Tank Traps

This edition of drive by cellphone shots, these aren’t tank traps on the Maginot Line, rather light fixtures and car barriers at a high school in Redmond, Washington.

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Another drive by

Another drive by camera phone shot, that is. This spot looks kind of fun, right?

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Spillover

This is no dam relic. This spot somewhere in Canada has been sessioned for 30+ years and is allegedly still a go. I found this picture while trolling Facebook, and the owner coincidentally happened to be a reader.

- Thanks to MIlo for the pic.

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Slovenian sports hall

Design Boom has pictures of a sports complex in Podcetrtek, Slovenia. Even if it didn’t have some great looking banks on the outside, it’s worth checking out for it’s non-skateable architecture. Why is so much architecture in the U.S. so boring?

- Thanks to Urban Kravos for the tip

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Skateable Architecture in Madrid

Here’s a recently constructed house by the architecture firm A-cero out of Madrid. It’s got some nice transitions but the concrete looks a little rough in sections. Still, I’ve seen worse skateparks… That’s a crazy tight miniramp with an extra helping of vert surrounding the front door. More pictures on Freshhome. Bonus shot of another skateable house after the jump

- Thanks to Urban Kravos for the tip.

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Go skate a sidewalk

Mother nature wants you to skate launch ramps. Don’t ask me where it is, because it’s within a five block radius of my house.

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I’m flying in on a DC 10 tonight

Spanish songs in Andalucia, sing of tight transitions in expensive private residential housing developments, designed by A-cero. Spanish bombs, yo te quiero infinito. Sotogrande!

[Source: CoolBoom] - Thanks to Urban for the tip.

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Portuguese wall rides

The Vodafone headquarters in Porto, Portugal, as seen in SpaceInvading.

- Thanks to Skate D for the tip.

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Bridge to fun

More skateable architecture. A little bumpy perhaps, but who’s complaining? Good thing I had ths one in the can because I’m calling in sick to S&A today. Enjoy the Henderson Waves bridge if you are in Singapore. They are lenient on gum chewing, so I’m sure this spot is not a bust. Not a Singapore local? Head on over to Designboom.

- Thanks to Alex Shults for the tip, via Sleestak.

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Pump bump dump

I’ve been contemplating some designs for skate spots in my head lately. One idea that I’ve had for a while consists of parallel tracks of wave like bumps varying in frequency and staggered side by side. Watching this video was both disappointing (because it’s kind of been done) and validating at the same time. It looks pretty great for found terrain, but if it was built for skating I’d lie to see the tracks staggered and directly adjacent. I have to applaud the length of these things though, they certainly didn’t skimp on the concrete.

- Thanks to our resident secret bike spy in the house, Mike Estes.

Update: Added some actual skate footage too.

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