To Build or Not to Build: Fantastical Architecture from 2015

This year we saw a bunch of architecture in the fantasy realm, and as always, it's tough to decide which is more exciting: The concepts, or the out-there structures that some people were actually crazy enough to build.

Nowhere was that more true than in The Original, Real-Life Dystopian Cityscape of Kowloon Walled City, and the Artwork It Inspired:

Architecture firm NBBJ proposed this Dual Skyscraper Design that "Erases" Shadows Between Them:

Going even sexier, we saw some Beautiful Architectural Visualizations from Mir:

What about architecture in outer space? We went back to the '70s to check out some Space Colony Form Factors, Part 1: Bernal Spheres.

Bernal's globe shape not doing it for you? There's always Space Colony Form Factors, Part 2: O'Neill Cylinders.

For those of you that are hard to satisfy, maybe you'd prefer the torii or gi-normous Bishop's Rings in Space Colony Form Factors, Part 3: The Stanford Torus and Beyond.

Back on Earth, a guy named Jono Williams apparently couldn't decide between globe and cylinder either. So as we saw in Designer/Engineer Builds Steel Treehouse—and the Tree to Hold It, he went for both.

in the realm of holy-cow-they-really-built-this architecture, we were wowed by Balinese design/build firm Ibuku's Stunning Six-Story Bamboo Luxury Homes (and Other Structures):

Scandinavia doesn't get the sunlight that Bali does, so one couple in Sweden has made the most of solar harvesting by building An Eco-Friendly House Wrapped Inside a Larger Glass House:

Finally, one place that gets no sunlight at all is an underground parking garage. But we saw a rather novel, light-flooded one in Architecture Firm Designs Batcave-Inspired Carpark, Complete with Hidden Entrance, Under This Stately Manse.

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