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A Sidewalk is a Wall: Street Art Project Highlights Lack of Accessibility

We come with so many different shapes, sizes and abilities, yet the world is built as if there’s a “standard human” whose access and comfort takes precedent over everyone else. If you’re ...

Troll Train: Brazil’s Steamy Mundo a Vapor Museum

The front facade of the Mundo a Vapor train museum in Canela, Brazil recreates a spectacular Parisian train wreck from 1895 in steamingly accurate detail. No doubt the worst – or at ...

Brazilian Hybrid: Herringbone Home Blends Bamboo & Modern Simplicity

This tropical residence along the coast of Brazil combines traditional and local materials like stone, wood and bamboo to fashion a contemporary-looking abode that fits into both its natural and ...

A Real Hole in the Wall: World’s Tiniest Office for Brazil’s Agencia Grande

What began as a random hole in a São Paulo wall is now the world’s tiniest office, complete with miniature books, laptops, paperwork and design tools. Emerging creative agency Agencia Grande ...

Amazon Calm: Rio’s Deteriorating Olympic Games Venues

Barely completed in time, venues at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are going south in a big way now that the athletes have left. The Games of the XXXI Olympiad - ...

The Crying Forest: Faces of Indigenous Brazilians Fill the Amazon Rainforest

Many times larger than life, the faces of indigenous Brazilian people illuminate the darkened Amazon Rainforest, projected directly onto the trees as a symbolic representation of their connection ...

I Don’t Carioca: Awesome Abandonments Of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro may host the 2016 Olympics but Brazil's most picturesque and second-most populous city also boasts a host of infamous abandoned buildings. Perhaps the most notorious and ...

Gold Medal Street Art: World Record Mural in Rio Stretches 600 Feet

Athletes aren’t the only people trying to set world records in Rio de Janeiro right now, and one artist might have nabbed the gold this week for the world’s largest mural created by a single ...

Go Big or Go Home: Athletes are Larger than Life in Rio Art Installation

Athletes have arrived in Rio for the Olympics on a massive scale in the form of two monumental photographic installations supported by construction scaffolding, one looking like he’s about to ...

Modest Modernism: Concrete Block House in Brazil Wins Award

An understated but award-winning Modernist dwelling design in São Paulo, Brazil, has turned a narrow lot into a lovely and low-cost habitat suited to the needs of its poor and elderly ...

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