Tag: Engineering
59 cursed places found
Munsu Funfair
The Munsu Funfair (Korean: λ¬Έμμ ν¬μ₯) was an amusement park located in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Beachy Head
England A chalk headland on the south coast of Great Britain that is notorious as the country's foremost suicide cliff.
Attalia
() is an extinct town in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
Rialto Bridge
is a notable architectural project in Venezia, Italy.
Kanchanaburi, Thailand
A provincial capital city in the western region of Thailand of the same name.
Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan
Absheron peninsula to (overall; individually between 1 for Arteshgah, and 8 for Artyom) A semi-desert promontory that pokes out eastwards into the Caspian...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
The central memorial space dedicated to commemorating the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
Kanchanaburi WWII Museum, Thailand
Kanchanaburi World War II Museum (where it is dark β otherwise 1, but weirdness: 10) - A private museum right by the Bridge over the River Kwai in...
Military bunker near the Cundro Bridge in Spodnje FuΕΎine
is a notable infrastructure location in Municipality of Preddvor, Slovenia.
Glienicke Bridge & Museum
Glienicke Bridge & Museum A small bridge with a big history, located right on the border between (West) Berlin and Potsdam .
Military bunker near the Iron Bridge
is a notable infrastructure location in Municipality of Preddvor, Slovenia.
Andersgrotta, Kirkenes
Andersgrotta Kind of a cross between a cave and an underground bunker in Kirkenes , northern Norway .
Mcmath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Glowing like an American Stonehenge, this giant, upside-down concrete βVβ looks like a tribute to the Sun God, which in a sense it is.
Plaza Castilla
βThrough its development, this avenua has been createing different squares to its highest point where Plaza de Castilla islocated, formed by two blocks on...
The Municipal Building
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series βTentative dβΓpuisementβ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Aral Sea
The Aral Sea Rather: the area that once was the Aral Sea, the fourth largest lake on earth.
A Roamers Retreat: Re-activating Conisbrough Viaduct
We wanted to feature the project Re-activating Conisbrough Viaduct by Ryan Hinson where he proposes a critical approach to the reuse of an obsolete...
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
This building was intended to be an addition to the adjacent, existing palazzo-like home of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Kwai Bridge, Thailand
The Bridge over the River Kwai The real "Bridge on the River Kwai" in Thailand . Yes, it really exists.
Allatoona
is an unincorporated community in Bartow County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Marienthal government bunker
( for speakers of German) A part of a formerly huge underground nuclear bunker at Ahrweiler and Marienthal near Bonn that was to serve as the emergency...
Eckley
is an area in Contra Costa County, California, which served as a train-ferry landing for crossings of the Carquinez Strait prior to the opening of the...
Capital Reform
Designed and curated by Carlos Mombiela , Alejandro Caraballo, NicolΓ‘s MartΓn and Carlos Rebolo, the exhibition Capital Reform will be open to the public...
Old train station earthquake ruin, Skopje
Earthquake ruin of Skopje train station The remainder of what used to be Skopje 's main train station until the disastrous earthquake of 1963 caused part...
Site of the Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan
It is composed of two groups or areas, as can be seen on the overall plan.
In Ekker and Reggane
The two nuclear testing grounds that France used in the Sahara desert in Algeria for its first atomic bombs in the 1960s.
Atrocities Museum Sinchon
Atrocities Museum, Sinchon A museum in the south-western village of Sinchon, North Korea , whose purpose in life it is to document and illustrate the...
Gusen
Gusen was nominally a satellite camp of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria , though it eventually was even larger than the main camp.
Limmatwest
Between 1988 and 1990, Hardturm-Immobilien AG invited fourteen architectural firms to participate in a two-stage SIA project competition.
Bergverksmuseum
βThis project reveals a strong relationship between light and structure that in turn indicates the possibility of a unique space.
Former Japanese Navy underground HQ, Okinawa
A peculiar WWII relic. The Japanese Navy used this underground tunnel system as their headquarters during the Battle of Okinawa .
