Scattered Marbles: 10 Smashed, Bashed & Trashed Statues
As our age's great and powerful leaders rise and fall, so do the narcissistic, now Ozymandias-like statues they raised to celebrate their fleeting triumph. Duck, Gaddafi The 2011 Libyan ...
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Experimental Architecture: 14 Boundary-Pushing Pavilions
Before a new form of architecture can be executed on a large scale, it has to be demonstrated through smaller structures, making temporary pavilions an ideal way to experiment. These 14 pavilions ...
Extreme Human Habitats: 7 Unexpected Urban World Wonders
Humans have established settlements in the strangest of places, from the base of an extremely lethal volcano in Japan to a platform of oil rigs built on the remains of seven ships in the Caspian ...
Infrastructural Art: Colorful LEDs Lights Up Shipyard Cranes
The imagination readily fastens onto the anthropomorphic figures like those found in shipyards, turning looming metal giants into huge toy beasts, origami cranes writ ...
The Future Takes Flight: 13 Forward-Thinking Airport Ideas
With their inefficient terminals and bloated footprints, today's airports are typically ill-equipped to adapt to sharp increases in demand, scarce land availability or new flight technologies. ...
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 ...
7 Deadly Engineering Disasters of the Industrial Age
Messing around with money-saving shortcuts or failing to understand basic physics can have deadly consequences when it comes to engineering structures like suspension bridges, dams, towers and ...
Futurbanist: 10 Award-Worthy 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Designs
From 3D-printed towers of sand to garbage-powered architecture of the seas, these eVolo Skyscraper Competition entries push the envelope in every possible direction, and a few impossible ones ...
Derelict Dubai: 7 Sandy Abandoned Wonders of the UAE
Known for its extravagance and disdain for rational limits, Dubai never shies away from incredibly ambitious architectural projects - but when they fail, as they often do, the result is a whole ...
Abandoned Underground: 10 Long-Lost Subterranean Cities
Subterranean spaces now silent, dank and cobwebbed once bustled with activity - often of the illicit variety - housing secret speakeasies, opium dens, bootlegging operations and hubs for human ...
