Underwater Homes: Deserted Basements as Stormwater Cisterns
In a dual effort to address urban blight and ailing infrastructure, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is piloting a new program to turn the basements of abandoned houses slated for demolition into ...
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Foundation for World’s Tallest Building Converted to Fish Farm
Ambitious plans construct Sky City in China, designed to be the highest skyscraper in the world and built in just 90 days, stalled at the outset over 2 years ago, leading to an unusual array of ...
Abandoned Mine is Now World’s Largest Indoor BMX Bike Park
Boasting 5 miles of trails, ramps and obstacles, this cavernous subterranean space sits 100 feet underground and totals 320,000 square feet. The wide-open footprint and copious mounds of dirt, ...
Dirty Camp 30: Canadian POW Camp Battles Neglect & Decay
Camp 30, located east of Toronto, was one of Canada's main World War II POW camps and although named a National Historic Site, continues to be neglected. ...
Deserted for Decades: Derelict Old Building Houses New School
A remarkable example of architectural rehabilitation, this abandoned structure has been given a second life via a fresh facade wrapping a rundown shell. The before-and-after shots illustrate the ...
Casa Futebol: Design to Deploy Housing in World Cup Stadiums
Imagine converting the circumferential spaces of sports stadiums into a plug-and-play system of modular residential units, leaving their open centers for use as open sports surfaces, green ...
Holy Beer: 12 Pubs Converted from Churches, Urinals & More
If knocking pack a pint in a subterranean Victorian urinal doesn't sound like a good time to you, read on. Extensive renovations have transformed the most unlikely of settings into quirky and ...
Destination Design: 12 Forward-Thinking Modern Hotels
Whether by totally transforming a city's skyline, subverting old standards of hotel architecture or creatively reclaiming historic structures, these 12 unusual modern hotel designs have become ...
Beautifully Simple: School Bus Turned Minimal Mobile Home
You could make a strong case for this vehicle being barely recognizable as such. The dimensions, fenestration and over spatial configuration give good clues that this space may have once been a ...
Skyscraper Squatters: Lessons from Ad Hoc Vertical Slums
Take abandoned office towers without occupants, on the one hand, while people all around sleeping on the streets, on the other. One deserted structure in downtown Caracas provides a fascinating ...
