A 2,000-foot glass-bottom bridge has just opened in Vietnam’s northwest Son La province, and it could be the world’s longest once verified by Guinness World Records. Suspended 490-feet above a jungle, it winds around cliff faces before letting visitors traverse the space between two peaks for a total length of 632 meters (2,073 feet).
Always wanted to live in a converted crane? Introducing The Crane by YAYS. Located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this one-of-a-kind three-story apartment offers sweeping views over The River IJ.
Photo credit: Roman Vlasov
Designer Roman Vlasov’s Concept 439 appears to be a floating house that appears to defy gravity, but it’s all just a clever illusion. Perfect for a super villain, it’s nestled securely to the rocky shoreline, while extending beyond the coast to give its inhabitants a panoramic view of the landscape.
Called Hadrian X, this massive brick-laying system consists of a 98-foot robotic arm mounted on a truck that is guided by motion sensors. How does it know where to lay the bricks? It comes loaded with a digital blueprint, and can auto-correct its position 1,000 times a second.
Photo credit: SWNS / X+Living
Your eyes aren’t playing tricks, the Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore, nicknamed “Magic Castle”, located in southwest China’s Sichuan province, appears to be filled to brim with never ending publications. To be more specific, it’s home to over 80,000 volumes in more than 20,000 genres, and looks the way it does using black-tiled floors, paired with mirrored ceilings, resulting in an infinity mirror-like effect.