What if you took all of the elements of a building, hacked them apart and put them back together again without apparent rhyme or reason? At a glance, that seems to be the primary visual effect ...
Long designed with bland respectability in mind, banking institutions have rarely been places to find dazzling architecture and interior design. But if you think that's still the case in the 21st ...
If your mental image of 'Jolly Old England' and the rest of the United Kingdom is mostly full of stuffy royals, bland food and cow pastures, you're missing out on the stunningly colorful, ...
Morocco is renowned for its colors, with its cities awash in vivid shades of red, purple, green and gold. But things are a little different in Chefchaoen, a town in the northwest nestled among ...
Maps aren't just two-dimensional pieces of paper depicting the locations and geographic features of the world. They're the basis for portraits, sculptures and clothing, and are reconstructed or ...
Dark, smelly, filthy and crawling with rats – while this may be an accurate description of many subway stations and tunnels around the world, it definitely doesn't apply to Barcelona's ...
Billowing clouds of cut paper installations that cast dream-like shadows on a gallery wall, delicate paper drawings plastered on gritty urban surfaces, complex layered sculptures of hand-sliced ...
Seven stories tall, this Tower of Babel is no long-lost artifact from biblical times but rather an artistic tribute to the city of Buenos Aires' new designation as 'World Book Capital 2011'. The ...
The right minimalist sans-serif or swooping, elegant script typeface can be just as expressive as the words it spells out, and can sometimes even stand in for brushstrokes of paint and other ...
Signs aren't always an afterthought – sometimes they're integral to the design of the building itself, carved in towering letters right into the facade or even serving as structural support. ...
