The Way i Go

EVOL Transforms Electric Boxes into Miniature Apartment Buildings

EVOL is a berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures. each piece of paper is printed with a repetitive pattern of flat gray walls dotted with plain window frames. once...

Wet And Wild: 10 Bizarre Public Water Fountains

Water fountains are a unique art form combining sculpture, engineering, and more than a little imagination. While the world’s most famous fountains are a delight to the senses, others range from weird to wild to downright bizarre… like the ten described here. Now, let us spray. The Car Fountain, Italy The Car Fountain – nothing fancy, just a Seat Ibiza hatchback (a Spanish car) looking like...

14 Most Beautiful Fountains and Water Sculptures

The grace and beauty of flowing water, along with its ability to induce calm, are the biggest reasons we’re drawn to artful displays of H2O.  From simple gravity-driven fountains to elaborate displays of dancing water and lights, these fountains, waterfalls and water sculptures are among the most celebrated, the most beautiful and the most interesting in the world. Dubai Fountain – Burj Dubai,...

Garage Elevator Allows You To Switch Out Your Lamborghinis In The Living Room

This Tokyo (naturally) home was gamely designed by Takuya Tsuchida, who received the instruction above from a client with very particular taste.

Leaf House in Australia by Undercurrent Architects

Designed by Undercurrent Architects, this curiously-designed house is a private residence located in Sydney, Australia. The roof looks like fallen leaves, thus it has been dubbed the “Leaf House”. The roof is supported by winding branch-like steel tubes and the interior is enclosed in glass panels. For more privacy, some rooms are tucked below a sandstone surround. #gallery-2 { margin:...

Video From Top of The Burj Dubai

This is a video taken from the top of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, at 2,684 ft. Enjoy the amazing view from the top of Burj Dubai Spire.

Eiffel In Dubai

Drawing inspiration from the magnificent Eiffel Tower, the Eko is a futuristic housing high-rise for Zaabeel Park, City Center in Dubai. With stats like 24 floors, 8500 Square meters of Nano Solar, 350 palms, a bar, a library and a big exhibition hall; this humble living quarters of rich Arabs and their Harem will be the envy of every Eiffel-loving Parisian! Designers: 10 Raisons...

Artist Draws 18-Foot New York Panorama from Memory

Believe it or not, autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire managed to draw this amazing 18-foot New York skyline panorama using only graphic pens and the information stored in his photographic memory.

Incredible Examples of Aerial Photography

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Giant Industrial Gasworks Turned into Domed Indoor Town

It is a bit like the perfect self-contained hemispherical world of Truman Show, but in real life … and times four. Once constituting the largest gasworks in all of Europe, a series of stunning cylindrical brick structures from the 1800s have found an uncanny new use in modern times as a completely domed-interior town-within-a-city on a spectacular scale. n their second life, these gasometer buildings...

Introducing Google Building Maker

Some of us here at Google spend almost all of our time thinking about one thing: How do we create a three-dimensional model of every built structure on Earth? How do we make sure it’s accurate, that it stays current and that it’s useful to everyone who might want to use it? One of the best ways to get a big project done — and done well — is to open it up to the world. As such, today...

Hand from Above

One of the most interesting urban screens project I’ve seen, Chris O’Shea’s describes his public art “Hand From Above” as encouraging “us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another.” “Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen....

Getting People To Use The Stairs Instead Of The Escalator

This is a video made at a subway station in Stockholm that asks the question, “can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun to do?” And the answer, amazingly, is yes — by converting the stairs into a giant piano.

World’s Longest Bridge

The bridge when complete 2015 will span the 13 miles between Bahrain and Qatar at a cost of U$3 billion.

Penguin House Tokyo

The manipulation of light and space makes the Penguin House in Tokyo seem much larger. Tokyo: Living Small in the Big City