Sleeping Giants: 12 Sky-High Abandoned Buildings
Bangkok's skeletal ghosts of prosperity past aren't the only super-tall structures left vacant for decades on end to deteriorate until they're either heroically saved or razed to the ground. ...
Author: SA Rogers
S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.Silent Skyscrapers: The Eerie Ghost Towers of Bangkok
(image via: javier ortega figueiral) They stand like massive man-made skeletons, abandoned towers that were supposed to be luxurious high-rise residences, hotels and office buildings. The ghost ...
Skyscraper Interrupted: 12 Stalled Projects Around the World
They were supposed to be shining examples of super-tall architecture, towers that celebrate the prosperity of their respective urban locations. But after the economic meltdown began in 2008, ...
Stairs to Nowhere: 15 Works of Surreal Staircase Sculpture
They might not get you from one floor of a building to another; in fact, you might not even be able to step on them without sliding off or getting vertigo. But these 15 spectacular floating ...
GEOtube Building Grows its Own Lace-Like Sea Salt Skin
How can architecture autonomously grow and expand when it is not constructed with living materials? It almost sounds like a nonsensical riddle, but such a thing might actually be possible if ...
Fluid Designs: 12 (More) Water Vehicles to Float Your Boat
First there was the guitar boat, the wooden Ferrari boat and the 'spider that ate San Francisco'. Now come 12 even cooler and crazier watercraft designs and concepts from super-high-tech ...
Heroic Urbanism: 13 Ultra-Cool Comic Book Cities
The same dramatic architecture that gleams with the promise of technology and prosperity during the day oozes malice and corruption at night, with many a dark secret hidden in the tallest ...
Star Wars Invades Dubai in Digital Art Series
As the global recession has put a stop to all manner of construction projects around the world, perhaps no place has been hit quite so hard as Dubai. Long known for its outrageous architecture ...
Criminal Contours: Crime Rates as Topographic Maps
Who knew that San Francisco had a mountain called 'Prostitution Peak'? Such hidden 'landscape features' are revealed when the city's crime statistics are analyzed as a 3D topographic map. Data ...
Nightmare & Dream Designs: 12 Cities of Sci Fi & Fantasy
For the imaginary architecture of fiction, anything goes – whether sparkling dream-like utopias or the sort of gritty dystopian settings that would wake you in the night with a racing heart. ...
