(Photo: Architzer)But it's not a roundabout. If you look carefully at the ends of the ring, you'll see that there's no way to turn around.So that's not why the Laguna Garzon Bridge in Uruguay is shaped this way. This bri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/22/This-Bridge-Has-a-Ring-in-the-Middle/(Photo: Southwest Coast National Scenic Area)Okay, we can dispense with the marketing meeting because I already have the solution to our problem. Women dig shoes, right? Especially shopping for high heeled shoes. So here...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/15/Brilliant-Idea-Build-a-Church-Like-a-Shoe-in-Order-to-Attract-Women/(Photos: SounderBruce and D. Gordon E. Robertson)People in Seattle, Washington often call the 31-storey Rainier Tower the Beaver Building. You can see why: it clearly looks like a beaver chewed into the 11-storey pedesta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/05/This-Building-Looks-Like-a-Beaver-Chewed-on-It/(Photo: Zen Garden)When you lie down to sleep in Edo period Japan, will you wake up in the morning? By the 17th Century, the threat of assassination by ninjas had become serious enough that architects in Japan developed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/31/The-Ninja-Proof-Floors-of-17th-Century-Japan/(Photo: Otter)Europeans first experienced pineapples on Columbus's first expedition to the Americas. This uniquely delicious fruit became a prized import from the New World. Sailors would often leave them at the entrance...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/31/This-British-Manor-House-Looks-Like-a-Pineapple/This beautiful, fanciful skyscraper is a proposal... ...rofessor and Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Architecture Mark Foster Gage. The design proposal, intended f... ...102-story residential building, a nod to art deco architecture like the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings, is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/12/Gorgeous-and-Unusual-Skyscraper-Proposal-for-Midtown-Manhattan/(Photo: AKB)The architecture firm Atelier Kastelic Buffey (AKB) developed the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/19/The-Story-Pod-An-Unfolding-Open-Air-Library/A floating pool is one that creates an illusion of some sort. This one, set in a glass house in Thuringia, Germany, creates an illusion at both ends. On the outside, it juts out over an embankment and appears to continue...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/17/Floating-Pool-Cuts-Through-House/Konstantin Kofta, a Ukrainian designer, has created Arxi--a line of backpacks that look like they've been sliced off restored Baroque buildings. These classical shapes are ideal because, Kofta explains, "the forms and fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/16/Backpacks-Inspired-by-Baroque-Architecture/(Photos: Aldana Ferrer Garcia)Aldana Ferrer Garcia, an architect from Argentina, calls her design line "More Sky." The purpose is to provide more outside space to urban apartment windows by pushing out the exterior wall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/04/Unique-Niche-Window-Designs-Expand-the-Indoors-Outside/
