Beach Please: Abandoned Surf Cincinnati Waterpark
Wave goodbye to Surf Cincinnati, an abandoned water park and associated banquet hall complex that once entertained overheated Ohioans but now only breeds mosquitoes. Cincy You've Been ...
Month: August 2019
Transforming Quadrant House: Rotating Terrace Follows the Sun
More than anything, the owners of a new transforming house in Poland wanted constant, direct access to sunlight. They commissioned the local firm KWK Promes to realize their unusual vision, and ...
Zaha Hadid Architects Make Flood Protection Look Elegant in Hamburg
As urban planners grapple with the need for creative flood management systems in cities around the world, Zaha Hadid Architects provides an interesting example in Hamburg. Located along the ...
Shipping Container Transformed into a Giant Camera & Darkroom
Pretty much anything that can be hollowed out and made light-proof can be used as a camera. Just ask Brendan Barry, who’s made a career from transforming ordinary objects like watermelon, ...
Dairy Err: 10 Closed & Abandoned Australian Milk Bars
Chain store competition is creaming Milk Bars across Australia, leaving independent store owners, desperate smokers and the odd lost droog thirsting for more. Milked Dry Milk bars have a ...
Adversarial Fashion Designed to Trick Automated License Plate Readers
As it turns out, surveillance cameras that have been "trained" to spot and read license plates aren't all that good at discerning real ones from fakes. That makes it pretty easy to trick ...
Disorienting Perspective-Shifting Animations by Dirk Koy Might Make You Dizzy
Some of Dirk Koy’s videos should come with warnings before viewing, but not for the usual reasons. If you’re at all prone to motion sickness, just watching a few seconds of these disorienting ...
IKEA’s Latest Project: Designing Low-Cost Flat-Pack Dementia Villages
Across the globe, populations of older people are growing dramatically, and few plans are in place to properly care for them. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says 8.5 percent of people ...
Mishicot Markdown: A Small Town Supermarket Checks Out
The Mishicot Family Market served residents of a small Wisconsin town for over 120 years until the now-demolished Main Street mainstay was itself shelved. Feeling Wisconsin 1889 was a good ...
The World’s Largest Bike Garage is a Subterranean Wonder in Utrecht
Considering that more than a third of Dutch people use a bike as their main mode of transportation every day, it’s no surprise that the world’s largest bicycle garage is located in Utrecht. ...
