Taking Their Lumps: 12 Bitter Sweet Abandoned Sugar Mills
Obesity epidemic notwithstanding, the world boasts more abandoned sugar mills than you can shake a peppermint stick at. ...
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Fresh Faces: Clever Artist Gives Russian Buildings a New Look
Artist Nikita Nomerz is giving abandoned buildings and structures in Russian cities a new look... and the eerily expressive edifices are looking back! ...
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 ...
Wrap It Up! 10 Creative Building Scrims & Scaffolds
These artistic wraps, scrims and scaffolds creatively conceal the ugly truth of building construction, remediation and restoration. ...
Unconstructed: 25 Visionary Works by World-Famous Architects
Some were conceived of as storytelling devices or futuristic concepts, while others were intended for actual construction before the plans were scrapped, but each of these buildings tells a ...
Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint
Splashed with bright buckets of paint from roofs and windows, the colorfully defaced buildings of downtown Johannesburg have evoked different reactions from supports and detractors who variously ...
1 Building Per Day: Crafting Paperholm, a Working Micro-City
The individual structures are impressive as is the fact that they have moving parts, but their rate of construction is particularly compelling: the man behind this project is creating an ...
Wax On, Wax Off: 12 Closed & Deserted Drive-Thru Car Washes
Abandoned car washes are oddly abundant - you'd think they invented the self-cleaning car! Here are 12 more car-less washes left high, dry and brushed-off. ...
Blocked Out: 10 Closed & Abandoned Hat-Making Factories
The golden age of hats – what George Costanza called a “bald paradise” - has long passed and along with it, so have hundreds of huge hat-making factories. ...
Schematic of Structures: 90 Buildings, Prehistory to Present
This stunning blueprint-inspired poster takes you on a visual tour of 90 celebrated structures around the world, highlighting architectural achievements from the Greek Parthenon and Buckingham ...
