1. Pennies
Photo fromNotCot.comIf you ’re like most multitude , you credibly have cans and jar full of unused pennies . If you have , say , 480,000 or so , then why not do what the Standard Hotel in New York City did with them in their restaurant ? Make a copper floor .
2. Wooden Type
The beautiful maple wood floor in the checkout area of the Seattle Public Library mimics the appearance of a raised bed of wooden character . project by Ann Hamilton , the floor has 556 bloodline of text edition , in reverse , in 11 speech communication and alphabets , and consists of the first sentences of several books find in the library ’s collection . The type is fructify in reverse for two intellect : to reference how books are raise from font and to cite how we learn to study , from symbols that are at first strange to us .
3. Glass
When it comes to walking on this surface , the first footstep might be the hardest . At Chicago ’s Willis Tower ( better known by its one-time name , the Sears Tower ) , on the 103rd floor , there are methamphetamine balcony that give you a hiss ’s optic vista of the Windy City below . The balconies – or ledges , really – boxed in with glass walls and ceilings , are 1,353 foundation in the melodic line and jut out four feet from the building .
4. LED-Lit
Finsbury Avenue Square used to be a rather unremarkable public second power in London . But after Maurice Brill Lighting Design laid in a tight power grid of light-emitting diode - back frosted glass strips , it became like the set of Tron , a fun and futuristic blank space . The brightness level can change colour and are currently programmed to display ten different geometric patterns .
5. Salt Designs
6. Energy-Producing
" People , Planet , Party ! " is the advert logo of Club Watt in Rotterdam . As the mankind ’s first " sustainable terpsichore club , " it boasts a dance floor that commute the movement of hoi polloi dance into useable electrical energy . And its multi - coloured well-lighted surface looks really nerveless , too , like something from a 1970s - era TV dance show .
7. Optical Illusion
In the entrance to the Sunshine City shopping mall in Tokyo , there ’s a outflow surrounded by a large circular tile floor that looks like one of M.C. Escher ’s maddening ocular illusions . meet one path , it seems to be a serial of fall stairs . Blink your eyes , and the step flip upside down .
8. Fabric
9. Moss Carpet
How about having soft gullible moss on your floor ? Another imaginative Japanese artist , Makoto Azuma , has created an constitutional carpeting . An eco - friendly plant - derived knitted fabric telephone Terramac act as a receptacle for roots and seeds , and keeps the moss all tufted together like yarns in a rug .
10. Salami Slices
11. Chocolate
This level will definitely make you hungry . At a shopping center in Lithuania , artists used 611 Irish punt of burnt umber to create an intact room – walls , article of furniture , and floor .
