Ghost Architecture: Building Demolition Photo Composites
Philadelphia native Andrew Evans takes pictures that give a new perspective on the processes of urban deconstruction, showing before, during and after images of once-proud civic ...
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Magic Plan App Makes Amazing Automatic Floor Plans
Measuring the various rooms in your home is necessary if you want to remodel or redecorate, but it is quite a chore. Technology has fortunately made it simple to create a floor plan without the ...
Shwopping: Store Covered in 10,000 Hanging Garments
Covering the outside of a four-story building like tattered shingles, 10,000 colorful garments hang - and they represent just five minutes' worth of discarded clothing in the United Kingdom. The ...
Ghostly Paper Mansions & Spectral Stop-Motion Animations
Architectural renderings that are too realistic leave little to the imagination. At the opposite end of the spectrum, these folded-paper interiors are more like words than images on the page, ...
Double Agent JR: Undercover Photographer & Guerilla Artist
Photographers are the subject of a medium-old question: does their work represent reality, or create new realities? This one undoubtedly does both, putting images of eyes and faces up in urban ...
Augmented Reality: Awesome 3D Hand-Held Architecture
In a weak world economy where everyone is trying to be conservative with cash, new architectural projects go unbuilt more often than not. That doesn't stop architects from designing incredible ...
Modern-Day Sky Castles: 7 Cool Converted Watertower Houses
Water towers have been a common sight in cities, towns and villages all across the world since at least the Industrial Revolution. As certain towers fall out of use for one reason or another, ...
Power Houses: Toronto Hydro’s Camouflaged Substations
Hiding in plain sight to provide energy and light! That's not Toronto Hydro's motto but it could be – for the better part of a century, the Canadian utility's policy was to design hundreds of ...
Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality
Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate citizens. But the problem was always that you had to ...
Korean Twin Towers Fail to ‘Cloud’ Memories of 9/11
Korean Twin Towers FAIL? It would definitely appear so, though Dutch architects MVRDV strenuously deny any connection, inspirational or otherwise, with New York City's lost World Trade Center ...
