Revealing Historical Photos Show US White House Gutted
Imagine the state of it: the United States executive mansion after 150 years of continuous occupation. By this time, the already-aging White House had been retrofit with a maze of modern ...
Month: April 2013
Exotic Green Getaway: Lush Villa Made of Local Materials
Merging traditional Balinese visual flair with the openness of modern architecture, Alila Villas Uluwatu is a picturesque resort with individual villas connected by bridges over sparkling ...
Photoshop in Real Life: Portrait Series Takes Tools Literally
Anyone who has used Adobe products, Photoshop or otherwise, knows that they have necessarily become quite creative in naming some of their more abstract, surreal and unusual ...
Eyebombing: 21 Street Artworks Utilize 42+ Googly Eyes
Unlike graffiti tags or other stylized and personalized approaches to urban art, eyebombing is an equalizer. Like a crowd behind Guy Fawkes masks, the work of any of the following 21 example ...
Ruin Academy: Urban Lab in an Abandoned Building
Occupying an abandoned five-story apartment building in central Taipei, Ruin Academy is a living architectural laboratory where holes drilled in the walls let rain inside, plants grow from the ...
Frightening Archaeological Finds: 15 Odd Human Remains
What bizarre and terrifying 'treasures' from long-gone ancient civilizations are still hidden in crypts, caves and deep within the earth? Most archaeologists may spend their days painstakingly ...
Transforming Dhaus Designers Announce Origamic DTable
As featured previously on WebUrbanist, the Dhaus is a radical transforming building with eight specific configurations and all kinds of deployments in between. This time around, we have even more ...
Visionary Videos: 7 Awe-Inspiring TED Talks on Architecture
Watch these videos and you will never see built environments in the same way again. Some tackle timeless questions of light, dark and color, while others address emerging technologies and the ...
Stealth Wear: Counter-Surveillance Fashion Protects Privacy
The rise of surveillance technology, including face recognition software, drones, body scans and cell phones as GPS locators, has resulted in some creative attempts to elude it. Designer Adam ...
The Future That Never Was: 12 Funny Gadget Predictions
Yesterday's visions of today were surprisingly accurate in some cases, but in others, they were humorously off-base. We're not zooming around our moon colony homes in jet packs, confirming our ...
