The Peeling Project: Thinking Outside The Big Box Store
What happened when an edgy architecture firm met an open-minded chain of big box retail stores? The very appealing Peeling Project, that's what. We'll leave it for others to document the ...
Tag: Architecture
Photocatalytic Concrete: Air-Cleaning Building Absorbs Smog
Featuring 100,000 square feet of smog-filtering surface area, this structural facade will break down harmful oxides in sunlight to improve air quality all around it. The building, designed ...
Cabins in the Canopy: 13 Modern Tree Houses by Baumraum
Ranging from minimalist elevated meditation cabins to complex climate-controlled company meeting spaces, the many treehouse creations of German company Baumraum offer unconventional and often ...
No Sweat: 10 Abandoned Gyms & Deserted Fitness Centers
Gotta be at the gym in 26 minutes? Don't get bent outta shape but no amount of blood, sweat or tears can rejuvenate these abandoned gyms & fitness centers. Weight Of The ...
Hover Houses: 12 Cliff-Clinging Homes with a View
Swim to the edge of an infinity pool that feels as if it's going to pour right out into the sea, or stand on a glass-walled balcony hanging off a cantilevered volume, seeming to hover in mid-air. ...
Zero Mileage: 12 Abandoned Automobile Dealerships
The showroom floors are bare and the alluring aroma of new car smell has long since dissipated from these dozen down-in-the-dumps abandoned auto dealerships. Aloha & Mahalo "I say hello ...
Bucket List: 12 Battered & Abandoned KFC Stores
There are nearly 20,000 KFCs worldwide but success isn't guaranteed. Here are 12 that kicked the bucket when the financial chickens came home to roost. The Bucket Stops Here (images via: ...
Animating Architecture: Real Facades Remixed, Spun & Stacked
Taking building concepts to their illogical conclusions, this series of surreal animations provides a tour of impossible architectural structures and facades, each taken to a fresh visual ...
House of Metal: 15 Steel and Aluminum-Clad Residences
Durable, reflective and often becoming even more beautiful with exposure to the elements, metal is an unusual choice in exterior treatment for houses. These 15 metallic residences range from ...
Cemeteries in the Sky: 7 Compact Vertical Burial Designs
A skyscraper filled with corpses may sound morbid, but soon, such things may become a necessity. The earth is already packed with dead housed in oversized caskets that have been designed to ...
