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Culinary Arts: Rock Candy Geodes Hidden Inside Huge Chocolate Shells

13 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

Just like the dull rocks that often reveal geode formations in nature, one would not expect to find such a sweet surprise inside what look a bit like giant Easter eggs (or perhaps dinosaur droppings).

As a final thesis project for the Culinary Institute of America in New York, Alex Yeatts and Abby Lee Wilcox spent months crafting these monstrous treats.

After 6 months of hard work @alex.yeatts and I cracked open our chocolate geodes!!! I am so thankful to have had this experience. #proud2bcia #chocolate #geode #foodart #chefstalk #candy #bakerylife #confectionery #foodie #foodporn #cny #pastry #buzzfeast #geodecake

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Orange-red and purple crystals inside look remarkably natural, particularly the latter (resembling typical amethysts). While hardly healthy, one could imagine subsisting on these gigantic desserts indefinitely.

In a similar vein (treats imitating nature), the “flower cakes” (and cupcakes) of Iven Kawi are stunning works of culinary art, so lifelike one could imagine being pricked by the needles on cacti or grind one’s teeth on the sandy landscapes (via Colossal).

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Inhabited Ruin: Modern Home Hidden Inside Abandoned Masonry Shell

07 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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When the architect of this remarkable remodel was hired to create a new home for his clients, a derelict building on the site caught his eye and turned out to be the focal point of a marvelous design project.

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Estudio Castillo Oli (images by Angel Baltanas) balances old and new in this hybrid project, inserting a contemporary dwelling into a stone-and-brick shell on the site.

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Part of the existing structural remnants were retrofit with modern windows and a roof to create interior spaces for the home while the rest were left up as a kind of fence for a semi-private exterior courtyard.

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New ceramic tiles and timber framing matches the existing context while steel and glass add a modern touch. A glass wall between inside and outside spaces reduces the sense of separation between them.

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Inside, new walls are pulled back from window openings to reveal the old structure. Glass and trim likewise give space to old openings, preserving what was there. The net result is a gorgeous, rich and complex mixture of aged elements and new, creating something with a sense of time but also fit for modern living.

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Hidden Addition: Stealth NYC Penthouse is Invisible from Streets Below

30 Nov

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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Unseen above the restored cast-iron facade of this 1857 residential structure in Tribeca, a stunning modern loft extends the building’s livable space, its form responding directly to lines of sight.

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Designed by WORKac and known as the Stealth Building, the addition had to work with the existing facade — to preserve its appearance, rendering it invisible became the obvious approach.

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In order to accomplish this clever act of concealment, all angles of view and shadows cast had to be accounted for. In turn, these informed the shape of the angular extension. Tracing lines of visibility across facade features of adjacent buildings, the designers derived a roof line that would work with the project goals.

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All of this naturally shaped the interior spaces as well, creating dramatic diagonal lines that carry through the various rooms.

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The fifth-floor pop-up features sleeping quarters, entertaining and dining spaces, as well as a secluded terrace tucked behind the pediment to provide privacy for residents. The former elevator bulkhead has been converted to contain a hut tub servicing the deck as well.

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Earth from a New Perspective: ‘Overview’ Aerial Shots Reveal Hidden Beauty

01 Nov

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Photography & Video. ]

Planned community of Sun Lakes, Arizona

Other than a few brief glimpses near airports, few of us ever get to see the Earth from high up in the sky, taking in all of the complex textures and patterns created by nature and human activity. If we could, we might feel more inclined to do all that we could to protect it. This phenomenon, as experienced by astronauts when viewing our small, fragile planet from space, is called the ‘overview effect,’ and it serves as the inspiration behind a series of stunning aerial photographs by Benjamin Grant.

