Pipe Dreams: 15 Totally Tubular Scaffolding Creations
Scaffolding usually helps prevent people from getting hurt on the job. If someone is hurt while working on a construction site then they may want to see a lawyer to see if they can get ...
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.
1/4 World Trade Center: Tulsa’s Half-Sized, Untwinned Tower
The BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looks uncannily like the vanished Twin Towers of the New York City skyline and this is neither accidental nor coincidental. This skyscraper was constructed just ...
Oh Snap! 15 Abandoned & Shuttered Fotomat Film Kiosks
Rendered obsolete by technology, hundreds of abandoned Fotomat drive-thru photo development kiosks still stand in suburban shopping center parking lots. ...
Modest Modernism: Concrete Block House in Brazil Wins Award
An understated but award-winning Modernist dwelling design in São Paulo, Brazil, has turned a narrow lot into a lovely and low-cost habitat suited to the needs of its poor and elderly ...
Dynamic Architecture: 13 Buildings with Moving Parts
Entire Italian villas spin in circles on wheels, solar-powered shades follow the sun, rooms zoom up into the air on telescopic stilts and windowless facades lift up on one end like shoebox ...
Silk & Sadden: 15 Closed & Abandoned Lingerie Shops
The thrill is gone and so are the thongs! These 15 closed & abandoned lingerie shops have nobody else to blame for their sagging level of support. ...
Shunned Shine State: 10 More Abandoned Wonders Of Florida
Florida may be America's Sunshine State but these odd abandoned wonders reveal a darker side to the land of oranges, alligators and retirement communities. ...
Stronger than Concrete: New Glass Bricks Support Dutch Facade
A new type of see-through glass brick used in this Dutch building facade aims to bridge traditional brick with transparency; the assembled bricks have been tested and shown to be as strong as ...
Blue Light Special: Colored Streetlamps Precede Decline in Crime
In the early 2000s, the city of Glasgow, Scotland, changed over to blue street lighting in an effort to improve the appearance of the city, but areas with the newly blue lights saw an unexpected ...
Scaffolding Staircase: Huge Steps to Rise from Rotterdam Plaza
A temporary installation to commemorate the rebuilding of the city after the second world war, this massive staircase made from scaffolding will lead visitors up onto a postwar structure in the ...
