Painted spaces—This New York-based artist painted fantastical colors on the belly of an overpass in Newburgh, New York last year. [Grist] In Saint-Étienne, France, another pair of street artists have painted faux-frames onto tired buildings. [Curbed]
Elsewhere in ruin porn—A Vancouver photographer snapped the tragic beauty of forgotten spaces in the Motor City. [The Atlantic Cities]
The New York Times Magazine declared Baku, Azerbaijan as the winner of the “architecture arms race.”
Curbed mapped 10 former schools in D.C. that have been converted into something else—mainly condos.
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