Arc Kit: Design and Build Your Own Miniature Architecture
A kit that combines the precision and detail of computer modeling with the physicality of Legos makes it possible to design and build any architectural structures you can dream up. With ...
Month: November 2015
Unknown NYC: 12 Hidden Sights in America’s Cultural Hub
The hordes of tourists glomming onto New York City's most famous sights likely won't notice the wild acid-green parakeets of Brooklyn, the strange bricked-up prison window on the side of the NYPD ...
Fast Track: New High-Speed Pedestrian Lanes Live in Liverpool
An experimental pedestrian fast lane system deployed in England allows speedy walkers to circumvent gawking tourists and window shoppers. Implemented by retailer Argos adjacent to a ...
Best from Above: Drone Views of 6 Philadelphia Abandonments
Some of the most fascinating parts of certain deserted buildings in Philadelphia cannot even be seen from below, making this drone footage shot by Matt Satell of Philly by Air all the more ...
The Warning: Murals Painted On Fragments of a Melting Glacier
The face of a giant bathing woman seems to rise up from the icy waters of an undisclosed Arctic location beside the fragmented remains of a rapidly melting glacier, snow-capped mountains in the ...
Cruelty of Concrete: Harsh Architecture in Berlin & Beyond
There is an innate coldness and harshness to concrete that lends it a sinister air, as if unsavory practices are carried out within, even if the structure is actually in use as a church or ...
Color Me Patriotic: Ukraine’s Protestor-Painted Lenin Statues
As the Ukraine strives to break free from all things Russian, some unlikely allies – Soviet-era statues of Lenin – have been enlisted to wave the flag. ...
Urban Ant Farm: Colony Encouraged to Hack City of Glass & Sand
In this Urban Ant City installation, hundreds of Spanish ants were set loose in a scale model of Rotterdam, allowed to navigate the existing street and carve their own paths and ...
A Chapel in Space: Images Projected onto King’s College Ceiling
Galaxies stretch across Gothic columns and spatterings of stars span the archways of the chapel at King’s College, immersing hushed crowds who have come to hear a lecture on space. Artist ...
Playable Landscapes: Custom Concrete 3D Puzzles of Cityscapes
Pick any spot in the world and this company can print out a custom mould for a concrete pour, which, when cured, will make a 16- or 32-piece puzzle out of your favorite place. Using Open ...
