Stripped: 12 Sleazy Abandoned Adult Movie Theaters
These 12 abandoned adult movie theaters hark back to the days before the advent of the internet let porn aficionados get their kicks without leaving home. The bedraggled Franklin ...
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.
World’s First Floating Underwater Tunnels to Span Fjords in Norway
Norway is working to create the world's first "submerged floating bridges," suspended from surface pontoons and engineered to span its vast network of wide and deep fjords. A system of ...
Glittering Wave-Shaped Concert Hall Placed Atop Old Warehouse Building
German concertgoers are so excited about the stunning new Elbphilharmonie building in Hamburg by architecture firm Herzog & De Meuron, they’re already snapping up tickets for the first ...
Double-Helix Bridge Design for Beijing Based on Abstracted Olympic Symbol
The Olympic symbol consisting of five interlinked circles is stretched out and rotated until the links create a three-dimensional double helix formation in this bridge design, which is scheduled ...
Stopped Steps: 10 Declining Abandoned Escalators
Well, that did NOT escalate quickly. These busted up and broken down abandoned escalators won't be devouring any CROC plastic sandals anytime soon. An outdoor escalator? In damp, rainy ...
Urban Dystopia: 11 Short Sci-Fi Films Set in Future Cities
The science fiction of the past thirty years has evolved beyond the midcentury's optimistic space-age visions into a darker, grittier place, where technology is out of control and resources are ...
Bubble Buildings: 13 Structures You’ll Wish You Could Pop
Would the satisfaction that comes with popping bubble wrap scale up as the bubbles get larger and larger, until they’re big enough to cover entire buildings? These blobby bubble-shaped ...
Quacked Up: Cleveland’s Legendary “Duck Factory”
The “Duck Factory”, a century-old abandoned warehouse in Cleveland's Little Italy home to hundreds of toy rubber ducks, has finally kicked the bucket. Urbex explorers – not to ...
Floating Greenhouse: Mobile Barge to Grow Food & Cruise Danube
Designed to float down the Danube river in Europe, the Eco Barge is a solar-powered floating greenhouse illustrating the possibilities of offshoring urban food production. In addition ...
That’s a Wrap! 15 Building Facades Veiled in Plastic & Cloth
Stretched or hung around the skeletons of buildings, these membranes made of plastic, fabric and metal mesh act like architectural clothing, diffusing light and obscuring the original forms. From ...
