Design Fail, on purpose: German artist creates surreal urbanscapes

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    And now, some delightfully demented urban planning to cap your day:

    Germany-based art grad Robert Rickhoff imagines a series of improbable, if not downright dangerous, urban arrangements for his thesis, “Out of Place,” at ArtEZ in the Netherlands.

    The manipulated photos include a wooden slide that transforms into a park bench (watch out for splinters!), a skating ramp in the middle of a street, rollercoaster-style bumps on a railroad track and our personal favorite, a public urinal only accessible via rock-climbing.

    Bask in the sublime impracticality in the pictures below from Rickhoff’s website:

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