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]]>The fossil mansion was designed in the early 1980s by American architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, known for his innovation and “an architecture so full of life that it seems to breathe.” He was commissioned by Beverly and Jay Doolittle, who gave the architect as much time and freedom as he needed to get the work done.
After being in construction for more than 25 years, the Kellogg Doolittle mansion was finally finished in 2014. It consists of two buildings and has an interior structure formed by 26 piers that serve as walls. There is no lumber or drywall used for the interior.
Kellogg brought in his protégé John Vugrin to handle the interior design of the mansion. Vugrin followed Kellogg’s idea, opting for natural material and twisted curvilinear shapes.
“From its hand-laid stone path to the marble, copper, and glass work inside, there is no detail about Kellogg Doolittle that is underwhelming,” it says on the official website of Kellogg Doolittle mansion. “It takes days to take it all in. Never has the relationship between every item inside a home been so strong, but since everything, down to the BBQ and Table Lamps were made custom, and specifically for the home, that relationship is highly poetic.”
Kellogg Doolittle mansion welcomes visitors who want to marvel at its beauty and is also available for short-term rent as accommodation, filming location, and event center. You can learn more about it in this tour from the Architectural Digest.
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]]>Salah primarily creates her art on cardboard. This allows her to add some 3D elements to her works, making them even more eye-catching. This includes cutting out the pieces of cardboard to change the texture of the background, allowing her designs to stand out.
Salah’s works showcase all sorts of different buildings and architectural styles. You’ll see mansions, apartment buildings, and cozy shops created in a range of styles from contemporary architecture to Brick Gothic. In order to get the best results, this talented artist also combines various techniques, including watercolors, markers, and pencils.
Social media users and architecture enthusiasts have been quite impressed with Salah’s drawings and sketches. Her Instagram page has surpassed 100K followers, while each of her posts gets welcomed with praise and recognition. On top of already finished designs, Salah will often share videos that show her making them from scratch, giving a unique insight into her creative process.
Continue scrolling to check out more of her works below.
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]]>The series “Buildings Inspired by Birds” features buildings based on a pelican, blue jay, parrot, pigeon, and several other birds. Jacobus used Midjourney to create several variations of each design but kept them linked closely with the nature of the bird they were inspired by.
For example, blue jay-inspired buildings are predominantly blue and have towers resembling the bird’s signature crest. Parrot-inspired buildings, on the other hand, follow the colorfulness theme of these fascinating birds.
Midjourney creates images based on the textual descriptions that users provide. The tool debuted in the summer of 2022 and is currently in open beta.
“Using Midjourney, I explore how emerging artificial intelligence can envision new forms of hybridity and cross-pollination to fuse multiple objects with diverse identities into a new singular whole,” the artist shared in a recent interview.
While some of these designs might not be entirely useful if you are looking to build a house, they are quite impressive to look at. Check more of them below.
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]]>According to Ulises, the project is aimed at “exploring the possibilities of portable collective solutions for contemporary nomadic communities.” Their designs see a vehicle fitted with multiple levels, with each one serving a different purpose.
For example, one of the designs is fitted with multiple living rooms, an office, a bedroom, and a terrace. Others have more compact levels, with each being suitable for a single occupant, essentially turning them into an apartment building.
These mobile homes range from retro to futuristic designs and feature between two and seven stories.
“By embracing a more nomadic lifestyle, we can explore new ways of living that are both exciting and sustainable, all while fostering a sense of community and connection with the world around us,” Ulises founder Ricardo Orts said about the project when reached out to by Cover Media.
While the structural integrity of these multi-decker mobile homes might be questionable, the idea itself seems quite interesting. Who knows, maybe this ends up being the future after all.
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]]>Based in Philadelphia, Leshko’s art has drawn crowds both locally and internationally, and is included in the permanent collection of the Urban Nation Museum (Berlin), the Dean Collection (NYC), the West Collection (Philadelphia), and many private collections throughout the world.
A seasoned creator, Leshko has been making small sculptures since 2005 when he finished school at West Chester University. “I like to tell people that they’re typical 90-95% paper, but in the end they are mixed media sculptures,” he shared in an interview with Create! Magazine.
Working from observation and photographs, Leshko’s work is a three-dimensional study of the architecture in his neighborhood, recreating building facades at a 1:12 scale. “I work from photographs and scale my sculpture with simple math equations,” he further explained. “I typically only use the reference image for roughly the first half of the process. After that point, I discard the image and work from memory.”
According to Leshko, working from memory is a strategic move he likes to equate to seeing something in person. “You only remember so many details and your memory makes mistakes, so in some ways you are mentally rebuilding an experience in the same way I’m constructing my sculptures,” he adds. “This also allows me to be less strict and more creative.”
