Strung Along: Twine Guides Visitors Through Abandonments
Acting as a minimalist and silent tour guide, lengths of black yarn were carefully suspended to direct guests along a route through the broken walls of a deserted series of tightly-packed ...
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Blanking Banksy: Artists & City Paint Over Pricey NYC Graffiti
Banksy is an artist with the rare power to make walls more valuable after he has vandalized them, which some then seek to alter or destroy and others fight to protect and save. The ...
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The cringeworthy moment at which one's accused guilt is captured forever (and often disseminated on the internet) results in a telling portrait of the subject. Mug shots reveal the emotions, ...
12 Worthy Winners: 2013 World Architecture Festival Awards
Dynamic, surprising and visually stunning, the winners of the 2013 World Architecture Festival awards represent the very best in recent architecture across a range of categories, from hotels and ...
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Rural Urbanism: Forest Community of One-Pole Tree Houses
Pristine nature versus urban development seem ever at war, but this designer proposes a low-impact, small-footprint approach for cross-kingdom co-habitation between people and ...
Skinned Buildings: Latex Casts of Derelict Urban Surfaces
Draped like the macabre souvenirs of a serial killer, ghostly skins of old buildings billow on clotheslines, bearing the grime of the surfaces from which they were cast. Amsterdam design studio ...
The Art of Tranquility: 14 Modern Tea House Designs
In Asia, tea houses are typically striking examples of traditional architecture, reflecting the culture and history of the nations in which they're built. But many architects are re-imagining ...
Free T-Shirt & Final Tag: Banksy’s Goodbye to New York City
After an intensive month-long residency in America's biggest city with daily updates, street artist Banksy is leaving behind a strangely mixed legacy of his trip. Here are some of his last works ...
Sounds Of Sirens: 10 Alarmingly Abandoned Firehalls
Made to last and styled to please, these abandoned firehalls silently linger on long after the factories and buildings they were built to protect have gone. ...
