Bridge in Paris: Inflatable, Jumpable Urban Playground
With space increasingly at a premium in cities around the world, bodies of water - and the structures that span them - are becoming host to all sorts of unexpected functions. This concept by ...
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Snowflake-Shaped Ski Dome Over River is World’s Largest
A six-armed, snowflake-shaped ski dome stretching across the river Gudenåen in Denmark would be the world's largest if constructed, besting the current record holder, Ski Dubai, by at least ...
Rain Forest Retreat: Remote Jungle Tree-House Hotel
We all get tired of modern urban living from time to time, but one American couple was so fed up with city life that they decided to create an entirely new community in the Costa Rican ...
Rebuilding Infrastructure: Viaduct turned Holiday Home
Construction on the highway from Salerno to Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy began int he 1960s - and it's still not finished. A stretch that has been abandoned for decades includes a viaduct ...
Grass-Covered Bridge in Amsterdam Doubles as Public Park
In the 'Venice of the North', bridges over the many 17th century canals are plentiful, but nearly all of them are for vehicles and bicyclists. The Iconic Pedestrian Bridge competition by AC-CA ...
Living Infrastructure: Grow-it-Yourself Jungle Bridges
In sunny weather, the calm pools of water in Nongriat are the perfect place to bathe or relax, their waters typically shallow enough to stand in. But this peacefulness is rare, and when the rain ...
Bridges to Go: 12 Temporary, Movable and Mobile Structures
While other bridges just go up and down or stay stationary, these 12 remarkable structures unfurl, tilt, rotate, drop down below the surface of the water and even lay and remove bridges at the ...
Stylish Skyways: 13 Boldly Futuristic Bridge Concepts
Spanning valleys and waterways, bridges perform a basic but essential function: getting us from one side to the other. But what if we expanded on that purpose, inserting everything from opera ...
Suspending Belief: 10 Span-tastic Pedestrian & Car Bridges
Bridges might not get the respect the world's tallest skyscrapers get but these horizontal architectural wonders push the engineering envelope just as hard. From "Galloping Gertie" to the Golden ...
Modern Trolls: 10 Bridges Turned to Homes & Mini-Cities
Remember the fairy tales featuring scary trolls who lived under bridges? We were terrified of them as children, and many of us still get a strange, subconscious feeling of danger when approaching ...
