Last Dance: A Dozen Hustled & Bustled Abandoned Discos
Disco ducks and dancing queens can no longer shake their booties since these dozen decrepit abandoned discotheques took down their mirror balls. The 1970s haven't aged well and 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.
Bike Over Traffic: World’s Longest Elevated Cycling Path Opens in China
China's first aerial bike path spans nearly five miles, raised over streets and highways and connecting six public transit hubs in the heart of Xiamen. If the new route is even close to as ...
Let’s Make A Dill: 11 Closed & Abandoned Pickle Factories
The Age of Pickles ended when home refrigeration arrived, souring prospects for pickling businesses and leaving abandoned pickle factories hither and yon. Folks living in tropic and ...
Clone Wars: How Star Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired the Design of Naboo
Much of the magic of the Star Wars films derives from the fantastic landscapes and exotic built environments that serve as backdrops for its intergalactic tales of empires and rebellions. But ...
Prison Reformed: Amsterdam Structure Now Hosts Refugee Center & Art Hub
A structure that once housed thousands of prisoners now hosts up to 1,000 refugees as well as a creative hub, offering space “in a time of fear and division.” Amsterdam’s Bijlmerbajes first ...
Hovering Homes: 12 Cantilevered & Elevated Residences Maximize Views
Supported by nothing but skinny poles, delicately balancing or tethered as if they might float away, these precarious-seeming houses laugh in the face of gravity. Cantilevering architectural ...
Waste Not: The Trash Can that Inspired the World’s Tallest Condo Tower
432 Park Avenue in Manhattan has taken criticism for various reasons since well before it was completed, but its source of inspiration makes it almost too easy: the skyscraper was inspired by a ...
Architectural Relics: When Demolition Leaves Behind Nonsensical Structures
Steps that go nowhere, pedestrian walkways that dead-end into elevated bridges, doors that open out into mid-air: these so-called ‘Thomassons’ are what happens when workers demolishing an ...
Public Wattway: France Activates World’s First Solar-Paneled Roadway
Developed by Wattway and deployed on the streets of Tourouvre-au-Perche, a 1,000-meter-long solar-paneled roadway in France is the first stretch of a 1,000-kilometer endeavor. The ...
Inverted Roofs: Bowl-Shaped Rain Collectors Naturally Cool Desert Homes
Iranian architects have developed a Concave Roof system to collect rainwater in arid climates with low precipitation, helping cool buildings in hot and dry regions of the world. The water can in ...
