SHENZHEN, CHINA, 30 YEARS LATER   Top Photograph via Gaoloumi.com | Bottom Photograph by SSDPenguin on Wikimedia Commons   Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China’s Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China’s first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Shenzhen’s modern cityscape [...]

Photograph via Alexey Sergeev     Last month I saw a fascinating segment on Qatar by 60 minutes (video can be found at the bottom of the post), a natural gas and oil-rich country with the highest GDP per capita in the world. I recalled numerous aerial shots of their cityscape displaying an eclectic collection [...]

  OSAKA STADIUM REDUX   Photograph by Naoya Hatakeyama   Photograph by Hugh Cree   The images above show the former Osaka Stadium in Japan around 1998-1999. Prior to this, it was the home of the Nankai Hawks baseball team until the owner sold it to the Daiei Group and the team was moved to [...]

  SHANGHAI SKYLINE AT NIGHT   Photograph by JAKOB WAGNER on Behance   This stunning photograph of Shanghai at night is part of photographer Jakob Wagner’s Nightscapes series on Behance, it was taken in 2011. If you haven’t seen it already, check out this startling photograph that shows the development Shanghai has undergone since 1990. [...]

Photograph by Hiroyuki Oki     In the city of Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon, and the largest city in Vietnam), you will notice many of the homes adorned with pots and planters. It’s a local custom and one that adds to the city’s visual identity. Architecture firm, Vo Trang Nghia, embraced this aesthetic as [...]

    It’s February, 1942. US Navy Monitors have just tracked a Japanese submarine skulking just outside of San Francisco. A few nights later, a Japanese submarine surfaces off the coast of Santa Barbara and fires a few shells at an oil storage facility. With the memories of Pearl Harbor from last December still fresh, [...]