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Lost Architecture is Remembered with Sculptures of the Ivy That Once Covered It

What if, after the demolition of a neglected building, all that was left behind was the leafy exoskeleton of ivy that once grew up its outer walls? As shanty towns all along the Yuan River in the ...

Wheels of Steel: Full-Sized Art Cars Made of Nothing But Scrap Metal

Their body panels consist of a lacework of metal gears, their windshields no more than mesh, their seats steel and the spaces under their hoods hollow, but these life-sized car sculptures still ...

Metallic Life Forms: Kinetic Sculptures Undulate in the Wind

There’s something alien about the way these metallic structures move, a fluidity that makes them seem as if they’re alive. Each one transforms so completely as it spins, the results almost ...

Amazing Animal Art: 50+ Creature-Inspired Creations

As seen through the eyes of sculptors, painters, street artists, photographers and even knitters, the animal kingdom flourishes in curlicues of steel and paper, splatters of ink and trailing ...

So Metal: Intricate Sculptures Made of Nothing but Nails

Most people use nails just to hang art on the wall, but Maine-based sculptor John Bisbee collects thousands of them to craft incredibly intricate sculptures into spiked balls, undulating waves, ...

Steampunk Flea: Mechanical Insects by Dimitry Valchev

Spark plugs, kitchen strainers, springs and other random metal parts come together into a 'steampunk flea' that looks like it could jump away at any second in this mechanical insect sculpture by ...

Lullaby Factory: Fanciful Installation for Children’s Hospital

Children at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital can enter a secret courtyard, stand beside a convoluted system of copper pipes and horns, and listen to the sound of soft lullabies. This musical ...

Ad-Free Advertising: A Void Billboard of Nothingness

Passing over the border between the United States and Canada near Vancouver, travelers take in this unexpected sight: an odd metal billboard advertising nothing but air. Clean air. 'Non-Sign II' ...

Sculpture Showcases Smart Metals that React to Hot & Cold

A heat-reactive metal sculpture at the Materials & Applications gallery in Los Angeles opens and closes according to environmental conditions, 'breathing' like human skin. 'Bloom' was ...

Looping Roller-Coaster Stairway You Can Actually Walk On

From afar, it looks like a forgotten relic of a theme park that has since picked up and moved on - but it's actually a walkable sculpture. 'Tiger & Turtle - Magic Mountain', as it's named, ...

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