‘5 Bridges’ Wins Competition to Stitch Portland Back Together
In many cities, freeways cut through the heart of urban centers like fresh wounds faded to old scars, but what if there were a way to reintegrate the disparate sides across the ...
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Social Seating: 14 Public Benches Foster Urban Interactions
Breaking, bending, twisting and warping wood, this ongoing series of installations fosters new forms of interaction within cities, challenging that most iconic piece civic furniture: the ...
Gritty City: Dark Oils Capture Essence of Bustling Urbanity
Busy shipyards, city streets, rain-streaked skyscrapers and other iconic staples of cities come alive in this portfolio of shadowy oil paintings. Valerio D’Ospina captures ...
Infrastructural Art: Colorful LEDs Lights Up Shipyard Cranes
The imagination readily fastens onto the anthropomorphic figures like those found in shipyards, turning looming metal giants into huge toy beasts, origami cranes writ ...
Urban Infill: Colorful Tile Mosaics Patch Potholed Streets
In a city with over a half-million open potholes, one artist is helping address the problem and raising awareness by installing his own creative patches, filling them piece by piece with colorful ...
Interactive Wonderland: Light Projection Art Animates Sydney
A series of dynamic light art installations have begun to take over the largest city in Australia, turning tunnels into painted bouquets and the converting the sails iconic Sydney Opera House ...
High Line West: Chicago & LA on Track for Elevated Greenways
Following in the footsteps of the United States' largest urban center, the 2nd and 3rd most populous cities in the country are each (respectively) developing and building extensive elevated ...
Vertical Forests: 2 Lush Urban Towers Support 16,000 Plants
Skeptics of improbably green skyscraper concepts might want to take a moment of silence to appreciate the successful construction of these two beautiful buildings now nearly ...
High-Speed Art: Murals Spray-Painted for Train Passengers
Made to been seen at high speeds, these colorful patterns intentionally form a sequential whole when experienced by commuters in adjacent railway cars. Katharina Grosse (with photos ...
Street Smart: Solar Roadway Lights Up & Feeds Power Grid
Currently in crowdfunding, these hexagonal pavers can provide energy, melt accumulated snow and ice, light up with LEDs, all while being tough enough to support trucks weighing 250,000 ...
