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Redressed to Impress: Uncovering Camouflaged Facades & Architectural Fake Overs

The world is full of architectural fake overs, from individual facades to entire buildings designed to look like something other than what they really are. Historically, some of these disguises ...

Covert Photo Ops: Uncanny Disguises Blend Humans into Built Environments

In bustling cities packed with other people, it can be nice to stand out at times, but it can also be a relief to fade quietly into the background for a bit. Creative wallflowers looking for a ...

Thin Facade: Old Small Town Storefront Folds Down into 100-Seat Theater

Walking down the vintage commercial strip of Lyons, Nebraska, it looks like any other building with shop windows and a front door, sharing walls with neighboring structures, but that's all a ...

Found Art: Huge Exterior Wall Mural Uncovered in Dutch Museum Renovation

Originally painted in 1968 on the side of an Amsterdam museum building, this Keith Haring mural was covered in a subsequent renovation before recently being revealed once again to the ...

Operable Facade: Front Wall & Windows Conceal Hidden Garage Door & Lift

New Zealand architect Jonathan Smith worked with a cabinetmaker to carefully deconstruct part of this 1890s home in Auckland, then assembled a set of automatic doors as well as a moving fence to ...

Vanishing Infrastructure: Flat-Folding Urban Bicycle Rack Pops Up on Demand

It sounds like a great design solution: a pop-up bike rack that disappears below the pavement when not in use, but the problem it aims to solve really an issue, and (if so) would it ultimately ...

Omoshiro Blocks: Excavate Hidden Architecture from Laser-Cut Paper Notepads

These ordinary looking stacks of square paper notes hold hidden surprises inside: each removed sheet reveals more and more of a secret Japanese structure, completely visible once all the pages ...

Unboxing Buildings: Dull Modern Facades Removed to Reveal Historic Decor

Modernist architects rejected brick, stone and iron ornament in favor of clean metal and brutalist concrete, and in some extreme cases went so far as to cover up old facades with more ...

Invisible Solar: Panels Camouflaged as Wood, Clay, Stone & Concrete

Overcoming the awkward aesthetic factor typically faced by home solar technology, these disguised panels look like ordinary building materials you would expect to spot along the sides, steps or ...

Glitch Cities: Buildings Mysteriously Deleted from Chinese ‘Street View’

All kinds of architecture is being inexplicably erased from the Baidu Total View image database (analogous to Google Street View) ... and whoever is behind it is doing an oddly haphazard job ...

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