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SOS Brutalism: Book Advocates “Saving Concrete Monsters”

Pahlavi University by Minoru Yamasaki, Iran, compl. 1979 Perpetually divisive, Brutalist landmarks around the world are disappearing fast. A massive 716-page book called “SOS Brutalism - Save the ...

Hidden London: New Book Explores the City’s Forgotten Underground

Beneath the streets of London, a whole hidden city lies half-forgotten, full of Edwardian-era tunnels and disused railway equipment. A new book called “Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten ...

Special Editions: Three-Story Bookshelf Mural Speaks Volumes in Utrecht

Few avid readers can display their collections quite so publicly and loudly as Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed, who painted this bookcase across one entire of a three-story brick ...

Mirrored Chinese Bookstore Offers Readers a Maze of Discovery

The newest of China’s surreal mirrored bookstores is now open in Chongqing, offering a disorienting, Escher-like experience to all who enter. Designed by X+Living, the Chongqing Zhongshuge ...

Rail Impressive: Former Industrial Train Shed Becomes a Modern Library

Without sacrificing any of its industrial charm, Dutch architects transformed an old train shed into a gorgeous library and community event space. “LocHal” is Tilburg’s “new public city ...

Bubbletecture: New Book Shows Off the Innovation of Inflatables

Maybe it's the kids in us, but there's something about inflatable architecture that's just plain fascinating. It’s hard to deny the fun factor in blowing something up bigger and bigger and ...

Reading the Road: River of 11,000 Glowing Books Flows Down City Street

Thousands of books spanned from sidewalk to sidewalk in Ann Arbor's Literature vs Traffic installation, creating a space for quiet reflection on the value of pedestrian-friendly public spaces ...

Wave Forms for Artists & Artisans: Free Vintage Design Guide to Japanese Waves

In Japan, an island nation, waves are symbols long found in a vast array of art, design and craft from around the country, which one author decided to systemize in a three-book series now ...

File Under Fiction: Artful Self-Help Book Covers Speak to Human Conditions

Like the old "picture worth 1,000 words" adage, these book covers use just a little language and as context for larger messages. Perhaps the more appropriate phrase would be some turn on: "what ...

Back-Alley Bookends: Narrow Tokyo City Scenes Bracket Books & Tell Stories

Inspired by the winding, cyberpunk-worthy passageways of modern-day Tokyo, these bookends invert expectations, shaped themselves like books but carved out to reveal city-based ...

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