No Quarter: Parking Meters Pimped To Perfection
It's time to pay tribute to parking meters, those metal “trees” of the concrete jungle that have collected billions of coins over eight decades of service. Parking meters have been ...
Year: 2017
Buildings as Backdrops: Playful Photography Humanizes Built Environments
People often play a small part in architectural photography and renderings - not so in this series of travel photographs, which would lovely but otherwise unremarkable without clever human ...
A Whole Latte Art: Masterpieces Rendered in Coffee and Milk
Most baristas who go the extra mile to make a cute design in the foam on top of your latte or mocha manage to illustrate a heart, a swan, a cat or maybe an owl, not an entire Vincent van Gogh ...
Mattest & Flattest: Blackest Paint You Can Buy Turns Solids into Voids
In a weird ongoing war over the blackest black and pinkest pink in the world, a new contender has hit the market -- and unlike Vantablack, anyone can purchase some to make really dark artwork ...
Palaces of Self-Discovery: Photos Document the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
Symmetrical photographs reveal the elegant geometries present in the architecture of some of the world’s most beautiful libraries, captured by Thibaud Poirier. The Paris-based photographer has ...
Bold Boats: 15 Wild, Fantastical & Futuristic Nautical Designs
File these awesome boat and watercraft designs under 'things you'll wish you had access to this summer.' Who wouldn't want their very own personal submarine, or a house boat shaped like a UFO? ...
Flat-Pack Mobile Architecture: This Building Will Self-Construct in 8 Minutes
Requiring a single tool and very little power, these self-deploying structures are ready for use in minutes, expanding themselves to multiple times their compact travel size. Based in ...
The Apprehension Engine: Machine Makes Disturbing Horror Movie Music
Is this the most terrifying musical instrument ever made? If you just take a quick glance at it, you’ll likely say no - it’s an unassuming (albeit rather strange) jumble of strings, rods, ...
Acclaim for the Reclaimed: 14 Cool Upcycled Architecture Projects
Going beyond simple stacks of shipping crates and ripped-apart pallets, these creative upcycled architecture projects reclaim stuff like corrugated iron, 5-gallon water bottles, old doors and ...
Russia Hour Traffic: Andrey Tkachenko’s Soviet Car Concepts
Russian freelance artist Andrey Tkachenko reveals the figurative swans hidden deep within the notoriously ugly ducklings of the Soviet automobile industry. “General Motors is not in ...
