You can huff and you can puff, but you ain’t going to blow this house down. Balancing on a rock in the middle of the Drina River in Serbia, this house has been pounded by floods and high winds – surviving everything nature could throw at it for 45 years. The idea for it came
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The Atlantic Road in Norway
Opened on July 7, 1989, the Atlantic Road is a National Tourist Route and was honoured as Norway’s Construction of the Century in 2005. The road is built on several small islands and skerries, which are connected by several causeways, viaducts and eight bridges. The Atlantic is an 8.3 kilometer (5.2 miles) section of Country
Sense of Scale – Elgin Park
What started out as an exercise in model building and photography, ended up as a dream-like reconstruction of the town Michael Paul Smith grew up in…Elgin Park. It’s the oldest trick in the special effects book, but it works everytime… line up a model with an appropriate background and shoot. The buildings are 1/24th scale
Stupefied Time Lapse of 30-Story Building Built in only 15 Days
What can you accomplish in 360 hours…about 15 days? How about a 30-story tall, 183,000-square-foot hotel. The Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, has yet attempted another impossible feat, building a 30-story tall hotel prototype in 360 hours, after building a 15-story building in a week earlier in 2011. The hotel is so solid that
Extreme Sports meets an Excavator
A Liebherr excavator climbing a tower in Vienna, Austria… Now get down smart ass. [Cheers reddit]
Bridge of Immortals
When speaking of amazing feats of architecture atop strangely-shaped granite peaks, The Bridge Of Immortals immediately comes to mind. The world’s highest bridge is situated in the Yellow Mountains, also known as Huangshan. From the bridge you will have a breathtaking view, and see how the clouds are touching mountainsides beneath you. You can either
LEGO used to recreate MC Escher’s Clever Optical Illusions
From the mind of mathematician Andrew Lips…Some amazing 3D LEGO replicas inspired by MC Escher’s clever optical illusions. Andrew Lipson, from Cambridge and Daniel Shiu carefully assembled thousands of Lego bricks over many weeks to create these incredible pieces inspired by his hero Escher. The Dutch artist is best known for his mathematical inspired woodcuts,
Defined by a Dramatic Slab of Rock – Stunning Villa Amanzi
I wonder what it would be like to be so rich, that you could buy a house that was built into natural granite rock face. Looking oddly out of place, but stunningly beautiful, Villa Amanzi inPhuket, Thailand is nestled in a cascading, west facing ravine with a dramatic slab of rock defining the northern edge
Squashing the Punishing effects of the Construction Industry – H3 Arm Support Vest
There is nothing better than technology that helps you through your everyday life, even better technology that does the work for you. Working at a construction site, especially if you’re a laborer, can be a back breaking strenuous 8 hours of hell. However, if designer Martin Gschwandt gets his way, that 8 hours of hell
