News Made Meaningless: Meticulous Art by Kim Rugg
Bent over a copy of The Guardian with an X-acto knife, London-based artist Kim Rugg carefully cuts out individual letters from the front page and places them on a cutting mat beside her. Then – ...
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Haute Hospitality: 20 (More) Awesomely Artsy Hotel Rooms
Tree houses, neon lights, robot sculptures and all-white rooms reminiscent of outer space: these loopy lodgings definitely can't be found at your local Holiday Inn. And why settle for a bland ...
Dutch Duo Turns Rio Slum into Rainbow of Painted Color
It's no surprise that Brazil's favelas, or slums, can be bleak places to live. In one neighborhood, a sign on a wall ridden with bullet holes reads, 'Attention neighbors. In days of war, avoid ...
Fictions: Architectural Assemblage by Filip Dujardin
One building is impossibly cantilevered, seemingly set for an inevitable crash. Another resembles the game of Jenga, with blocks of concrete stacked in strange configurations. Perhaps ...
Strange Skyscrapers: 14 of the World’s Weirdest Towers
There's the inside-out skyscraper, the horizontal skyscraper and the wooden skyscraper. There's a bizarre three-towered structure made to vaguely resemble an elephant, tusks and all. And then ...
Constructivist Manifesto: Russia’s Hammer & Sickle Canteen
The hammer & sickle shaped Maslennikov Kitchen Factory, located 500 miles southeast of Moscow in Samara, once stood at the pinnacle of the Soviet Constructivist architecture movement. Today, as ...
Slick Storefronts: 12 Cool & Clever Retail Facades
Sure, a brand name and an alluring product display in the window are enough to incite most people to step inside a store – but some retailers downright demand our attention with incredible ...
Prefab Pod Hotels to Offer Tiny Travel Lodging in Spain
In Japan, the rooms aren't much larger than coffins – tiny stacked pods with beds, a television, a radio and little else. But one company is seeking to take that 'capsule hotel' concept and ...
Betaville: Crowdsourcing Urban Design with Online Gaming
How can urban planners allow city officials, architects, builders and neighborhood residents to collaborate equally on new development projects? Online gaming. An unprecedented new program ...
DIY Digital Design: 10 Tools to Model Dream Homes & Rooms
Paint your walls, try out some hardwood flooring, rearrange the room, furnish your home or build a house from scratch – all without getting off the couch. These 10 digital home design tools (9 ...
