1. She Moved To Californiaby Jeremy Brooks (via airplaneguns)

    She Moved To California
    by Jeremy Brooks

    (via airplaneguns)

  2. Sea Caverns of Singapore →

    Singapore has embarked upon the excavation of an underground oil reserve, expanding the city’s industrial port beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is “no ordinary construction site,” the BBC tells us, but an elaborate project of engineering and infrastructure currently underway “several hundred feet underground, below the seabed in Singapore.”

    There, workers are “laboring around the clock to carve out an enormous network of caverns that will eventually store vast amounts of oil.” 

  3. Europe’s Grass-Lined Tram Tracks There’s something quite magical about watching trams in Barcelona, Strasbourg or Frankfurt glide silently along beds of grass as they do their city circuit. Where possible, this attractive combination of efficient public transport and inspired landscaping should be standard as part of the urban fabric. - Monocle Magazine (via agpopovska: handa)

    Europe’s Grass-Lined Tram Tracks There’s something quite magical about watching trams in Barcelona, Strasbourg or Frankfurt glide silently along beds of grass as they do their city circuit. Where possible, this attractive combination of efficient public transport and inspired landscaping should be standard as part of the urban fabric. - Monocle Magazine

    (via agpopovska: handa)

  4. by Marco Chapparo (Marcomophosis)(via thabeesknees)

    by Marco Chapparo (Marcomophosis)
    (via thabeesknees)

  5. Euthanasia Coasterby Julijonas Urbonas  “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”

    Euthanasia Coaster
    by Julijonas Urbonas 

    “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster: John Allen, former president of the famed Philadelphia Toboggan Company, once sad that “the ultimate roller coaster is built when you send out twenty-four people and they all come back dead. This could be done, you know.”

  6. Illegal Architecture in Taipei →

    There’s an Official City – i.e., the city beautification and modernization project. Then there’s an Instant City – a much older project tied directly to human nature, motivated by basic human instinct and mandated only by desire and availability. The Instant City, or Instant Taipei, is an architecture that uses the Official City as a “growing platform and energy source, where to attach itself like a parasite and from where to leach the electricity and water… [The Instant City’s] illegal urban farms or night markets is so widespread and deep rooted in the Taiwanese culture and cityscape that we could almost speak of another city on top of the “official” Taipei, a parallel city – or a para-city.”

  7. Back about 10 years ago, I used to eat lunch at the food court in this huge mall just about every other day. The view from one of those balconies is pretty good. And there’s a two-story disco party-hall on top. The mall was designed by one of the foremost architects of the “Fuck It” school of Brutalism.

    Back about 10 years ago, I used to eat lunch at the food court in this huge mall just about every other day. The view from one of those balconies is pretty good. And there’s a two-story disco party-hall on top. The mall was designed by one of the foremost architects of the “Fuck It” school of Brutalism.

  8. The side of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s IBM Plaza office building from the roof of the Marina City Towers in Chicago.

    The side of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s IBM Plaza office building from the roof of the Marina City Towers in Chicago.

  9. Composite Architectural Fantasy by Filip Dujardin (via BLDGBLOG)

    Composite Architectural Fantasy by Filip Dujardin (via BLDGBLOG)

  10. Earthship n. 1. passive solar home made of natural and recycled materials 2. thermal mass construction for temperature stabilization. 3. renewable energy & integrated water systems make the Earthship an off-grid home with little to no utility bills. (via earthship)