Emoji-Nation: Famous Paintings Revised for the Internet Age
In a world of mobile devices, share icons and popup alerts, fine art is interrupted by signs and symbols of our times, adding a jarring layer of technology to recognizably classic ...
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5 Preservation Puzzles: Famous Architecture Facing Threats
This year alone we have learned that a Frank Lloyd Wright house must be moved 1,000 miles to protect it from floodwater, a Le Corbusier chapel has been vandalized and a seminal structure by ...
No Exit: Dementia Village Dwellers Live in Alternate Reality
It sounds at first like the dystopian plot of Dark City or The Truman Show, with free-seeming residents unaware they are actually inhabitants of a closed community they cannot leave and in ...
Don’t Tag Me Bro: The World’s 9 Most Vandalized Landmarks
These 9 famous international public landmarks, artworks and tourist attractions attract vandalism and graffiti that's usually (but not always) unwanted. ...
Baroque Parking Garage Challenges Blind Civic Historicism
Challenged with designing something to fit a historic city-center context in "baroque, classic, neo-classical, romantic and neo-romantic style" is itself difficult if not paradoxical, but making ...
Taking Names: Famous Logos Without Their Brand Names
All around the world, people are inundated daily with advertisements hawking everything from soda to furniture to vacations. We're so used to seeing the ads and logos almost everywhere that we ...
Crack the Code in London Street Art Created for Tech Fest
If you're among the attendees of international technology festival Campus Party, which will take place during the first week of September in London, you have a much better chance of cracking the ...
Suburban Intervention: Homes Altered, Then Set Ablaze
For the last two years, artist Ian Strange has traveled the East Coast of the United States, painting suburban homes in shocking shades of red and black, and in some cases, burning them down. The ...
Cradle to Graveyard: 7 Abandoned Wonders of the Middle East
Eerie ghost towns, villages abandoned after shocking massacres, the palaces of deposed dictators and mansions so well preserved they're like 1950s time capsules are among the Middle East's ...
All-in-One Bicycle Helmet: Sleek Integrated Lights & Signals
Bicyclists need this. Incredible design is not just about looking good (which this does) or working well (which this does), but weaving the solution so that each seems the natural outcome of the ...
