Somewhere between city signs and street graffiti lies a surprisingly rich and colorful language of secret messages, all hidden in plain sight on roads and sidewalks. This spray-painted slang we ...
This remarkable remodel is full of fun and functional surprises ranging from ceiling-suspended swing sets, hammocks, bookshelves, tables and benches to flip-up, in-floor mirrors and trap-door ...
The writing is on the walls, but only when they get wet - that is when the secret messages or hidden designs appear in these seemingly innocuous concrete surfaces, like a durable and built-in ...
Railings, shutters, sun shades and other surfaces with separate-but-repeating elements are all potential canvasses for this unique semi-secretive approach to street ...
Invisible at a glance, artists have long hidden fore-edge artwork in plain sight, resulting in works that are sometimes first spotted decades or even centuries after their creation. What looks ...
New York has a long history of hidden and illicit venues - one that did not stop when prohibition was lifted. There is the innocuous pizza shop where dialing the right number in their phone booth ...
Adding a swimming pool or hot tub means displacing something else - usually a outdoor lawn, yard or deck or dedicated room inside a house. But what if you could have the best of both worlds: a ...
Nuclear missile silos, former quarries, natural caves and man-made hills camouflage homes ranging from rustic and understated to modern and luxurious. Seeming ideally suited to shield unsavory ...
Four chairs, one table, and they take up almost no space when not in use - yet not folding, flipping, stacking or complex mechanical maneuvers are needed to make it happen. With very ...
There was a time when the bathroom was seen as a rather utilitarian room, there only to serve some very mundane functions. But that identity has changed over the years, and now we see the ...