Triumphal Bridge
Sir John Soane's Triumphal Bridge is part of the English Enlightenment and the picturesque vision of landscaping and architecture.
Dublin
The capital city of the Republic of Ireland is one of the great cities in Europe.
Military bunker near the Tabor bridge in Zgornja Kokra
is a notable infrastructure location in Municipality of Preddvor, Slovenia.
Semey (Semipalatinsk)
A city in the east of Kazakhstan , whose old name of Semipalatinsk is forever associated with the Soviet -era nuclear test site ( Polygon ).
Hellfire Pass, Thailand
Hellfire Pass Hellfire Pass itself is a cutting on the former infamous Death Railway in western Thailand .
JEATH Museum Kanchanaburi, Thailand
JEATH Museum The oldest of all the Death Railway related museums in Kanchanaburi , Thailand .
Footbridge and Landscaping Bridge
is a notable architectural project in Petrer, Alicante, Spain.
Vajont Dam, Italy
Vajont Dam This is a somewhat more obscure dark site, in northern Italy , but nonetheless the site of a major tragedy β partly natural, partly man- made β...
Bridge of Houses
βThe historical model of houses on bridges serves here as a premise, a site for architectural invention.
Prague
The capital of the Czech Republic β¦ and one of the world's foremost city tourism destinations β and it also has a couple of things to offer to the dark...
San Frutos del DuratΓ³n
βThe site of this monastery is one of the roughest, most secluded and frightening in Spain. It is in the bishopric of Segovia.
Ebensee
In Ebensee there was one of the most significant satellite camps of the Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during the final years of WWII .
European Southern Observatory
The entrance situation is similar to that of the neighbouring Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics: a ramp-bridge leads through a front courtyard to the...
Death Railway, Thailand
The Death Railway, Thailand The actual railway line in Thailand (and Burma) that Japan infamously had built by forced labourers, including western POW s,...
Atlantic Wall
This term, an anglicization of the German βAtlantikwallβ (which actually means βdamβ rather than βwallβ), is collectively applied to all those coastal...
Loro Parisini Building
The programme consisted of creating the new administrative areas and connecting them with the already existing laboratory buildings.
Gaustabanen
An incredible underground tunnel system inside which funicular trains go all the way to the top of Mt Gausta, the "jewel of the Telemark", in southern...
Galaxon Pavilion
For the 1964 New York WorldΒ΄s Fair, Paul Rudolph in association with he non-profit organization Portland Cement Association presented a project for the...
Three Gorges Dam
The largest hydroelectric project in the world, in China . The Dam itself is nearly a mile and a half long and 600 feet high.
1 Police Plaza
One Police Plaza (often abbreviated as 1PP) is the headquarters of the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
Stresow and Schnackenburg border memorial and museum
Stresow/Schnackenburg border memorial Comparatively minor border museums/memorials in Germany that commemorate the former " Iron Curtain " border...
Hien Luong, Vietnam
Hien Luong Bridge, Reunification Monument & Museum A bridge across the Ben Hai river that formed part of the border between North and South Vietnam from...
Institute of Indology
In the mid-1950s, Muniji Punyavijaiji Maharaj, a Jain monk, contacted Kasturbhai Lalbhai, who wished to donate to him a magnificent collection of ancient...
Khaju Bridge
The Khaju Bridge is one of the historical bridges on the Zayanderud, the largest river of the Iranian Plateau, in Isfahan.
Sonnenberg Bunker
This is one of the worldβs largest public fallout shelters from the Cold-War era, located in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland .
Kinmen
UPDATE: Not so long ago I undertook an extensive trip to Taiwan during which I also spent three days on Kinmen and explored it pretty much exhaustively.
Minidoka
One of the ten β War Relocation Centers β, i.e. de facto concentration camps , in which the USA interned some 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII .
Jungfrau Railway
A less than 10 km (6 miles) long railway line leading to the highest train station in Europe at the so-called Jungfraujoch, a ridge between a trio of...