Cabins come in all shapes and sizes, but innovative architect Bartosz Domiczek has just unveiled a tower-like prefab cabin that is one of the most extraordinary we’ve ever seen. The Northern Wisps Cabins — inspired by traditional Nordic design principals — are pyramid-like shelters that are covered in ultra-resistant sail fabric to withstand harsh climates and rugged terrain. Domiczek’s shelter […]

Airstream’s Basecamp trailer released in 2016 was a stripped back camper in some ways, shedding some of the weight and bulk of its bigger siblings in order to travel behind smaller crossovers and SUVs. The company has just launched a more rugged model, which retains the mobility of the original Basecamp but is equipped to travel further off the beaten […]

Airbnb has come up with another of its clever marketing stunts that offers competition winners a stay in one-of-a-kind locations. In a similar vein to its underwater bedroom and Lego House experiences, it’s now offering the opportunity to spend one night on the Great Wall of China. Few works of architecture approach the grandeur and timelessness of the Great Wall. […]

Pre-sale registrations are now open for the Manta5, a Kiwi-built, 400-watt hydrofoiling e-bike that lets you ride effortlessly on water like a life-jacketed, 2,000-year-old Jewish carpenter on a fitness kick. These look like an extraordinarily cool recreational and exercise toy for anyone who lives near a large body of water and who’s learned the hard way to stop changing it […]

Google Maps for motorcycles is now live in much of eastern Asia, according to RideApart. After initial testing in India, Google Maps has now rolled out the motorcyle transportation choice option in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The motorcycle feature in Google Maps includes roads and routes that are not accessible to cars and […]

With the ability to earn $4,000 per month in tips depending on the location and group size, locals who are active in their communities are using GuruWalk to provide for their families while giving travelers a unique experience. Born in Valencia, Spain in early 2017, GuruWalk recently raised about $175,000 (150K euros) from private investors, and is looking to have […]

It might not be the quickest vehicle at the event, but Swedish transport company Einride has chosen the Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal the T-log, an autonomous, electric logging truck. Incorporating some unusual purpose-built design for the niche logging market, the vehicle is designed to go off-road and to navigate forest roads with and without loads. With a name […]

Vo Trong Nghia Architects has long professed a desire to add more greenery to Vietnam’s cities and this is reflected with its latest project, the Chicland Hotel. The extraordinary building will be almost completely covered in vegetation and squeezed into an awkward plot near the coast in Da Nang. The Chicland Hotel (also referred to as the Chic-Land Hotel) is […]

As more and more people crowd onto this little planet, current farming techniques don’t look efficient enough to keep us all well fed. To make better use of space, farms of the future may move into high-rise buildings. Now, the world’s biggest vertical farm is set to be built – like so many other “world’s biggest” things – in Dubai, […]

Carry-on luggage restrictions mean that musicians can’t usually stow a guitar away in an overhead locker, so either have to pay for an extra ticket so that “Mr Les Paul” can sit in the adjacent seat or run the gauntlet and check it in. Fear of travel damage is what prompted Ian Reddick to design and build the Mercury Modular […]