Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home
Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations instead of advertisements. But the Scribe Billboard ...
Tag: Urbanism
Lawless Metropolis: Life in Kowloon Walled City, Then & Now
Twenty years ago, a dank, lawless, congested and compacted city located just outside Hong Kong was evacuated and destroyed, putting an end to the nearly century-old settlement first created as a ...
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 ...
The Silent Valley: Landscapes Overtaken by Urbanization
The rapid industrialization of China and its effects on the nation's beautiful natural scenery are depicted taking over traditional landscape scenes in a stunningly detailed series of digital ...
Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch
Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...
City Camouflage: Ugly Public Buildings in Disguise
Electricity substations, bathrooms and other less-than-aesthetically pleasing public buildings can stand out as eyesores on the street, taking away from the beauty of their surroundings. Dutch ...
Utopian ‘Private City’ Envisioned as Crime-Free Urban Oasis
Could a utopian dream of a crime-free private city actually bring fears of fictional dystopia to life? Developers are currently building a white-walled 34-acre complex of apartments, shops, ...
Your Text Here: Messages of Light Displayed on Buildings
City dwellers are bombarded each day with the demands of advertisers, government, media and other groups that dominate communication, and their own voices can be lost in the din. Signs, images ...
Architecture for the Apocalypse: NYC as a Heritage Site
New York City is one of America's greatest man-made achievements, but how can we protect and preserve it for future generations with inevitably rising seas and increasingly frequent weather ...
Beyond Domes: 36 Photos of Burning Man Building Types
It would be a mistake to characterize Burning Man as merely a festival in the desert. For one week a year, an entire built environment (dubbed Black Rock City) for tens of thousands of residents ...
