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Cantilevered Cabin: Dizzying Alpine Shelter Hangs Off the Edge of a Cliff

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Even someone brave enough to overcome fears of heights and climb a mountain may not have the stomach to spend the night in this suspended shelter on the edge of a vertigo-inducing abyss.

Designed by OFIS Arhitekti (images by Janez Martincic), this precariously-perched space sits on Slovenian-Italian border and boasts 360-degree views over the landscapes of both countries. Inside, a series of resting platforms and a few pieces of minimalist rustic decor are the extent of the amenities provided.

Despite its fragile appearance, the cabin was (of course) constructed to deal with the extreme conditions of the location’s altitude and weather exposure on Mount Kanin. Indeed, it took multiple attempts for a helicoptered construction crew to get the prefab structure in place and tether it to the surrounding stone.

The cozy refuge from wind, snug and landslides (overnight guests may not want to know) is intended in part as a test of the materials, to see how they will stand up over time.

“The challenge is to install real objects remote sites … and study their response to extreme weather, radical temperature shifts, snow and rugged terrain” say the designers. “The harsh conditions of wind, snow, landslides, terrain, and weather require a response of specific architectural forms, structures and concept.” Despite those daunting challenges, the space is intended to “become a destination for hikers, climbers, cavers, mountaineers, nature lovers and romantics.”

Mountaintop Tent: Airlifted Alpine Retreat Built at 8,000 Feet

Created as a tribute to a mountain guide killed in an tragic avalanche, this tent-shaped shelter of wood and steel was helicoptered in pieces and assembled at an elevation of 2531 meters in …

Fossilized Retreat: Log Cabin Remnants Recast in Concrete

Using the existing logs from a previous cabin structure as formwork, this retreat manages to retain the scale and textures of its predecessor in a dramatically modern new …

Extreme Cliff Living: Modular House Dangles Precariously

Only the uppermost portion of this ambitious five-level home is visible when approaching from land, preserving the views for others and making for one dramatic way to live adjacent to the sea. …

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November 28, 2016
32 Dizzying Images of Spiral Staircases

Composition is an important part of photography. You may have heard of the Rule of Thirds, or even the Fibonacci sequence (aka the golden mean). It is something that appears in nature often (think spiral sea shells) and which man imitates almost instinctively.

Check out some of these images of grand spiral staircases and see if you can’t see similarities. The symmetry, and unique properties, the math!

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By Christopher Chan

By Shawn Harquail

By Don McCullough

By Riccardo Cuppini

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By János Korom Dr.

By Thomas Hawk

By Jeremy Brooks

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By Frank Kehren

By Robin Jaffray

By Artur Salisz

By Simon Holliday

By Gert Swillens

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By Craig Wilkinson

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By Scott Schiller

By Jeff Oliver

By Dustin Gaffke

By Gabriel Caparó

By Thomas Hawk

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By Jeremy Brooks

By Kosala Bandara

By Pim Stouten

By Thomas Hawk

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May 13, 2016
Urban Jungle: Dizzying Drone Photos of Hong Kong from Above

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Hong Kong has inspired so many iconic images of urban density shot from the ground or horizontally across buildings, but seeing it from above via drone footage gives the city an entirely fresh dimension.

In this series of vertigo-inducing snapshots, photographer and unmanned aerial vehicle pilot Andy Yeung captures both the chaos and order, colorfulness and monotony, of one of the world’s most stunning urban centers.

Shot from hundreds of feet in the sky, the resulting views exceed even the relatively awesome ones attainable by tripping up to the top of the adjacent hillsides. An onlooker starts to get a sense of the combination of rigorous order and organic evolution of the city.

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Dense City: Photos Show Tightly-Packed Hong Kong Towers

Twice as dense as New York, and four times as crowded as London, Hong Kong is a fascinating mix of natural landscape edged by incredibly dense human …
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Amphitheater of the Dead: Hong Kong Hillside Cemeteries

This terraced structure is not the remains of some ancient amphitheater, but a metropolis of the dead that’s just as dense as that of the living city of …
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Jungle in the City: Wild Urban Biome Skyscraper Design

Suspended aquariums, snowy landscapes, jungles and caves can all be found in the heart of the city, steps away from dense urban housing, in the middle of this …
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April 8, 2016
Top of the World: 9 Incredible POV Climbs & Dizzying Selfies

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Your stomach will drop just looking at the stunning photos captured by some of the world’s most daring urban explorers, who scale insanely high towers all the way to the top and take casual selfies like it’s no big deal. Whether illegally base-jumping off One World Trade Center in New York or climbing to the apex of a 2300-foot-tall skyscraper in Shanghai, these daredevils clearly have no fear of heights.

Hong Kong Trio Scale Skyscraper, Snack on Bananas

If this picture alone gives you a little bit of vertigo, wait until you watch the video. A trio of teenage photographers – Danuel Lau, Andrew Tso and A.S. – climbed a 1,135-foot-tall skyscraper in Hong Kong. Casually snacking on bananas, they make the whole task of getting to the top and photographing themselves with a wide-angle camera on a stick seem like it’s no big deal at all.

