Challenged with designing something to fit a historic city-center context in "baroque, classic, neo-classical, romantic and neo-romantic style" is itself difficult if not paradoxical, but making ...
To commemorate those fallen on D-Day in France - civilians, Axis and Allies alike - a pair of sand artists used stencils and solicited volunteers to create a highly temporary art installation, ...
Preparing for doomsday means going solo for some, but most see survival needs including some sort of micro-society, be it for mutual defense and cooperation or, in the most extreme cases, perhaps ...
Previous efforts of Favela Painting transformed 34 buildings in Rio de Janeiro via huge rainbow-colored community mural, creating jobs and beautifying an area often feared by outsiders. This time ...
It started with a single person painting one public staircase, but when city workers of Istanbul, Turkey covered this brightly-colored street art with dull gray paint, citizen activists picked up ...
Housing over 2,500 squatters on 28 of its 45 floors, the Tower of David is a half-finished structure in Caracas, Venezuela, populated with displaced people. Like the now-vanished Kowloon Walled ...
Science meets luxury in this levitating coffee table composed of hovering blocks that seem to magically shift back into formation when applied pressure is removed. Like an over-sized ...
From urban blight to versatile site, one modular cube can convert unused storefronts of New York City into flexible destinations - community workshops one day, performance spaces or pop-up shops ...
From the MIT Senselab quadcopter and ETH Zurich self-assembling multicopter to DIY drones mounted with paintball guns, toy rockets and automatic weapons, flying robots are quickly making their ...
A site-specific installation in a New York City storefront, this twisting multi-colored tunnel was suspended in mid-air and held together with no less than 17,000 standard office bind ...
