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Garden Bridge: Lush River-Spanning High Line for London

A unique green retreat and pedestrian pathway is set to rival elevated parks around the world, including New York's own High Line, right in the heart of London. This project stands out from its ...

Porta-Park: Mobile Urban Square the Size of a Parking Spot

Compact and portable, this crafty collaborative design-build project is part art installation and part impromptu gathering space. This student-built platform pushes people to think about the ...

Transformer Theater: Deserted House, Upcycled in Disguise

This incredible transforming theater, built from salvaged pieces of a deserted home, is more than meets the eye. A community theater in disguise, its contents unfold from a conventional A-frame ...

LEGO House: Experience Center Made of Interlocking Blocks

Fans wanting to fully experience the world of LEGO are sure to marvel at this newly-revealed hometown headquarters - the whole complex is being build up like a giant stack of interlocked ...

Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion

Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...

Sky Park: Design Idea Floats City Block Over Penn Station

Out of four recent proposals for a radical overhaul of Penn Station in New York City, this concept by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP is far and away the most dramatic - and arguably the most ...

Alternative Landmarks: 12 Monuments As They Almost Were

The Sydney Opera House might have been little more than a squat concrete building resembling a factory, and a visit to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial could have required ...

Liu Bolin is Back: ‘Invisible Man’ Artist (Dis)Appears Again

The master of urban camouflage has returned, this time exhibiting his latest photographic wonders at the Galerie Paris-Beijing - as always, without the aid of Photoshop or any other post-editing ...

Eyebombing: 21 Street Artworks Utilize 42+ Googly Eyes

Unlike graffiti tags or other stylized and personalized approaches to urban art, eyebombing is an equalizer. Like a crowd behind Guy Fawkes masks, the work of any of the following 21 example ...

Public Camouflage: Make-Up Artist Makes Models Invisible

Illusion relies on expectation - we glance but only glimpse what is familiar and the rest blends neatly into the background, particularly as we go about our busy lives in a bustling urban ...

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