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Stonehenge Secrets? MIT’s 25-Ton Boulders Can Be Moved By Hand

Enormous monolithic structures weighing as much as 25 tons are tilted, rotated and wiggled across a room by a single person in a new experiment by researchers at MIT, giving us a look into how ...

Footloose: Canada’s Abandoned Bata Shoe Factory

The former Bata shoe factory in "Batawa" – a company town located in southern Ontario – forged fine footwear for footloose Canucks from 1939 to the year 2000. Kickoff The Bata Shoe ...

Funorama: Bouncy Rainbow Net Suspended Above a Paris Shopping Center

Shoppers at Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann can climb to new heights within the building’s domed atrium, bouncing around on a suspended rainbow net and gazing up at the stained glass cupola. ...

Mondrian Lives On: The Artist’s Influence on Architecture & Design

How is it that a simple, abstract composition of black and white grids and primary colors has touched our collective psyche so deeply? Dutch-born artist Piet Mondrian created some of the most ...

Green Spaceship: Vegetated Library to Land in Madrid’s Villaverde

Using a constantly changing screen of ivy as a passive solar device, a new library planned for Madrid takes on a shape that’s out of this world. Architecture firm 3GATTI calls the unusual ...

Class Inaction: Eerie Abandoned Virginia High School

Central High School in Painter, Virginia was abandoned in 2005 but the 88-year-old red brick building still exudes plenty of Art Deco style and class. Hollowed Halls The Eastern Shore of ...

Bikers First: Mobile Pop-Up Bicycle Parking Shed Wanders Amsterdam

Spending what feels like forever cruising around a crowded downtown area looking for parking can be highly frustrating, but there’s an obvious solution: take alternative transportation. Decades ...

Rail Impressive: Former Industrial Train Shed Becomes a Modern Library

Without sacrificing any of its industrial charm, Dutch architects transformed an old train shed into a gorgeous library and community event space. “LocHal” is Tilburg’s “new public city ...

Impreached: 10 Bizarrely Named Churches & Chapels

Bizarrely-named churches tend to stand out but someone must've got into the sacramental wine before tagging titles on these 10 hilarious houses of worship. Foursquare Deal Go ahead and ...

Stairway to Nowhere: Behind the Hate for NYC’s New Hudson Yards “Vessel”

People really hate Thomas Heatherwick's new Escher-esque "Vessel," a climbable sculpture in New York City's billionaire playground of Hudson Yards, and they're not afraid to wax poetic about it. ...

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