Wedge-shaped viewpoint by BTE Architecture overlooks Loch Lomond
This triangular structure by BTE Architecture provides an elevated viewing platform on the edge of Scotland's Loch Lomond (+ slideshow). More
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Fránek Architects' mountainside Sky Walk loops up around a giant slide
A 101-metre slide winds down through this coiling structure by Fránek Architects, perched on a mountain in the Czech Republic (+ slideshow). More
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"World's longest and tallest tunnel slide" to wrap Anish Kapoor sculpture in London's Olympic park
Bblur Architecture has won approval to wrap a giant slide around the Anish Kapoor-designed ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. More
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Noma Bar's bird-shaped treehouse provides a vantage point over a Japanese woodland
Israeli illustrator Noma Bar has created a wooden pavilion shaped like a bird with a leafy back among the trees of a wood in central Japan (+ slideshow). More
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Snøhetta wins competition for cable car and Alpine viewing platform in Italy
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a pair of ring-shaped platforms linked by a cable car, which will offer expansive views of the Alps to residents and visitors in Bolzano, Italy. More
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Undulating viewing platform by John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere features built-in market stalls
This steeply slanted platform by architects John Lin and Olivier Ottervaere forms a roadside market and elevated viewing point for a Chinese town being rebuilt after two earthquakes (+ slideshow). More
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Treetop holiday home by Narein Perera stands between a rubber plantation and a jungle
Raised up by a framework of slender steel supports, this wooden holiday home offers a unique vantage point over a Sri Lankan rubber plantation and the jungle beyond (+ slideshow). More
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Cloud-shaped campsite designed to float among the trees of a Colorado valley
Tasked with designing a Colorado campsite with unique views, architect Kevin Hirth produced these dreamlike illustrations depicting a cloud-shaped viewing platform floating amongst the trees. More
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René van Zuuk creates a wavy pier with an integrated lightbox over an Almere lake
A huge lightbox is wedged underneath a wave-shaped viewing platform at the end of this pier, designed by Dutch architect René van Zuuk for a lake in the city of Almere (+ slideshow). More
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Twisting observation tower could be built in a northern Italian forest
Architects Anton Pramstrahler and Alex Niederkofler have unveiled their proposal for a wooden viewing tower near Bruneck, northern Italy, with a twisted body shaped like a tree trunk (+ movie). More
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Angular seaside tower by Gruff and MSA contains a viewing platform that moves underfoot
When visitors step inside this viewing tower on the coastline of Lincolnshire, England, an inner chamber tilts forward so the nearby beach becomes visible through a pair of aligned horizontal slots (+ slideshow). More
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Supermachine Studio adds labyrinthine staircase to seaside park in Thailand
This concrete tower of interconnecting red staircases was designed by Thai firm Supermachine Studio for an elevated game of hide and seek (+ slideshow). More
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High-altitude viewpoint perches over a volcanic crater lake
This wooden observation platform by architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno sits high above a three-kilometre-wide lake inside an active volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes (+ slideshow). More
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Pombal Castle visitor centre offers a peek through a historic stone wall
Comoco Architects has added a third new structure to the grounds of the medieval Pombal Castle in Portugal – a limestone-clad visitor centre that doubles as a viewing platform (+ slideshow). More
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Offshore torpedo base in Poland to be transformed by MFRMGR into a water sports hub
Warsaw office MFRMGR has revealed designs to revitalise a former Polish observation tower in the Baltic Sea to create a base for water sports enthusiasts and researchers, accessible only by boat. More
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Looping wooden viewing platform in China built by students in just six days
This community viewing platform and play area, designed by Hong Kong architects Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin, provides a loop that rises up to overlook rice terraces carved into the surrounding valleys (+ slideshow). More
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Mirrored cabin installed in Scottish glen by Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler
Architecture students Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler have designed and built a mirrored lookout point in a Scottish national park that both frames and reflects views of the surrounding lochs and glens (+ slideshow). More
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New Pinterest board: viewpoints
Imagine the vistas you could take in from these examples of skywalks and viewing platforms, which we've pinned onto a new Pinterest board. See our new Pinterest board »
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Sturgess Architecture's Glacier Skywalk offers unique views of the Canadian Rockies
This vertiginous viewing platform in the Canadian Rockies was designed by Calgary firm Sturgess Architecture with a strengthened glass floor that provides a view straight down to the valley below. More
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Timber viewing cabin by TYIN Tegnestue overlooks a wild Norwegian landscape
This wooden viewing cabin raised on stilts above the rugged landscape of southern Norway was designed by TYIN Tegnestue – the Trondheim office that also recently completed a top-heavy house extension (+ slideshow). More
