Welcome to The Gatehouse! We have some architecture and design links for you today. First, the Contemporist: a professional blog about modern-day interior and exterior design, featuring the most cutting-edge of architectures and furniture pieces. For things less new-fashioned, visit MidCentury Architecture, dedicated to 1950s and 1960s building and decorating styles. For mid-century ...

Scheduled for release next week, The Saboteur is a World War II shooter developed by Pandemic Studios—one that comes with a charming twist. Taking on the role of an Irishman working for the French Resistance, the player will be able to explore Nazi-occupied Paris along with parts of the French and German countryside. Much of the ...

Dieselpunk also borrows stylistically from the immediate post-World War II years, according to Piecraft. “The dieselpunk world is a post-atomic dystopian [one],” he writes, “that is still stuck in the 1950s [...] and is usually cast in the future capitalist-run world that relies on the nuclear values of an isolationist America.” George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four...

In anticipation of the next BioShock video game we present this fine digital painting by American artist Tim Fangon, depicting ominously one of the game’s Big Daddies. Click here for a larger version of the artwork of visit the artist’s profile for more of his work.