(image via: javier ortega figueiral) They stand like massive man-made skeletons, abandoned towers that were supposed to be luxurious high-rise residences, hotels and office buildings. The ghost ...
They were supposed to be shining examples of super-tall architecture, towers that celebrate the prosperity of their respective urban locations. But after the economic meltdown began in 2008, ...
Blob Architecture - sometimes referred to as Blobitecture, Blobism or even Blobismus is a exceedingly organic type of architecture that exhibits profoundly soft, rounded and curved dimensions. ...
When land is expensive or in short supply - or both, as is the case in Japan's major metropolises - smart real estate developers don't get down, they look up. These 20 tall thin Japanese ...
Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the ...
(Images via: Shanghai Cultural China, Boston.com, Arch Daily) When you're awarded the highly coveted position of official host city to the world’s latest, greatest and inarguably grandest ...
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but a Subway sandwich shop made of shipping containers is helping workers at the World Trade Center building site get their noontime grub on more ...
Sometimes technology leaps so far ahead it seems like the future has arrived a few years early. When the improvement comes in the area of materials the leap can seem even greater, as the new ...
Even today modern wonders of engineering like the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge inspire awe (and songs and works of art). A quick look at their origins, however, can turn awe to ...
