Photo Finished: 12 Closed & Abandoned Camera Stores
Point, click, shut! Camera stores are rapidly fading into obsolescence as smartphones take the place of mass market cameras, film and paid photo processing. ...
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Gone Green: Vacant 50 Years, Chinese Village Conquered by Ivy
Nestled in the hills on a remote island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in China and full of rich foliage, one could imagine this small fishing hamlet to be an idyllic place, at least for ...
The Hand of Man: Bonsai Hangs Inside Abandoned Power Plant
Inside the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant, a tiny bonsai tree hangs from a geometric metal frame, its roots exposed. The only other sign of life inside the cavernous space is an ...
Retired Buses to Become Mobile Homeless Shelters & Showers
A fleet of still-functional city buses in Hawaii sits idle simply because the vehicles have too many miles for continued use in their current capacity, creating a unique opportunity to redeploy ...
Free Little Libraries: 25 Contextual Designs & Creative Reuses
Little Free Libraries have been popping up all over the U.S. - and in other countries as well - since 2009. The movement began in Wisconsin, where Todd Bol built a tiny replica of a schoolhouse ...
Vertical Cities: 12 Towers Take Urban Density to the Skies
Taking advantage of virtually endless vertical space within urban centers, entire cities-within-cities could spring up into the skies, packing in thousands of new housing units as well as parks, ...
2 Tons of LEGO: 10 Architects Construct Interactive Micro-City
Using a staggering volume of LEGO bricks, a series of ten famous architecture firms has constructed a series of miniature built environments, deploying them on the High Line in New York City and ...
Cast-in-Place Steel: Robots to 3D-Print Metal Bridge in Holland
Designed to span a historic canal of Amsterdam, this cutting-edge structure will bridge traditional and automatic construction techniques using continuous extrusion technology to generate ...
Brutalist Playgrounds: Sharp Surfaces + Unforgiving Drops
The phrase ‘brutalist playground’ kind of sounds like a joke, emphasizing the great potential for injury that would seem inherent to a sharp, harsh play structure where kids are encouraged to ...
A Step Above The Rest: 15 Spectacular Modern Staircases
Going far beyond their practical function of connecting one level of an interior to the next, these modern staircase designs make a striking statement, often doubling as a sculptural element or ...
