Article
Contemporary Indian fiction becomes impossible architecture in Somewhere
Somewhere’s nonsensical worlds have a very real-world meaning.
Architecture
News
Monument Valley’s expansion is just as lovely (and easy) as its predecessor
We talk to ustwo about evading the crow-people.
News
All those vacant stores in shopping malls are being turned in data centers
Malls and department stores both have generous amounts of space, so with many vacancies still left unfilled after the recession, there’s a need to find replacement entities that can make efficient use of of the ample room. An answer to this problem is to buy the space and fill it up with servers, co
News
M.C. Escher would approve of the Monument Valley expansion
Eight more chapters in a story that goes nowhere.
Article
This videogame shows the beauty of disregarding photorealism
The only thing better than realism is surrealism.
Boomshakalaka!
This new art exhibit puts a human face on hard steel
The Barbican Centre, located on Silk Street in the City of London, is one of the largest performing arts centers in Europe. (The smallest is Captain Franko’s Fantabulous Flea Circus in Covent Garden.) Until January 11th, 2015, the venue is hosting an exhibit called “Constructing Worlds: Photography
News
Mediterranean Voidland transports you to a virtual slice of paradise
A low-poly marvel.
News
The forces of interaction are conspiring to make museums more engaging
Meet the new generation of museums.
Article
Studio Oleomingus wants to take us to an impossible Somewhere
A collection of shorts, fragments of a mirror.
Emergents
Mario Von Rickenbach’s games are just that: games
Murdering style with the creator of Drei.
News
This mountain hut is like a crash-landed spaceship
Part LEGO and part crash-landed Borg cube, Atelier 8000’s entry into the Kemarská Chata (Kemarská Hut) international architectural competition would have looked right at home in the High Tatras peaks of Slovakia. The design team said that the “clean simple cube shape” is intended to evoke a scene
News
Some rich, handsome couple is going to get lost and starve to death in this "labyrinthine" mansion
There’s a house down the street from me that doesn’t make sense. I live in a totally normal neighborhood in Chicago—lotta old Ukrainian people, plus a bar with tattooed dudes who like hockey—but someone just uprooted a full corner and plopped this enormous obsidian mansion in the middle of it. The w