Star Crossed: 10 More Abandoned Observatories
These closed and abandoned astronomical observatories once gazed skyward into a star-spangled universe, revealing hidden wonders of time and space. Once. You'll typically find ...
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.
Spiky Shipping Container Home Blooms Like a Flower in the Joshua Tree Desert
Since shipping containers are made to be stacked, that’s how they’re usually arranged when reclaimed for architectural projects. It just makes sense, right? They fit together in a certain way. ...
Starchitect Spotlight: 9 Wooden Wonders by Kengo Kuma & Associates
Acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma brings traditional Japanese building techniques and aesthetics into the 21st century with dynamic structures making creative use of wooden elements. Known ...
Prefab Plyscraper: World’s Tallest Timber Building Tops Out at 173 Feet
On the University of British Columbia's campus in Vancouver, a new record-setting wood structures highlights the many advantages of a growing trend: vertical timber construction. Brock Commons ...
Lush Life: 12 Verdant Architecture Projects Making Plants a Main Priority
Not all architecture incorporating lots of living greenery is doomed to remain an unrealistic rendering, depicting buildings that can't structurally support the weight of all the soil and water ...
Bar The Rays: 15 Closed & Abandoned Tanning Salons
These closed and abandoned tanning salons, spas and studios made hay while the sun didn't shine but sooner or later they (and their clients) felt the burn. "Sun-Tan-Drews" may not have ...
Incredible Grain Silo Transformation: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
106 vertical concrete tubes making up a massive disused grain silo in Cape Town, South Africa are sliced and carved from the inside out to produce cathedral-like spaces in this incredible ...
Zero-Carbon, All Bamboo Sports Hall Features Organic 50-Foot Trusses
A new sports hall in Thailand highlights the aesthetic power and physical strength of bamboo, a flexible and fast-growing natural material. In total, more carbon is captured in the bamboo than ...
Pop-Up Pavilions: 15 Playful Temporary Architecture Installations
Pavilions are like playgrounds for architects and designers, allowing them to show off what they can do when they really set their imaginations free. Unfettered by the typical limitations of a ...
Shopping Block: 19 Deservedly Abandoned British Stores
These charming British shops and boutiques just couldn't compete with big box stores but that's not the only reason they've bitten the biscuit. Why try owning and operating a store selling ...
