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Facade Lift: Abandoned Commercial Building Reborn as Mixed-Use

Finding new life as a combination of retail and housing space, this stunning structure's new look works with the existing building envelope and floor plates while breaking down visible divisions ...

Vertical City Farming: Undulating Mixed-Use Urban Community

Designed to provide a spaces for public gardening as well as senior living, this hybrid complex has a rich array of green roofs, terraces and facades allowing for locally-grown produce as well as ...

Dense City: Mixed-Use ‘Urban Alloy’ Transit Hub for New York

Taking advantage of air rights above existing an transportation nexus, this design integrates elevated train lines, apartments, offices and shops to create a nodal point within ...

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. ...

Former Factories Transformed: Creative Reuse of Industrial Structures

How much potential lies within the bones of an old, run-down factory building, perhaps even one that’s been abandoned for decades on end? On the surface, sometimes it can seem like there’s no ...

Concrete Skies: Reclaiming the Urban Wilderness of Disused Underpasses

As cities grow and change, complex networks of elevated concrete highways and railways sprout up like vines, twist around each other and radically transform the space beneath them. Formerly ...

5 Architects Designed 5 Facades for Miami’s Wild ‘Museum Garage’

Apparently, Miami is hellbent on being home to all of the world's coolest parking garages. It’s already famous for 1111 Lincoln Road, a landmark gem by Swiss firm Herzog de Meuron that hosts ...

Deserted Dollhouse: Street Artist Crafts Eerie Miniature Abandoned Home

Created over the course of six months, this 1:10 scale model of a rundown home may be the most creepy and depressing dollhouse ever created, softened somewhat with miniaturized graffiti murals by ...

Living with the Dead: 12 Cemeteries with Surprising Alternate Uses

The living play karaoke among headstones, hang their laundry from mausoleums, put on plays in crypts and golf right on top of graves in multipurpose cemeteries around the world, where the dead ...

Slalom House: The World’s First Residential Rooftop Ski Slope

Designed for Astana, the cold capital city of Kazakhstan, this 'white roof' 1,000-foot ski run wraps around an apartment tower, bringing winter sports right to residents' ...

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