Ground, Up! Curved Green Sky Gardens Wrap Tower Hotel
The best of both worlds: guests at this hotel get to enjoy skyscraper-high views and still experience layers of intensive greenery on virtually all levels. A series of sleek towers rises ...
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Windows of New York: Weekly Documentary Design Project
Fascination bleeds into fixation in this wonderful ongoing series of illustrations by a graphic designer who enjoys the nuances of fenestration in his favorite city. Each piece in the ...
Small Worlds: Strange & Shocking Miniature City Scenes
There is no unifying theme to these surreal depictions of urban architecture and landscapes, save perhaps their imaginative improbability and singular creator, Frank Kunert, a German photographer ...
Modular Bright Idea: Colorful São Paulo Sidewalk Tea Shop
A blend of fun, flexible, efficient and honest, The Gourmet Tea shop design in Brazil's biggest city is both regional and universal, responding to everyday needs for opening and closing while ...
Vertical Horizon: Urban Photographs Turn City Upside Down
Hong Kong has to be one of the most-photographed cities on Earth, but these shots present a rarely-seen perspective by documentarians or pedestrians ... unless they look straight up. From ...
Doing it Wrong: Funny Photo-Edited Urban Improbabilities
It would be entirely right and wrong at the same time to call this body of work realistic. On the one hand, the results look like pictures (which form the basis of these manipulations) - on the ...
Future Skyscraper: Arup Presents Awesome Vision for 2050
Rather than turning toward far-flung science-fiction, these designers have extrapolated current engineering techniques and evolving technologies. This skyscraper thus fuses passive power ...
City Cycle: Curved Urban Tread Wraps ‘Round Bike Tire
Rough around the edges, we rarely notice the unique landscape that evolves from regular wear and tear on our bicycle tires - this illustration draws on that familiar-yet-foreign ...
Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch
Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...
Instant Abandonment: Faux Desert City Built to be Bombed
Normally, urban design is done with death and destruction in mind - but prevention, rather than facilitation, is the focus. This unique mini-city was made to be destroyed, pummeled into the dust ...
