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Gas Station to Sheep Pasture: NYC Urban Intervention

Twenty-five silent, unmoving sheep gather on a carpet of lush green grass in the unlikeliest of places: an industrial gas station in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. This surreal pop-up ...

Gravity-Defying House Gives Visitors Climbing Power

Some London residents have recently acquired an incredible ability to scale walls with ease. They climb the facade of a building, sit quietly on windowsills, and simply enjoy their ability to see ...

Type Face: Monumental Figurative Sculptures Made of Text

Giant human figures made of jumbled steel letters loom over public spaces in a series of monumental typographic sculptures by artist Jaume Plensa. The contemplative seated figures seem to watch ...

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, ...

Transit Transformed: Metro Cars Turned Mobile Art Galleries

What if art were integrated into the most mundane of our daily activities, like riding the metro to work? For just one day each year, Chicago residents see their metro cars transformed into the ...

Shwopping: Store Covered in 10,000 Hanging Garments

Covering the outside of a four-story building like tattered shingles, 10,000 colorful garments hang - and they represent just five minutes' worth of discarded clothing in the United Kingdom. The ...

Olympic Disguise: Titanium Fish Screen Installation for London

The thousands of people who sweep through the streets of east London as they make their way to and from various Olympic events won't notice the less-than-aesthetically-pleasing rear end of the ...

Closing the Curtain on Public Advertising – Literally

Tired of seeing advertisements plastered all over city surfaces, from billboards to bus stops? French artist The Wa has a simple solution: pull down the shade. The installation artist placed ...

Bubbletecture: Poppable Building Made of Soap Bubbles

Is this the most temporary architecture of all time? Fragile and tenuous but undeniably beautiful, these bubble buildings rise for just moments at a time before they pop. To create the ...

Incredibly Intricate 2.5 Ton Carved Marble Manhattan

Yukata Sone received his formal training as an architect, but soon discovered that his penchant for fine details went far beyond merely designing life-size buildings. He began working in marble, ...

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