Commuter Glitch: 15 Abandoned Bus Stops & Shelters
Bus routes often change so why are so many bus stops built to last? These 15 abandoned bus stops are prime examples of non-transient transit infrastructure. ...
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Fresh Biocement: World’s First Self-Healing Concrete Building
One of the biggest challenges to building with concrete is the material's propensity to crack both while it dries and in the years that follow, making this self-fixing solution an incredibly ...
Cargo Spotting: Field Guide to 20MM Global Shipping Containers
Shipping containers pass by us daily on trucks, trains and ships, carrying 90% of the world's non-bulk cargo with them, but if you have ever wondered what the mysterious colors and brands really ...
The Dryline: BIG Plan Fights NYC Floods with Waterfront Park
A huge infrastructure project designed to prevent future Hurricane Sandy-style devastation, the Dryline is a perfectly-named solution for a city already sporting a successful High Line and an ...
Networks of New York: Field Guide to Internet Infrastructure
We tend to think of the internet as something akin to aether, present all around us in the void - or perhaps something traveling down a series of tubes - the reality is much more complex, rich ...
Prism Break: China’s Eye-Soothing Rainbow Road Tunnel
A 1,000-foot long rainbow underpass in Zhengzhou, China is designed to help drivers' eyes adjust from daylight to a artificial lighting and back again. ...
Posts With The Most: 12 Cool & Creative Traffic Bollards
Never mind the bollards? Uh-uh: these traffic stoppers halt wayward vehicles like no traffic cone can. The best bollards, though, are designed to look great! Leicester City Council faced ...
‘5 Bridges’ Wins Competition to Stitch Portland Back Together
In many cities, freeways cut through the heart of urban centers like fresh wounds faded to old scars, but what if there were a way to reintegrate the disparate sides across the ...
Gritty City: Dark Oils Capture Essence of Bustling Urbanity
Busy shipyards, city streets, rain-streaked skyscrapers and other iconic staples of cities come alive in this portfolio of shadowy oil paintings. Valerio D’Ospina captures ...
Infrastructural Art: Colorful LEDs Lights Up Shipyard Cranes
The imagination readily fastens onto the anthropomorphic figures like those found in shipyards, turning looming metal giants into huge toy beasts, origami cranes writ ...
