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The Ultimate Collection of Unbelievable Blunders in Architecture and Construction

Truly harrowing (and often simply hilarious) mistakes made by the inept architects and posiibly drunk builders, this page is your guide to a huge collection (part of our larger Architecture Category and Abandoned Places category). We will be constantly updating this page, as new issues come out, so make sure to bookmark it.


New Horrors in Architecture & Construction

Drunk Builders & Mad Architects, Part 4
Architectural Horrors, Part 3

Drunk builders always know what they're doing
Drunk Builders & Mad Architects

When Construction Goes Wrong
When Construction Goes Wrong

Hilarious Building Blunders

Abandoned Houses of Super Villains

Stalin, Lavrenti Beria, Osama Bin Laden' Haunted Residences

Perhaps even spookier, is our exclusive "NIGHTMARE PLAYGROUNDS" series:

Nightmare Playgrounds, Part 3

More entertaining than creepy? I'd say both
Nightmare Playgrounds, Part 2

Manic-Depressive Creativity
Nightmare Playgrounds

Seriously disturbing sculptures, meant for kids

This series is only part of the larger "ARCHITECTURE" category of posts on DRB, so make sure to check them all! -

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Imagining the Tenth Dimension


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Imagining the Tenth Dimension

"Mind-boggling" is the right word for this video, which starts slow and ends with an existential "bang". See if you can keep up with it.



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Make sure to check out a book by Rob Bryanton - there is a lot more there, what you've seen is only a summary of the first chapter...

Today's pictures & links:

More Automotive Dreaming from Luigi Colani


(image credit: L. Benkard)

Colani Super Corvette V8 1988:


(image credit: essichgurgn)

Colani Lotec Ferrari Testa D'Oro (1989) - 436 km/h


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See more Luigi Colani designs on this page.

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First Aid Instructions


(image credit: fatheed)

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One Solitary Snowflake

...is melting. Riitta Ikonen and photographer Anni Koponen lament the lack of snow in Finland:


image by Riitta Ikonen

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Annular Solar Eclipse


(image credit: Dennis Mammana)

"An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the Moon is smaller than that of the Sun. Hence the Sun appears as a very bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the outline of the Moon."


(image credit: Fermin Naelga Jr.)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Most Dangerous Places in the U.S., example - [urban]
Animal Locomotion... all sorts - [wow nature]
Neat Unemployment Chart - [economy]
Top 5 Mind-bending Buildings - [architecture]
Zombies Concept Art - [warning: violent]
View from 7 highest peaks - [wow pics]
U.S. states renamed for countries with similar GDP, info - [interesting]
This look will break your heart... - [fun video]
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - [claymation]
Neatorama opens "user submitted content" section - [web news]

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Ghostly Leningrad WW2 Siege Collages

Imagine walking on the street of modern St.Petersburg and stumbling into a space-time anomaly: a gateway into the most horrendous time in Soviet history, a WW2 siege of Leningrad... Only a step separates our indiffirent and often cynical present from the heroic past:





As featured on BoingBoing, these are creations of Sergey Larenkov (from Firma-Psychopath) - see the rest of these great mashups here

Speaking of Russia in World War Two, why are these guys pointing to Texas? -



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Underwater Hockey

Few people know about this sport... Learn about it in this article.



Sent in by F. de Graaf

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A manly name for a soldier


sent by Jessica Wills

Sign vendetta:


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Only fair warning:


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Plastic Celebrities

Famous actors and actresses as dolls, sporting the same wooden/artificial looks as are featured in most "glamour" magazines... Noel Cruz has a lot more on his site and for sale on eBay.


Daniel Craig, Madonna


Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst
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More celebrities, this time by the sculptural needle felting (artist: Kay Petal) -


(image credit: Kay Petal)

Nightmare celebrities:


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Happy celebrities:


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Mad, mad fashion....



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Brilliant Felines




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Concentrate on the middle picture

and go into a deep trance...


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The Cute and the Sinister: Huggable Primates

"QUANTUM SHOT" #528
Link - Article by Justin Sampson and Avi Abrams



The Pygmy Marmoset is the "storybook-cute" kind



(images credit: su neko, Gregg Obst)

The Pygmy Marmoset, looking like a reincarnated Furby (did you already forget about those? - a must-have toy in 1998), is the world’s smallest monkey. They range in length from 5 to 6 inches not including the tail, which is an amazing 6 to 8 inches in itself. Their name comes from the French word marmouset, meaning “shrimp” or “dwarf”.





(images AP Photo/Froso Zoo, via 1, 2)

Even when they display an angry face, they're impossibly cute:


(image credit: Julie Holland)

A cute monkey is a wise monkey:


(image credit: Stefan Koeder)

A Butterfly Buffet

Staying true to their heritage, the Marmoset has the taste pallet of a French food critic, enjoying everything from fruits, leaves, small reptiles, and tree sap. They spend about two-thirds of their life rabidly clawing at bark using their specialized incisors in search of the sweet, sweet sap. They can make up to 1,300 holes in a single tree, and the tricky buggers will even leave some sap behind to attract butterflies which they promptly eat.


(image credit: Loris Conservation)

They spend their time literally hanging out in the rainforest canopies of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Their small size means they can reach heights other animals can’t, so they get the pick of the food (they only weigh about 4 or 5 ounces, and they use their curly tail to balance on branches in comfort while gorging on dinner). We also might mention that it's the father, not the mother, that carries little marmosets around piggyback style until they’re old enough to get their own food.


(photo by Kerstin Molhagen)

The Pygmy has the same life span as a dog: about 11 years. Good luck finding one in the wild - their fur has magical cloaking abilities and they’re currently being harvested by the US military for making invisibility suits. Ok, maybe I made that up (just checking your attention); you can find them on display in a zoo, for example, in San Diego. The Bronx Zoo even has twins for the bonus cuteness factor - watch video.


Photos by AP/Eckhart Shulz and China Daily

Even cuter is the Slender Loris:



(images by Soumyajit Nandy, via and AP Photo/Gautam Singh)

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Sinister Animal Terrorizing Madagascar

This ruffled-looking stranger is really not that dangerous, pretty harmless indeed - and one of the most endangered... Aye-Aye is a large nocturnal primate from the Strepsirrhini family (the ones that have "wet noses").


(photo by Guardian UK, via)



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"Aye-ayes can be found only on the island of Madagascar. These rare animals may not look like primates at first glance, but they are related to chimpanzees, apes, and humans." They tap on trees with their long middle fingers and listen for the insects and bugs that might inhabit its depths.


(images by Bristol Zoo Gardens, via)

Many natives of Madagascar consider this animal an omen of ill luck. "To the Malagasy people, the Aye-aye is magical, and is believed to bring death to the village it appears in. The Sakalava believe that the aye-aye enters houses during the night through thatched roofs and murders the sleeping human occupants. It supposedly uses its elongated finger to cut the aortic vein of its victims".

All these beliefs lead to the fact that the poor primates are killed on sight... Looks like it's humans who bring deadly luck to this animal, not the other way around.


(image credit: Dani Jeske, National Geographic)

Thanks to Justin Sampson for contributing some of the material, check out his site

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Platypus and Echidna Babies
Anteater Coolness
Newborn Hedgehogs!

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