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29 Prime Examples of Very Thoughtful and Incredibly Helpful Designs

Not all designs are created equally. And let this be a lesson to anyone hoping to get into the field that user function should always be your top priority.

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Sympathetic Architecture

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It’s Not For People But It’s Still Friendly

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Parent + Child library carrel, so you can do your research and keep your little one occupied. Fairfield Library, Virginia, USA.

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Friendly on the eyes

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Pool and Water Slide, Egmont Højskolen (“Folk High School”), Western Denmark.

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Wheelchair friendly sandboxes, various

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Wildlife Overpass, Trans-Canada Highway, Banff National Park, Canada. The 38 passes and fencing have reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by more than 80%

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Homeless bench, Vancouver, Canada

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In Norway you get a small amount of money for recycling bottles/cans. They’re often collected by poor people, homeless etc. A lot of our trash cans has these holders around them so people don’t have to search through the trash to collect them

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In case this counts: braille on the rail to describe the view

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Modskool – Design Museum winner for best architecture 2020, India

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Teetertotters Slotted Through the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello

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In Asia nobody has to worry about falling into the subway tracks.

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Hedgehog Highway (Dolly Parton called these out this week), UK

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this anti-climbing Fence on the” Suicide Bridge “(colloquially) in a small town England. there are also signs with suicide Hotlines on them. not a fun part of architecture but definitely helpful/saving lives.

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Old City, Jerusalem added 4km of wheelchair-accessible routes in 2019 (and cleared it with UNESCO)

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The tiles around our apartment complex is made up like the enemies in Space Invaders, Sweden

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Cover for bicycle saddle so it doesn’t get wet when it rains

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A friendly urban cycle path in Girona

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Wall of Kindness, Norwich, Vermont, USA

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These two coin lockers that are easily accessible in a wheelchair, Austria

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Circular footbridge over roundabout, Shanghai

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This drinking fountain allows you to gill your bottle, and saves the extra water for passing dogs.

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These public benches are reversible, so you can choose to look at people, or boats.

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Bioswale, Seattle WA. (A channel to concentrate, clean and move stormwater)

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A bridge providing a bench in the fences in Shanghai

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Safe Haven Baby Boxes

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Good news for a change: friendly architecture

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29.

This gate allowing horses and pedestrians not cars

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Crab migration bridge, Christmas Island, Australia

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