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Development’s Debris: China’s Secret Battlefields
China’s cities are strewn with hidden rubble fields, vast apocalyptic landscapes that terminate abruptly at the thresholds of bustling neighborhoods.
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9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World
There's something particularly spectacular about witnessing the decay of a once-grand building. Lavish trappings fall into disrepair, once proud halls play host to insects and dust, and elegantly constructed architecture is exposed to time and the elements. Here are nine crumbling mansions that are fascinating to look at and come with some intriguing backstories.
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Inside the All-New Legoland Hotel
After much anticipation, the all-new Legoland Hotel opened on Friday, April 5, 2013. Located right next to the theme park in Carlsbad, California, the three-story 250-room hotel does not disappoint, especially for those that can't get enough of those colorful plastic bricks.
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With a Dock This Awesome, Who Needs a House?
This 3,000-square-foot dock is on Storm Bay in Ontario is so awesome, but unfortunately because of the recession, the guy who owns it couldn't afford to build a house to go with it.
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High Rise Emergency Slide in Shanghai
Zhou Miaorong, 70-year-old inventor from China, created an evacuation slide which makes escaping burning buildings faster, and more fun! Recently, it was installed in a five-floor building in Shanghai, China promising the residents a fast and fun 14 second-long escape.
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Bridge connecting small islands
This is a work of architectural art.
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Cozy cabin
This is somewhere where I'd like to live!
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Why Settle For Rooms When You Can Have a Whole Town Inside Your House?
It's one thing to have a spacious home, it's another to have a whole indoor suburb. "House K" does the latter, and puts a weird new spin on the townhouse by having its own little town inside its walls.
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11 of the Most Unusual Elevators
Elevators have a simple task: take passengers from one floor to another safely. But it doesn't mean that they have to be boring. Elevator towers for urban transport and modern design elevators attract great attention of tourists because of its uniqueness, unusual looks and the driving experience.
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10 Visions of the Los Angeles That Could Have Been
Los Angeles isn't generally famous for its innovative urban design. But there have been many attempts to transform the city into a modern metropolis through visionary architecture and transportation projects.
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98-year-old water main cause of sinkhole that swallowed 3 cars in Chicago
A sinkhole that swallowed three cars on the Southeast Side and injured one person was caused by an old water main that gave out, city Water Department Commissioner Thomas Powers said today.
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A New Design for Antarctic Research
The new Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, the first fully-relocatable research station, launched this year and was designed by Hugh Broughton Architects with AECOM for British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The station's predecessor, Halley V, had drifted too far from mainland and became endangered of calving with an iceberg.
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9 Insane Cities You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
Humans are infinitely creative and resilient, and that they will live in exotic locales that challenge the limits of logic and/or sanity.
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Abandoned apartments
Not sure where this is, but it looks creepy.
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Beautiful Churches From All Over The World
If we forget for a moment about the religious connotations and the symbolism and we only focus on what we can actually see, on the architecture and on the design, then we’ll discover that churches are charming in more than one way. They are wonderful testimonies of the past and there are so many wonderful examples of churches with amazing architecture. Here are some of them:
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River under the glass floor
Awesome design, but imagine one day a dead body floating by, at night, when home alone.
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'Towering inferno' fears for Gulf
The Arab Gulf states are home to some of the most spectacular high-rise towers in the world. But some building experts say that many of those towers are sheathed in a highly flammable material that puts occupants at risk.
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The shadows cast by Westminster Bridge...:)
Apparently no one considered the SUN when designing this wall......lol
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China’s architecture just keeps getting more bizarre
The shape of the new headquarters for the People's Daily, China's official government newspaper, is meant to symbolize earth and sky, or from an aerial view, the Chinese character for the word for people.
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5 Remarkable Ghost Towns Drowned by Damming
Dams are as old as civilization itself, but it’s only been within the last century that humans harnessed the construction savvy to build structures that could submerge valleys and create lakes. And bury entire towns in the process.
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