The best photos of this week.

A coveted architectural jewel, Toronto’s Integral House—the brainchild of math prof James Stewart—is going up for sale. Which very rich person will buy it?

In interior design, the way a room feels is just as important as how it looks. We'll teach you how to balance comfort and style like a pro.

The stunning concept just made the jump from PS3 to the real world.

Who knew there were so many colors of black?

Beloved by locals and tourists alike, London’s red bus has endured to become synonymous with the city.

Robot images

In what is surely the most resolutely optimistic architectural proposal of the year so far, French firm OXO Architectes has put forth a plan to build a city in the Sahara desert. A vertical city. That looks like a rock. The City Sand Tower is technically described as a mixed-use tower, but in its scope and ambition might be more accurately termed a space-age arcology.

Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans was mocked when first exhibited – but the work went on to have a lasting impact not only on art, but on the way we dress.

Dimitry Morozov, better known as vtol, is a Russian musician, engineer and artist who decided that selfies were far too modern for his liking. Instead, he wanted people to wait for their gratification, and so hooked up an iSight camera to an Arduino-controlled Brother sx-4000 typewriter. Once a person sticks their face in front of the machine, named i/o, the typewriter painstakingly hammers out a portrait in ASCII art.

The number of red phone boxes has fallen sharply as BT's sold thousands off. Where have they gone?

Thought that Mercedes' F 015 self-driving car was futuristic? It looks old hat next to GM's autonomous electric concept, the Chevrolet-FNR.

Austin-based architectural practice Bercy Chen Studio have designed the Edgeland House project.  The contemporary property, which is hidden under a grass roof, can be found in Austin, Texas. It's located on a brownfield site and is a modern reinterpretation of one of the oldest housing typologies in North America, the Native American Pit House.

A nondescript exterior and a yard dominated by headstones give no indication of the residential nature of this historic church in Kyloe, Northumberland.

Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Madoff. A look at the mansions built or bought with corporate fraud.

The competition is seeking innovative, cost-effective approaches for the re-design and consolidation of the Island's government buildings; initiatives to significantly improve the living standards and performance of residential properties; together with improvements to the Island's agrarian systems to better support grazing and the year-round growth of fresh produce.

We have posted about Mécanique Générale in the past and after scoping their latest work I realized that it was due time for another blog post to celebrate their talent.

Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near it lid, show close ups of the double-seam that hold the lid on, and details the complex operation of the tab that opens the can.

Gavin Munro of Derbyshire-based Full Grown tells Shane Hickey how moulding trees into one-piece chairs, lamps or mirror frames is far more eco-friendly than felling.