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On Not Off: Giant Light Switch Mural is Brilliantly Literal

A photo-realistic mural with a nuanced message, this giant work of wall art is impressive in scale and a definite surprise to passers by. Complete with shade and shadow, the huge on-and-off power ...

Tentsile: Extreme Travel Tree Tents Hang Like Hammocks

Hikers and campers have long been used to hanging food packs out of reach of bears and scavengers, but these tensile treehouse shelters take things a few steps further, allowing you to loft your ...

Beyond Domes: 36 Photos of Burning Man Building Types

It would be a mistake to characterize Burning Man as merely a festival in the desert. For one week a year, an entire built environment (dubbed Black Rock City) for tens of thousands of residents ...

Shelf Hotel: Revolutionary Approach to Modular Architecture

In the early 20th Century, urban design was under siege by Modernists who thought they had it figured out, but made a critical mistake: setting their ideas in stone (or: glass and concrete) ...

Floating Islands Add 100,000 Square Feet to Downtown Seoul

Many of the most densely-populated cities in the world reside along bodies of water, from canals and sounds to seas and oceans. Beyond merely extending solid ground, this three-island project ...

Vertical Strip Tease: Upside-Down Las Vegas Skyscraper

Vegas is a strange and sometimes-seedy speck of civilization with virtually nothing nearby of note ... save perhaps the massive Hoover Dam and its associated geology, that is. ...

Amazing Architecture: 15 (More!) World’s Weirdest Buildings

Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the ...

Building an Appetite: Foodie Architecture With Good ‘Taste’

Hungry for some "tasteful" architecture? These 10 mouth-watering buildings may look delicious but their designs serve a greater purpose: to project a brand image that warms the heart (while aiming ...

7 Abandoned Cities & Architectural Wonders of Modern Asia

(Thanks in part to contributions by urban explorer and photographer Jon Dubar) Abandoned buildings, properties and places take on remarkably different aesthetic character and are treated ...

Tallest Skyscraper in the World & Highest Virtual Building

The creation of the (new) tallest building in the world has become such a status-seeking quest, cities and countries competing for the title have stopped revealing the planned height of their ...

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