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Month: September 2018

Thin Facade: Old Small Town Storefront Folds Down into 100-Seat Theater

Walking down the vintage commercial strip of Lyons, Nebraska, it looks like any other building with shop windows and a front door, sharing walls with neighboring structures, but that's all a ...

Brutal-ish: Japan’s Long, Dramatic Love Affair with Concrete Architecture

Japanese architecture may be most closely associated with natural, lightweight materials like wood and paper, but Japan is also home to some of the world’s most incredible concrete ...

Unequal Scenes: Aerials Photos Highlight Stark Lines Between Rich and Poor

There are places in the world where a single road, wall or an even thinner, more invisible line separates rich from poor, and those are the kinds of intersections captured by photographer Johnny ...

Blind Building Facades Become Urban Farms with Scalable Scaffolding System

Blank, windowless exterior walls that get plenty of sun exposure could become vertical farms with the addition of recycled modular scaffolding. A project called GreenBelly aims to make use of ...

Inn Trouble: Abandoned Brandermill Inn & Conference Center

The abandoned Brandermill Inn and Conference Center in Chesterfield, VA jumped the shark after a failed Ponzi scheme drained all of its operating funds. Location, location, location... ...

Floating Backpack: Self-Stabilizing Gear Carries 12 Load-Free Pounds

Hiking means going up and down, but not just over long distances -- each step raises and lowers your pack, which means you do more lifting, unless, that is, you have a "Lightening Pack" to help ...

Paranoia Palace: High-Security Atlanta Estate Features Secret Tunnels

If living in a veritable fortress complete with a massive bunker, bank vault room, indoor gun range and a network of secret tunnels sounds like a good time, the Atlanta area has just the property ...

A House to Die In: Oslo Officials Block Controversial Home Designed by Snøhetta

Designed to be a fittingly strange work of architecture on the grounds of famous painter Edward Munch's former home, A House to Die In has sparked controversy since its proposal some years ...

Home Anywhere: Compact Cabin Hosts Urban Pioneers on Berlin Rooftops

Affordable apartments are getting harder to find in just about every major city, but if we want to multiply our options, we just have to look up. That’s the idea behind Cabin Spacey, a modular ...

River-Spanning Town Hall Literally Bridges Two Faroe Islands Communities

A pair of island municipalities between Denmark and Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean has been bridged by a work of architecture and engineering, a town hall that crosses a river below and ...

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