Berlin’s post-war high rises were built with practicality, not beauty, in mind. The hulking buildings were designed to house as many families as possible, and though they were once desirable, today they aren’t generally considered great places to live. But photographer Malte Brandenburg casts them in a new light with his series Stacked.

The photos in Stacked transform these relics into an arresting study of German cold-war architecture. Brandenburg makes sure to shoot on clear days that help give the images a flat, graphic feel.

 Check out more photos and read about Brandenburg’s project.

Adam Reed Tucker is one of 14 Lego Certified Professionals in the world and has an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Brick by Brick features 13 of his creations, each a model of some of the world’s most famous architectural works. The Golden Gate Bridge, the Colosseum, and One World Trade Center are rendered in miniature.

That’s something of a relative term, here: The “miniature” Lego version of the Golden Gate Bridge comprises 64,500 Lego bricks, took 260 hours to build, and is 60 feet long. That’s as big as some of the dinosaurs on display the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Check out more of Tucker’s Lego creations.

German photographer Gerd Ludwig prowls the city of Los Angeles in the wee hours and photographs resting rides for his series Sleeping Cars. For the past seven years, he’s made pictures of cars “that speak to him” from the neon-lit curbs of Los Feliz Boulevard to the palm-lined driveways of Sunset Plaza Drive. 

He’s photographed far and wide, but is less interested in covering the the entire city and more interested in the “distinct personalities” he happens upon.

Check out more photos and read about Ludwig’s project.

Thomas Heinser’s surreal photographs offer a look at a California parched by drought. His aerial photographs of charred hillsides, depleted reservoirs, and barren salt ponds are not at all what you’d expect of a place nicknamed the Golden State.

Heinser’s photos, part of an ongoing series Reduziert, is a reminder of just how arid things have been. The word is German for “reduced,” an apt description of what the dry spell has done to the landscape. 

Currently about 83 percent of California is under severe drought conditions, which in addition to decimating crops and draining reservoirs has led to some epic fires. 

Check out more photos and read about Heinser’s project.

(Source: Wired)

Wolfgang Pauli was among the most brilliant physicists of the 20th century. He was also cursed.

Sometimes when he walked into a room, something bad happened. Things broke. Equipment failed. Colleagues jokingly called it “The Pauli Effect.” Though it could be easily explained away as coincidence and circumstance, some within the scientific community—including Pauli—believed it was real.

The tale inspired French photographer David Fathi’s series Wolfgang, which features black and white photos of what appears to be scientific research gone awry. The photos weave a fantastic narrative hovering somewhere between fact and fiction.

Check out more photos and read about Fathi’s project.