those hot libraries are really cool. i should have seen this page before! very inspiring for arcane project. 

http://www.enuii.com/vulcan_foundry/the_works/interior.htm 

Pictures of the Yucca Mountain Project (construction of a nuclear waste storage site): http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/index.shtml

My favorite pic: http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/images/ym_14452_300dpi.jpg

Found on this site, which collects links to US Government websites that contain public domain photos: http://www.unclesamsphotos.com/ 

a really cool door =)

Thanks for sharing. 

Great pics metl.
DaZ, that's not a door, it's a tunneling machine, use the same type to make subway tunnels and stuff. 

Can't you see it's a gigantic donut? 

http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/viewall.php (found on drawn blog)

I'd love to see a game with graphics in the style of these pics - there is something very haunting and horrible about them that I love. 

Yeah, those old woodcuts and lithographs rock so hard. 

Wish more abandoned places had as large amounts of pink as this Japanese place:

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/newkomagari/newkomagari01.html 

admit it

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/28/thorncrown-chapel-a-paragon-of-ecological-architecture/ 

In fact, that one is kind of awesome.

I just hate you. 

Do go to see Anthony Gormley's "Blind Light" exhibition. Very good, one of the best art exhibitions I've been to. It's exploring the space around and within the human form through a wide variety of mostly sculptural work, some of it harsh and metallic. I thought a lot of it was great on many levels.

Relevant to this thread, my favourite piece was "Space Station", a massively imposing 27 ton construct of perforated blocks chaotically joined and perched at an esoteric angle that does indeed evoke the atmosphere implied in it's name.

http://www.benhanbury.com/2007/06/21/anthony-gormley-blind-light/

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/scottmc1/gigs/ligeti/IMG_3490.jpg

It was well lit from an adjacent exhibit, and I found it particularly rewarding exploring the dark side of the piece and finding all the random "passages" through it.

I defy anyone to go there, look at it in detail, and go back home and NOT open Radiant/whatever! 

Metal lego's!

Dunno, looks a bit random to me, but interesting none the less.

Also (sadly), I did not get the urge to open a level editor after looking at this :( 

I defy anyone to go there, look at it in detail, and go back home and NOT open Radiant/whatever!

Did you? 

I meant looking at it in reality. The pictures are like, nothing, compared to wandering around it.

Wrath: I got the urge for YOU GUYS to make some map with a similar theme :D 

http://criss.site.voila.fr/ 

go map 

http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm#TOC
Weird navigation but you'll get to them. 

http://vrap.co.uk/index.php 

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/creepy-high-voltage-installations.html 

For a bunch of reasons.
Bookmarked. 

lost mine on top of the hood of a Mustang.

Some interesting design here:

http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis/ 

...is like a hive of utterly mental construction projects these days, that hotel is just one of them.

http://www.funonthenet.in/content/view/127/31/ 

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?s=17e020c96c02686415d9725757d17ac4&p=4477755&postcount=205 

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/