Here’s something for your coffee break. Deputy Dog has an interesting story about an abandoned rooftop rollercoaster in central Tokyo. Looks like the coaster is ready to go, but opposition from local residents in one of the world’s most densely populated cities combined with unforeseen lateral forces closed it down before it ever opened. Still, [...]
When you spend 8 hour days at a desk, it doesn’t take long to get thoroughly bored with your surroundings. Especially if those surrounding are a typical office cubicle in a typical bland office building. It’s even worse when you consider their jumbo-sized carbon footprint. But there is a new breed of office block with [...]
If you live in a part of the world where you are fortunate enough to actually have a climate, ie. distinct seasons, and not ‘weather’ then you should consider creating an outdoor room. Some people like to bring the outside in by incorporating large expanses of glass in their homes, flooding the interior with light [...]
Have you ever pulled up at a hotel and thought that it looked so decrepit that it was in actual fact abandoned? I’ve been there, but have yet to see anything as bad as these abandoned hotels. I would say, however, that many popular holiday resorts frequented by Europeans such as Costa Adeje in Tenerife [...]
I’m a sucker for huge construction projects: the bigger it is, the better. And if it happens to be on the Discovery Channel then that’s even better again! Here are 6 of the biggest earth moving projects ever from the NYC Subway and Boston’s big dig to the Panama Canal.