Stark Suburbs of Paris: Scenes from a Former Utopia
Dull gray concrete volumes stacked in irregular shapes stretch across the landscape just beyond Paris like a set from a dystopian film, dwarfing the mostly elderly residents who wander their ...
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Robot City: Entire Fake Town Built to Test Driverless Vehicles
Opening this week, Mcity is a completely artificial village for self-driving cars, bringing the future of automobiles back to Michigan, the historical home of Motor City. Taking lessons from ...
Sprawling Vision of the Past: American Suburbs From Above
Suburbs are far older than most of us tend to realize, but when we talk about urban sprawl we most often think of the planned communities that popped up during the industrial revolution. ...
Not in Kansas: Black House Lands in Front of Oz Museum
The childhood home of artist Ian Strange has literally landed right in front of the Art Gallery of South Australia as if it were picked up by a tornado and plunked there, Wizard of Oz style. The ...
Suburban Intervention: Homes Altered, Then Set Ablaze
For the last two years, artist Ian Strange has traveled the East Coast of the United States, painting suburban homes in shocking shades of red and black, and in some cases, burning them down. The ...
Urban Suburbs: 4 McMansions Atop Chinese Shopping Mall
It sounds like a hoax at best, an architectural student thesis gone wrong at worst ... yet it is entirely real: a series of conventional-looking, a-frame abodes atop a gigantic mega-block ...
Set Top Glow: Cool, Kitschy, Ceramic TV Lamps
In America's golden age of black & white television, the dark shadows cast by cathode ray tubes were tempered by the warm glow of kitschy set-top TV Lamps. ...
Digital Suburbs: Logic-Defying Fictional Aerial Views
The carefully-crafted streets and avenues of the suburban neighborhood rarely strike anyone as artistic, though they do demonstrate a certain orderly attractiveness. The artwork of Ross Racine ...
Arkansas Innovation: Stunning Southern-Style Architecture
Architect Marlon Blackwell does something with his designs that many architects seem unable or unwilling to do: he takes the building's environment into consideration when designing a structure. ...
