$45 Million Glass Skyloft Penthouse Apartment Overlooking New York City

Million Glass Skyloft Penthouse Apartment Overlooking New York City

Spending a couple million dollars in the city of New York is nothing out of the ordinary, but dropping $45 million on penthouse in Tribeca certainly is. Nestled atop a beautiful late 1920s Art Deco industrial building, this incredible Skyloft Penthouse has recently hit the real estate market at a staggering $45 million.

The Glass Skyloft dwelling spans just under 7,500 square feet and features four bedrooms along with four and a half bathrooms.

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$18.5 Million Beach Villa in Phuket, Tailand

$18.5 Million Beach Villa in Phuket, Tailand

Maybe you haven’t won the lottery yet, but it’s never too early to start planning what you will be buying with your winnings. This beautiful beach residence on the east of Thailand is the perfect vacation home, and lucky for us it recently landed on the market for a cool $18.5 million.

The project was designed as a collaboration venture between the Hong Kong

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5 Most Beautiful Places in the world

Most beautiful places in the world

The palace represents the royal residence of the emperors with a remarkable traditional architecture. Some of the historic palaces are not just status symbols but are also used as a platform for parliaments, hotels, office buildings and museums. Palaces portray the social values of culture and time in which they were constructed. For this reason, archeologists and tourists are fascinated in exploring this beautiful architecture

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Alpha folding scooter solves your parking problems

Alpha folding scooter solves your parking problems

Folding bikes are quite hot with designers these days, and we really like the ease of portability they offer. The Alpha by Jason Jung is a compact foldable scooter that can easily be carried onto existing public transportation such as a bus, taxi or train. Designed to travel short to medium distances,

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10 Strangest Festivals

Strangest Festivals

Festival is an event which is usually staged by a local community. It usually centers on a unique aspect (culture, beliefs, local products) of that particular community. Most festivals are marked by merry-making and celebrations. Others capture the interest of people from all over the world because of their uniqueness and social relevance. A few festivals, however, are a lot harder to understand. Here are ten of the world’s strangest festivals

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Pacific Cycles’ Folding Bike Grabs International Design Award

Pacific Cycles’ Folding Bike Grabs International Design Award

If you haven’t yet considered folding bikes to be a great commuting option, you need to take a look at the Pacific Cycles’ iF Mode folding bike that grabbed a gold award at CeBIT, the world’s largest trade fair in Hanover, Germany. Designed by Mark Sanders, the stunning bike avoids oily chains, complex tubes with hidden dirt traps and the mess of traditional bicycle features. The iF Mode boasts the company’s iF (Integrated Folding) technology that

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12 Twisted Metal Street Art Murals by DALeast

Twisted Metal Street Art Murals by DALeast

DALeast landed on this planet in 1984 in China, he then decided to live as an artist in this life. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began doing art on public space at 2004 under the alias DAL. He is inspired by the way the material world revolves, how the spiritual world unfolds, life’s emotions and the infinite space around us

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A High-Tech Bike For Brazilian cops

A High-Tech Bike For Brazilian cops

Designed by Henrique Xavier as a degree project, at UFPE University, Brazil, the ROCAM, which stands for “ostensive round with support from motorcycles” in Portuguese, is a high-tech bike for Brazilian police force that makes extensive use of motorcycles in their service. Powered by a 400cc motor, the Viatura Rocam comes integrated with a radio, police lights and an on-board computer, so the cops can accesses the INFOSEG (a Brazilian police network)

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Fashioning Décor Items Out Of Outdated Cassette Reels

Fashioning Décor Items Out Of Outdated Cassette Reels


Do you have old cassettes locked up in the attic? Well, almost everyone will say yes to this one as cassettes were the most popular way to listen music in earlier times. They were very popular and that is why everyone has a lot of cassettes at their homes but today they are more like junk and unwanted things. Due to advancements in technology we have

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Protector Three Wheeled Motorcycle For Women

Protector Three Wheeled Motorcycle For Women

Motorcycle is the most popular means of transportation in Taiwan but it is remarkable that among the huge number of variety of motorcycles, there is none for a child. Tryi Yeh is a specially designed motorcycle for woman and a child with a smooth surface. This superb looking motorcycle will reduce the possibility of dangerous hit and the length is reduced with its stretch advanced seat. The latest three wheel design of this motorcycle is more steady and nimble than conventional two wheel motorcycles. Additionally, the design of this motorcycle’s backseat will save the straddles and this is why the designer is naming the vehicle as a Protector

