No Spoking: 11 Closed & Abandoned Bicycle Shops
Bicycle shops should be doing great in this era of energy conservation but the cold equations of business economics are, for many bike shops, all two wheel. ...
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.
Antarctopia: A Vision of Past & Future Polar Architecture
The most remote and climactically unforgiving place in the world, Antarctica has served as a setting for only the hardiest and most practical of architecture since its initial exploration in the ...
Turning Tides: 10-Mile Park to Protect NYC from Flooding
Designed to shield the exposed edges of Lower Manhattan from increasingly-disastrous storms, this impressive system of parks and other public spaces is also designed to serve the everyday needs ...
High Line West: Chicago & LA on Track for Elevated Greenways
Following in the footsteps of the United States' largest urban center, the 2nd and 3rd most populous cities in the country are each (respectively) developing and building extensive elevated ...
House of Metal: 15 Steel and Aluminum-Clad Residences
Durable, reflective and often becoming even more beautiful with exposure to the elements, metal is an unusual choice in exterior treatment for houses. These 15 metallic residences range from ...
Cracked Mirrors: 12 (More) Eerie Abandoned Observatories
These twelve abandoned observatories tell no universal tales; their heavenly visions now fatally fogged as their expansive domes lie locked and shuttered. ...
Vertical Forests: 2 Lush Urban Towers Support 16,000 Plants
Skeptics of improbably green skyscraper concepts might want to take a moment of silence to appreciate the successful construction of these two beautiful buildings now nearly ...
Hydraulic Lift to Save House on Stilts from Future Flooding
A Modernist classic, the famous Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe was originally built with a raised platform but that has not managed to save it from floods, leading its custodians to an ...
Cemeteries in the Sky: 7 Compact Vertical Burial Designs
A skyscraper filled with corpses may sound morbid, but soon, such things may become a necessity. The earth is already packed with dead housed in oversized caskets that have been designed to ...
The Bus Stops Here: 7 Transit Shelters by Famous Architects
Trading a free vacation for their design input, a series of world-renowned designers each contributed their vision of a bus shelter to a tiny town of just 1,000 residents in ...
