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Month: October 2015

Phonetikana: Embedding English into Japanese Characters

Nothing gets lost in translation with these embedded English pronunciations, tied directly into the Japanese typographic style Katakana. While the letterforms of Katakana create an effectively ...

Beach Read: Monumental Concrete Library on the Edge of a Bay

If you’ve ever gotten bored with the book you’re reading on the beach and wished you could just run into a seaside library for a new one, here’s the building of your dreams: a stunning ...

Animating Tattoos: Colored Ink Mapping Brings Body Art to Life

The world's first live tattoo projection mapping event turned tattoos from static works into performance art, creating dazzling animations from inked body artworks. Filmed in Lisbon by ...

Neolithic Modernism: History Museum Appears Carved from Stone

A bold break from traditional closed-box museums, this gorgeous open Museum of Indigenous Knowledge design is as much an interactive rock-hewn landscape as a work of contemporary ...

Floating Forest: Trees Rise From Corpse of Abandoned Ship

Rusted and half-sunken yet still somehow afloat on the waters of Sydney’s Homebush Bay, the remains of a century-old ship have become fertile ground for a thriving forest. Located on the south ...

The Language of Death: 15 Gravestone Symbols Explained

The symbols carved into stones commemorating the dead can reveal a lot about the deceased’s beliefs and philosophies, or at least those attributed to them by their families when they were ...

Doom & Bloom: 36,000 Flowers Adorn Condemned Detroit Duplex

Bought at auction by a florist last year, this dilapidated multifamily home was destined to be demolished but given a last chance to blossom thanks to a team of florists and array of volunteers ...

Plug & Play Homes: Mobile Modules Slot into Urban Frameworks

Coming to Austin next year, this mobile housing strategy takes portable living out of trailer parks, plugging you straight into the city grid and allowing you to easily hop metropolises on demand ...

Ruins to Art: Timber Addition Transforms Abandoned Building

An abandoned traditional building on the coast of Madalena, Portugal has come back to life with a sculptural wooden extension that emerges from the back like a living organism. Cella Bar by FCC ...

Concrete Wonders: 13 Brutalist Buildings in the USA & Britain

While the most theatrical Brutalist buildings remain in the former USSR, there are plenty more of these controversial concrete complexes around the world, and they draw both admiration and ire in ...

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