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Dr. Spock …What’s Up?

This mosaic can be seen at a Jewish synagogue in Chicago. The building is in great disrepair and the mosaic is one of the only parts of the interior that is still beautiful. When you walk in the building, the paint is peeling, the plaster is torn off, pigeons have pooped all over the benches […]

Kids Can (and Should) Design

This wonderful drawing was made by our friend, James N. and we just wanted to show it off. An idea that is similar to the drawings of M.C. Escher, the lines weave in and out in an impossible way. We always think about how great it would be to actually walk around in an M.C. […]

Sip that Geodesic Dome!

We saw this little geodesic dome in the halls of one of the science buildings at Northwestern University. What a cool little project with stuff that might be floating around your house – well, floating in your milkshake. (And I am not talking about the nuts and bolts, just the straws.) You just need to […]

Artists Consider Architecture

A single column of Legos is one artist’s interpretation of architecture. Can you imagine that? Once single column of Lego blocks – granted, it IS pretty tall but doesn’t that just make you want to say, “Really?” The Lego tower is part of a new art exhibit in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art […]

Green and Proud

So there is an architect, well he is really called an “architectural botanist”, named Patick Blanc. He comes from France and works all of the world, to make architecture out of plants. Walls of buildings – both inside walls and outside walls – that are just covered in furry, luxurious greenery. There are buildings that […]