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Root Bench: Public Furniture Stretches Out in an Organic Growth Pattern

Sprawling out in a radial growth pattern, a bench in Korea seems to grow organically, stretching and stretching to fill a lawn in a public park. Designed by Yong Ju Lee for the Hangang Art ...

Chrome Master: Gleaming Metallic Street Art by Puerto Rican Pro Bik Ismo

As striking and skillfully painted as each one of Bik Ismo's chrome murals are, the coolest part might just be peering into each one and trying to discern what's in its reflection. It might just ...

Art Everywhere: 12 Projects Transform Public Spaces into Guerrilla Galleries

Street artists turn entire cities into open-air galleries, but there are countless ways to carry out urban art interventions, and they're at their most fun when they subvert existing structures. ...

Paseo Bandera: Newly Pedestrianized Street in Chile is One Big Work of Art

One of Santiago, Chile's most congested streets became a colorful pedestrian promenade full of urban art after a 30-day transformation led by artist Dasic Fernández. Now, the city is fighting to ...

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 ...

Secrets in the Shadows: Urban Objects Transformed with Sidewalk Paint

You might not even notice there’s anything unusual about these shadows until you’re right up on them, wondering why in the world a mailbox looks like a grinning monster, fearing that somebody ...

Underground Illusions: Anamorphic Parking Lot Turns Flat Paint into Sculpture

You’re driving through an underground parking garage when suddenly, the colorful geometric shapes splashed all over every surface pop out into three dimensions. Try not to crash your car! When ...

The City is a Canvas: 31 Murals Transforming Urban Spaces

Psychedelic portals beckon you to enter another dimension, sea monsters lurk at the bottom of the stairs and illustrated figures playfully interact with urban infrastructure in works of art that ...

Beauty in Decay: Moody Murals Bring Human Faces Back to Abandoned Places

Abandoned places are often steeped in a mixture of emotional impressions, commingling a sense of loss and a confrontation of our own mortality with slivers of hopefulness for a new future, as ...

Attack of the Giant Spider! Watch This Optical Illusion Mural Come to Life

A nightmarishly oversized spider emerges from a gaping hole in a wall in this anamorphic optical illusion mural by French street artist Denys Pasco, better known as Densoner. Known for his highly ...

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