Vertical Horizon: Urban Photographs Turn City Upside Down
Hong Kong has to be one of the most-photographed cities on Earth, but these shots present a rarely-seen perspective by documentarians or pedestrians ... unless they look straight up. From ...
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Origami Kayak: Packs Flat, Folds Up to Form its Own Case
Portaging in the wild is one thing, but try walking your canoe or kayak down the street (let alone through an airport) and you may smack someone right in the head - hence this city-friendly ...
Intoxication, Captured: Frantic Head-Spinning Oil Paintings
If you've ever been intoxicated enough to feel as if the world were spinning around you at 100 miles per hour, these oil paintings by Alexandra Pacula will look familiar. But it doesn't take ...
Perfect Pitch: Impossibly Starry City Skies in Blackest Night
Massive power outages give us rare glimpses of darkened cities, but in normal conditions, there is simply no way to see the starry skies above the typical urban metropolis - but one photographer ...
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 ...
Ruin Academy: Urban Lab in an Abandoned Building
Occupying an abandoned five-story apartment building in central Taipei, Ruin Academy is a living architectural laboratory where holes drilled in the walls let rain inside, plants grow from the ...
Doing it Wrong: Funny Photo-Edited Urban Improbabilities
It would be entirely right and wrong at the same time to call this body of work realistic. On the one hand, the results look like pictures (which form the basis of these manipulations) - on the ...
Vertical Landfill: Monument to Civilization Honors Our Trash
Nearly all of our most majestic architecture reflects pinnacles of achievement for our species, and one architect aims to call attention to yet another way in which we are 'spectacular:' our ...
Future Skyscraper: Arup Presents Awesome Vision for 2050
Rather than turning toward far-flung science-fiction, these designers have extrapolated current engineering techniques and evolving technologies. This skyscraper thus fuses passive power ...
