10 Clever Examples of Urban & Recycled Art
Urban art, growing out of or concerned with city life, has been spawned from vandalism and graffiti and is now a recognised comment on the fabric of our cities and modern lifestyles.
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In Art / By Alexandra Smith /
Urban art, growing out of or concerned with city life, has been spawned from vandalism and graffiti and is now a recognised comment on the fabric of our cities and modern lifestyles.
In Architecture / By Alexandra Smith /
As we saw in Part One, adaptive reuse is a great way to repurpose the important historical features of our world. This article features 10 more intriguing transformations, from roads and ruins to temples and towers.
In Abandoned, Europe / By Alexandra Smith /
Barnes Hospital in Manchester was closed in 1999 during healthcare cutbacks. Abandoned for years, the imposing 1870s brick-built structure has changed hands several times and appears to be for sale again.
In Abandoned, North America, Transportation / By Alexandra Smith /
The Great American streetcar scandal claims that National City Lines, Inc. (NCL) was created to organise the buying and dissolving of electric streetcar networks across the United States in the mid 1900s. But is it true?
In Abandoned, Europe / By Alexandra Smith /
Completed in 1842, the Victoria Tunnel was originally a 2.4 mile-long subterranean standard-gauge wagonway under Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, which can still be toured today.
In Architecture / By Alexandra Smith /
The Roman Forum in Rome, Italy, is famous for its vast ruins and exciting excavation sites. But it’s also the location of a compelling example of centuries-old adaptive reuse.
In Abandoned, Asia / By Alexandra Smith /
The Cape Aniva or Mys Aniva Lighthouse, formally known as Naka Shiretoko Saki, was built by Japan in 1939. It sits on a rock off the cape of the south-east fork of the island of Sakhalin and is thought to be radioactive.
In Architecture / By Alexandra Smith /
A disused viaduct east of Scilla in Italy was recently the focus of a regeneration competition which produced the unique idea of creating a spaceship-like settlement, dubbed an ‘inverted high-rise’ by the architects.
In Architecture / By Alexandra Smith /
Schmidt may become the new title for one of three abandoned sewage silos in Zeeburgereiland, Amsterdam, in memory of Ms. Annie M.G. Schmidt, which may be set to be repurposed as modern real estate.
In Architecture / By Alexandra Smith /
Declared a national monument in 2002, the disused Hofplein viaduct in Rotterdam is set to become a linear urban park, following the route of the abandoned railway line in a project called de Hofbogen.
In Abandoned / By Alexandra Smith /
Tequendama Falls Biodiversity and Cultural Museum-House has been created within an abandoned South American mansion situated adjacent to a 132 metre-high waterfall in Columbia. Let’s pay it a visit!
In Architecture / By Alexandra Smith /
Britain’s iconic red telephone box and classic blue Police box are celebrated in British culture. However, there is a rarer sentry-style box hidden in the UK that remains more elusive.
In Abandoned, Europe / By Alexandra Smith /
Canfranc International Railway Station sits abandoned at the end of the 58 mile Pau–Canfranc Railway, which once crossed the Pyrenees to connect the notably small village of Canfranc in Spain to Pau in France.
In North America, Travel & Living / By Alexandra Smith /
Hundreds of millions of years ago, salty seawater settled and evaporated in the lowered Michigan Basin to form vast salt beds over 1,000 feet underground – enter the massive Detroit salt mine.
In Europe, Travel & Living / By Alexandra Smith /
A churchyard in Scotland contains the headstone of Thomas Riddell. Although this man had nothing to do with Harry Potter’s nemesis Tom Riddle, aka Voldemort, people have allegedly been leaving notes of rebuke on the poor man’s grave.
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