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Marty McFly 2026 - He's just got to get to 88mph in a Peugeot Bipper 😀
18/06/2026

Marty McFly 2026 - He's just got to get to 88mph in a Peugeot Bipper 😀

Don't you dare relax and enjoy the park!
17/06/2026

Don't you dare relax and enjoy the park!

Project for you - kids' fort made out of old tattie boxes (potato boxes for the non-Scots).
17/06/2026

Project for you - kids' fort made out of old tattie boxes (potato boxes for the non-Scots).

The ChemosphereJohn Lautner | Los Angeles, California | 1960Designed by John Lautner for Leonard Malin, a young aerospac...
17/06/2026

The Chemosphere
John Lautner | Los Angeles, California | 1960
Designed by John Lautner for Leonard Malin, a young aerospace engineer

The house is now owned by Benedikt Taschen, of the German publishing house Taschen, who has had the house restored. It has its own funicular to access the house from the street.

It's had an interesting history. More on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosphere

Photo: Joshua White, Evdropkick & Ted van Cleave

On a scale of 1-10 how cool is this?
16/06/2026

On a scale of 1-10 how cool is this?

I like this!UK practices Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC have revealed a faceted glass canopy that shelters new outdoor sp...
16/06/2026

I like this!

UK practices Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC have revealed a faceted glass canopy that shelters new outdoor spaces, as part of the transformation of the Olympia events centre in London.

Opened to the public yesterday, the rooftop bars, restaurants and landscaped terraces mark the completion of the first phase of Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC's renovation of Olympia, which was originally built in 1886.

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/15/olympia-canopy-heatherwick-studio-spparc-london/

The epitome of not my job!
16/06/2026

The epitome of not my job!

According to recent reports, major work on The Line has now been delayed until after 2030, as NEOM is reportedly being r...
15/06/2026

According to recent reports, major work on The Line has now been delayed until after 2030, as NEOM is reportedly being rethought, scaled back, and reprioritised around more practical infrastructure.

Anyone want a big hole in the desert?

Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has transformed the industrial structure of the Titlis Tower in the Swiss Alps in...
15/06/2026

Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has transformed the industrial structure of the Titlis Tower in the Swiss Alps into a sculptural tourist destination with dramatic cantilevers and a panoramic viewpoint.

Built in the mid-1980s, the former telecommunications tower sits over 3,000 metres above sea level on Mount Titlis, one of Switzerland's most popular mountain destinations, with approximately 1.1 million visitors per year.

Herzog & de Meuron transformed the tower into a visitor attraction and viewpoint through the addition of two cantilevered blocks inserted crosswise into the antenna tower, alongside four vertical circulation volumes.

It must have been a hard build for the guys doing the actual construction.

More here:
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/11/herzog-de-meuron-titlis-tower/

Who'd have thought this could be Albania?Two colorful ‘chimneys’ rise over the Adriatic 💥 Selgascano and FRPO Rodriguez ...
15/06/2026

Who'd have thought this could be Albania?

Two colorful ‘chimneys’ rise over the Adriatic 💥
Selgascano and FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol reshape the skyline of Durrës, Albania, with ‘Sky-K’, a pair of slender residential towers wrapped in bold red and yellow hues.

Photographer: .barcelona [IG]

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