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WebUrbanist 2013-01-24 02:00:56
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] For decades, no one could quite agree on what should go in this critical location between the town hall and central church in war-damaged Schijndel, Holland … until MVDRV showed up with a radical proposal remixing old and …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-28 02:00:18
[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Installation & Sound. ] At first: vertigo. You are moving along the sidewalk, when suddenly you see the front of a structure, only on its side, extruded from the ground below you. But then you look up, and realize you are …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-26 18:00:35
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] Nestled in the interstitial space between two existing structures and raised up one story from the street sits an improbable structure, proposed then built as an artist-in-residence live/work dwelling of incredible audacity and engineered ingenuity. We have seen …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-27 18:00:56
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] The spice must flow but the beer? Not always, and last call for breweries large or small is only a question of timing. These dozen decrepit, decommissioned and de-alcoholized breweries are the drunk dry victims of changing times, …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-04 18:00:08
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] Palatial chateaus, ordinary suburban homes, skyscraper residences and vertical slums alike have been abandoned by their human inhabitants and given over to rot and ruin. Whether they represent once-opulent refuges for the rich or some of the most …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-05 02:00:44
[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] The facades of entire buildings are transformed with the larger-than-life painted silhouettes of Madrid-based street artist Sam3. Known for both the enormous scale of his work and the graphic simplicity of his figures, Sam3 gives decaying …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-10 18:00:59
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] These 11 unfinished, abandoned, canceled, mothballed and/or suspended nuclear power plants will, for better or worse, never know the warmth of split atoms. Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant, Spain (images via: Jasonmcconnie, JosebaZ and Wikipedia) Construction of the Lemóniz Nuclear Power Plant, …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-12 18:00:20
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized you were being duped …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-13 02:00:28
[ By Steph in Boutique & Art Hotels & Global. ] Construction has begun on an incredible 19-story, 5-star hotel that will be located deep within a 100-meter (328-foot) abandoned quarry near the base of Tianmashan Mountain in the Songjiang District of Shanghai. The 380-room Shimao Intercontinental …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-24 18:00:18
[ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] The largest underground high-speed rail station in the world will connect Hong Kong to Beijing, and measure an incredible 4,628,481 square feet. Designed by Andrew Bromberg of architecture firm Aedas, the Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-29 18:00:37
[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vintage & Retro. ] Things have come a long way since the world’s first vending machine – a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was slipped into a slot. Some now-vintage models dispense art or books – other …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-30 18:00:06
[ By Delana in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ] Modern architecture is the height of contemporary living – so why are we still putting out dowdy old birdhouses for our feathered neighbors? These gorgeous modern birdhouses are a step forward from the old-fashioned homes our parents …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-02 18:00:04
[ By Delana in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Ariel Sharon Park in Israel is planned to be a stunning ecological retreat in the middle of a densely populated urban area. The site was once an enormous landfill, but today it is being turned into the …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-25 02:00:52
[ By Steph in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ] High-tech looking spiral wine cellars that either blend into the floor or glow with colored lights will entice even non-oenophiles to take up collecting Cabernet. A company called Spiral Cellars offers prefabricated cellars in traditional and modern …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-25 18:00:55
[ By Marc in Art & Drawing & Digital. ] Hyper realistic art is stunning for a variety of reasons: it pushes the limits of skill, it’s incredibly detailed, etc, but what really elevates the style is creating something in high definition that is even brighter and …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-17 02:00:08
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ] Consider what Le Corbusier would think if he were alive to see his famous church in France duplicated as a Chinese barbecue restaurant. Or imagine what an Austrian village  must feel about its entire township being copied …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-17 18:00:22
[ By Steph in Architecture & Offices & Commercial. ] If your office was a pirate ship, would you be more or less likely to slack off? The incredible offices of Inventionland design factory in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania look more like a theme park or movie sound stage …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-18 02:00:05
[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ] Most of us have wished, at some point, that we could control the weather – to keep it from raining on a special day, perhaps, or conjure up a snowstorm that results in a few days off …


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WebUrbanist 2013-01-28 18:00:58
[ By Steph in Design & Products & Packaging. ] Looking straight out of a gritty sci-fi movie, these 35 futuristic and sometimes bizarre high-fashion looks envision a future of metallic artificial hair, dresses that dispense actual cocktails, accordion-like protective headgear and outfits that would fit right …


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WebUrbanist 2013-02-01 18:00:00
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] Normally, urban design is done with death and destruction in mind – but prevention, rather than facilitation, is the focus. This unique mini-city was made to be destroyed, pummeled into the dust by repeated drills by armed …


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