Drawn Together: The Evolution of Architectural Scale Figures
As they evolved, illustrated figures in architecture (sometimes called ‘scalies') have grown to have more personality, color and life, serving as more than a means to measure ...
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Dynamic Architecture: 13 Buildings with Moving Parts
Entire Italian villas spin in circles on wheels, solar-powered shades follow the sun, rooms zoom up into the air on telescopic stilts and windowless facades lift up on one end like shoebox ...
Get Booked: ‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City’ by Geoff Manaugh
Take a break and enter the world of urban villains, who see and seek out hidden opportunities in built environments, forever on the lookout for architectural workarounds and infrastructural ...
Fractal Architecture: 14 Intricate Ceilings of Historic Iran
Sharing his findings via Instagram, an architectural photographer in Iran has begun documenting schools, mosques and cultural centers around the country, with a focus on their most mesmerizing ...
Nesting Architecture: Folding Models of Eastern Bloc Buildings
This series of recycled cardboard models references both the functional styles of postwar Soviet architecture as well as the Russian tradition of handcrafted nesting dolls. In ...
Secrets Beneath Cities: Sculptures Inspired by Nintendo Games
“The underworld is more fun,” says Luke O’Sullivan, the artist who painstakingly crafts stunning cityscape sculptures with intricate subterranean sections inspired by the seemingly ...
Laser Precision: 3D Site Scan Enables Architectural Intervention
Incredibly accurate laser-scanning technology, precise down to a hundredth of a millimeter, has helped British architects not only plan a new structure but also secure permission from a local ...
First “Drawn in Place” Architecture Made with a 3D-Printing Pen
A group of students from the University of Tokyo have created the world's first work of 3D pen-drawn architecture, extruding thermoplastic filament to generate a structurally-stable arch ...
Saving Face: ‘Ghost Facade’ Preservation Worse Than Demolition?
London is filled with grafted facades, nearly two-dimensional artifacts held in place while updated buildings are constructed behind them; many seem to haphazardly half-disguise the boring ...
Architectural Cultures Condensed: Vernacular Dwelling Collages
Can you distill the architecture of a particular city down to an image of just a single building? Not effectively - unless you’re Sweden-based artist Anastasia Savinova, who scouts and ...
