See highlights from our digital travels this week…

This church has an unusual congregation…

Artwork by Los Carpinteros
Credit: Los Carpinteros

Cuban art collective Los Carpinteros has dressed church chairs in their sunday best for a new installation called 150 People. A cheeky take on dwindling congregation numbers? See for yourself on Fubiz.

‘Evil’ buildings on film

Evil Dead cabin
In new film High-Rise, an apartment block becomes a harbinger of social breakdown. Marking the movie’s US opening, Curbed has compiled a list of some of cinema’s most ‘evil’ architecture, from the hotel in The Shining to the family house in Poltergeist.

Co-roaming

Ubud co-roaming
Credit: Ubud

First there was co-working, then co-living, and it looks like we’re about get co-roaming next… New startup Roam is looking to build a network of living spaces, giving visitors homes in cities across the world. Instead of renting one apartment, you can sign a lease that lets you live anywhere that takes your fancy. Fast Co. Exist has more.

Don’t judge a building by its cover

Credit: Zacharie Gaudrillot-Ro
Credit: Zacharie Gaudrillot-Ro

There’s more to architecture than meets the eye, according to Frenchman Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy. The photographer has created a series depicting just the facades of buildings in ‘a vision of a new world that would be only an image without intimate space’. Head to Designboom to see Gaudrillot-Roy’s Facades series, which is on show at the Galerie Düo in Paris until 30 May.

A tiny Italian village is the internet

If the internet were a real place, it would be a little Italian village called Civitacampomarano (say it quickly five times). Artist Biancoshock, who recently installed tiny rooms inside Milan’s manholes, has infiltrated the small community, replacing its sign posts, shop fronts and phone booths with the branding of internet giants such as eBay, WhatsApp and Facebook. Take a tour with PSFK.

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