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The World's Most Amazing Structures Not Built by Humans
Humans are far from the only creatures with the ability to shape the environment in their favor. From insects and arachnids to marine invertebrates and mammals, the animal kingdom is rife with members...
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38 Architectural Renderings You Won't Believe Are Fake
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings—solid, tangible structures. These images, however, depict views of spaces that have only ever existed in silico—and they're breathtaking.Read...
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Can You Name the Famous Artists Who Inspired These Buildings?
Art and architecture collide in this playful new series of paintings by Federico Babina. What if Andy Warhol designed a mod apartment complex? Or Joan Miró a museum? Babina has taken 27 artists and...
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13 Gorgeous Travel Posters From 1930s Japan
These extremely rare, previously unseen travel posters make me want to travel back in time and visit a Japan of another era. These beautiful graphics were recently rediscovered, and they'll auctioned...
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The Evolution of the Atmospheric Diving Suit
Last week we introduced to you the totally awesome Exosuit , a $600,000 atmospheric diving suit, capable of taking a human 1,000 feet underwater at surface pressure. This means that the diver doesn't...
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13 GIFs That Will Make You Incredibly Anxious
GIFs are a blast. They can teach you how to knit or learn you some science . They can also make you incredibly anxious. How? Just check these out and you'll see what I mean. Well, after they finish...
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22 Incredible Images Show What the Future Looked Like 100 Years Ago
These amazing, almost 100-year old covers of the weekly French magazine Le Petite Journal are from the online collection of the french National Library. They show what were the most exciting...
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Real military images feel like lost frames from The Empire Strikes Back
I came across some wintertime military photographs that looked like lost frames from the Battle of Hoth, in The Empire Strikes Back. So much, in fact, that I couldn't resist adding some laser gun...
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Feast your eyes on these rare aircraft cutaway drawings
After our first cutaway collections on spacecraft and weapons, here comes a new one: Aircraft! You can see here a few really rare and special illustrations, some of them never published on the...
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These Incredible Man-Made Highways Are Built Just for Animals
Humans don't exactly have a stellar record when it comes to environmental stewardship, but that doesn't mean we aren't trying. Numerous projects around the world are working to rebuild lost habitats,...
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Inside the Homes That 11 Great Architects Designed For Themselves
Building a home for yourself could either be a nightmare or a dream: You have free reign, but you also must live with your mistakes or second-guesses forever. That hasn't stopped many architects from...
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8 Buildings Designed to Incorporate the Trees Around Them
Architecture has a rich history of unapologetically demanding massive amounts of land to create man's vision over nature's. However, a more conscientious and natural approach to architecture has...
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14 Radical Skyscrapers That Are More Than Just Buildings
These days, we think of tall buildings as profitable, if predictable, tools of real estate. But at one time, skyscrapers were as technologically exciting as the Space Race. The eVolo Skyscraper...
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13 Stunning Shopping Malls From the Dawn of Consumerism
Nowadays, shopping malls are seldom considered masterpieces. But that was completely different at the turn of the 19th century—a time when the department store was a pinnacle of high style and...
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9 Paper Buildings By the Winner of Architecture's Top Prize
Last night, Shigeru Ban became the 37th winner of the "Nobel for architecture," also known as the Pritzker Prize. Ban is the most exciting winner in recent memory—here's why.Read more...
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These Grand Cathedrals Now House Regular Books, Not Bibles
Churches tend to ebb and flow with generations: Chapels close after neighborhoods are redeveloped, cathedrals are abandoned after religious upheaval. So, what then? In more than a few cases, they've...
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These Crumbling Industrial Silos Hide Beautiful New Spaces
The oldest beer factory in Guangzhou, China, dates back to the 1960s—a hulking concrete building on the edge of the Pearl River, with 12 silos rising 114 feet into the sky. Two years ago, O-Office...
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These Time-Warp Photos Show Six Cities In the Past and Present
Cities change: skyscrapers go up, row houses are torn down, neighborhoods gentrify, earthquakes destroy. Vintage photographs of cities can be fascinating in and of themselves, but the familiar...
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Rare Photos of NYC's Museums Under Construction
Museums are lightning rods for criticism. The most public of all buildings, they're also the most vulnerable, and even long-accepted classics faced scorn in their infancy. Today we're taking a look at...
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22 Strange Medical Instruments From the Past That Make You Shudder
In the history of medicine, machines became crucial parts of the diagnostic and treatment process in the first half of the 20th century. Scientists and doctors experimented with some really strange...
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