Topping Time's list of best inventions of 2012 is Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde's suspended, indoor cloud. More a method than a machine, Smilde's cumulonimbus invention is created by fiddling incessantly with the temperature, humidity, and lighting of the space. The result? "The surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters." Time has more. [Time via Architizer]
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