Zap’Ados

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Paris’ Bang Architectes converted an old peanut factory in Northern France into a sleek skateboard park called Zap’Ados. The renovated building now features an orange mesh facade and a spaciously airy interior with an undulated ceiling that reflects the freedom of rolling on wheels.

Illustrator Sachin Teng

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

NYC-based illustrator Sachin Teng gently combines beautiful figurative drawings with data symbols like QR codes in perfectly balanced, abstract compositions. His knack for harmoniously blending colors and forms leads to subliminally striking works that only truly reveal themselves upon further inspection.

Inside a Chinese Sex Toy Factory

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

Photographer Jason Lee goes inside the plastic toy factory Ningbo Yamei—located on the edge of Fenghua, Zhejiang province in China—where he captured quality control checks on vibrators, rubber nipples being painted, inflatable dolls packaged for transfer and more. The resulting series reflects a simultaneously provocative and banal workplace.