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Superverde is Italian architect Stefano Boeri’s design for modular street furniture for cities that comes with trees, plants and benches. Boeri’s practice Stefano Boeri Interiors created Superverde for Metalco, an Italian street furniture maker. A metal edge will frame the planters, which would contain an appropriate mix of soil and greenery for the climate it is

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Architecture studio APL Design Workshop has built a foyer on a raised platform ringed by trees for an open-air theatre in Kurobe, Japan. The Japanese practice previously designed the outdoor amphitheatre at Maezawa Garden House in 1989. Pritzker prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki built Maezawa Garden House in 1982 for Japanese manufacturing company YKK. APL Design

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Yarauvi is a conceptual nondenominational burial place, re-released by Miró Rivera Architects as founder Juan Miró mourned the death of his tutor, professor Michael Sorkin, from coronavirus. Miró started to design Yarauvi, a floating city of the dead, during his graduate studies at Yale under his teacher Sorkin, who passed away from Covid-19 in March

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Model maker and photographer Frank Kunert explores the “absurdity of life” through his meticulous architectural models with a twist. The German artist’s handmade miniatures recreate seemingly normal scenes that, upon further inspection, reveal a surreal scenario. In Under The Bridge, a support column for a motorway flyer has been converted into a sweet little townhouse,

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