Naval Glazing: Haunted Abandoned Alameda Hospital
Spirits were er, heated when this long-abandoned and reputedly haunted former Navy hospital in Oakland gave up the ghost to a mysterious fiery blaze. Alameda Made The blocky proto-Brutalist ...
Month: June 2019
Ship-Like Theater with Glass Sails Planned for China’s Dongyang River
MAD Architects will ensure that the experience of visiting the new Yiwu Grand Theater in China's Zhejiang province is unlike anything else in the world, with a highly unusual boat-inspired ...
Plastic Pollution: Why Manufacturers Need to Take Responsibility
Recycling isn't going to solve our waste problems. Between the contamination that happens when we don’t recycle correctly and the degradation of plastic over time, it’s a band-aid at best, ...
Devil’s Lake: Abandoned North Dakota Town Reclaimed by Rising Waters
Over a period of decades, the waters of Devils Lake slowly rose higher and higher until they enveloped an entire farming town in rural North Dakota, forcing its inhabitants to leave. Changes to ...
So Over It: Japan’s Abandoned Hotel La Rainbow
Somewhere over the sea lies the abandoned Hotel La Rainbow, a cracked jewel of Japan's Bubble Era that failed to attract its target market of bridge geeks. A Bridge, Too Far The “Hotel La ...
Mediterranean Mirage: House Disguised as a Floating Island of Carved Earth
What appears, from a distance, to be a slice of land levitating above the hills of Santorini, Greece is actually an incredible modern home set on a lower level that acts like a mirrored plinth. ...
Wooden Wonders: Innovative Updates to an Ancient Building Material
Despite the fact that wood has been in use as a primary building material for millennia, it’s being hailed as the material of the future. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new ...
Spomeniks: The Antifascist History Behind Abstract Yugoslav Monuments
Removed from their context, the strange concrete monuments dotting the landscape of the former Yugoslavia can seem abstract, inscrutable, even "alien." Called “Spomeniks” after the ...
Tired & Retired: Detroit’s Abandoned Arnold Home
The state-of-the-art Arnold Home helped ease generations of retired Detroiters off this mortal coil before changing demographics dulled its once-cutting edge. Hasta la Vista, Granny The ...
Not Photoshopped: Pixelated Food Sculptures Look Like Digital Creations
Japanese art director Yuni Yoshida is well known for her surreal digital creations, particularly those manipulating the human body into unnatural forms, but a new series takes the opposite ...
