Nikita Busyak Creates Architectural Drawings That Look Like They’re Illuminated With Real Lights
A simple flick of the switch can transform a home from dark and asleep to bright and full of life. Ukraine-based artist Nikita Busyak captures this effect in his enchanting pen and ink illustrations of cityscapes. In each architectural drawing, he digitally manipulates the windows so that they glow with golden light, making it seem as though someone is home.
Sit on the city, in the city and with the city: Savio Firmino and Cosimo de Vita have transformed the chair into a symbolic, yet functional, object that encloses the city and its values.
The CITYNG collection speaks of sharing and belonging, featuring a total of 16 pieces handcrafted in solid wood. the journey starts in Europe, from Florence, the hometown of both Cosimo de Vita and the Savio Firmino company, continues to Milan, the city of Salone del Mobile, and then to Rome, Paris, Barcelona and, beyond the European borders, to Moscow, Petra, New York, Agra, Wuhan and many others.
Sit on the city, in the city and with the city: Savio Firmino and Cosimo de Vita have transformed the chair into a symbolic, yet functional, object that encloses the city and its values.
The CITYNG collection speaks of sharing and belonging, featuring a total of 16 pieces handcrafted in solid wood. the journey starts in Europe, from Florence, the hometown of both Cosimo de Vita and the Savio Firmino company, continues to Milan, the city of Salone del Mobile, and then to Rome, Paris, Barcelona and, beyond the European borders, to Moscow, Petra, New York, Agra, Wuhan and many others.
The Little Building Co design, develop and manufacture architectural model kits that have a truth to the materials. They are made to feel like they could have come from the architect’s own studio. They research and study the buildings architectural drawings, dissect countless photos and cross reference details to capture the true essence of the buildings in their models.
Stephen Doyle describes his interconnected book sculptures as “miniature monuments, testaments to the power of language and metaphors of imagination.” Featuring angled scaffolding and interlocking constructions that appear to grow directly from the bound pages, the sprawling sculptural forms that comprise his Hypertexts series are unruly and enchanting reimaginings of how information is communicated.
Mesmerizing Architecture Drawings Look Like Impossible Geometric Mazes
Cities, both past and present, are creative muses for many artists. However, while most people depict small parts of their favorite capital, American artist Benjamin Sack draws the entire scope of urban centers.
Mohammad Hassan Forouzanfar raises the flag of resistance wishing for freedom in Afghanistan
Mohammad Hassan Forouzanfar, an architect, graphic designer, and visual artist introduces a series of photographies; collecting some historical monuments of Afghanistan and its ancient sites — which are also on the UNESCO world heritage list — and raising the flag of the people’s resistance force, wishing freedom to all humans in Afghanistan and precious heritage of this country.
Are you an architecture fan? Whether you are an architectural designer yourself or just an architecture lover, you may have noticed that there are a lot of specific and technical terms that come with talking about buildings. That is why My Modern Met has put together a helpful list of 100 architecture terms to help you describe buildings better.
As more of the earth’s surface is swallowed up by the built environment, architects are increasingly advised to integrate urban flora and fauna into their designs. Whether developing green roofs, living walls, abundant indoor courtyards, or balconies that connect interior and exterior spaces, the urge to intertwine nature and architecture has never been more apparent. Embracing this ubiquitous trend, Evergreen Architecture surveys a broad spectrum of residential, institutional, urban, and rural spaces.
Even when it’s terrifying, the Studio Ghibli universe is lovely. Hayao Miyazaki’s highly detailed hand-drawn worlds have their own kawaii aesthetic. And kawaii (the Japanese concept of cuteness) has come back in a big way for our troubled times.
Studio Ghibli characters and locations take a big dollop of kawaii and mulch it with epic mythology. Ghibli worlds are familiar and reassuring even when they are exotic and dreamlike. Sounds like the kind of environment you’d like to live in full-time? HouseHoldQuotes has rendered five Ghibli interiors as realistic room designs to help you imagine your way to a new look at home.
Above: Arrietty’s Bedroom (The Secret World of Arrietty, 2010)
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Lights and Painted Blocks of Color Intersect in a Perspective-Bending Installation by Luftwerk
A deceptively trippy installation by Chicago-based duo Luftwerk immerses viewers in a distorted environment of color and sound. Relying entirely on physical properties for its illusions, Open Square connects two spaces that are painted with clean, angled blocks of color in cool and warm tones.
Located on the outskirts of the city of Burgos, the provincial capital of Castilla y León in the north of Spain, Landa can be identified by its medieval tower. Its history began in 1964, when the Landa family, creator of the Real Club Puerta de Hierro, in Madrid, and La Perla, in San Sebastián, thought of transferring stone-by-stone a 14th-century tower that they found in a nearby town.
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