Stupendous Steps: 15 Great Escalator & Stair Ads
While spending 30 seconds on an escalator, where do you look? Most people just stare straight ahead – making escalators an ideal location for advertising. But some ads are more colorful, clever ...
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15 Clever & Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns
Billboards are so ubiquitous in the modern world, many people barely even notice them anymore. So, some advertisers have gotten ultra-creative with their outdoor advertising, relying on ...
Steampunk-Style Illustration: Cities, Homes & Factories
For every kid who ever took apart his family's electronics just to see how they worked, David Trautrimas has concocted fantastical worlds full of upended, dismantled household appliances ...
To Be Abandoned? 8 Cities That Might Not Make a Comeback
We've seen what our towns and cities look like when people move out and nature moves in - but why does abandonment happen? What factors turn towns into ghost-towns, city centres into wastelands ...
12 Exciting Ethnic Enclaves & International Districts
Chinatown, Little Italy... you name the country and it probably has a "little" chip off the block somewhere else. These ethnic enclaves haven't always had a happy origin but today they serve as ...
Senior City-zens: 10 of the Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities
It takes a village... at first, at least. Whether that village grows into a city depends on many factors; whether it remains inhabited through centuries, even millennia, of war, natural disasters ...
Senior City-zens: World’s 10 Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities
Urban society may seem a modern phenomenon but cities have been around for a lot longer than one might think. Indeed, once nomadic tribes began to settle in one location, they saw that it was good, ...
Brilliant Buildings: 136 Amazing Approaches to Architecture
Our homes are our castles... that old maxim dates from the days when one's abode was a slovenly hovel, a well-mannered manor house or even an actual castle. The same goes for public buildings, ...
Beyond Brutalism: Creative Modernist Concrete Architecture
Concrete as a building material has been used at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the modern age, the overuse of concrete in Soviet-style blockhouse construction - Brutalism - has ...
Retrofuture Urbanism: 10 Fantastic Cities of the Future
Urban planners, sociologists and science fiction writers have long dreamed of futuristic utopias at sea, on land or in space. These 10 examples showcase some of the weird, wild, and workable plans ...
