Done Deals, New & Used: 12 (More) Abandoned Car Dealerships
From low low prices to low low sales: at these abandoned new & used car dealerships, showroom traffic's been reduced to a permanent state of gridlock. ...
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.
Coolest Pools: 15 Enviable Modern Swimming Spots
Daydream about escaping into an aquatic paradise of your very own in the form of a modern swimming pool that puts swimmers on display with a glass floor, appears in your ballroom at the push of a ...
Ramping Up: World’s First Multi-Story Skateboard Park in UK
Designed to provide 1,000 square meters of recreational space across four floors, this multistory structure bends and curves to accommodate bowls and ramps for skaters who can move vertically ...
Smell Ya Later! 12 Abandoned Fish & Seafood Canneries
The advent of refrigerated ships radically changed the fish and seafood processing industry, leaving dozens of isolated and uneconomical canneries behind. ...
Fresh Biocement: World’s First Self-Healing Concrete Building
One of the biggest challenges to building with concrete is the material's propensity to crack both while it dries and in the years that follow, making this self-fixing solution an incredibly ...
Flip for This: 12 Crazy and Creative Skate Ramps & Parks
Glide you way through a multi-story dedicated skate park, a glow-in-the-dark bowl, an old subway tunnel under London, a floating ramp on Lake Tahoe or even a ramp that goes right off the edge of ...
Well, Done: 10 Abandoned Steakhouses Past Their Prime
These abandoned steakhouses once served up prime cuts of beef to steely-eyed dealmakers wielding steely knives. It's enough to drive a Mad Men man mad! ...
Floating Island: Self-Sufficient Home Produces Food & Power
Powered by solar panels and sustained by a half-acre plot of farmland, these 12 connected buoyant platforms together form an autonomous off-the-grid dwelling for the couple that built ...
Seoul Sky Garden: Elevated Urban Park on an Abandoned Highway
Deemed unsafe and left to rot, a stretch of highway in a prime location beside a train station in Seoul, South Korea will soon get a new life as an elevated park. Built in the ’70s, the ...
Off the Block: 13 Out-There Apartment Designs in Japan
Japanese architects have come up with some of the world’s most extreme, clever and off-the-wall solutions for spatial challenges, manipulating the shapes and interior layouts of apartment ...
