35 Times Architecture Looked Like It Was Designed By Tony Hawk
Some buildings look normal. Others look like they were designed by Tony Hawk after landing a 900. Oddly perfect rails and suspiciously ramp-like stairways make these real-world examples of Tony Hawk architecture feel straight out of a skateboarding game. You can almost hear “Superman” by Goldfinger blasting in the background.
Welcome to r/TonyHawkitecture, where architecture meets skateboarding and every city feels like a secret level in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
1. “You just know there’s a secret tape above this thing”
2. “Window grinding combo”
3. “A wind turbine factory”
4. “So, no joke, this one is actually happening in September. Sandro Dias aka Mineirinho is gonna take the 85m (~278ft) ride down the building. Porto Alegre, Brazil”
5. “These ‘wavedecks’ on Toronto’s waterfront”
6. “Not so secret tape.”
7. “Santa Monica Place”
8. “Hoover Dam spillway not used since 1983”
9. “Abandoned Church transformed by skaters into something straight out of a video game”
10. “Found at my local Taco Bell”
11. “Shortcut onto the highway”
12. “Inception inspired bent road I designed”
13. “Kindergarten in China looking like a THPS map”
14. “Duck ramp”
15. “This bench in Copenhagen”
16. “The egg, why is there a QP here covered in skate stoppers, by a window ?”
17. “Cinema building in Haikou, China”
18. “This collapsed deck spotted on a Facebook page”
19. “In the Philly airport.”
20. “A fountain I saw a while back in Paris”
21. “Benches designed by someone who hates the concept of sitting down.”
22. “This would be one of those weird sponsored bits in the game”
23. “Halfpipe in Daejeon, South Korea FTW”
24. “They even put raised bricks to stop skaters”
25. “Apparel store in Okinawa, Japan”
26. “If Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater had an LAX level, the secret tape would for sure be over the metro gap”
27. “Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland”
28. “Brand new Eisenbahnbrücke Bridge in Linz, Austria. I bet in two weeks there will be fences, so hurry up if you want to ride it!”
29. “DC Subway Offering”
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31. “A dam good skate park”
“Google reverse image search helpfully informed me this is Tsuruda Dam in Japan.”
32. “Why does this bench have a ramp?”
33. “Approved”
34. “No windows on the side of this building.”
35. “Ultimate rail slide (at the Vatican)”
