Hole In None: 12 Abandoned Miniature Golf Courses
No ifs, no ands and above all no putts. These 12 abandoned miniature golf courses are as silent as the 18th at Augusta when the green jacket's on the line. ...
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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 ...
Civic Camouflage: Hiding a Huge Urban Stadium in Plain Sight
Sports stadiums can be contentious, particularly when located in the heart of a city, but this design works in various ways to reduce disruptions to urban fabric, slotting seamlessly into its ...
Abandoned Mine is Now World’s Largest Indoor BMX Bike Park
Boasting 5 miles of trails, ramps and obstacles, this cavernous subterranean space sits 100 feet underground and totals 320,000 square feet. The wide-open footprint and copious mounds of dirt, ...
Lowline for NYC: World’s First Underground Park in Manhattan
Using fiber optics as "remote skylights" to pipe illumination down from the surface, this bold plan aims to transform a century-old trolley station into a bright and green subterranean park. New ...
Architectural Magic: Big Stone Building Breaks Free & Floats
A work of art, genius and incredible effort, half of this replica structure appears to hang in mid-air, seeming at once a perfect aesthetic fit for its surroundings and completely disconnected ...
Color-Changing Hammocks: Swing on 20 LED-Lit Circular Chairs
Transforming an outdoor recreational space into an interactive evening wonderland, this series of variously-sized swings (and accompanying activities) encourages playful nighttime ...
Post-Olympic Abandonment: Sochi Already on the Road to Ruin
The Olympics have a long history of leaving a mixed legacy in their wake but the story of Sochi is particularly strange - it was never completely finished in the first place, and is already ...
Inverted Zoo: Enclosure-Free Design Puts Animals in the Open
Aiming to change the nature of zoo experiences for species on both sides of the glass, Zootopia radically reverses traditional layouts and changes conventional expectations. It almost looks as ...
Turning Tides: 10-Mile Park to Protect NYC from Flooding
Designed to shield the exposed edges of Lower Manhattan from increasingly-disastrous storms, this impressive system of parks and other public spaces is also designed to serve the everyday needs ...
