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Massive Crabfort Crushes Your Landscape

Guild Wars isn't really known for having a science fiction element to it, but this concept art shows off an extremely steampunked Crab Fort, lumbering across the horizon. Enormous cogs and gears are evident in the construction work that looks like something straight out of a psychotic version of Burning Man. Everyone is standing around fairly calmly, not paying much attention to the GIANT FREAKING WALKING CRAB VILLAGE! More »

2:00 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,640 views, 26 comments

Latest by Ghede: The guy was raised in Transylvania? That was one of my life dreams, back when I thought it was filled with castles and movie-monsters. more »

concept architecture

Floating Mosques for a Climate-Changed World

An architecture firm in the Netherlands, Waterstudio, specializes in architecture that "makes friends with water." Its principle designers are environmental futurists, attempting to create structures for a world where water levels are much higher than today. One of their projects, which will be completed this year, is a floating mosque in Dubai. See the interior, and another concept for a floating mosque, below. More »

6:40 AM on Tue Jan 22 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,281 views, 8 comments

Latest by Justin K. Rivers: @Taurich: according to the new yorker, they've already transported the idea to the netherlands and are implementing it on a significant scale. What's different from docks in vancouver is that these are houses on dry land, that will be flooded more »