Home Sweet: Abandoned Kaua’i Sugar Plantation House
This abandoned house in Kaua'i molders away just steps from a rusty old factory where the Hawaiian island's bounteous sugar cane harvest once was processed. Sucrose for Comfort Sugar cane ...
Category: Architecture
Architecture is the art we live in, from individual houses, apartments and condos to the broader urban context, skyscrapers and parks of the cities around us. From unique historical homes to stunning conceptual towers, here are some of the most amazing, creative and inspiring structures and spires of our times.
If You Plant It, They Will Come: The Push to Create More Pollinator Cities
In the Dutch city of Utrecht, 316 bus stops are now planted with flowering greenery, inviting pollinators like bees to stop by and take a blossom break. The Netherlands initiated the project ...
Tea’d Off: Abandoned Museum Street Tea Rooms
Tea time waits for no one and the former Tea Rooms on London's Museum Street is no exception, its Art Deco facade gracefully decaying as the years go by. True Be Leafers Located at 11 ...
Faint Prays: Tiny Abandoned African-American Church
A tiny abandoned church dating back to the end of the Civil War reflects the reserved reverence exhibited by its long-scattered African-American congregation. Alter State This ...
Ribbons of Life: Biodiverse Bridge Doubles as a Wildlife Crossing
In Australia, a new ribbon-inspired bridge mimicking natural bushland will offer recreational opportunities for people as well as habitat and a safe crossing for wildlife. Designed by CX ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
