It's no surprise that Brazil's favelas, or slums, can be bleak places to live. In one neighborhood, a sign on a wall ridden with bullet holes reads, 'Attention neighbors. In days of war, avoid ...
One building is impossibly cantilevered, seemingly set for an inevitable crash. Another resembles the game of Jenga, with blocks of concrete stacked in strange configurations. Perhaps ...
There's the inside-out skyscraper, the horizontal skyscraper and the wooden skyscraper. There's a bizarre three-towered structure made to vaguely resemble an elephant, tusks and all. And then ...
Amid the sea of digital art displayed online, many artists get lost, but there's simply no way to overlook the bizarre robotic creatures and complex machinery of Kazuhiko Nakamura. Eschewing the ...
Sure, a brand name and an alluring product display in the window are enough to incite most people to step inside a store – but some retailers downright demand our attention with incredible ...
From severed arms to crosses made from marijuana, shocking imagery in ads aims to get our attention – and that they do. Advertisers are using bold and bizarre visuals to draw eyes in an ...
It's “an elusive pirate treasure of contemporary art” - an abandoned subway chamber under Manhattan that was illegally opened for a year starting in 2009 to allow 103 select artists to paint ...
In Japan, the rooms aren't much larger than coffins – tiny stacked pods with beds, a television, a radio and little else. But one company is seeking to take that 'capsule hotel' concept and ...
It's a case of life imitating art: photographs of full-sized objects or scenes that look like tiny, perfectly constructed models. Tilt-shift photography, whether using a real tilt-shift lens or ...
How can urban planners allow city officials, architects, builders and neighborhood residents to collaborate equally on new development projects? Online gaming. An unprecedented new program ...
