The first ‘flotel’ in history, a seven-story behemoth with tennis courts, opened in 1988 in the middle of the sea. It was a success. That is, until everything went wrong...
Visiting this remote spot in the Willow Creeks Valley is like stepping into a dream frozen in sepia. Everything is there. The houses, the objects, the half-burned stoves, the unopened letters. And the warning remains the same: don’t touch anything
Count Victor Lustig, an Austro-Hungarian swindler, arrived in Paris in 1925 ready to pull off the ultimate scam
Their incredible work was almost erased from history, but thanks to the documentary ‘The Ladies Bridge’ and the efforts of filmmakers Karen Livesey and Jo Wiser and historian Christine Wall, their contributions have been formally recognized
Katsuhiko Akasegawa called the dead-end urban structures he came across ‘thomasson’ after a successful U.S. baseball player who moved to Japan and got nowhere
After the raid on Pearl Harbor, company employees focused on feigning that their assembly hall was a residential neighborhood to protect themselves from possible attacks. They achieved this using methods from the film industry: paintings, sets, and stage props
Thanks to the economical tubular structure system devised by the Bangladeshi-American engineer in 1962, skyscrapers such as the Twin Towers or the Citigroup Center were built, while the John Hancock Tower was rescued from sinking