A highway interchange in Jacksonville, FL

World's largest aircraft storage facility, Tucson, Arizona — World’s largest aircraft storage facility, Tucson, Arizona

Residential communities in Boca Raton, FL

‘Overview: A New Perspective of Earth’ is a new hardcover book full of over 200 aerial images taken of sites all over the world, from industrial areas of South Korea and fields in Ethiopia to planned communities in South Florida. Grant initially started the project as an Instagram series in December 2013, selecting high-resolution satellite photographs that reveal the extent to which we have altered the surface of the planet upon which we live and curating them into a thoughtful, emotional collection.

Agricultural development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Residential neighborhood in Delray Beach, FL

“What I’m really trying to get across here is that we’ve entered an important time in human history where our home has been significantly altered,” Grant told Wired in a 2015 interview.

The Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant, Seville, Spain

Grant searches aerial shots relating to a specific current event or environmental issue to find the ones that have the biggest impact, striking us as visually beautiful even when the imagery depicts tragedy. Some examples include shots of a refugee camp in Kenya, shrinking ice sheets and the choked streets of the world’s most populated cities. Take a look through the feed on DailyOverview.com, or order the book on Amazon.

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Crate Core: Shipping Container Tower Hidden Inside a Carriage House

30 Sep

[ By SA Rogers in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

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When glimpsed from above, this stack of vivid orange shipping containers on a Brooklyn rooftop looks like an add-on structure, but it doesn’t end where the original house’s roof begins. It continues straight through the building, all the way to the ground floor, creating a sort of house-within-a-house to subdivide the space in dynamic new ways. The four reclaimed crates that can be seen from higher floors of neighboring buildings are just the penthouse portion, which opens onto a connected rooftop patio.

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Designed by LOT-EK, the crate creation reinvigorates the 1930s carriage house, separating the kitchen from the living area on the ground floor and acting as a staircase and room divider on the second level. The containers are cut diagonally to let light pierce through the home from the front to the back.

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Placement directly in the center of the building effectively slices the living space into thirds, creating new rooms, like the master bedroom in the back of the intermediate level and the children’s room in the front. On the penthouse level, the same diagonal slices that can be seen below are filled in with glass to frame views of the treetops and other buildings on the block.

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When standing at street level, you can just barely see the corrugated orange metal sticking up beyond the matte black facade of the home, but the neon color and diagonal lines of the crates are definite attention-grabbers through the glass garage door.

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Check out 9 more architectural shipping container creations by LOT-EK.

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Swing of Things: Framed Furniture Reveals Hidden Potential

14 May

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

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Like door swings on architectural blueprints come to life, these works of metal-framed wood furniture express their embedded potential in physical space.

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The new Trace Collection from Nendo takes the architect’s approach to the next level, physically representing the movements of furniture doors and drawers via three-dimensional frameworks. Their installation was recently featured at the Collective Design Fair in New York.

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“Although they may not be visible, we are subconsciously aware of the ‘traces’ of their movements every day,” explains designer Oki Sato. For example, because of that, we do not put a vase in front of a door. It is essential for a person who specializes in space design to be even more aware of this, as they have to portray these ‘traces’ onto drawings.”

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The visualized actions speak volumes about potential options for opening the various swing, flip and sliding doors in each piece. While the results may not be the most practical furniture, they do cause one to think a bit more about the embedded possibilities of everyday furnishings.

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Behind the Scenes: Hidden Collections Storage at the Smithsonian

22 Apr

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It is hard to imagine just how extensive, colorful and generally amazing the plant, animal, fossil and rock archives at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, D.C. really are … at least until you see the shelves slide out, as shown in this stunning photo series (by Chip Clark).

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The museum staff has meticulously collected and cataloged plant and animal species as well as rock, fossils and other organic wonders from around the world. Some are on display, but many more live behind the scenes, shelved for reference and study.

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Examining these artifacts helps give researchers and scientists insights into biological diversity and evolutionary relationships, but also assist environmentalists studying conservation and climate change.

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There is something particularly humanizing about these images, shot over the decades by a single staff photographer, which feature not on the each collection but in many cases his colleagues as well.

