Conceptual Construction: 14 Improbable Tower Designs
Apartment buildings as thin as blades, towers topped with wind turbines, sky-high viewing platforms that gather energy from visitors' movements: are these unlikely-seeming designs a glimpse at ...
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Korean Twin Towers Fail to ‘Cloud’ Memories of 9/11
Korean Twin Towers FAIL? It would definitely appear so, though Dutch architects MVRDV strenuously deny any connection, inspirational or otherwise, with New York City's lost World Trade Center ...
Thirst Class: 10 Wet, Wild & Wacky Water Towers
Water towers aren't designed to showcase art but they sure do tend to attract it! These 10 wet, wild & wacky water towers advertise civic pride, celebrate local industries, and in the process ...
One Day, One World: 11 International 9/11 Memorials
Though there are literally hundreds of monuments to the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, memorial sculptures are much harder to find beyond our shores. These 11 ...
Inspiring Spires: A Celebration Of The Kuwait Towers
Kuwait officially achieved independence 50 years ago today, so please join us in celebrating the country's most famous architectural monuments, the Kuwait Towers. Designed by Swedish architects and ...
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 ...
Nuclear Coverup: 10 Cool Examples Of Cooling Tower Art
Cooling towers have come to symbolize power plants - nuclear or not - around the world. Standing hundreds of feet tall with a distinctive hourglass profile, some of these "towers of power" show ...
Towering Achievements: Incredible Industrial Towers
Not many of us would think of industrial towers as impressive pieces of modern architecture, but a closer look reveals that they are, in fact, amazing structures. They have to be able to not only ...
Tilted In Your Favor: 13 (More!) Famous Leaning Towers
Just as there's more to food than pizza, there's more to leaning towers than Pisa. These 13 slanted spires show that staying on the straight & narrow isn't all it's cracked up to be; though if ...
