“Decarbonize the buildings” may be among the least sexy phrases ever written. But it’s a wildly important thing to do…
It’s all but impossible to keep phallic comparisons out of your head when staring up at a towering skyscraper, but…
A building implosion is a one-time thing; once a structure has been razed, there’s no resetting for a take two. That’s…
Thanks to an exterior clad in what look like reflective metal bars, Alain Robert, a professional urban climber, simply…
Real Life Lore asks a question that I’ve never actually considered before: what if everybody in the entire world lived…
This is very probably one of the scariest places you can park your bum: at the very edge of a corner of a very tall…
Why should we build taller cities? Because cities with taller buildings are cool as hell.
I’m totally safe and sitting in front of a computer screen, and yet I’m sweating because watching this guy pull his…
This wonderful photo series comparing the size of things by Kevin Wisbith is a really fun way to earn some brain…
So how does a company spend the hundreds of billions of dollars of cash it has on hand? It builds itself a fancy new…
Here’s a compilation of crazy runs, jumps, and parkour tricks from Oleg Cricket, a daredevil who was either born…
Can you imagine if buildings in a city could grow and bend on a whim as if they were living, breathing organisms? This…
China’s become known for some of the zaniest, prettiest, most daring architecture of the 21st century. Sadly, that’s…
Wood is the future. That’s the feeling you get after looking through the 2016 award winners named by WoodWorks, the…
Because of the city’s history and because of its unique geography and because of the towering buildings and because of…
On New Year’s Eve, the 63-story Address hotel in Dubai caught on fire. It was a scary sight made worse as the back drop…
Light pollution. It really screws up the view. It would be so great if the stars in the sky could still be seen over…
There’s a holy crap moment in this wingsuit video where you hold your breath and wonder if the guys flying in the air…
The tallest building in the world? The Burj Khalifa. Duh. But if plans had worked out differently for other buildings,…
Wow. This drone zooms so fast through this abandoned hospital in Spain that I’m pretty sure it might’ve reached warp…
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