Subjects have included a local deli, his grandfather’s 80s camper, iceboxes, and even dumpsters. “I’m always experimenting and trying new techniques, but I don’t set aside time to do so,” says Leshko. “Everything is a learning experience and sometimes pieces just don’t work out successfully.” But more often than not, the result is awe striking.
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]]>While looking for ways to pass the time during long college classes, Busyak often found himself doing sketches. His most frequent subjects were buildings and monuments he saw in his hometown or during his trips around Europe. He also frequently made up his own architectural designs.
One time, Busyak decided to see if there was a way to improve his simple sketches with computer software. He experimented with effects until he got an idea to turn on the lights inside his buildings using a digital tool. This added a whole new dimension to his works, creating a warm and intimate atmosphere that pops up from the paper.
“I instantly fell in love with the effect and realized that this was the style I’ve been searching for for so many years,” he explained in a recent interview.
These architectural sketches proved to be quite popular on social media, with internet users being impressed not only by their glowing effects but also the variety of architectural styles they display, from the Baroque period to drawing of a simple cabin in the woods. Check out more of Busyak’s works below.
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]]>Based in Norwood, South Australia, Smith’s career spans over a period of 18 years. Formerly a self-taught stencil artist, he switched gears to miniature art in 2015. Incredibly enough, his practice is entirely self-taught and based on trial and error. “I am constantly learning and finding new and quicker ways of doing things,” he admitted in an interview with Monster Children.
According to Smith, over the years there have been many methods he has tried to get the textures just right for details like bricks, pavement, and wall rendering: “It is such a good feeling when I finally figure out how to do something just perfect,” he relayed.
His details include the often overlooked aspects of urban environments such as grime, rust, decay, and graffiti, all of which Smith perfectly recreates in 1:20 scale miniatures.
“I like the beauty that comes from decay,” he admits. “There is a certain special quality from it that it really tells a story. Things such as grime, decay, rust, gum on the sidewalk, and graffiti are all layers of time each telling their own story. I think it gives so much more character to a building which once had former glory now sitting there in decay.”
Despite his relatively short career in miniature art, Smith’s incredible work hasn’t gone unnoticed and has been showcased in over 100 exhibitions, in galleries and art fairs in cities like London, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sydney and Melbourne. He also has an impressive following online, which you’re invited to join.
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]]>“I’ve always had a special relationship with shoes,” admitted Toledano in an interview with Harper’s BAZAAR. “Every happy moment of life has become an excuse to buy a new pair of shoes: my birthday, the end of the school year, sometimes for comfort after a breakup.|
According to Toledano (and we couldn’t agree more), to put on a new pair of shoes gives you confidence. “It’s the ultimate feminine accessory,” she notes. “My collection of shoes is like a family; they have some elements in common—the shape, structure—but they all have their own personality.”
Fuelled by their love for multi-artistic mediums, Nodaleto emerges as a creative label that goes beyond shoes. Made in Venice, in the purest Italian tradition, Nodaleto emphasises the nobility of materials and their quality. The leathers are varnished and aged, with an added splash of tangerine tang – the emblematic color of the brand. “I get my inspiration from furniture design, to architecture, a very famous teenage movie from the ’00s or TV shows like Friends,” says Toledano.
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]]>Born in France and currently based in London, Herem is actually trained in graphic design rather than architecture or illustration. “I always wanted to be on the illustration side of things rather than the design side,” he admitted in an interview with Uncube Magazine. “I’m very interested in the aesthetic aspect of architecture and I find that graphic design allows me to learn about this through the construction of images of buildings. In this way I learn about the history of buildings too.”
After establishing himself as a freelance illustrator, Herem published his first book, titled Know Your Rodent, which according to him has further developed his love of illustrating buildings. He had since collaborated with brands and companies, including Soho House, Liberty, Samsung, and Herman Miller.
“For each drawing I find that there is something special about the building that drives me,” he says. “For ‘the Grand Budapest’ it was the symbolism, what the film’s story represented for me, and the great respect that I have for the director. Drawing ‘fiction’ was a first for my practice and something that I enjoyed a lot. I spent 600 hours alone on the drawing before adding the watercolour, during which I felt wholly within Wes Anderson’s universe! So it was the fictional aspect of the building that felt most present to me when I was working on it.”
Take a look at some of his incredible creations.
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]]>Chinneck is known for the works that distort the reality of the world around us and put an insane twist to it in order to “transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.” Some of his mind-blowing projects include tying post boxes in knots, unzipping buildings and flipping the parking lots.
Check them out below.
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