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Even though we’ve grown used to seeing Photoshopped images, this doesn’t mean that docto red photos have lost their ability to unsettle or provoke us as viewers. This is the impetus behind artist Olivier Ratsi‘s “Anarchitecture” series, where familiar buildings are edited into uncanny versions by manipulating colors, textures, and edges to make impossible-looking new skylines.…
If architecture is like frozen music as Johann Wolfgang said, then perhaps Chicago-based power-poppe rs OK Go didn’t get the memo. The walls, floors, ceilings and furnishings in their latest video — a commercial for a sale at Chinese furniture store Red Star Macalline — are constantly on the move, melting and flowing in time with…
A street corner in Turin, Italy, got a major upgrade when Luciano Pia created an urban jungle at an apartment complex that is more like a treehouse than a housing block. 25 Verde not only makes an oasis in the city with lush, green spaces, but it is also biomimetically designed to be sustainable: When…
When Italian-Spanish illustrator Federico Babina draws architecture, he does not simply draw archite cture. His illustrations radically reimagine his subjects, leaving us with new visions of what the architecture means. Drawing can be productive as a method to arrive at a design, but it can also help us re-interpret built work after it is completed. All…
Far be it for us to call it a trend, but all kinds of new buildings bear an uncanny resemblance to e veryday objects: a can of ham, for example, or a sandwich accoutrement. While you may be sick of looking toward the skyline and seeing the contents of your fridge, you could be open to…
This might just be the best month of the year — it’s the first day of spring (despite the weat her), March Madness is starting, and the A+Awards public voting is live. And who could forget Spring Break? Get out your towels and dust off your sandals, because we are here to show you the best…
Thanks to its density, New York City is the locus of some of the most extreme disparities of the hou sing crisis, with super-tall luxury condos inflating the entire city’s housing prices. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to change that by adding 200,000 new units of affordable housing, but activists say that he is moving too…
Earlier this year, when the Downey Conservancy announced their efforts to #SaveTacoBell, we took the opportunity to look at how the beloved chain restaurant has reinvented itself over the years. SxSW sees the latest incarnation of their restaurant: Taco Bell is jumping on the shipping-container building trend. Image via Fast Company Shipping containers have long…
A collection of seven spas, gyms, and private spaces where you can exercise spiritual and physical w ellness.