Phantom City: Thousands Spot Towers Floating in the Clouds
When thousands of residents of the Chinese cities of Jiangxi and Foshan reported seeing a ‘floating city’ in the clouds earlier this month, theories attempting to explain it ran wild, ...
Month: October 2015
Brutalist but Beautiful: 12 Spacey Sci-Fi Soviet Structures
The single most divisive architectural movement, Brutalism is harsh, jagged and geometric, calling to mind massive concrete spaceships - and nobody did it better (or stranger) than the Soviets. ...
Crash Pads: Sleeper Vans Let You Stay in NYC for $20 a Night
Hotel rooms in Manhattan cost hundreds and even a cheap hostel-style hotel with partition walls in the Bowery runs nearly $100 per night, but starting around $20 you can stay on the streets in ...
Taped Shut: 15 More Closed & Abandoned Video Stores
Since you can't rewind time, these 15 abandoned video stores sit paused in retail limbo waiting for hipsters to spark an unlikely VHS cassette revival. ...
Volcanic Architecture: World’s Largest 3D-Printed Structure
Inspired by the complex organic shape of a volcanic eruption, this 1,086-piece pavilion in Beijing has just been awarded a Guinness Book of World Records distinction for the largest ...
Shocking Aftermath: Nature Reclaims Post-Disaster Fukushima
Looking at photographs of highways entirely eaten by vines and destroyed shops filled with trash and cobwebs, it’s easy to downplay their tragedy by comparing them to the set of a ...
Built of Bombs: Unexploded Ordnance Turned Into Boats & Homes
A legacy of living in the most-bombed country per capita in world history, Laotian citizens have spent decades since the Vietnam War dealing with close to 100 million undetonated weapons of ...
Temporary Retrofit: Micro-Dwellings for Unoccupied Buildings
Designed for empty warehouses or buildings under construction, these material-light shelters provide functionality for liminal interiors either past their prime not yet in use. Places like the ...
Bold Border Checkpoint: Cantilevered Curves Welcome Visitors
Passing over the border between Turkey and Georgia isn’t an experience you’re soon to forget thanks to the surreal, undulating concrete customs checkpoint structure looming over the Black ...
Freaky Florida: 12 of a Weird State’s Weirdest Attractions
There’s a lot more to America’s southernmost state than the headline-worthy misadventures of Florida Man and Florida Woman. Culturally distinct from the rest of the South, Florida has been ...
