Silence Of The Lamps: 10 Abandoned Light Bulb Factories
Things may look dim for these abandoned light bulb factories but hopefully the last worker out the door remembered to flip the switch on their way out. ...
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Veggie Factory: World’s First Vertical Farm Run Entirely By Robots
Taking vertical urban indoor farming efficiency to the next level, a new automated plant coming to Japan will be staffed entirely by robots and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce daily. The ...
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. ...
Afterglow: Luma Tower, Glasgow’s Shining Art Deco Icon
Rising from the trashes of vandalism and neglect, Glasgow's former Luma Light Bulb Factory has recaptured its Art Deco glory as the residential Luma Tower. ...
World’s Largest Indoor Farm is 100 Times More Productive
The statistics for this incredibly successful indoor farming endeavor in Japan are staggering: 25,000 square feet producing 10,000 heads of lettuce per day (100 times more per square foot than ...
Modular Retrofit: Bamboo Micro-Homes in Deserted Factories
A pragmatic twist on visionary plug-and-play architecture, this project combines a cheap and fast-growing material with existing (abandoned) infrastructure to address the extensive needs of ...
Constructivist Manifesto: Russia’s Hammer & Sickle Canteen
The hammer & sickle shaped Maslennikov Kitchen Factory, located 500 miles southeast of Moscow in Samara, once stood at the pinnacle of the Soviet Constructivist architecture movement. Today, as ...
