Mustard’s Last Stand: 10 Abandoned Hot Dog Kiosks
Easy come and easy go (just like their product), hot dog stands like these abandoned frankfurter kiosks are the fly-by-night black sheep of the fast food trade. ...
Month: July 2015
Junked Ship: Japan Ditches Hadid’s 2020 Olympic Stadium Design
Scheduled to land like an otherworldly spacecraft in Tokyo, the curvaceous, controversial but competition-winning National Stadium designed for the 2020 Olympics by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) ...
Paper People: Hand-Cut Zig-Zag Photorealistic Portraits
Tiny slivers are sliced away from a single, oversized sheet of white paper in a zig-zag pattern to reveal portraits of public figures, from Audrey Hepburn to Michael Jackson, in this series of ...
Baroque and Broken: Eerie Paintings in Abandoned Places
Shuffling through ancient paint chips, dead leaves and empty bottles in an abandoned and dilapidated building, you turn a corner and register a human figure emerging from the darkness in a haze ...
Red Ink: 10 Closed & Abandoned Tattoo Parlors, Studios & Shops
Tattoos and tattooists have made their mark on society – pun intended – but what happens to your neighborhood tattoo parlor when the ink finally runs dry? ...
Robot City: Entire Fake Town Built to Test Driverless Vehicles
Opening this week, Mcity is a completely artificial village for self-driving cars, bringing the future of automobiles back to Michigan, the historical home of Motor City. Taking lessons from ...
Picturesque Pavilions: 12 Experimental Temporary Structures
Each year, architects around the world design and construct temporary structures for events like the Milan Expo, showing off their skills in a setting that enables them to be more bold and ...
Foundation for World’s Tallest Building Converted to Fish Farm
Ambitious plans construct Sky City in China, designed to be the highest skyscraper in the world and built in just 90 days, stalled at the outset over 2 years ago, leading to an unusual array of ...
Art of Interaction: 300 Reasons to Attend INSTINT 2015 in MN
Featuring a combination of workshops, lectures, mixers and parties, INSTINT (from the makers of eyeo) brings together some of the most influential and exciting creatives dealing with interactive ...
Road Blocks: LEGO-Like Modular Roads & Paths Snap Into Place
New roads could be quickly and easily slotted into place, piece by piece, with a new Lego-like modular plastic system that makes the building process feel more like playtime. Prototypes of the ...
