Matt Shaw
Wanna see the most amazing purveyor of architecture on eBay? His name is ansky98, and he sells scale buildings for model train sets. These hobbyist replicas can be arranged into a village or town, and resemble the parts of an architectural model. Why are ansky98’s models the best? They are not just firehouses or schools,…
Ice architecture is so hot right now. Its the dead of winter, and the River Torne in northern Sweden is producing some of the world’s finest architecture- and kid-friendly ice. The latest work of frozen art to emerge from the quiet white of the Scandinavian frost is PinPin Studio’s snow maze and playground for the…
Architectural photography has become very sophisticated lately, thanks to several innovations. Hyper lapse technology has made moving time lapses easier for everyday photographers. Professionals have access to very high-end cameras and editing equipment that can make surreal videos, while drone pilots have given us new views of old favorites, and exposed some unseen places. But the…
M.C. Escher used to do it with his drawings — leaving us bewildered about where those staircases rea lly led, and how those drawings didn’t disrupt the space-time continuum. His drawings are particularly impressive because they were made by hand; these days, architectural optical illusions are far easier to pull off with the aid of computers.…
Earlier this week, the Obama administration quietly announced that it is launching a new defense age ncy “to combat the deepening threat from cyberattacks.” Meanwhile, in the last couple of years, the NSA has come under fire for a host transgressions, dubious wiretapping, and ogling your potentially NSFW selfies. Edward Snowden is hiding in Russia for…
Ok, ok, we get it. The earth is heating up at a historic rate. While this seems like boring old fact by now, it will have very real impacts on our everyday lives. To put it in perspective, Climate Central developed this interactive map that charts these effects of climate change and what 1,001 cities…
With spring just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about getting out of the city and into the woods for some fresh air. The brooks will be babbling, the birds chirping, and the sun shining. Forget what you know, camping doesn’t have to be roughing it unless you want it to be. Take…
The symbolic significance of the completion of One World Trade Center (f.k.a. the Freedom Tower), ca nnot be overstated. After nearly a decade and a half of controversy surround the sprawling construction site (an easy metaphor for a scar), the shiny new David Childs-designed tower will stand as a monument of rebirth and a landmark of…
Brutalism gets a bad rap for its over-bearing scale and sweater-snagging rawness. Polish studio Zupa grafika wants to challenge this perception by making several brutal icons of London into small, cut-out paper models. By introducing an element of arts and crafts (the pastime, not the movement), the foldable models cast brutalism as something miniaturized and makeable.…