Many older buildings are ornamented with gargoyles, grotesques, famous figures, and the like – but emoji? That's a first as far as we know. Amsterdam's Attika Architekten has adorned a building ...

This building uses emoji cast in concrete as modern gargoyles. ... The building houses shops on the bottom floor, and flats in the floors above. Image: Attika Architekten / Bart van Hoek.

Long live 21st century hieroglyphs.

The building, located in Amersfoort, Netherlands, looks pretty normal to the naked eye—until you look a bit closer and realize it’s stamped with 22 concrete-cast emoji.

The architect, who works for Dutch firm Attika Architekten, produced 22 emojis for the building, which anchors the Vathorst town square.Although the structure was completed two years ago, the ...

A brightly painted Los Angeles house featuring two large emoji symbols is a form of "bullying," according to someone who wants the city to take action against the building's owners. Susan Wieland ...

Frowny face! A new building in the Netherlands features 22 emoji faces — from the heart-eyed smiley to the tongue-sticking-out winker — on its façade. The structure, ...

A woman in CA painted two bright yellow emojis onto the exterior of her house. One is cross-eyed with its tongue sticking out and the other is cross-eyed with a zipper mouth. If you could have your ...

The Empire State Building rises above the rest of the city. Credit: john moore/Getty Images It's World Emoji Day , and people are celebrating the cartoon smileys and symbols used in instant ...

The hot pink “emoji house” that stirred up controversy last year in a ritzy area of Manhattan Beach was sold for $1 ... "It is my building and I choose to paint it the colors that I want ...