The Most Horrifying Industrial Disasters of All Time

Natural disasters have claimed countless human lives throughout history, with their unexpected waves of destruction. But there's still something uniquely terrifying and heart-breaking about an industrial disaster, when our best precautions fail and our achievements turn deadly. Here are the worst industrial…

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This Chinese house sits in the middle of a brand-new road

What happens when you refuse to sell your house to make room for a new construction project? Lacking the balloons and helium to make an Up-ward escape, 67-year-old Luo Baogen of Xiayangzhang village and his wife decided to stay put, refusing the government's offer to purchase their property. So the government simply…

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Chicago comes up with a plan to get rid of pedestrian deaths within a…

If you're a pedestrian in a major city, then you live in fear of your life every day. To cross the street is to be reminded that your life is cheap, and traffic rules are often viewed purely as suggestions. Even if you don't jaywalk.

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Houses built on a shopping mall roof give residents a yard in the…

In Zhuzhou, Hunan's second-largest city, a developer has come up with an innovative way to let some people enjoy the yard and isolation of a freestanding house in the middle of a quickly growing city. These four villas sit on the roof of a five-story shopping mall, enjoying both airy views of the city and the mall's…

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Urban Gardens that Are Also Beautiful Art Projects

The cities of the future will need to incorporate greenery, and most cutting edge architecture includes a space for urban gardens and vertical farms. But the real cutting-edge designers and artists are taking it one step further — with projects that are half garden, half-sculpture.

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Witness decades of urban growth as photographed from space

In 2008, for the first time in history, as many humans were living in cities as in rural areas. Over the decades, many cities have swelled to accomodate the growing human population as well as the growing trend toward urbanism. These are changes so extreme that they can be seen from space.

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Watch Spider-Man's epic clash with Batman on a Toronto subway train

Among the highlights of this battle between Spider-Man and Batman on a subway in Toronto the other day: 1) Batman attempting to do the Christian Bale growl while Spider-Man claims he could stop the train with his bare hands. 2) Spidey taunting Batman about his dead parents, and Bats retorting that Spidey's parents…

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Amazing curving "Spiral Garden Museum" could have been Taipei's mothership

This Spiral Garden Museum concept was entered in a competition for Taipei's new art museum. The design, by French firm Influx Studio, didn't make it into the final competition, but it's still astonishingly beautiful.

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