13 Scary Sky-High Platforms & Observation Decks
Your head spins, your stomach clenches, your heart pounds furiously. You're thousands of feet above the ground with nothing but glass keeping you from teetering over the edge in a lengthy and ...
Your head spins, your stomach clenches, your heart pounds furiously. You're thousands of feet above the ground with nothing but glass keeping you from teetering over the edge in a lengthy and ...
There's the inside-out skyscraper, the horizontal skyscraper and the wooden skyscraper. There's a bizarre three-towered structure made to vaguely resemble an elephant, tusks and all. And then ...
For nearly 35 years, Steven Holl has been one of America's most iconic and innovative architects, designing dozens of attention-grabbing structures all over the world including the recently ...
(image via: javier ortega figueiral) They stand like massive man-made skeletons, abandoned towers that were supposed to be luxurious high-rise residences, hotels and office buildings. The ghost ...
They were supposed to be shining examples of super-tall architecture, towers that celebrate the prosperity of their respective urban locations. But after the economic meltdown began in 2008, ...
The recent world financial crisis has shone the spotlight on the world's central banks, those Keepers of the Keys to the money machine with their mental accounting and less-than-best inflation ...
Believe it or not, there are a number of structures taller even than the infamous Burj Dubai. The tallest structure in the world, however, is an unusual candidate that reaches more than twice as ...
Most people think of skyscrapers as inventions of the post-industrial world, characteristic of tightly-packed urban environments. Density in cities is, of course, nothing new. Surprisingly, neither ...