Das Bus: 15 Quirky & Kitschy German Bus Shelters
These 15 bus shelters from Germany express a distinctive design aesthetic that reflects the tension between stolid practicality and startling creativity. These two bus shelters face each ...
Tag: architecture
Reconstructing Ruins: Gifs Reanimate 7 Ancient Architectural Wonders
To visitors, architectural ruins are simply a modern reality, and their imagined reconstruction is left to descriptive plaques, statics images and the human imagination, but this series of ...
Fuller House: 15 Geodesic Dome Creations Pay Tribute to Bucky’s Classic
Architect, engineer and inventor Buckminster Fuller developed the world’s most infamous dome structure while searching for the most efficient housing solution possible during the 1940s. The ...
The Modern Cabin: 14 Moody Wilderness Getaways Go Beyond the Rustic
A cabin is defined both by a remote location and a certain rusticity, whether it's a wilderness hut for hikers or a family retreat, but that doesn't mean it has to be a basic wooden shack. Modern ...
Flat-Pack Cat Cities: Modular Feline Architecture Inspired by Origami & Lego
Product-tested by a husband-and-wife team of architects in their own abode, 'A Cat Thing' was developed to let pet owners construct an endless array of feline crawling, hiding and resting spaces ...
Architecture with a Twist: Installation Artist Knots Columns & Flips Facades
In his latest work dubbed Birth, Death and Midlife Crisis, artist Alex Chinneck is back at it again, exploring the limits of seemingly solid structures (and observer imaginations). This latest ...
Going In Style: Cute Creative Public Restrooms Of Okinawa
We all want to be smiling when we go but if you're “going” at one of Okinawa, Japan's cute and creative public restrooms, grinning comes with the territory. Flickr member Okinawa ...
Omoshiro Blocks: Excavate Hidden Architecture from Laser-Cut Paper Notepads
These ordinary looking stacks of square paper notes hold hidden surprises inside: each removed sheet reveals more and more of a secret Japanese structure, completely visible once all the pages ...
Architecture in Motion: Gothic Cathedral Gets its Own Two-Minute Music Video
We tend to experience buildings as static or slow-moving objects relative to our own points of view, but this simple work of creative adaptation turns an ordinary perspective into a dynamic ...
Cutting Loose: Crafty Paper Silhouettes Animate Architectural Landmarks
The built environment becomes the backdrop from all kinds of imaginative (if improbable) scenes when this London photographer adds a single layer to each of his images: a black piece of cut ...
