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It’s not unusual for architects to diverge from the conventional path of practice, with multip le skills from the profession lending themselves to all manner of creative pursuits. However, once you’ve experienced life in the studio, you never see the world in quite the same way again. It comes as no surprise, then, that Kacper Kowalski…
What is the difference between a representational drawing, such as a rendering, and an interpretatio n of a built project by an illustrator? Buildings are drawn for several reasons, but the rendering never seems to capture the serene feeling of an illustration. Perhaps Isozaki’s screenprints did. Why did that trend fade away? Illustrator Thomas Danthony has…
These shoe designs wouldn’t look out of place in a gallery.
Every winter, the small Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi builds an Icehotel. Almost 50,000 people will visit each season, and artists from around the world come to build sculptural, light-based or even typographic installations for themed rooms. This year is the 25th edition of the iconic frozen palace, which uses almost 1,000 tons of frozen water…
Remember that famous Will-Ferrell-as-Harry-Caray line, “We all know that the moon is not made of green cheese. But what it were made of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it then? I know I would.” In the spirit of that rhetorical quip, what if the White House was made of Jell-O? Would you eat it?…
Death by building. Some architects might think that is the ideal way to go. Buildings can kill peopl e any number of ways, including collapses, falls from treacherous heights – one can even be eaten alive by a mechanical system. Architecture can also kill you when you are on the street, if its cladding starts to…
Did Santa happen to overlook the Lego-shaped flash drive you had on your wishlist this year? Tell hi m he can make it up to you by swinging by a Danish post office and picking up the nation’s new Lego-themed postage stamps (which are the currency for mail, which is kind of like email, except printed…
These projects pitted cultural heritage against the potential of urban renewal.
Gingerbread houses are one of the easiest ways to get a taste of architecture, whether at an early a ge or later in life — we don’t judge. Of course, like any art form, there are those who take it way too far (not far enough?). Bergen, Norway, claims that their Pepperkakebyen is the largest gingerbread…