http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html 

Some of those pics are really great! 

I'm now inspired to go travelling again right now!

amazing pics. 

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all 

heaps more photos here, sorted by country.

http://www.yannarthusbertrand2.org/ 

http://whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2008/10/sarugaku-backstreet-shopping-mall/ 

Rollercoasters are the way of the future - you can do tight turns with high speed since the track can be tilted.
http://www.brusa.biz/news/news.php?l_sel=1&idm=4&idk=9

There's been a huge number of fascinating concepts for mass transit but something always comes in the way:
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/romag.htm

Here's a more general history with a huge number of cases http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/history.htm 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdF0FK-2io
Cabintaxi from Germany 

http://www.alicjakwade.com/Palette.html 

That does not inspire me. That makes me suicidal. 

a monorail thats now over 100 years old !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNI45mt8q0o&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn 

as the computer game industry grows, more specialized niches will spring up, and virtual crate designers are bound to be high in demand (ever seen a FPS without one?).

Of course, gazebos are my thing. 

http://blog.kierankelly.net/ 

from teh 31st century! 

is the man. He's always been one of my favorites, and is often imitated, but few artists have the sheer talent and style to get away with it.

More here:
http://www.artshakes.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=99 

apologies if this has been posted here before, but I hadn't seen a lot of these:

http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/

Be sure to go on to part two. 

Not sure if it was mentioned in your link, but I heard Frazetta lost his right arm (his drawing arm) to a stroke or somesuch, and re-learned to draw with his left arm.

Fucking gosu. Props. Mad props. 

seen about half of those.

but WTF... they listed Agbar Tower twice! (ones as "Torre Agbar") 

I saw a poster of some picture of this guy yesterday because there will be an exhibition in Hamburg. Thought "BANG! Inspiration!".

http://www.hoenerloh.de/startframe_en.html (a bump actually, it was posted just a few hundred posts ago. But it's so level designish.) 

That's pretty cool 

Yeah, I've seen those before. They just SCREAM Quake level to me. So nice. 

Those are very nice, thanks for the link. 

http://www.hoenerloh.de/bilder/hoe00.jpg

how very myspace of him 

http://www.martiniere.com/ 

http://abandonalia.blogspot.com