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How a Safety Net Spawned the Golden Gate Bridge’s “Half Way to Hell” Club

The board of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District recently voted unanimously to approve a $76 million funding plan for installation of steel-cable nets 20 feet beneath the ...

Inflatable: Giant Air-filled Artworks Come to the Exploratorium (Sponsored)

Explore, play, and wonder at gigantic, fantastical, artworks at Inflatable — a new exhibition at the Exploratorium, opening on May 26, 2018. The renowned San Francisco museum is partnering with ...

MicroPAD: Tiny Mobile Units Aim to End Homelessness in San Francisco

Could tiny prefabricated stackable mobile housing units help solve homelessness in cities like San Francisco, where nearly 7,000 people sleep in the streets every night? Affordable housing has ...

Smart Move: Domino Loft Maximizes Space in Micro Apartments

A 500-square-foot condo feels a lot larger when you can manage to fit a bedroom, guest bed, dining area, work space and closet in one tiny room without cluttering every possible surface. To prove ...

Griddy Cities: Aerial Cyberpunk Cityscapes Shot from 7,500 Feet

Flying over New York City, San Francisco and Las Vegas, this photographer has managed to both capture the essence of each city he shoots from the night sky above while also turning these places ...

Devil’s Slide: Deserted Bay Area WWII Bunker Hovers in Midair

Built on Devil's Peak (along a promontory known as Devil's Slide), this obsolete base end station was designed to spot, triangulate and radio in sightings of enemy ships approaching the San ...

Ghost Creeks: Resurfacing Vanished Waterways on City Streets

Half-forgotten historical urban rivers are set to resurface in San Francisco as part of a civic installation project designed to fill in their historical footprints with a bright blue work of ...

Modified Water Bike: Inventor Commutes San Francisco Bay

Both the first person to bike across the San Francisco Bay and over the Hudson River is great, but being able to skip traffic jams and cycle to work over the water daily is even better, according ...

San Francisco Past & Present: Blended Images from 1906 and 2012

106 years ago, San Francisco was in ruins. The earthquake of 1906 destroyed over 80% of the city, with 30 fires that broke out as a result burning down 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks.  But ...

21st Century Tintypes: Incredible Old-Fashioned Photography

In an era of digital cameras, Photoshop and other high-tech photography and processing techniques, one photographer has gone just about as far in the other direction as possible. Michael Shindler ...

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