Kansas City-based artist Anne Lindberg builds room-sized installations made from thousands of strands of threads suspended from the wall. Taking into consideration each unique space and its light sources, Lindberg painstakingly maps out the precise angles and extensions which will create the seamless gradients in the radiating works. In one of the pieces, Raume Yellow, over . . . → Read More: Room-sized installations composed of thread by Anne Lindberg  
On April 30, 2012, One World Trade Center – also called 1 WTC or the Freedom Tower – became the tallest building in New York City, surpassing the height of the Empire State Building. Next spring (2013) it will open to the public as the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, with its spire reaching 1,776 feet in . . . → Read More: A timelapse video of One World Trade Center being constructed from 2004-2012 
Sao Paolo, Brazil-based photographer Valentino Fiadini photographed these miniature Lego rooms in a way that makes them look like the actual rooms from the interior of a building. With light streaming through their windows, these spaces, which alternate between pristine white and eye-popping colorful, could belong to an art museum, a public transit hub, or even . . . → Read More: Interior spaces created by Lego blocks 
People walking up skyscrapers, strolling along paths composed of clouds, and sitting atop suspended concrete blocks – clearly, the laws of gravity were meant to be broken in the work of Russian artist Eugene Soloviev. Using muted tones, dark clouds and fog, Soloviev composes digital images with an ominous apocalyptic feel. Their strong narratives leave the . . . → Read More: Surreal urban landscapes by Eugene Soloviev  "Destroyed House" by Marjan Teeuwen Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen takes the leftover fragments from abandoned buildings and then re-assembles them to create “new” spaces in studios or galleries/museums. In a project entited Destroyed House (see the above photo), Teeuwen removed the walls from a post-war apartment block in Amsterdam and sawed the building’s doors into thousands of . . . → Read More: The architectural disorder and decay of Marjan Teeuwen  A rendering of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's planned expansion, designed by Snohetta. At last… we get to see some images of the new SF MOMA expansion. At a press conference today, the final design was announced, and it appears that the underlying theme for the expansion is that the museum should be as . . . → Read More: San Francisco MOMA expansion unveiled 
Belgian architects, Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, have completed a remarkable church in Limburg, Belgium. At 10 meters tall (33 feet) made of 100 layers and 2000 columns of steel, it sounds like it would be an imposing presence on the quiet countryside. However, with gaps between each pair of the weathered steel plates, sunlight . . . → Read More: ‘Reading between the Lines’ a transparent church in Belgium 
Design nuts will definitely want to catch “Urbanized,” Gary Hustwit‘s latest documentary about the design of cities. “Urbanized” had its world premiere last week at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was enthusiastically received. A side note – Hustwit also created the design-themed documentaries, Helvetica and Objectified. Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of . . . → Read More: “Urbanized” a new documentary about the design of cities by Gary Hustwit  "Her-Innerrings" 2008, an artwork of four (identical) sides. In this artwork basic elements (water, fire etc.) are designed. In the early 1980′s Japanese architect Masahiro Chatani originated origamic architecture, a combination of origami techniques (paper folding) and kirigami (Japanese papercutting). Origamic architecture, or what is sometimes called paper architecture, encompasses the three-dimensional representation of architecture, geometric . . . → Read More: Origamic architecture (paper architecture) by Ingrid Siliakus 
Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin combines photographs of parts of buildings to create fictional architectural studies. Upon first glance Dujardin’s fictional buildings look just a little surreal, then once the wheels of your mind start spinning you realize they couldn’t possibly exist in the real world. Dujardin says that he begins with an idea for a specific image. . . . → Read More: Fictional architecture by Filip Dujardin |
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