Thought origami was only performed with paper? Think again. One enterprising company is doing it with houses. Latvian start-up Brette Haus makes amazing folded-up mini dwellings that are moved to a (flat) location of choice by truck – and then unfolded by two people in just three hours. They come in three designs – Compact, … Read more
The arrival of a new era of commercial supersonic travel is approaching, with a firm behind a 1,000mph business jet having broken ground on a state-of-the-art global HQ where the aircraft will be built, tested, customized and ultimately launched for service from in 2027. Aerion Park in Melbourne, Florida, will produce 300 of the jets … Read more
The arrival of a new era of commercial supersonic travel is approaching, with a firm behind a 1,000mph business jet having broken ground on a state-of-the-art global HQ where the aircraft will be built, tested, customized and ultimately launched for service from in 2027. Aerion Park in Melbourne, Florida, will produce 300 of the jets … Read more
Pictured: The eye-popping 688ft-tall New York skyscraper that has a twisting space-age design like no other The renderings have been dreamt-up by Turkish architecture firm Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio Studio described the structure as ‘amorphous’ and having a ‘transparent, ghostly stance in the city skyline’ In 2019, it unveiled a design for a cliff-edge … Read more
Pictured: The eye-popping 688ft-tall New York skyscraper that has a twisting space-age design like no other The renderings have been dreamt-up by Turkish architecture firm Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio Studio described the structure as ‘amorphous’ and having a ‘transparent, ghostly stance in the city skyline’ In 2019, it unveiled a design for a cliff-edge … Read more
Amazing timelapse video shows the first giant creature being assembled for Legoland Windsor’s new Mythica land – a 334kg Chimera made from over 100,000 Lego bricks The Chimera was created in Lego’s master workshop and took 12 model-makers 653 hours to build The team behind the new land spent a year discussing and testing ideas … Read more
A reworked world map has revealed the most popular takeaway choices around the globe – and it’s pizza that’s the runaway winner. On the map – generated using Google search data – country names have been supplemented by their residents’ most-searched-for takeaway cuisine. Pizza is top in 44 countries, including India and Germany, while Chinese … Read more
Missing restaurant food? Then make it at home – by following the advice of top chef Oli Martin. He won the festive edition of MasterChef: The Professionals recently and his restaurant at Hipping Hall in Kirkby Lonsdale has an impressive four AA rosettes, so he knows his way around the kitchen. Here he offers top … Read more
The amazing Nissan van that comes with a built-in OFFICE (and it even slides out so you can work in the fresh air) Nissan exhibited the concept at the 2021 Tokyo Auto Salon – one of the world’s biggest custom car shows A demo video shows how the office pod has room for a computer … Read more
Michelin awards one of its coveted stars to a vegan restaurant in France for the first time ONA restaurant in the city of Ares, near Bordeaux, was launched in 2016 The letters ONA stand for ‘Origine Non Animale’ (‘Animal-free origin’) It’s run by Claire Vallee, who crowd-funded it after banks refused to lend to her By … Read more