In October, the excavation work for the superlative The Line Saudi Arabia construction project began. Is Saudi Arabia’s The Line a revolution in architecture or the pipe dream of a desperate country?
Las Vegas is the fertile breeding ground for the for the strange. Now that this bizarre, personal Cold War bunker has hit the residential market, you can add this creepy Hobbit-like underground home to your list of places to see on your next visit to Sin City. At this sprawling home for sale at 3970…
The Chinese call them “nail houses”, a home whose resident has refused to leave in order to make way for new construction. Rather than cease development, builders simply build around the home, often using innovative, but visually unpleasant, means to continue construction unabated. The term nail house is a pun coined by construction workers and…
The largest building in the world has opened in China this week. At 1.7 million square meters, the glass and steel-frame New Century Global Center took only a little more than a year to build. It stands 18 stories tall and sits above a new subway station in Chengdu, a Sichuan province city of more…
When it comes to Internet architecture, China has a huge advantage over the rest of the world. Given its relatively new economic status (the Internet was not introduced to China until 1994), China is in the unique position to build its Internet, from the ground up, using proven and sound architectural schemas (in contrast to…
Yesterday, the $40.6 million Halley VI Antarctic research station opened its doors to 52 research scientists intent on studying the frigid Antarctic region. The facility is designed to “ski” on the ice. Weather elements on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf can dump up to three feet of ice on permanent structures. In addition, the ice…
China plans to build a 120 million square foot city – from scratch. The Meixi Lake Master Plan project will be built in the metropolitan area of Changsha, China and will integrate mountains, lakes, parks, and canals in its architectural design. The city will be built around a 40 hectare lake which will act as…
This house, located in Xiazhangyang, a village in the Zhejiang province in China, is real. It is located in the middle of a newly constructed Chinese highway. Structures such as these, where the tenant refuses to move to make way for a public land project, are known as “nail houses”. This situation is possible because…
Matthias Haker is a self-taught photographer living in Dresden, Germany. He specializes in the fields of architectural and interior photography as well as people, portrait, fashion and wedding photography. Here is a collection of his works – a set of eerie photographs of abandoned hotels, theaters, and other public venues.
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