Nazi Playground: Cult Compound Now a Twisted Tourist Trap
A former haven for Nazi war criminals, child molesters and their sympathizers, Villa Baviera is now a bizarrely whitewashed German-themed tourist attraction tucked into Chile’s Andean ...
Month: February 2016
Mad for Vintage Motorcycles: 14 Vespa-Inspired Designs
Synonymous with carefree cool classic Italian design, the Vespa has a timeless, iconic look that's instantly recognizable even when translated to chairs, jewelry, alarm clocks, pizza cutters and ...
First “Drawn in Place” Architecture Made with a 3D-Printing Pen
A group of students from the University of Tokyo have created the world's first work of 3D pen-drawn architecture, extruding thermoplastic filament to generate a structurally-stable arch ...
Out Cold: 12 Closed & Abandoned Dairy Queen Stores
Chill out, soft-serve ice cream fans, these 12 abandoned Dairy Queen stores aren't typical of the 75-year-old chain's 4,000+ locations worldwide. ...
Lightweight & Portable Egg-Shaped Drone Folds Up Into Shell
Boasting practical portability with an eye to aesthetics, the new PowerEgg stands out against its more ungainly competitors, able to fold up into a smooth oval when not in ...
Smart Move: Domino Loft Maximizes Space in Micro Apartments
A 500-square-foot condo feels a lot larger when you can manage to fit a bedroom, guest bed, dining area, work space and closet in one tiny room without cluttering every possible surface. To prove ...
Using Bullet Holes in Beirut’s Brutalist ‘Egg’ as Camera Obscuras
An abandoned concrete building in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon (known as The Egg) has been everything from a movie theater to a bomb shelter to a water tank, but this intervention would fill the ...
Graffiti to Go: Vibrant Murals on a Fleet of Freighters
The drive along Spain’s highways just got a lot more colorful for thousands of motorists lucky enough to glimpse one of ten semi-trucks decorated with murals by artists like Javier Arce, Okuda ...
Intelligent Design? 14 Strikingly Modern Places of Worship
Dramatic and sculptural, monolithic as a stone monument or light as a bridal veil, these churches, chapels and meditation rooms eschew conventional architectural typologies for places of worship, ...
Underline: 10-Mile Park to Trace Path of Elevated Rail in Miami
Following in the footsteps of the High Line (and Low Line) of New York City, the Underline project aims to take the underutilized space below Miami's elevated MetroRail and transform it into a ...
