Photographer Dinesh Boaz presents “Closer,” a series of aerial photographs, which he managed to compile from helicopter flights above New York and Los Angeles.
MoreSome of America’s most beautiful displays of Art Deco hotel architecture are preserved in the Biltmore Hotels in Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix.
MoreThere’s a Lego Museum Break-In Set and J, Paul Getty Museum’s director of Security, Bob Combs, actually tested the set for safety and wrote about it.
MorePortrait of Architect Eric Owen Moss. Image Courtesy: Ye Rin Mok and Metropolis magazine
New York’s fascination with re-adapting architecture and infrastructure from the industrial era to suit the needs of the “Instagram” era is reaching a feverish pitch. A trend that began with the High Line has flourished with the likes of Domino …
MoreOn October 28th, Eric Owen Moss, the celebrated Los Angeles architect and Director of Southern California Institute of Architecture will be awarded one of the highest honors in American Art and Architecture, when the National Academy in New York City honors him as a National Academician. Untapped Cities had the privilege of speaking with …
MoreThree hours out of Los Angeles off Highway 111 lies an abandoned town called Bombay Beach, along the shores of a man-made lake now largely inhospitable to life.
MoreThe Witch’s House in Beverly Hills has appeared in films, inspired Disney theme parks, and is currently inhabited by real estate agent Michael Libow.
MoreSunken City in San Pedro, Los Angeles is a the remnant of a seaside community that began to fall into the ocean in 1929.
MoreHere are the links getting circulated around the Untapped office today.
New York City
The Tiny Tudor Village & other Hidden Treasures of New York [Messy Nessy Chic]
Angular Shipping Container House Gets Stacked in the ‘Burg [Curbed]
Where Did New Yorkers First Buy Recorded Music? [Bowery Boys]
Meet an 11 year old Arctic grey wolf tonight in Greenpoint [Atlas]
Hidden Museum …
The Last Bookstore, located in Los Angeles, is a play on words. The owners are well aware that the book selling industry is in a crisis, but this never fazed them.
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Although the thought of walking the streets of Downtown Los Angeles may seem foreign to most Angelenos, the expanding metro rail is making it easier for residents to get around the city. In the past ten years Downtown Los Angeles has seen substantial changes to its urban fabric leading to increased …
MoreInterview with a member of the guerrilla knitters crew, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles who recently bombarded the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Museum Row.
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