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2014-01-20

2007, 2010s, architecture, lego, street art.

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Dispatchwork, an international movement to fix holes with Lego, initiated in 2007 by Jan Vormann. Browse the map on their website.

2014-01-17

1920s, architecture, Russia.

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The Melnikov House by architect Konstantin Melnikov (1920s)

2013-12-21

1910s, architecture, denmark, ukraine, usa.

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100 years ago today, the first crossword puzzle was published, according to Smithsonian (1). In Ukraine Serhiy Petyuk decorated a house with a crossword puzzle, where you can see the letters only at the night (2). Ken Knowlton and Frank Longo made the portrait crossword (3). Christian Svanes Kolding made the QR-crossword (4).

thx 2 nerdcore for the head’s up

2013-12-15

1600s, architecture, iran, mosaic, square kufic.

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Isfahan Royal Mosque in Iran, built in the 1600s.

2013-11-28

2010s, architecture, sculpture.

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Watertower (DUMBO, Brooklyn, 2012) by Tom Fruin

2013-11-19

1920s, architecture.

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The ultimate text-mode church!
Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1921-1940)

2013-11-14

architecture, mosaic, tiles.

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Medieval and 19th Century Floor Tiles of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

2013-11-05

2010, 2010s, architecture, ascii, conversion, japan.

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The Future Starts Now – a 20×30 meter ASCII by Rikki Kasso, 2010. Placed on the Mejiro Kindergarten in Tokyo. The ASCII art was based on a photograph, infused with numbers and phrases about learning in English and Japanese. Rikki:

As I thought more into it, it became clear that this text in digital form also known as a “font” was also a brand new language that children will grow up with as an automatic second written language. A “Neo-Neanderthal” age where symbols and icons are used to reform communication.

Sort of like was argued here. More here and here.

2013-10-23

architecture, Russia.

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