Adaptive Reuse: 15 Creative House & Home Conversions
When old billboards, fire towers and grain silos outlive their old purposes, there’s no need to tear them down – especially since they can be transformed into surprisingly modern, livable ...
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.
Underground Rooms: Waiting for the End of the World
Call it paranoia or call it wise planning: it's a favorite hobby of humankind to try to predict when it will all end. We expend a great deal of energy preparing ourselves for doomsday, ...
Don’t Look Down: 10 Peculiarly Precarious Modern Buildings
The world's worst skyscraper disaster is still fresh in our minds, and every year sees a new calamity in our global obsession with building storey after storey, higher and higher. You would think ...
Arkansas Innovation: Stunning Southern-Style Architecture
Architect Marlon Blackwell does something with his designs that many architects seem unable or unwilling to do: he takes the building's environment into consideration when designing a structure. ...
Bricks and Scones: British House Built Entirely of Legos
Who didn't want to live in a house of Lego bricks as a child? James May, host of a new BBC series called James May's Toy Stories (also a life-long toy enthusiast and the host of Top Gear) had to ...
At World’s End: 13 (More) Artistic Post-Apocalyptic Visions
Our small blue planet - and everything on it - is destined to be fried to a crisp by an expanding sun some 5 billion years hence. Will anyone be around to observe the final sunset, or will society ...
Prefabulous Buildings: 10 Fantastic Prefabricated Homes
Forget the stereotypes – prefabricated homes can not only be ultra-portable and easy to assemble, but also sleek and modern, aesthetically rivaling the best of modern architecture. From rooftop ...
To Be Abandoned? 8 Cities That Might Not Make a Comeback
We've seen what our towns and cities look like when people move out and nature moves in - but why does abandonment happen? What factors turn towns into ghost-towns, city centres into wastelands ...
Faith Alone: 7 Stunning Abandoned Churches & Chapels
When it comes to architecture, churches have always had some of the most awe-inspiring, beautiful designs. Each culture and religion has added their own influence on the church design, some ...
Senior City-zens: 10 of the Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities
It takes a village... at first, at least. Whether that village grows into a city depends on many factors; whether it remains inhabited through centuries, even millennia, of war, natural disasters ...
