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MAD Architects Redesign Turns Ugly Paris Tower into Giant City-Scale Mirror

Tall, dark and brooding, the infamous Maine-Montparnasse Tower is an unexciting skyscraper, especially by Parisian standards, but that could all change if MAD Architects converts it into a ...

Amazon Calm: Rio’s Deteriorating Olympic Games Venues

Barely completed in time, venues at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are going south in a big way now that the athletes have left. The Games of the XXXI Olympiad - ...

I Don’t Carioca: Awesome Abandonments Of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro may host the 2016 Olympics but Brazil's most picturesque and second-most populous city also boasts a host of infamous abandoned buildings. Perhaps the most notorious and ...

Gold Medal Street Art: World Record Mural in Rio Stretches 600 Feet

Athletes aren’t the only people trying to set world records in Rio de Janeiro right now, and one artist might have nabbed the gold this week for the world’s largest mural created by a single ...

Go Big or Go Home: Athletes are Larger than Life in Rio Art Installation

Athletes have arrived in Rio for the Olympics on a massive scale in the form of two monumental photographic installations supported by construction scaffolding, one looking like he’s about to ...

Double-Helix Bridge Design for Beijing Based on Abstracted Olympic Symbol

The Olympic symbol consisting of five interlinked circles is stretched out and rotated until the links create a three-dimensional double helix formation in this bridge design, which is scheduled ...

Commuter Olympics: Indoor Running Tracks Link Japanese Airport

Combining a novel form of wayfinding with a nod to the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, this new airport terminal trades moving walkways for a color-coded circuit of racetrack paths (or ...

Ski Jump Penthouse: Win a Night at Cool Sky-High B&B Chalet

'Please do not apply if you're scared of heights,' warns AirBnB about this private sky-high chalet located at the very top of the Holmenkollen ski jump, where some of the world's top skiers have ...

MegaFaces: Massive Display Enables 3D Selfies at Sochi

Giant faces measuring 25 feet in height emerge in three dimensions from an 'architectural Mount Rushmore' at the entrance of Sochi's Olympic Park. 'MegaFaces' is an interactive installation by ...

Faster, Higher, Stranger: 10 Tacky Olympic Souvenirs

“I went to the Olympics and all I got was this lousy... what IS that thing, anyway?” Most anyone would agree the best souvenir of a Summer or Winter Olympic Games is a medal – preferably gold ...

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