Nike’s Mind shoe range has rapidly sold out across worldwide releases with buyers eager to get their hands on the ...

Editor’s Note: Read more unknown and curious design origin stories here. The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was ...

It looks like something designed to stop inmates from escaping a prison complex. But this shocking photograph of metal spikes covering the branches of a tree was actually taken in a wealthy ...

Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but also ...

There are a lot of ways to size up buildings, whether by measuring their height, comparing styles of architecture or dissecting their histories. But in the era of climate change, more and more ...

This luxury shelter, billed as a "modern day Noah's Ark," is built beneath a 400-foot tall mountain and offers 227,904 square feet of living space. Converted from a Cold War-era munitions storage ...

“Ching chong eyes!” That’s what elementary school kids used to call Sophie Wang. It was an insidious racist slur casually thrown around as they mocked her Asian ethnicity while pulling on the corner ...

Barbie, the 63-year-old American doll manufacturer, is releasing a new set of dolls in June as part of its ongoing efforts towards diversity and inclusion. From creating the brand’s first ever Barbie ...

It was the Soviet response to the space shuttle, designed to take the Cold War into space. But after just one flight, it was mothballed. Now, the ruins of what was called the Buran program are left to ...

Dubai is known for its dazzling desert skyscrapers, but it wasn’t always that way. Less than 200 years ago, it was a small fishing village. For many decades, most of the city’s structures were just ...

To keep up with the ever-changing trends propagated by runway shows, influencers and frenetic social media fads, fashion connoisseurs and avid clothing shoppers can be quick to turn to the most ...