We love brutalist architecture – London is graced by some of its finest examples.
Full credit to Palatre et Leclere Architectes for their outstanding primary school renovation . More info at Architizer .
Jim Reinders’ Carhenge is a very unusual tourist attraction.
This dour communist army memorial in Bulgaria has been improved immeasurably by a graffiti artist.
Is there anything creepier than an abandoned funfair ?
Artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, better known as Haas&Hahn , have painted approximately 7,000 square metres of Santa Marta , in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, creating a beautiful, living artwork.
We’ve all experienced the anger and frustration of being stuck at what seems to be a never-ending red light. Mr Stankovic is eager to change the status quo .
Berlin celebrates (or, in some cases, commiserates) the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There’s loads of information on the official website,
Crate man: a man made from milk crates. He gets about more than you’d think…
Do you have $2.3m burning a hole in your pocket? Why not purchase 370 Beech Street, Ferris Beuller’s home in the eponymous film.
Amazingly, the tube carriages that have adorned a rooftop on Old Street are actually piss cheap (£15 a week!) office space. One assumes at that
England’s much maligned second city is often the subject of derision, but who knows, with projects like this on the horizon people may well take
Anna Garforth’s experiments with moss – “living, breathing graffiti.”
Those fine folks over at the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group have done a rather excellent job of recreating the Beijing Olympic Village with 300,000
John Ivers loves roller coasters. So much so that he built one in his back garden. Judging by the video, it looks like his whole
London has a surprising number of abandoned swimming pools. Little wonder most children are obese monsters these days.
Some beautiful, honeycomb-inspired architecture from those funky Slovenian cats.
A wonderful, innovative billboard ad for Anando Milk by McCann Erickson India. It’s been shortlisted for a Lion.
Some rather brilliant chaps at the Berlin Technical University have created a rather wacky and wonderful architectural gem in the form of a kindergarden school.
The Urbantine Project competition offers unrecognised architects the opportunity to showcase their ideas three-dimensionally during London Design Week. The brief is to design a solution
If anyone is in the area of Hanbury Street, EC1, WKside have imitated some of the london underground from rat tubes inhabiting rats!
The award-winning Casulo is surely the way forward for furnishing affordable in a jiffy. The “apartment in a box” really does have everything you need
The humble Post-It Note – life as we know it would come to an abrupt end without these excellent little squares of paper. Most people
Cheeky Dutchman Gijs Gieskes is now shipping his homemade Gameboy bricks worldwide at €31,30 a pop with free worldwide shipping.
Unsold copies of notorious pop mongrel Robbie Williams‘ latest album Rudebox are to be recycled and used to surface roads in China. On the one
BLDGBLOG has posted an interview with urban explorer Michael Cook featuring some remarkable photos of Canada’s sewage system. Fans of sewage and drains could do