Category: Architecture

Architecture

Exhibit 'Gilded New York' gets accompanying app

"Gilded New York," an ongoing exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York which offers a look at the opulent Gilded Age in the US (1870s until the early 1900s), now has an accompanying app, called A Walk Through Gilded New York....

By Juan Cornejo · Nov. 15, 2014

Architecture

Balancing home on the edge of the sea

This minimalist house was design by the Canadian firm MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple. Named 'Cliff House', this cabin extends over a crag on the Atlantic shore in Nova Scotia, with just the edge of the structure touching the earth. Since...

By J Hudson · Nov. 01, 2014

Technology

Zanoply allows users to experience design in real-time within actual enviromental conditions

Zanoply Augmented Reality (ZAR) is a ground-breaking initiative that allows users to experience the completed construction without laying a brick. Zanoply is a contemporary architecture practice based in London who hand-craft...

By admin · Oct. 23, 2014

Illustration

Visualizing future cities in brilliant illustrations

Syd Mead is one of the greatest illustrators of our time and his style will resonate with artists for generations. And you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone mimic that style better than Atelier Olschinsky. The small Vienna-based...

By Umar Ansari · Oct. 14, 2014

Design

Looping staircase-to-nowhere provides panoramic views of Rotterdam

At first, this massive looping staircase appears to lead to nowhere. It is located in an industrial precinct and rests boldly on a grassy hillside on the outskirts of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is a new project by NEXT Architects titled...

By Justin Crowe · Oct. 04, 2014

Graphic Design

Impossible architecture realistically collaged into dream-like structures

The most celebrated products of architecture are ones that defy logic and transcend the limits of thought. German graphic designer Matthias Jung explores mind-bending architecture in his latest project where he fuses together...

By Umar Ansari · Oct. 03, 2014

Digital

Anita Jambor took photos of ceilings in Europe to show how much we've been missing

Born and currently based in Brasov, Romania, Anita Jambor of Vellum by Anita Jambor is a photographer who specializes in weddings, lifestyle, and events. She started this journey in photography when she bought her first SLR in...

By Venus Emma Marigmen · Sep. 02, 2014

Architecture

UK’s new postal stamp series pays homage to the 10 best contemporary architecture

The Royal Mail, UK’s postal service company, has released a unique postal stamp series celebrating 10 buildings that solidify the presence of contemporary architecture and brilliant engineering in the country. The architectural...

By Mariza Monta · Sep. 02, 2014

Photography

Beautiful abandoned places reveal economic deprivation in the U.S.

Seph Lawless, as he is known, is an American artist and political activist ("artivist") who has spent years cataloging and chronicling abandoned places in the United States and beyond. His 2013 book, "Autopsy of America," was...

By Cameron Chapman · Sep. 01, 2014

Inspiration

Four seasons of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Fallingwater’ home

'Fallingwater' is a house designed in 1935 by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The home, located in rural Pennsylvania, is built over a waterfall with structures that correspond with the natural surroundings. Strong horizontal...

By Nhan Tran · Aug. 29, 2014

Architecture

Suicide roller coaster

Julijonas Urbonas, a Lithuanian artist, designed a roller coaster that kills its passengers. Urbonas coaster suffocates the brains of its passengers through extreme G-force. Urbonas created this roller coaster as a way for...

By Johnna Gurgel · Aug. 09, 2014

Art

Chaotic watercolor grids depict brilliant abstract architectural renderings

Abstract architecture depicted using watercolors is certainly a match made in artistic heaven in the recent works by Jacob van Loon. The Colorado artist alludes to architectural renderings in his works that combine watercolor...

By Umar Ansari · Aug. 02, 2014

Architecture

Fragmented glass sculptures inspired by biological cell division

Jiyong Lee is an artist who's latest works are inspired by the biological process of cell-division. His latest sculptures are translucent and created from fragmented glass components fused using coldworking processes....

By Umar Ansari · Jul. 26, 2014

Paper

Tissue Series: Anatomical cross-sections in paper

We have featured Lisa Nilsson's quilling art before but this artist is worth another beat as she had another project that we can't miss to discuss. Nilsson had another interesting design called Tissue Series which is basically...

By Venus Emma Marigmen · Jul. 24, 2014

Sculpture

Magical sculpture retreat hidden in the rainforest of Mexico

If I had a bucket list of places I must see in my lifetime, Las Pozas would make top priority. Somewhere in a subtropical rainforest of Mexico lies this hidden architecture gem - 2,000 feet above sea level. Located seven hours away...

By Nhan Tran · Jul. 14, 2014