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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.

Building for Billionaires: Luxury Tower with Car Elevators

If you're rich enough to live in the Porsche Design Tower, you're rich enough to have a mega-expensive car or two worth hauling up to your upper-floor penthouse each day in your very own car ...

Crowdfunded Skyscraper: Record-Breaking Tower in Bogotá

With over $200 million from more than 3,500 supporters, the world's largest crowdfunding campaign has generated the means to create the highest skyscraper in Colombia (and the first new one in 40 ...

Past Food: 10 Creepy Closed & Abandoned McDonalds Restaurants

I'm leavin' it! You can bet your sesame seed buns these 10 closed and abandoned McDonald's have swirled their last McFlurry and will bag burgers no more. ...

Half Abandoned: Twin Townhouses Tell Two-Sided Stories

Physically conjoined but separately sold upon construction, the lives of paired buildings (ones that share a common wall) can diverge dramatically as this photo series poignantly illustrates. In ...

Parasite Tent Pods: Vertical Urban Wall Homes for Homeless

In cities around the world, people are feeling the effects of a weak global economy and homeless populations continue to rise. Taking shelter in cardboard boxes or in isolated tents can be ...

Apostrophe-Shaped Bridge Doubles as a Ride for Pedestrians

Shaped like an apostrophe and bearing a shark-inspired fin, the Scale Lane Bridge in Hull, England allows pedestrians to go along for the ride when it swings open to allow ships passage. Made of ...

Human Body Museum: Undulating Design Wins Competition

Its organic form fits its function as a Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) like a metaphorical glove - interlocked fingers were, in fact, part of the conceptual inspiration for ...

Surreal Subterranean Space: Hand-Carved Cave for Sale

If you've always dreamed about having your very own network of cathedral-like hand-carved caves (who hasn't?) you're in luck - such a dreamscape can be yours for less than the average cost of a ...

Calling Home: 9 Towering Smartphone-Shaped Buildings

Does your high-rise apartment or office tower look like a mobile phone? These ones do, and you can bet smartphone users inside them get REALLY good reception. ...

Ship Shaped: Undergound Maritime Museum in Dry Dock Void

Using the existing vessel-shaped space of a six-decades-old dry dock, the Danish National Maritime Museum in Helsingor, Denmark takes visitors on a unique subterranean tour of the areas used to ...

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