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Restyling Blandmarks: Those Much Maligned Boxy Urban Condo Buildings

From Seattle to New York City, Minneapolis to Dallas, boxy apartment and condo buildings sporting bland facades, metallic or colored cladding and a generally flat aesthetic seem to dominate new ...

Dairy Err: 10 Closed & Abandoned Australian Milk Bars

Chain store competition is creaming Milk Bars across Australia, leaving independent store owners, desperate smokers and the odd lost droog thirsting for more. Milked Dry Milk bars have a ...

Footloose: Canada’s Abandoned Bata Shoe Factory

The former Bata shoe factory in "Batawa" – a company town located in southern Ontario – forged fine footwear for footloose Canucks from 1939 to the year 2000. Kickoff The Bata Shoe ...

Stairway to Nowhere: Behind the Hate for NYC’s New Hudson Yards “Vessel”

People really hate Thomas Heatherwick's new Escher-esque "Vessel," a climbable sculpture in New York City's billionaire playground of Hudson Yards, and they're not afraid to wax poetic about it. ...

3D-Printed Sushi Nutritionally Customized Based on Diner’s Biodata

Not many sushis restaurants ask their patrons to provide urine and saliva samples upon entrance, but in our era of hyper-personalization, maybe we shouldn't be surprised. From the Japanese ...

Plastic Could Be Fantastic Again if We Make It With These Natural Materials

A material once seen as a breakthrough innovation that could benefit the environment by replacing animal products now litters the Earth to the tune of approximately 6.3 billion metric tons, most ...

The Great Wave: Iconic Hokusai Work Splashes Across Moscow Apartments

In Moscow, the iconic “Great Wave off Kanagawa” woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai has reached greater heights than ever before as it breaks across the facades of six ...

Getting Real: Placeholder Graphics Lead to Literal Architectural Renderings

Architects are sometimes criticized for taking creative liberties with their artwork, setting unlikely green scenes or populating their rendered scenes with an improbable array of happy ...

Deco Rated: The Sears Crosstown Building In Memphis

The former Sears Crosstown Building in Memphis, TN was a high rise, Art Deco retail showcase designed to meet the needs of a car-driving America on the move. Things were looking up back in ...

Habitat 2.0: Pixelated Apartment Complex by BIG References Design Classic

With an overt nod to Habitat 67 in Montreal by Moshe Safdie (similarly made up of many smaller modules, as show below), this new, undulating, mixed-use megastructure has been approved for ...

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