Wild Idea: Put Schools On Top of New York Skyscrapers

Here's an idea to tackle both America's poor education system and its childhood-obesity epidemic: Make students walk up 80 flights of stairs each day to get to their classrooms.

This could be the calf-straining reality of attending public school in New York City if a team of Portuguese architects gets their wish. The group began with the proper assumption that the U.S. school system is in need of a drastic fix of some sort. But rather than hiring better teachers or rejiggering standardized testing, they opted to challenge the system's very infrastructure. The result is what you see above: A bunch of schools perched throughout the Manhattan skyline like eagle nests, drawing eyes upward with flashy, schoolbus-yellow paintjobs.