The least designed-looking thing in the street, and all of it is deliberate. Here are ten.
1. The Backrest Decides How Long You Stay
A bench with a back supports…
Everything that happened in a room is recorded in what you are standing on. Here are fifteen.
1. Board Width Dates the House Roughly
Very wide boards generally mean early…
The lift is the piece of machinery most people use most often without ever seeing any of it. What is visible is a box and two doors. What makes it…
A railway looks like the most rigid thing in the landscape: steel lines running dead straight to the horizon, apparently welded to the earth. The reality underneath is the opposite,…
The round cover is a famous interview question with a famous answer, and the famous answer is correct but incomplete. Roundness solves one problem extremely well. The lid is solving…
A hole in a wall that has to behave like a wall. Here are fifteen compromises.
1. It Is a Deliberate Weak Point
A wall is there to keep weather,…