Radar Offline: Abandoned Secret Soviet Base In Latvia
An abandoned Soviet 'secret city' near Skrunda, Latvia, once housed an advanced radar installation along with apartment blocs er, blocks for base workers. Riga Mortis They called ...
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Thin Facade: Old Small Town Storefront Folds Down into 100-Seat Theater
Walking down the vintage commercial strip of Lyons, Nebraska, it looks like any other building with shop windows and a front door, sharing walls with neighboring structures, but that's all a ...
Operable Facade: Front Wall & Windows Conceal Hidden Garage Door & Lift
New Zealand architect Jonathan Smith worked with a cabinetmaker to carefully deconstruct part of this 1890s home in Auckland, then assembled a set of automatic doors as well as a moving fence to ...
New Network of Ice Age Caves Found Beneath the Streets of Montreal
Manually chipping away at rock for hours, two cave explorers have discovered a massive, previously unknown system of prehistoric caves beneath the streets of Montreal. Estimated to be around ...
Secret Studio: Suspended Mobile Room Slides & Hides Under Busy Overpass
Designer Fernando Abellanas has built a remarkable micro-dwelling in Valencia, Spain, that slides into position under a bridge, suspended safely out of sight from the traffic passing by ...
Glitch Cities: Buildings Mysteriously Deleted from Chinese ‘Street View’
All kinds of architecture is being inexplicably erased from the Baidu Total View image database (analogous to Google Street View) ... and whoever is behind it is doing an oddly haphazard job ...
Real Underground Art: Secret Sculptural Installations Below Paris
There’s a good chance that no one, other than an errant worker, will ever even see these highly symbolic (not to mention illegal) installations hidden far beneath the streets of Paris. Tucked ...
First Time in 100 Years: Forbidden City’s Secret Garden to Open
The Forbidden City in Beijing, China, is one of the most-visited landmarks in the world, but now its secret garden, closed to the public for close to a century, is scheduled to open its ...
Geographical Profiling Points to Artist Banksy’s Secret Identity
A set of mathematical processes developed for use in crime-fighting and disease-tracking indicates that one already-suspected individual may indeed be the infamous graffiti and installation ...
Mosaic Murals: Tile Patterns Spray-Painted in Deserted Spaces
A puzzle of layers rather than pieces, each of this spray-painted works takes aesthetic cues from historic Barcelona, deploying them in novel contexts using unexpected ...
