Great Blight North: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Canada
Canada's abandoned wonders include greying neoclassical banks in downtown Toronto, forgotten asylums, beautiful Beaux Arts hydro power stations and a ghost town so eerily well-preserved it feels ...
Month: January 2014
Hot Cup of Tub: Portable Wood-Fired Outdoor Soaking Pool
No need to plug in this particular hot tub - heat naturally circulates as you burn wood, keeping yourself warm outside by throwing logs on the fire much like you would in front of a living room ...
Nomadic Urbanism: Futuristic ‘Walking City’ Draws on History
The notion of a mobile city is not new, but in this case, the architect has gone to great lengths to construct a vision that could conceivably be built. So while it may look like fantasy at first ...
Giants in Living Color: Massive Street Murals by Etam Cru
Polish duo Sainer and Bezt, collectively known as Etam Cru, paint massive-scale murals of people and animals on blank building faces around the world. Their unexpected visuals liven up dreary ...
Walkability & Hyperdensity: 14 Concepts for Future Cities
The city of the future addresses problems like overpopulation, pollution and sprawl by building high-density vertical neighborhoods that are interconnected at all levels so residents can move ...
Focus on Blur: Bokeh Cityscapes Celebrate Color & Light
Stretching and reversing conventions for balancing foreground and background, one urban photographer in Tokyo is taking the Japanese concept of Bokeh to dazzling extremes. Bokeh (which ...
Nix Tape: 10 Closed & Abandoned Blockbuster Stores
Blockbuster Video's torn-ticket logo once fronted thousands of stores worldwide. That was then, this is now... by late 2013, Blockbuster was officially busted. ...
Street Smart: Intelligent Motion-Activated Outdoor Lighting
While we are all familiar with motion-detection technology in controlled indoor environments, the technology problem is much more complex when you add stray animals, wind-blown trees, ...
Naturally Us: Stunning Combinations of Nature + Humans
Photographer Christoffer Relander combines nature and human faces to create preternaturally beautiful portraits. The double and triple exposures blend aspects of the natural world and the grace ...
SkyCycle: London Concept Takes City Biking to New Heights
London could become much more bike-friendly with SkyCycle, an elevated route for bicycles only that runs along the existing rail network and would enable commuters to see the city in a new way. ...
