Drawing Sculptures: 3D Architectural Art Styled After 2D Sketches
This ongoing series of sculptural floating cities and suspended towns could be mistaken for pencil drawings when glanced on a wall or seen in a two-dimensional medium like ...
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Unnatural Wonders: Magical Surrealist Artwork Worthy of Dalí & Escher
In the same magic-realist vein as artistic giants like Salvador Dalí, M.C. Escher and Renê Margritte, Rob Gonsalves crafts elaborate and interconnected scenes that shift subtly to form ...
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 ...
Deconstructed: 25 Famous Floor Plans as Architectural Labyrinths
The most fundamental blueprint of a building is its floor plan, which organizes the spaces to be occupied, creating a footprint to be extruded into three dimensions. In his ARCHIPLAN ...
Stopped Steps: 10 Declining Abandoned Escalators
Well, that did NOT escalate quickly. These busted up and broken down abandoned escalators won't be devouring any CROC plastic sandals anytime soon. An outdoor escalator? In damp, rainy ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brazil Nots: Abandoned Buildings Of Utopian Brasilia
Brasilia was designed by visionary architects as a utopian city of tomorrow. Now that tomorrow's arrived, it appears those plans haven't panned out. ...
Geometry + Humanity: Beirut Shutterbug Abstracts Everyday Life
Photographing real people in actual places, Serge Najjar manages to make the mundane seem strange and fantastical, highlighting the intersection of humans and the architectural spaces they ...
Best from Above: Drone Views of 6 Philadelphia Abandonments
Some of the most fascinating parts of certain deserted buildings in Philadelphia cannot even be seen from below, making this drone footage shot by Matt Satell of Philly by Air all the more ...
