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Redressed to Impress: Uncovering Camouflaged Facades & Architectural Fake Overs

The world is full of architectural fake overs, from individual facades to entire buildings designed to look like something other than what they really are. Historically, some of these disguises ...

Four-Dimensional Murals: Artist Folds Space Inside Architectural Facades

Folding and flexible geometric forms seem to weave in and out of the structures graced with murals by David Louf (known as Mr. June), seeming to imply what a blank facade could have been in the ...

Peeled to Reveal: Condemned Building Neatly “Unzipped” Along its Facades

Cracked open like a coat (or pair of pants), the walls of this structure in England, have been opened up to expose its abandoned interior ahead of its scheduled demolition. "Open to the ...

Blind Building Facades Become Urban Farms with Scalable Scaffolding System

Blank, windowless exterior walls that get plenty of sun exposure could become vertical farms with the addition of recycled modular scaffolding. A project called GreenBelly aims to make use of ...

5 Architects Designed 5 Facades for Miami’s Wild ‘Museum Garage’

Apparently, Miami is hellbent on being home to all of the world's coolest parking garages. It’s already famous for 1111 Lincoln Road, a landmark gem by Swiss firm Herzog de Meuron that hosts ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Street Artist Breathes Life Into Urban Facades

The streets of Brooklyn are a little brighter these days with the addition of two new pieces by Spanish street artist Pejac, including one that appears to be chiseled out of a brick facade. Both ...

Architecture with a Twist: Installation Artist Knots Columns & Flips Facades

In his latest work dubbed Birth, Death and Midlife Crisis, artist Alex Chinneck is back at it again, exploring the limits of seemingly solid structures (and observer imaginations). This latest ...

Facades Minus Architecture: Subtractive Photos Flatten Built Environments

In Facades 3, the latest in a series of such sets, French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy ones again visits flatland, imagining the world constructed like a stage set from virtually ...

It’s All a Sham! 21 Urban Structures & Facades That Aren’t What They Seem

The cities of the world have a lot to hide, and while some of those things might be top secret government operations, others are as unremarkable as an ugly ventilation shaft, an electrical ...

Unboxing Buildings: Dull Modern Facades Removed to Reveal Historic Decor

Modernist architects rejected brick, stone and iron ornament in favor of clean metal and brutalist concrete, and in some extreme cases went so far as to cover up old facades with more ...

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