Musical Urban Design: Rube Goldberg-Style Rain Drains
Architects go to elaborate lengths to hide the passage of water from the walls and roofs of buildings, but in this case, an interactive and artistic facade features the process prominently ...
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Kite Cameras: Aerial Photography Accessible to Anyone
Towers convey power, and height is both literally and metaphorically connected to broader and better views - but here come kites to undermine that top-down view. Kite photography is ...
Buildings That Don’t Exist: Fake Facades Hide Infrastructure
From the sidewalk, the Paris building below looks just like those around it, complete with doors, windows and balconies. but take a look at Google Maps, as Paul of the blog Paris by Cellphone ...
Fill in the Blanks: Illustrated Sky Spaces Between Buildings
Street art uses roads, sidewalks, walls and infrastructure as canvasses, but one of the brightest and blankest slates of all may be the spaces in between. Thomas Lamadieu, a French artist, ...
Intoxication, Captured: Frantic Head-Spinning Oil Paintings
If you've ever been intoxicated enough to feel as if the world were spinning around you at 100 miles per hour, these oil paintings by Alexandra Pacula will look familiar. But it doesn't take ...
Perfect Pitch: Impossibly Starry City Skies in Blackest Night
Massive power outages give us rare glimpses of darkened cities, but in normal conditions, there is simply no way to see the starry skies above the typical urban metropolis - but one photographer ...
Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home
Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations instead of advertisements. But the Scribe Billboard ...
Lawless Metropolis: Life in Kowloon Walled City, Then & Now
Twenty years ago, a dank, lawless, congested and compacted city located just outside Hong Kong was evacuated and destroyed, putting an end to the nearly century-old settlement first created as a ...
Ruin Academy: Urban Lab in an Abandoned Building
Occupying an abandoned five-story apartment building in central Taipei, Ruin Academy is a living architectural laboratory where holes drilled in the walls let rain inside, plants grow from the ...
The Silent Valley: Landscapes Overtaken by Urbanization
The rapid industrialization of China and its effects on the nation's beautiful natural scenery are depicted taking over traditional landscape scenes in a stunningly detailed series of digital ...