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Departments shown here include botany and algae, invertebrate zoology, mammals, mineral sciences, paleobiology and anthropology.

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PIX 2015: Robert Hurt and the hidden universe

29 Nov

Robert Hurt might just have the coolest job in the galaxy. He’s a visualization scientist with NASA, helping to interpret research data from space telescopes and NASA missions into photography. In short, he helps reveal the hidden universe that exists beyond the realm of human vision. In his PIX 2015 talk, he shares his insight on how his images are created and what kinds of things we can hope to discover when the unseen world becomes visible. Read more

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Unknown NYC: 12 Hidden Sights in America’s Cultural Hub

19 Nov

[ By Steph in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]

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The hordes of tourists glomming onto New York City’s most famous sights likely won’t notice the wild acid-green parakeets of Brooklyn, the strange bricked-up prison window on the side of the NYPD headquarters, the jarringly angled townhouse facade on Greenwich Village or the world’s largest chess board mounted to the side of an apartment building. They’ll pass right over the subway grate that helped make Marilyn Monroe famous, and fail to notice the touching and disturbing miniature Holocaust memorial on a courthouse column. These 12 little-known sights speak of the city’s hidden history, and include a few offbeat but very New York things that locals should experience, too.

Wild Parakeets of Brooklyn College

Most tourists are too busy paying attention to the city’s infamous population of pigeons, or the rats scurrying along the sidewalk in broad daylight, to notice a more exotic species that has taken up residence around utility pole transformers and anywhere else that radiates heat. As the story goes, a shipment of Argentinian birds including parrots and parakeets in bright shades of green and blue escaped the cargo hold at JFK Airport in the ‘60s, and the birds set up nests all over the tri-state area. They’re most commonly seen in Brooklyn, especially at Brooklyn College and Greenwood Cemetery.

Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary

On the same tram-accessible island housing a stunning abandoned asylum, crunching among dead leaves or peeking out from beneath tangles of rusted steel, hundreds of cats proliferate. Roosevelt Island feels a world away from Manhattan despite how easy the tram has made getting there, and its population of feral cats only enhances the sense of wildness and disorder. Nobody knows who first began abandoning cats on the island generations ago, but they’ve only multiplied, to the point that a group called Island Cats has formed to trap, neuter and adopt them out.

Manhattan’s Oldest House

Built in 1765 by a British officer on Manhattan’s highest point in the hills of Washington Heights, the Morris-Jamel Mansion is the city’s oldest and supposedly most haunted residence. Remarkably well preserved, the house hosted George Washington after his defeat at the battle of Brooklyn and is now a free open house museum. The home’s mysterious original residents, who were stunned by high society despite their wealth, add to the draw. Officer Roger Morris’ mistress-turned-wife Eliza Bowen Jumel was the subject of nasty rumors, blamed in gossip for his early death and spending nearly three decades at the house as a recluse descending into dementia before her own passing. Paranormal investigators are particularly fond of the place, claiming that it hosts at least five ghosts.

Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate

One of the single most iconic images of any American film was captured atop an anonymous subway grate on the corner of Lexington and 52nd, which is passed over by countless tourists every day due to the lack of a plaque or any other fanfare. While the scene that appears in the movie had to be captured on a soundstage, producer of The Seven Year Itch had Monroe get into costume and stand over the grate until an uptown 6 train went by, blowing the skirt of her white halter dress straight up into the air. The scene on September 15th, 1954 was a leaked publicity stunt that lead to a crowd of 3-5,000 spectators loudly talking, yelling and cheering, and the resulting photos were used to publicize the film. Today, you’ll find the grate outside the French restaurant Le Relais de Venise, if you want to recreate it.

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NYC Secrets: 10 Hidden Sights in The City That Never Sleeps

08 Oct

[ By Steph in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]

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Even if you’re sick of the surface-level, tourist-friendly version of New York City, there are still many sights to be seen, including fun little secret installations right under your nose in busy places like Grand Central Terminal and subway platforms. These 10 unexpected and little-known attractions in the New York City area include a tiny gallery in an elevator shaft, a slice of punk history, an actual piece of Berlin and a scenic tram ride straight to a stunning abandoned hospital on an island in the East River.

