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Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through ambitious architectural projects, but none have been quite as astounding as this one. The Water Tower, an 1870s Venetian Gothic building in South East London in its own league. The 99 ft-high Grade II listed building was once as part of [...]
Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home–
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If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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Shabby chic; it’s a style you either love or hate, but once you get over the copious amounts
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So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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Looking at these installations, I imagine they are like clues indicating a secret trail somewhere
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you
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When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a
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