Cone Founded: The Abandoned Yuengling Ice Creamery
The Yuengling Ice Creamery not only helped the brewery survive Prohibition, it closed over a half-century after the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. D. G. Yuengling & Son bears the ...
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.
Brazilian Hybrid: Herringbone Home Blends Bamboo & Modern Simplicity
This tropical residence along the coast of Brazil combines traditional and local materials like stone, wood and bamboo to fashion a contemporary-looking abode that fits into both its natural and ...
Ballet Mécanique: House Facade Transforms to Offer Pop-Out Balconies
In Zurich, the mechanical facade of an unusual house performs an intricate dance, with petal-like louvers opening and closing as balconies pop out and lock into place. Dubbed ‘Ballet ...
Retrofitting Ruins: Designer Turns 6 Abandonments into Modern Dwellings
The question of what to do with ruins is as old as architecture, and answers range from demolition to meticulous reconstruction, or: cleverly combining what's there with something new and ...
Constructing the Future: Defining and Designing Better Affordable Housing
The United States currently has a shortage of about 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes for households with incomes at or below the poverty level, a statistic that’s clearly ...
Pretty Abandoned: Tucson’s Lisa Frank Factory
The former Lisa Frank factory in Tucson, mostly abandoned and sporadically for sale since 2001, stubbornly refuses to give up the rainbow-colored ghost. Calling the Lisa Frank factory ...
Flat-Pack Night Market: Modular South Korean Vendor Stalls Fold & Stack
Perfect for a pop-up market in Seoul that appears only overnight and on weekends, these collapsible and stackable structures take up little space when not in use and can be deployed and stored ...
Yo-Yo Pedestrian Zones: What Makes Urban Walkability Flourish or Fail?
A bustling car-filled street by day and a 1,500-foot pedestrian promenade on weekend nights, Sai Yeung Choi Street South in the dense neighborhood of Mong Kok was the stage upon which urban life ...
The Beauty of Books: Journey Through The World’s Most Ornate Libraries
Some of the world’s most stunning old structures were built to house books with a reverence equal to that of cathedrals, every grand hall, domed ceiling and hand-carved scroll a testament to ...
Road Grip: Vietnam’s Golden Bridge Is One Handy Span
You're in good hands when you walk the recently opened Golden Bridge in the Ba Na Hills – two humongous hands carved from stone, to be exact. Some say driving in Vietnam is a gripping ...
