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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 ...

Hidden Addition: Stealth NYC Penthouse is Invisible from Streets Below

Unseen above the restored cast-iron facade of this 1857 residential structure in Tribeca, a stunning modern loft extends the building's livable space, its form responding directly to lines of ...

Iceberg Homes: London Boroughs Curb Luxury ‘Super-Basements’

It is increasingly common to find London properties that have more subterranean interior space thanĀ above-ground square footage, a byproduct of the wealthy desiring to build additions without ...

Ruins of Crumbling Church Salvaged with Geometric Addition

A faceted glass structure clings to the ruins of a stone church in Santpedor, Spain, filling in a gaping hole that was created with the demolition of an adjacent convent. Built modestly by ...

Illegal Skyway: Chinese Homeowner Bridges 2 Highrise Condos

Sky bridges are a common sight in many cities, but are generally used to create a semi-public pathway from one building to the next, not to illicitly join two private highrise units in ...

Night Graffiti: Shake-Powered LED Spray Paint Can Sleeve

The nature of graffiti tends to result in nocturnal excursions, but painting completely in the dark can be a be problem and sometimes you just need a little bit of light. LASH is a ...

Spiral Out of Control: Guggenheim Museum Extension Idea

The Guggenheim Museum in New York may be the most iconic work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright - as such, any addition to it will invariably be the center of much debate ... but this one ...

Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations

1 window plus 1 window equals 2 windows - seems obvious, but it warrants at least a double-take, so to speak, when you see it so explicitly expressed. Simple black-outlined, white-filled, ...

Vintage Vandals: 6 Artists Monsterize Thrift-Store Paintings

You seem to see them at every garage sale: a chipped and battered, faux-ornate, gold-colored frame containing a bland and boring landscape that only holds meaning for the original painter and ...

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