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Month: July 2016

Noah’s Ark: Creationist Theme Park Opens Amidst Regional Flooding

A biblical theme park contained within a huge ark (the largest timber-framed structure in the world) has opened in Kentucky, just as the region was hit hard by heavy rains and flash floods. ...

Quacked Up: Cleveland’s Legendary “Duck Factory”

The “Duck Factory”, a century-old abandoned warehouse in Cleveland's Little Italy home to hundreds of toy rubber ducks, has finally kicked the bucket. Urbex explorers – not to ...

Anti-Gravity Boots: London Shoe Artwork Defies Laws & Physics

There are many theories, but no one is quite sure where the practice of throwing shoes over raised urban infrastructure started. Some suggest bullies take shoes from other kids and toss them ...

Living Street Art: Contorted Human Bodies in Urban Spaces

If you were to pass a bunch of colorfully-dressed human figures crammed into a crawlspace beneath a public staircase, you might think they’re mannequins at first, with their splayed limbs and ...

Floating Greenhouse: Mobile Barge to Grow Food & Cruise Danube

Designed to float down the Danube river in Europe, the Eco Barge is a solar-powered floating greenhouse illustrating the possibilities of offshoring urban food production. In addition ...

Subterranean Singapore: Short Sci-Fi Film Envisions Dystopian Future

Instead of stretching upward toward increasingly polluted skies, could the solution to land scarcity issues in places like Singapore be found in subterranean development? Like something out of a ...

That’s a Wrap! 15 Building Facades Veiled in Plastic & Cloth

Stretched or hung around the skeletons of buildings, these membranes made of plastic, fabric and metal mesh act like architectural clothing, diffusing light and obscuring the original forms. From ...

Cities of Bone: Organic Future Skyscrapers Free of Concrete & Steel

Our cities have grown up thanks to concrete and steel, but these materials are far from sustainable, leading architects and researchers to explore new (and old) materials, from wood to eggshell ...

Paradise Found: Spend a Night Floating Above the Great Barrier Reef

Better hope your kids remain firmly tucked into their Finding Dory-themed beds all night long lest they get a little too enthusiastic about leaning over the edge of this wall-free AirBNB floating ...

Disappearing Architecture: 15 Mirrored Buildings Distort Perception

Dazzling in the most literal sense, architecture clad in mirrored glass or stainless steel almost seem to become part of the sky and landscapes that surround it so you can't quite tell where the ...

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