Top Pop-Up Shops: 14 Temporary Retail Stores
Popping up in unexpected places overnight, temporary retail locations aim to dazzle shoppers with engaging visuals and alluring merchandise displays. They take over vacant storefronts, unfold ...
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Modern Trolls: 10 Bridges Turned to Homes & Mini-Cities
Remember the fairy tales featuring scary trolls who lived under bridges? We were terrified of them as children, and many of us still get a strange, subconscious feeling of danger when approaching ...
7 (More) Amazing Adaptive Reuse Architecture Projects
Who would have thought you could make so much with simple structures from trailer parks? And that's just the beginning. For ecological reasons, for eccentric clients and simply for fun, more and ...
Wondering About: Deserted Cities, Derelict Buildings & the Allure of Abandoned Places
Before it was abandoned in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Pripyat was a thriving Ukrainian city with a population of nearly 50,000. The relatively sudden exodus of its inhabitants ...
Redressed to Impress: Uncovering Camouflaged Facades & Architectural Fake Overs
The world is full of architectural fake overs, from individual facades to entire buildings designed to look like something other than what they really are. Historically, some of these disguises ...
Deciphering Cities: The Secret Languages of Utility Markings, Hobo Codes & Graffiti Tags
Most cities have so much in common that a generic "map of every city" can seem similarly familiar to people living in London, Paris, New York or another metropolis entirely. General types of ...
Key Developments: 10 Essential Diagrams Tell the Story of Modern Urban Design
For much of history, urban planning as we know it didn't exist. Sure, there were cities with zoning ordinances and building codes, but ones thoroughly planned from scratch with heavily controlled ...
SOS Brutalism: Book Advocates “Saving Concrete Monsters”
Pahlavi University by Minoru Yamasaki, Iran, compl. 1979 Perpetually divisive, Brutalist landmarks around the world are disappearing fast. A massive 716-page book called “SOS Brutalism - Save the ...
Grange Grunge: Abandoned Art Deco Mansion In Singapore
The Chee Guan Chiang House at 25 Grange Rd in Singapore occupies land worth millions yet stubborn owners and protective authorities ensure it remains abandoned. Home On The Grange The ...
Skyscape House: Modern Rooftop Retreat Looks Out Over Bangkok
From luxury penthouses to sky-high secret slums, urban rooftop architecture is like a hidden world of its own, often invisible from street level. Most of us go about our daily lives in the city ...
