Blade Rollers: 11 Retro-Style Knife Sharpener Vans
Charming and quaint hand-painted knife sharpener vans are one of the few remaining holdouts from the golden age of hand-delivered household services. There's never a dull moment when the ...
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Calm & Centered: Cemetery Tunnel Trek Reveals Huge Hill-Wrapped Buddha
A massive landscape intervention near Sapporo, Japan by architect Tadao Ando both conceals and reveals a 40-foot statue of the Buddha in the midst of a rural cemetery. The designer ...
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You know those glass tubes at the bank drive-through that shoot your deposits and withdrawals back and forth between you and the tellers? This house is like living in a cluster of them. Sadly, ...
Cones on Poles: Field Guide to Elevated Traffic Cones in Everyday Contexts
Like some many things in the built environment, once you start noticing cones on poles you will see them everywhere -- Cones on Poles, an "unofficial sequel" to The Subconscious Art of Graffiti ...
Splitting Bricks: Architectural Art Installation Tears a London Building Apart
A London building appears to have fallen victim to an earthquake tremor or foundation collapse, with a jagged section of its brick facade split in half and threatening to collapse altogether. But ...
Underground Art: 11 Subterranean Galleries & Installations Delve Deep
Often mysterious, somber and a little otherworldly, subterranean spaces add a sense of depth (no pun intended) to the art installations and performances held within them. Abandoned subway ...
Downloadable Deco: Art Archive Puts 200 Graphic Design Classics Online
Some great institutions are becoming even greater in the digital age -- places like museums continue to scan high-quality paintings and photographs for distribution and agencies like NASA put ...
Avian Palaces: Traditional Ottoman Bird Houses are Miniature Masterpieces
Istanbul takes bird houses very seriously, and always has - seriously enough to attach palatial digs for feathered residents to their own human-sized buildings. In fact, the oldest known bird house ...
Messages in the Sand: 12 Great Guerrilla Ads at the Beach & the River
The beach is one big billboard for companies looking to surreptitiously market their products, from Game of Thrones to Jim Beam, which would be annoying if most of these guerrilla installations ...
Warming Signs: Clet Abraham Rewrites Rules Of The Road
Guerrilla street artist Clet Abraham may be the Banksy of the boulevard, hacking road signs with stickers and encouraging people to question authority. Our lead image dated August 31st of 2013 ...
