Bethune Road by Thibaud Herem

Bethune Road by Thibaud Herem

Thibaud Herem is a French illustrator based in London. After completion of a graphic design degree he established himself as a freelance illustrator. Following the success of his first book “Know Your Rodent” he began to develop further his love of illustrating buildings. Working with pencil and Indian inks his work has continued to evolve. Today he has refined a distinct signature style and specialises in creating architectural drawings with an incredible level of hand drawn detail. -- Artist's web site

City Prints

City Prints 

International City Map Prints Illustrated in bold colors inspired by the city’s flags and more from City Prints

Global Carbon Footprint

Global Carbon Emissions by Stanford Kay

The image of a footprint is composed of circles sized relative to the carbon emissions of each nation and color coded according to region. 

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Urban Sketchers

Urban Sketchers started online as a flickr group in 2007 and later became a nonprofit organization. Our mission as a nonprofit is to raise the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on location where they live and travel. We aim to show the world, one drawing at a time. 

This is the manifesto we follow: 

We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation. 

Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live and where we travel. 

Our drawings are a record of time and place. We are truthful to the scenes we witness. 

We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles. 

We support each other and draw together. 

We share our drawings online. 

We show the world, one drawing at a time.  -- Urban Sketchers

The Cloth Simulation

The Cloth Simulation A creation of Andrew Hoyer, a nice cloth simulator based on lines and dots. In fact, every point is a constant with no actual dimension and is based on mass and location. Just click and drag any of the points available on the “clothing item” to manipulate it. -- Devstand

How Quilting Can Explain the Foreclosure Crisis

A quilt depicting foreclosures in Modesto.

San Francisco-based artist Kathryn Clark makes quilts depicting neighborhoods affected by the foreclosure crisis across the United States. The work grows out of Clark’s lifelong fascination with maps, as well as her stint in the early 2000s working as an urban planner under New Urbanism guru Peter Calthorpe. Clark recently described for Atlantic Cities how she combines secondhand materials and Internet technology to create these portraits of fraying neighborhoods. -- Atlantic Cities

Video: I. M. Pei's Hyperboloid

The 2010 Royal Gold Medallist, Chinese American I. M. Pei is 92....the 13 minute film shown at the Royal Gold Medal Dinner, when Pei was presented with the Medal. It features an interview and examples of his work over five decades. -- RIBA

What is missing?

Source: whatismissing.net

Maya Lin Invites and Challenges Website Visitors to Help Improve Earth's Well-being

If you're looking for something to do on Earth Day, consider a visit to www.whatismissing.net, the site developed by noted artist and activist Maya Lin that launches its second stage Sunday. Follow up by going to the stirring exhibition of her sculpture in the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art.

Ms. Lin conceived "What Is Missing?" as the fifth, and last, of her memorial projects, which began with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1982. She was an undergraduate at Yale University at the time and winning the design competition catapulted her to fame. That she chose to shy away from the spotlight reflects a persona characterized by integrity, intellect and a deep and genuine relationship with projects she commits to. -- By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via Architectural Record

Ephemicropolis

Ephemicropolis 2010 by Peter Root

100,000 Staples
Approx floor area 600x300cm

Stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single staples. These stacks were then stood up and arranged over a period of 40 hours. -- artist's web site

ArchitecTie

Source: kickstarter.com

ArchitecTie is line of architecturally inspired neckties , influenced by great examples of modern architecture. Why should Frank Lloyd Wright have all the fun? -- KickStarter

Type as Architecture

AR House: Architectural Review Cover August, 2010

Architectural 3D type

Design heroes : Zaha Hadid, Source: behance.net

Design heroes : Tadao Ando, Source: behance.net

Design heroes : Toyo Ito, Source: behance.net

Design heroes :  Oscar Niemeyer, Source: behance.net

Architectural 3D type by Chris LaBrooy, UK Via behance.net

Six Architects – Minimalist Posters of Modern Architecture

Source: ufunk.net

Six Architects – Minimalist Posters of Modern Architecture

“Six Architects” is a series of minimalist posters showing the major architects and main principles of modern architecture. Conceived and created by Roosterization  -- ufunk.ent

Grafted Together

Source: Jim Kazanjian

Composite Photographs by Jim Kazanjian

portland artist jim kazanjian's body of work consists of crisply composed digital images that explore the surrealist side of space and architecture. drawing from literary influences such as h.p. lovecraft and algernon blackwood, kazanjian's pictorials illustrate a fantasy-driven world that seemingly celebrates relics and decay. -- designboom

Source: popupcity.net

Rauzier’s Virtual Worlds by Jean François Rauzier

French photographer Jean François Rauzier transforms high resolution photos into dream-like, virtual paintings which offer a reflection on reality.

