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Schoolgirls Look Out onto China’s Alienating Urban Landscapes
In his beguiling photo series “Sitting on the Wall: Haikou V,” Chinese artist Weng Fen captures young women and new cities on the precipice of change. The backs of the young women face us, giving no hint of a personal identity, save for their slightly varied school uniforms. Meanwhile, the booming new buildings dominate the background, their postmodern facades signifying an increase of investment and oncoming changes throughout Chinese cities. Read more!
moby’s los angeles architecture blog
ok, graffiti.
i mean, technically it’s attached to a building, so it’s tangentially architecture? right?
well, maybe i just have too broad an idea of what constitutes architecture, as i’ve included pictures of clouds and lizards on this site. but i’m a college drop-out, so what do you expect? an erudite and reasoned consideration of exceptional buildings? or pictures of lizards and graffiti? how about an erudite and reasoned consideration of lizards and graffiti? and buildings, too, on occasion.
i also have a really hard time spelling words with double consonants. like: ‘occasion’. is that right? it looks like it should have 2 ‘s’s’.
so: graffiti. you have to admit, this graffiti is pretty remarkable. and it defines and establishes the space, far more than the building upon which it’s been painted. the building itself is kind of egregiously unremarkable. it’s only the graffiti that distinguishes the building from the few million other generic buildings in l.a.
i especially like the scary blue baby doll playing bongos. and the scary clown.
moby
Cloned Robot Army Storms Istanbul with Flashlights
Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci clones sections of video creating an endless array of cloned avatars that appear to flood through the city streets.
(via experimentsinmotion)
Astounding Tilt-Shift Perspectives of World Monuments!
Anyone who’s traveled to popular touristic sites knows the feeling of being caught in the crossfire of countless camera lenses—the annoyed (and annoying) jockeying to capture the perfect shot…which in most cases looks exactly like everyone else’s. When we stumbled across Richard Silver’s photographs of iconic monuments, we were shocked—caught in the same tourist hustle, Silver manages to give us a new perspective on famous landmarks we didn’t think possible. Read more!
![Photo: Matteo Prandoni/BFAnyc.com. Iwan Baan accepting his Architizer A+ Relevance Award from Lisa Phillips, director of the New Museum. 2013. [via architizer.com].](http://25.media.tumblr.com/2bdb6160b884acdc295ca32cdfdfc534/tumblr_mn5maiCisU1qbltjyo5_250.jpg)
Check Out Iwan Baan’s Amazing Architectural Photography!
Dutch photographer Iwan Baan has been at the forefront of architectural photography since 2005, when he documented both OMA’s CCTV tower and Herzog and de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium in Beijing. Honored with the Architizer A+ Relevance Award, presented by New Museum director Lisa Phillips, Iwan Baan is among the most talented architectural photographers working today. His art lies not only in capturing the building as an object, or in mastering composition, but also in capturing the urban context and human life both within and beyond his subjects’ walls. Read more!
![Collage © Hugo Barros. [via mesineto.tumblr.com].](http://25.media.tumblr.com/73da07bb84384842cfceacb2214b9b68/tumblr_mn3wz0phuk1qbltjyo7_250.jpg)
![Collage © Hugo Barros. [via mesineto.tumblr.com].](http://24.media.tumblr.com/5057ae2e22825dee662c5ae6574cbd4f/tumblr_mn3wz0phuk1qbltjyo3_250.jpg)
Check Out These Psychedelic Architectural Collages by Hugo Barros!
Evocative of that heady post-1968 period of architectural exploration, the collages of Lisbon-based artist Hugo Barros recharge the legacy of psychedelic graphics in the representation of built form. Some of these collages feature floating surfaces of a giant scale, recalling Superstudio’s Earth-devouring Continuous Monument. Others superbly juxtapose disaster and architectural stability, challenging structural equilibrium and suggesting kinetic buildings. Read More!
Graffiti Lab sent us a city in the mail - all assembled without glue from single sheets of laser-cut paper.
![Photo: Derek Kettela for Elle France. 2010. [Model: Erin Heatherton; Styling: Elissa Cannelle Castelbou]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/fcf4ff4a2d7b2f74b0f8301b9558f78f/tumblr_mmlcrwOdGd1qbltjyo1_250.jpg)
![Photo: Derek Kettela for Elle France. 2010. [Model: Erin Heatherton; Styling: Elissa Cannelle Castelbou]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a440e937bf0118f6faf8dfe4e5944bbc/tumblr_mmlcrwOdGd1qbltjyo2_250.jpg)
Guess the Building—Rooftop Edition!
This week’s edition of ‘Guess the Buidling’ features model Erin Heatherton on a striking sculptural terrace. Golden sunlight bounces off playful chimneys, creating a dynamic backdrop for this contemporary fashion shoot. Built by a modern master with a penchant for ornament and allegory, this project is a mainstay of academic and popular discussion. Have you seen the warm-toned masonry and arabesque motifs before?
Great Gatsby Architecture? 15 Rip-Roaring Examples Of Art Deco!
Ah, the Roaring Twenties, that decadent period when people tossed tradition out the window and really started living it up. Opulent parties, smokey jazz clubs, subterranean speakeasies—if only we could have been there! Tomorrow, the latest film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, set in 1922, debuts in theaters. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up 15 magnificent examples of Art Deco design around the globe. Click through to see them all!
New York And London Double-Exposed!
Today we’re spotlighting the work of photographer Daniella Zalcman, whose stunning New York + London series of superimposed photos takes Instagram images to a new level. Navigating between travel and art photography, Zalcman documented her major transnational relocation to London from New York with this set of overlapping photographs of both cities. Her meticulous compositions produce synergy and dissonance in the same frame, heightening their visual contrast and strong atmospheric presence. Click through to see more!
Punk-Rock Architecture?—Studded, Spiked Buildings In Honor Of The Met Costume Institute
Studded leather jackets and spiked colors are back, thanks to the Metropolitan Museum’s highly publicized “Punk: Chaos to Couture” show, which opens tomorrow in New York City. And while we know that punk constitutes much more than just stapling some metal accouterments onto your shirt and calling it a day, well, we were so inspired by the exhibition’s spinous fashions that we decided to their architectural equivalents. So cue up some Sex Pistols and click through to see some seriously spiky, badass buildings!
Guess The Building—China Edition!
For this week’s Guess the Building post, Architizer is headed to China! While we constantly find ourselves covering major projects by Western architects that have flocked to the Far East to build (Steven Holl, Coop Himmelb(l)au, PES-Architects to name a few), this set of fashion photos features the amazing work of a local architect with an international reputation! Think you’ve seen that gorgeous striated masonry before? Can you name the building? Tell us in the comments section below.
A seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond and consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres marks the heart of the installation. Due to a complex computer algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly random within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight high-speed laser projectors that are being arranged around the artwork. They are sending out beams scanning through the arrangement of the cloud. Generating bright and dim light points, this creates a highly organic and natural distribution of voxels (3D pixels).
XXX Sofa - Snuggle up or give yourself some breathing room. (via futurepredictor)