Dubai Daredevils Climb City’s Towering Buildings

19-year-old Alexander Remnev of Russia went on a trip to Dubai with a bunch of friends, and rather than just stick to the typical tourist activities, he decided to go on a little adventure. The daring photographer and his crew climbed many of the city’s tallest and most intimidating buildings and photographed themselves at the top, including the world’s tallest residential building, the 1,350-foot-tall Princess Tower.

Safety-Gear-Free Stunts in Shanghai

Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov got so high into Shanghai’s sky, they were literally above the clouds. The Russian duo sneakily and meticulously planned their stunt to avoid getting busted by China’s notoriously tough law enforcement, waiting until the Chinese New Year day when there would likely be few people around. They spent nearly 18 hours at the top of China’s Shanghai Tower, which reaches an incredible 2,130 feet into the air when you count the extra length of the crane at the top.

Watch Workers Climb to the Top of a 1768-Foot-Tower

Have you ever noticed the stairways that are often attached to dizzyingly tall towers, enabling workers to get to the top to perform maintenance? This video gives you somewhat of a perspective on what it’s like to actually climb them to the top.

Rooftopping Photography by Tom Ryaboi

Few people get quite the same dramatic city views that Tom Ryaboi is able to take in, daring to climb onto the rooftops of the tallest buildings in any given city to take photos while dangling over the edge. The pioneering Vancouver-based ‘rooftopper’ and photographer told Resource Mag, “Rooftopping is something I do whether I have a camera or not. Being in high places is just something I need to do to keep a balanced head.”

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Caught on Video: Illegal BASE Jump Off NYC Freedom Tower

Breaking into One World Trade Center and scaling to its top was just the beginning for this daring trio, who then not only parachuted from close to the peak …
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Pomparkour: New Urban Free Running Sport with Ladders

Is the “new sport” of pomparkour for real? The video showing insane jumps with ladders is an ad for an energy drink, but shows some interesting feats.
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Skyscraper Slums: Insider Tour of World’s Tallest Tent City

Housing over 2,500 squatters on 28 of its 45 floors, the Tower of David is a half-finished structure in Caracas, Venezuela, populated with displaced people. …
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September 2, 2014
Floor-to-Wall Books: Dizzying Sideways Cafe Design in NYC

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Looking like a bookshop flipped ninety degrees, this coffee shop was stands out even in Manhattan, a world of off-the-wall spaces and strange conceptual designs.

This new location for D’espresso was crated by Nemaworkshop, “a team of architects, designers and thinkers who create spaces which are conceptually bold yet highly sensitive to cultural and social contexts.”

Referencing the historical combination of cafes and bookstores as well as the nearby New York Public Library, the book photographs wrapping the floor, back wall and ceiling above become conversation pieces as well as a wraparound backdrop for sipping lattes. Meanwhile, the ‘floor’ on the left wall provides a backdrop for seating and contrasts with the functional ‘ceiling’ lighting on the right, which illuminates and differentiates the service space behind the counter.

About Nemaworkshop: “The studio approaches projects through research and collaborative brainstorming wherein ideas are discussed and reworked until a team emerges with a single cohesive concept.” Like its results, “the process is a non-linear approach, adhering to the conviction that good ideas can come from unlikely places. Ultimately, the designs challenge architectural typologies, demonstrate acute cultural awareness and propose original spatial concepts.

About this particular project itself, the designers write: “The client approached nemaworkshop with a single espresso bar existing and the ambition to build an espresso empire. For the location for the second shop, on Madison and backs up to Grand Central Terminal, Nemaworkshop and the client agreed that the design needed to be immediately striking to the goal-oriented suits and wandering tourists alike.”

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Volumes of Vertigo: Crazy Sideways-Library-Shaped Cafe

You might feel a little dizzy when you walk into this Manhattan cafe, designed to look like a library that has been tipped on its side.
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Room(s) for Art: Wall-to-Wall, Floor-to-Ceiling Drawings

Most of us wouldn’t dare to scrawl all over our walls, but Japanese artist Yosuke Goda’s room-size wall drawings are a definite improvement to any room.
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12 Dynamic Bathroom & Bedroom Design & Decor Ideas

Sleek, smart, modern design can transform small, bland bedrooms and bathrooms into luxurious spaces that feel roomy even when they’re diminutive.
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April 12, 2014
Don’t Trip: 4 Dizzying Rooms by 1 Surrealist Spatial Artist

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Like some kind of strange spatial magician, Kyung Woo Han turns conventional furniture, fixtures, doors and windows into otherworldly scenes that call into question just how familiar we really are with such everyday objects.

Consider White Window, a deformed frame that pulls in from the edges, but when viewed through a fish-eye surveillance camera (also part of the installation) is corrected to look like the only straight-lined design in the space.

In Green House, a room is half-filled with faux water while suspended shapes of partial furniture float at eye level, appearing to be reflected at the point where surface meets air.

Other projects like Found House and Checkered Floor take normal objects, textures and materials out of context and distort them, making simple black-and-white patterns and portals between inside and outside seem strange aand surreal.

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Architecture Gone Wild: Surrealist Designs by Victor Enrich

Buildings split down the middle, sprout slides, bend over in strange ways and send stairs into the sky in these fantasy architectural designs by Victor Enrich.
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101 Dizzying Spiral Staircases & Twisted Architectural Art Photos

These 101 dizzy spirals may make you smile or they may induce vertigo, but here are the most impressive, most dizzying, spiraling staircases in the world.

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