This so-called ‘Hyperphoto’ technique is invented by the artist himself back in 2002, and has been exhibited throughout the world since then. His work is currently on show at Art London and Fine Art Asia Hong Kong by Waterhouse and Dodd.  -- The Pop-Up City

Source: Filip Dujardin

Fictional Architecture by Filip Dujardin

Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he "combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures" -- talleritesoortiz

...who has embraced the truthiness of photography to create a series of “fictions,” turning the process of documenting architecture inside out. Dujardin imagines structures, which he builds as cardboard or computer models, and then searches the cityscape of his native Ghent to photograph buildings that will serve as his materials. -- Question Beauty, ArchitecrureBoston

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Source: Julee Holcombe courtesy of Gallery Kayafas

Metropolis. 2010 by Julee Holcombe

The views of construction and deterioration, ancient ruins erected in the midst of skyscrapers and monuments, or the reverse, create mystifying worlds with historical references to specific times, happenings and the human condition. Memory, recognition, fantasy, spring from this imaginative and convincing work!

Her figurative photographs, like the architectural compilations, are intriguing and mysterious, a collection of images and ideas, embracing interpretations of paintings, religious parables and modern street sensibility. She investigates contemporary cultures while mixing reality and fiction. -- Berkhshire Fine Arts

Source: Roel Backaert guardian.co.uk

Inntel Hotel Zaandam, Zaandam, the Netherlands designed by WAM

Can this be real? I'm in Zaandam, near Amsterdam, standing in front of a hotel that looks like a pileup of traditional Dutch houses, all grafted together in bright greens and blues, their pediments, gables, windows and roofs pulling and pushing at my eyes.  -- The Guardian

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Deleted City

Source: fastcodesign.com

"Deleted City" Visualizes GeoCities Archive As An Actual Cityscape

Two years ago, Yahoo! committed an act of digital urbicide and deleted the entire U.S. archives of GeoCities, the personal-website portal it had paid $3.57 billion for in 1999. (Oddly, the Japanese version apparently still exists.) But an intrepid backup effort by The Internet Archive managed to capture GeoCities' final state as a 641GB torrent file for posterity. And now, artist Richard Vijgen has used that data to create an interactive tribute called "The Deleted City," which literally maps the millions of GeoCities web pages onto a zoomable urban grid. -- Co.Design

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3D Cities Posters

Source: mapposter.com

A 3D poster of Boston from MapPoster.com

49 Cities: Mapping and Measuring the Utopian Metropolis

New York practice WORKac takes 49 urban designs back to the drawing board

In this respect, 49 Cities: Mapping and Measuring the Utopian Metropolis, a project by New York-based architect WORKac, does an admirable job. It began as an exhibition (and accompanying book) at Manhattan’s Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery, and its premise is to bring together a diverse set of research and practice data in one resource, bridging the gap between speculative urban design and large-scale planning endeavours. -- Architectural Review, August 2009

WORKac: 49 Cities, Second Edition -- ArchDaily

T-Shirts for Architects by Bob Borson

The concept is a periodic table of design – complete with each shirt having its place on the actual periodic table, as well as the key components that make up each element, i.e. – for the element Mo “Modern”, you have a George Nelson clock, an Arco Floor lamp, and the Swan Chair from Arne Jacobsen. Each element has its own hieroglyphs – each lovingly created by me. -- Life of an Architect.

Grid/Street/Place

Grid/Street/Place: Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts. by Nathan Cherry (with Kurt Nagle) 

ISBN-13: 978-1932364729 | Publication Date: September 30, 2009

G/S/P is also a kind of manual; author Cherry describes it as a "playbook" in his introduction. The instructions come largely in visual form: primarily by way of maps of places the authors consider worthy of study. The examples fall into five principal categories: Classic Districts (which give a historic perspective); Mixed Use Districts; Squares, Greens and Parks; Shopping Streets; and Places. The maps in any section are at the same scale, to facilitate comparisons.  -- Frank Gruber, Huffington Post

CityFabric

Source: lisatown.com

A nifty project and small business started by Matt Tomasula, a grad student in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Matt started CityFabric with the goal of engaging people in conversations about the cities in which they live. Their first project is called “Wear You Live”, which using simple figure-ground maps of cities focuses on the idea of engaging more people in discussions about where they live. CityFabric recently had an exhibition in New York City with Hyperpublic called New York Scaled.

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