Among the rusting vestiges of Europe's Industrial Revolution, this 20-mile relic of a railroad in Paris has been abandoned since 1934, and while it has been retaken by nature in the ensuing ...
With works often requiring second looks or sanity checks, artist Pejac bends reality in his use of paint and other materials to create sublime art from walls, streets, sidewalks and ...
Designed to break records held by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Superconducting Super Collider built (and abandoned) in Texas features fourteen miles of unseen and unused underground ...
Striking geometric shapes in acid-bright palettes breathe life into gray urban spaces thanks to the signature style of artist Maya Hayuk. Often appearing perfectly symmetrical, her work seems to ...
Even the world's most famous architects, from Zaha Hadid to Frank Gehry, get rejected sometimes. When Norman Foster's visionary proposal for a new London airport built right in the middle of the ...
After a huge and lengthy legal battle fought on various fronts by developers, municipalities and the Council of State, the Turkish government has ordered the partial destruction or total ...
The Olympics have a long history of leaving a mixed legacy in their wake but the story of Sochi is particularly strange - it was never completely finished in the first place, and is already ...
How do you fit an entire new neighborhood for 65,000 people, complete with offices, schools and streets, into the already congested and overdeveloped island of Manhattan without knocking anything ...
As urban populations flourish, cities typically expand outward into suburbia or suffer growing pains with static infrastructure that just can't keep up. What if, instead, cities were based upon ...
The ultimate fixer-upper, real estate rarely looks so unpromising as this London dump did - thankfully, one architect saw potential beyond these potties, despite the place truly looking like ...
