Legible Graffiti: Repainting Street Art for Digital-Age Audiences
Artist Mathieu Tremblin has hit the streets again, expanding on his portfolio of repainted tags, turning messy walls into neat and readable 'tag cloud' arrays. His past works have ...
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Gold Medal Street Art: World Record Mural in Rio Stretches 600 Feet
Athletes aren’t the only people trying to set world records in Rio de Janeiro right now, and one artist might have nabbed the gold this week for the world’s largest mural created by a single ...
Magical Monsters & Kid-Size Castles: 12 Epically Imaginative Playgrounds
It’s true that as we get older, we lose most of the rich imagination that had us drawing monsters and telling strange stories as kids, the world seeming less magical with each year that passes. ...
Glitch Cities: Buildings Mysteriously Deleted from Chinese ‘Street View’
All kinds of architecture is being inexplicably erased from the Baidu Total View image database (analogous to Google Street View) ... and whoever is behind it is doing an oddly haphazard job ...
Floating in Space: Milky Way Reflections on Mirror-Like Salt Flats
Perhaps nowhere on Earth is there a more beautiful place to take in crystal-clear views of the starlit sky than the pristine Salar de Uyuni in southwest Bolivia, which boasts a mirror-like ...
A Study in Architectural Contrasts: 12 Modern-Meets-Historic Additions
At what point do modern extensions to historic structures surpass and overwhelm the original buildings rather than complementing and enlarging them? Contrasting architectural styles can be a ...
Vernacular Shantyscrapers: Reimagining Lagos as a Vertical City
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria, a fast-growing metropolis that has already spilled over onto adjacent waters but needs to grow up as well as as out. Artist and architect Olalekan ...
Close Calls: 12 Breathtakingly Creative Garage Doors
A garage door's main function is keeping what's inside safe from prying eyes but these creative garage doors keep all eyes focused on the outside. Sometimes great garage doors ...
Traffic-Proof Transit: Real Car-Straddling Bus Rolls Out in China
Initial plans to develop a lane-spanning bus in China were met with great enthusiasm but some skepticism, the latter of which is now being addressed via a real-life, full-sized ...
Liquid Shard: Fluttering Silver Cloud Hovers Over Los Angeles Square
A “universally despised” postmodern public square in Los Angeles is getting a second look this week with the addition of a surreal glittering silver cloud that undulates in the air above the ...
