A tiny slice of real estate in Brooklyn is now an affordable, low-impact multi-level residence made of five stacked and renovated shipping containers. Williamsburg couple Michele Bertomen and ...
Like socks, or any other paired object of everyday use, it seems the eternal curse of chopsticks to become separated and mismatched over time, at least until now. Japanese design firm ...
Somewhere between city signs and street graffiti lies a surprisingly rich and colorful language of secret messages, all hidden in plain sight on roads and sidewalks. This spray-painted slang we ...
London may have changed just a tiny bit since the 17th century, but you'd hardly know it looking at some of these mash-ups of classic paintings superimposed against modern scenery snapped by ...
Mathematics are more integral to architecture than ever before, and as the methods of designing structures grow more complex, so do the calculations. As these fractal and parametric designs - ...
256 plastic barrels support this multistory marvel, which stands up and out even amid a sea of buoyant and stilted architecture in this fishing village alongside Lagos, Nigeria's largest ...
Mutating works of public advertising with corrosive acid, this cunning urban interventionist hijacks posters from bus stops and subway stations, then adds his own message into the ...
Scaffolding is ugly, and steals valuable sidewalk space from city residents - but with a simple kit of parts that fit onto the frame with brackets, it transforms into an instant pop-up park. The ...
Even the world's most famous and celebrated architects have their failures, whether due to unforeseen consequences of an extraordinarily complex design or just plain shoddy construction. From the ...
It is a fantastic endeavor and nearly finished - a movie made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings, all presented in the style and told by the characters of the tale's protagonist: Vincent van ...
