fuel

According to studies, air travel contributes to 2.5 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. To address this concern, an engineering student designed a Flying-V airliner prototype that is more fuel-efficient that any airplane. There are many...

Compass Pools Has Designed The World’s First 360 View Infinity Pool With The Entrance Under Water

Infinity pools are designed to allow water to flow over the edges. As a result, the edge appears to merge with the ocean or with the sky. Thus, creating a visual effect of a pool with no boundary which explains the name ‘infinity’. There are so many ...

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Create Your Own Globe-Shaped Greenhouse With IKEA’s Instructions

In 2015, IKEA introduced a prototype of the Growroom, a globe-shaped greenhouse that anyone can construct on their own. The spherical DIY greenhouse is designed by Space10, a research and design lab that specializes in creating sustainable ways of li...

Norwegian Town Rjukan Is Known For Having Limited Sunlight, So They Built These Mirrors That Mimic The Sun

It’s best for our health and well-being to have a healthy dose of sunlight. In fact, light from the sun lightens up the mood. But, not all places around the world enjoy sunshine every day. To solve the lack of direct sunlight in their town, the gover...

Tiny Mobile Home Comes With Its Own Detachable Green House

Whenever you plan to downsize your home, it’s almost synonymous to giving a sacrifice. With Olive Nest Tiny Homes, that doesn’t have to be the case. That means there’s no need for you to give up those spaces for your hobbies. You may need to priorit...

Gigantic 1,320 Ton Sculpture Unveiled Of Chinese God Of War Guan Yu To Watch Over City

In Jingzhou City of China’s Hubei province, a colossal statue magnificently stands as it seems to watch over the city. The monumental statue depicts the legendary Chinese military general Guan Yu. According to Chinese history, Guan Yu served under th...

McDonald’s Opens ‘McHive’ A Miniature Restaurant For Bees

Did you know that McDonald’s had a bid to protect bees? Interestingly, the company commissioned NORDDDB—a creative agency—to design a miniature restaurant just for the bees. It’s called McHive. In this McDonalds McHive Bees Restaurant, however, you’l...

The ‘Super Bugger’ Is A 1970s VW Beetle Converted Into An RV Hybrid

Mobiles homes are the newest trend among home owners right now. This is because tiny homes on wheels allow residents to experience a more adventurous life on the road. People can opt to buy luxury RVs or go for cheaper alternatives such as trailer ho...

Stunning 18th-Century Sculpture Contains A Net Carved From A Single Block Of Marble

Inside Sansevero Chapel Museum in Naples, you can find one particular sculpture with a very striking feature. One of the museum’s main attractions is an 18th-century sculpture with a marble net that looks so realistic. Visitors are in awe to see that...

Archaeologist Italo Gismondi Spent Over 35 Years Creating This Massive Scale Model Of Ancient Rome

In 1933, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini commissioned archaeologist Italo Gismondi to create a scale model of ancient Rome. In order to replicate the layout of ancient Rome, Gismondi used Rodolfo Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae which was publish...

Someone Illustrates The Reason Why The Stairs In Medieval Castles Were Spiral

The Middle Ages, also referred to as the 'Dark Ages', was the medieval period in European history between the 5th and 15th centuries. It started from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD until it gradually made way for the Renaissance period in 145...

A Super Fan Of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Built His Own Real-Life Hobbit House

This is a concrete example of a fictional element coming to life. If you’re a huge fan of fantasy books, you’ve probably wished to get sucked into that fantastical world at one point. But one Lord of the Rings fan did the unthinkable. Instead of fant...

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The Zhongshuge Bookstore In China Is Creating All Sorts Of Buzz With Its Optical Illusion Design

For book-lovers, there are only two places where they can find total bliss. And those places are libraries and bookstores. These places are all about their collection of reading materials. But what if somebody can turn a library or a bookstore into a...

A Village Is Being Made In France Specifically For Alzheimer’s Patients To Live Together Freely

The ‘golden years’ stage is an inevitable phase where human bodily functions start to deteriorate. Our physical body gets weak and will easily get tired even with minimal activities. During this phase, we begin to lose our senses of vision and hearin...

Architect Designs A House Inside A Giant Rock With A Modern Minimalist Look

Most architects would demolish giant boulders that may get in the way of construction. But Shanghai-based architectural photographer Amey Kandalgaonkar has a different take on this. Instead of removing the giant rock, the architect plans to build a h...