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At the beginning of the 20th Century, the US decides to turn the tables on Mother England and turn its former motherland into a conquered territory. The American conquerors quickly get to work, importing architects and sculptors who make the city of London look just like New York. More »
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We've seen the urban spelunkers at Silent UK plumb the depths of London's abandoned mail train. Now they've created Crack the Surface, the first in a series of short films detailing their explorations of London's underground, an experience one spelunker compares to a real-life roleplaying game. More »
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For her Liquid Ground series, photographer Helen Pynor shot submerged garments with eerily displaced human organs floating out of them. Prynor's series seeks to provide a counterpoint to the disgust and revulsion most folks associate with human viscera. More »
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70 or so feet underneath London's streets lies the unused mail rail system, a hard to reach subterranean system of postal tracks, cloistered away from human eyes. That is, until a gang of intrepid urban explorers cracked a secret entrance. More »
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To demonstrate the havoc rising sea levels would wreak on London, Practical Action has released this tube map from the year 2100. A four-meter rise in water levels on the Thames Flood Plain would result in a soggy commute indeed. More »
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At the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, there's a Tron projection show set to Daft Punk's soundtrack. Watch the building transform into digital cubes and lightcycle alleys thanks to the wonders of photons. [Guided Collective] More »
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It looks like the British are sick of invading. A new San Diego-scale comic convention has been announced, and it will be taking place in London. More »
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Your average metropolitan airport is on a desolate tract of land far from the city's center. But that doesn't mean past urban designers didn't try to incorporate airfields into cities' layouts. Here are some fanciful urban aerodromes of yore. More »
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The London Dungeon had to pull its digital ads from the Underground, due to a legion of terrified children. What was the big commotion? Apparently the painting came morphed into a full-fledged bloody, howling Queen Mary zombie. Check it out! More »
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You won't find London's West Ashfield Tube Station on any maps or in any guide books. Heck, you won't even find it underground. No, this Tube stop resides on the third floor of a North Kensingston office building. But why? More »
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These illustrations by Anthony Lau depict a floating London made of refurbished oil rigs and recycled ship hulls. Lau designed this maritime city at London's Bartlett School of Architecture as a potential solution to rising sea levels. More »
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London is currently auditioning ideas for a new tourist attraction as part of the 2012 Olympics. On the shortlist is MIT's digital Cloud, a self-sustaining observation deck made of transparent bubbles that broadcast information to viewers below. More »
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In 1865, an antiquarian named John Leighton proposed a surefire way to eliminate expensive cab fares in London: Convert the entire city to a hexagon grid, eliminating the twisty streets cab drivers used to extend rides and drive up costs. More »
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What will the New Yorks, Londons, and Tokyos of tomorrow look like? Will they be technological Edens, grim dystopias, or entirely obliterated? We look at science fiction's take on the future of today's cities to gauge our urban future. More »
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London just wouldn't be the same without its werewolves, and the real charm behind New York lies with the giant alligators in the sewers. These t-shirts let you show off the monsters that really make your favorite city special. More »
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Remember those glow-in-the-dark stickers you used to put on your ceiling to make you room look like outer space? Well, here's a much better way to do it. Designer Georgiosi of Objects With Light (OWL) creates these cosmic light fixtures using common household objects like screws, marbles, bolts, saw blades, and Slinky toys. The one shown here is called Screwed Light. Want to see another? More »
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London has to provide housing for a million more people by 2016, taking into account new arrivals, plus old-timers who need an upgrade. Since space is limited, UK company Popularchitecture is proposing a 5,000-foot high tower that would house pretty much everybody all in one shot—and reduce four city neighborhoods to a single cylindrical building. See the whole thing below. More »
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If you're in the U.K. and have always wanted to make a scifi movie in two days with a bunch of your pals, it's time to test your fast-movie fu. Scifi film geekfest Sci-Fi London is launching its "48 Hour Film Challenge" on April 5th at the Apollo West End. Entrants will be given a randomly-generated film title, some dialog and a prop. They have two days to turn those ingredients into a movie "no shorter than 3 minutes, and no longer than 5 minutes" by April 7th. Those conditions don't sound much worse than what B-movie directors of the 1950s and 60s dealt with. More »
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New York City has been hammered on by both I Am Legend and Cloverfield, as well as a slew of other films. It's been flooded, frozen, ravaged by viruses, and pummeled by monsters. But London has gotten off rather lightly, having merely been hit by one supervirus in 28 Days Later and the sometimes wonky special effects from multiple episodes of Doctor Who. Recently, however, disgruntled Londoners rejoiced when their city was hit by a massive wall of water in the August miniseries Flood. More »
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What do you get when you combine a sentient, artificially intelligent subway train (starring Emma Clarke, the voice of the London Underground and Keanu Reeves) with Speed and Titanic? It turns out you get "Sentient Subway," a hilarious Hollywood movie pitch that needs a bit of work on its title. However, having heard this whole pitch, I'm going to go out on a limb and say... it ain't half bad. We'd take a ride on it. In fact, we're all for sentient every mode of transportation: bicycles, cars, roller skates, scooters. Just not buses. Those things are filthy. More »
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