Private Playgrounds: 13 Amazingly Fun Houses
If you had your own pirate ship fort, multi-story slide, climbing wall or indoor skate park, would you ever want to leave your house? Some homeowners have turned their residences into private ...
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.
Child’s Place: 10 Eerie Abandoned Orphanages
Orphanages served as repositories for unwanted, illegitimate and unsupportable children in relatively recent yet still socially unenlightened times and places. Modern initiatives in family planning ...
World’s Most Powerful Man-Made Tornado in a Museum
Experience the awe-inspiring power of a tornado, up-close and personal, without putting yourself in serious danger chasing a real one. The Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart hosts the strongest ...
Abandoned Tunnel Used for Secret Race Car Testing
Locals in the area of Donegal, Pennsylvania would often scratch their heads at the reverberating sounds of roaring car engines and squealing tires seeming to come from beneath a nearby mountain ...
Origami Shelter: Instant Flat-Pack Architecture on Demand
Take a structure, strip away all of the non-essentials, and squeeze out every last unused bit of air space, and what do you get? Something a lot like a folded sheet of paper. This folding ...
Virtual Retail Stores Repurpose Unused Public Spaces
Photos of products with codes that can be scanned by smart phones transform cramped spaces like the walls of subway stations into virtual retail stores, saving space and potentially adding ...
Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home
Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations instead of advertisements. But the Scribe Billboard ...
All Bets Are Off: 10 Crapped-Out Abandoned Casinos
At these 10 abandoned casinos, the high rollers are laying low, the cards are all jokers, the wheel's stopped spinning and the dice have all thrown snake eyes. ...
Performance Architecture: 10 Dramatic Opera Sets & Stages
Magnificent, surreal stages rise from the depths of Austria's Lake Constance, rotating, glowing, rising and falling in time with the plots of famed operas, plays and musicals. Unparalleled in ...
Lawless Metropolis: Life in Kowloon Walled City, Then & Now
Twenty years ago, a dank, lawless, congested and compacted city located just outside Hong Kong was evacuated and destroyed, putting an end to the nearly century-old settlement first created as a ...
