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12 City Slides Turning Urban Settings Into Playgrounds for Adults

Slides actually make a lot of practical sense in urban environments, potentially zooming over busy streets and transferring pedestrians from high ground to low ground faster than an escalator or ...

World’s Longest Tunnel Slide Opening at Sculptural London Monument

Experience monumental sculpture like you never have before with a new 15-story tunnel slide that spirals around London’s ArcelorMittal Orbit monument, set to be the world’s longest. The UK is ...

Sky Slide: L.A. Tower Adds Exterior Glass Chute 1,000 Feet Up

A new amusement offering on the 70th floor of the highest skyscraper on the West Coast is stepping up the game, going beyond glass viewing platforms, swimming pools and bridges to boast a ...

Mountaintop Viewing Walkway Culminates in 300-Foot-Long Slide

After winding their way up a hundred-foot-tall pathway in the Czech Republic set atop a mountain peak (itself located over 3,000 feet above sea level), visitors are presented with two options: ...

Suckers! Japan’s Ubiquitous Octopus Playground Slides

Weird anthropomorphic, gaudily painted concrete octopus slides lurk within hundreds of Japanese playgrounds, silently traumatizing generations of kids. ...

Grinding Light: First Glow-in-the-Dark Skateboard Park in UK

  A permanent installation opening as part of the Liverpool Biennial in England, this glowing skate park will be the first of its kind in the UK, enabling skaters of all skill levels to ...

Slide & Hide: Stealth Staircases Save Space in Micro-Suites

Maximizing usable space in a series of compact short-term apartments, these retractable steps slip back into a wall, all but disappearing beneath lofted bedroom areas when not needed. Drawers ...

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 ...

Park & Slide: 100,000 Sign Up to Slip 300 Feet Down a Street

For one day only, residents of Bristol were offered just 360 'tickets to slide' (out of nearly 100,000 applicants) down a main city street at over 10 miles an hour, surrounded by thousands of ...

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