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Antares Lift Portable Track Bicycle For Women

Antares Lift Portable Track Bicycle

Antares Lift is an innovative foldable and space saving bicycle concept that was intended for the cycling lovers and green commuter. This concept bicycle is a step away from the traditional mechanical aesthetic and carries in some organic elements that are found in nature. The design gets the inspiration from the orchid leaf and the outline of a tear drop and some remarkable features includes

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Intricate Animal Sculptures Made from Wood Chips

Intricate Animal Sculptures Made from Wood Chips

Sergei Bobkov is a talented Russian artist that uses wood chips to create intricate and realistic looking animal sculptures. The first step in the process is to carefully understand the anatomy of a creature. The next step is to create his own wood chips. To do this he shaves 100-150 chips from a solid stick of cedar. He then soaks the fragments in water for several days before beginning to carve. Each sculpture can take up to six months to complete

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25 Colossal Land Art of Jim Denevan

The Colossal Land Art of Jim Denevan

Artist, surfer, chef; Jim Denevan is a man of many talents. The 50-year-old is best known for his colossal temporary land art, using natural materials to create massive scale drawings on earth, sand and ice. His sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape are the means of their creation. Often aerial photography or video is needed to fully grasp the final work

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Capture Images On The Go With The CAMERing

Capture Images On The Go With The CAMERING

The list of stealthy gadgets like pens with video recorders, glasses with homing devices, and guns that only fire if the right person is holding it, can be enlarged with a 2012 iF Design Talents entry. The CAMERing designed by Hyeonsik Studio and Jeon Yengwon is a discreet digital camera embedded into a ring. This handy gadget enables travelers take pictures whenever and whatever. The camera ring is meant to work with a platform,

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Colossal Snowshoe Art by Simon Beck

Colossal Snowshoe Art by Simon Beck

Simon Beck is an artist from Southern England that uses snowshoes to create giant land art in the snow. Most of his work takes place in the ski resort of Les Arcs in the French Alps where Beck has a chalet and spends most of his winters. After planning the initial design on paper using a protractor and ruler, each piece takes Simon about 10 hours to complete

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Amazing Origami Using Only Dollar Bills

Amazing Origami Using Only Dollar Bills

Based out of Honolulu, Hawaii, artist and designer Won Park creates incredible origami pieces using only one dollar bills. What’s most impressive about Park’s work is that he designs them as well. He’s not just following directions, he’s inventing the blueprint for these amazing designs.

A typical sheet of paper used

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Eco Cars Spin Vehicle – Drive as you like!

Eco Cars Spin Vehicle – Drive as you like!

Eco Factor: Concept vehicle to be powered by an electric engine.

Long drives become exhausting if the driver is not comfortably seated behind the wheel. The cars of today have no more than an adjustable seat which has no great or relaxing effect on the driver’s position. Car designer Matias Conti knows that a comfortable drive is a safe drive, and to show the world how comfort and style can be coupled, Matias has designed the Spin Vehicle concept, which does much more than saving the planet

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30 Amazing Sculptures Made out of Cardboard

Amazing Sculptures Made out of Cardboard

Chris Gilmour was born in Stockport, UK (1973), but now calls Udine, Italy home. Using only cardboard and glue, Chris creates incredible sculptures that do not use any supporting structures or wooden/metal frames. Everything you see is 100% cardbaord. His medium of choice is plentiful, cheap and lightweight.

Guido Bartorelli summarizes Gilmour’s work

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Shattered Glass Animal Sculptures

Shattered Glass Animal Sculptures


Marta Klonowska is a Polish artist from Warsaw. Her passion is sculpture and she creates installations of her amazing shattered glass animal sculptures, typically placing them in front of historical paintings from masters like Rubens and d’Agar. While the source paintings had the animals in secondary roles, Klonowska makes them the focal point. As she explains to European Glass Context:

“Animals are difficult to understand and it is difficult to communicate with them. My glass animals open therefore a new reality,

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10 Amazing Animals Sculptures Made from Shattered CDs

Amazing Animals Sculptures Made from Shattered CDs

Artist Sean E. Avery creates amazing animal sculptures made from CD shards. Using a wire mesh frame, CD fragments, glue and sometimes a little paint, Sean produces these wonderful works of art that glimmer and change colour depending on the lighting/angle you view the work from.

Aside from his incredible sculpting work, Sean has ventured into illustration, specifically, Children’s Literature, with his first book

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