Whispering Gallery, Grand Central Terminal

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If you see someone with their face in a corner and their lips nearly touching the walls in the middle of Grand Central Terminal, don’t worry – they’re not acting out the last scene of Blair Witch Project. They’re just whispering. The ‘Whispering Gallery’ is an unofficial attraction created by the acoustic properties of the ceiling between two diagonal corners between the archways. Whisper, and the person standing at the opposite end can hear what you’re saying as if you’re talking into a megaphone. Have a friend stand on the other side, or just freak out random passersby, as seen in the video above. It’s located just outside the Oyster Bar.

Pedestrian Shortcut with Waterfall View

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Like something out of Harry Potter, a street marked 6 1/2 Ave offers a semi-secret shortcut from 51st to 57th, and it’s only open to pedestrians. Take a break from screaming cabbies as you stroll (or whatever the New York City version of strolling would be called) down a slightly-slowed-down path through Midtown Manhattan, adjacent to the beautiful 20-foot waterfall in Paley Park. There’s another waterfall at Midtown East’s Greenacre Park at 217 East 51st St., as well as the five located within Central Park.

Remnants of the Berlin Wall

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Speaking of Paley Park, this little pocket recreation space in the heart of Midtown at 3 East 53rd also boasts five sections of the Berlin Wall, originally located along the Waldemarstrasse and decorated by German artists Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny in 1985.

C-Squat: Punk History in the East Village

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A little bit of New York City’s legendary punk heritage can still be found at 155 Avenue C, nicknamed C-Squat. Squatters claimed the abandoned space in the ‘80s, rebuilding it to make it habitable, and started throwing punk shows in the basement in the ‘90s. The city hammered out an agreement with the long-term residents, allowing them to stay as long as they bring it up to code, so it will soon officially pass into the hands of a bunch of artists and musicians. The walls are still covered in decades’ worth of graffiti and murals. One of the last holdouts of old school punk culture in the city, it’s still used as a location for underground parties.

Musical Subway Installation

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An unassuming pair of green metal bars blend into the walls of New York City’s 34th Street Subway Station, but pay closer attention and you’ll notice a sign alerting transit riders to an installation called REACH: New York. Created by Christopher Janney in 1995, this weird interactive exhibit features speakers embedded with motion sensors so that when you place your hand in front of one of the holes in the bars, you’ll trigger a sound. Move from one sensor to another to compose your own musical sequence. The artist changes out the sounds every year.

Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital

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Patients infected with smallpox, leprosy and other highly infectious diseases were once kept quarantined in a hospital on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, which treated about 7,000 people per year between 1856 and 1875. It was abandoned altogether by the 1950s and fell into disrepair before the Landmark Preservation Commission declared it an important part of the city’s heritage, reinforcing the walls. The island has also been home to insane asylums and prisons, and is now a great place to take a riverside walk and get a nice view of the Upper East Side. For the swipe of a MetroCard, you can take a scenic tram to gaze up at the hospital facades, check out a lighthouse and view some public art.

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Posts Tagged ‘Hidden’

Culinary Arts: Rock Candy Geodes Hidden Inside Huge Chocolate Shells

Inhabited Ruin: Modern Home Hidden Inside Abandoned Masonry Shell

Hidden Addition: Stealth NYC Penthouse is Invisible from Streets Below

Earth from a New Perspective: ‘Overview’ Aerial Shots Reveal Hidden Beauty

Crate Core: Shipping Container Tower Hidden Inside a Carriage House

Swing of Things: Framed Furniture Reveals Hidden Potential

Behind the Scenes: Hidden Collections Storage at the Smithsonian

PIX 2015: Robert Hurt and the hidden universe