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Photograph by PAULUS MAXIMUS Once a year in May, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks is open to the public. The garden is located on a private residence known as the Portrack House near the town of Dumfries in Scotland. Started in 1988 it was dedicated to Jencks’ late wife Maggie…
INCREDIBLE HUAXI VILLAGE SKYSCRAPER IN CHINA Photograph via Reuters/Carlos Barria The newly inaugurated skyscraper tower of Huaxi village is seen in Huaxi village, Jiangsu province, on October 7, 2011. Huaxi, also known as China’s richest village, celebrated its 50th anniversary with the inauguration of a massive 328-meter (1,076 feet) high skyscraper that…
UNCOVERING HISTORY Photograph via Reddit Moai are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the…
PARIS AT NIGHT Photograph by JOHN NIRAVONG Fantastic shot of the beautiful city of Paris at night by my friend John Niravong. The photograph was taken from the 56th floor observation deck of the Maine-Montparnasse Tower, a popular destination for visitors seeking unrivaled views of the majestic city below. Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse…
THE GIANT WELL IN NATWARGHAD, INDIA Photograph by AMIT DAVE/REUTERS People gather to get water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on June 1, 2003. (Reuters/Amit Dave) Gujarat is a state in western India with a population in excess of 60 million.…
Halles Avignon – Provence, Cote, d’Azue | Artwork and Photography by PATRICK BLANC Born June 3rd, 1953 in Paris, France, Patrick Blanc is a botanist and creator of the vertical garden. A scientist, working for the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) since 1982, Blanc’s vertical gardens have taken him around the…
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY Photographs by Zheng Duo/Color China Photo/AP Images A worker installs the Chengdu city model at the Chengdu Planning Hall in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Following the four state-level new development areas, including Shanghai Pudong, Tianjin Binhai, Chongqing Liangjiang and Shanxi Xixian…
TORONTO AT NIGHT Photograph by DMAO11 Fantastic view of my hometown of Toronto, Canada shot from a plane by Dmao11. Photograph was taken using a Nikon D90 with a Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 VC lens Dmao11 on Flickr
Photograph via iClickfun.com In Colombia, Rio Cano Castales, or the ‘river of five colors’, is a special place where for a brief period of time every year when the conditions are just right, the river explodes with vibrant colours your eyes won’t believe. During the short span between the wet and dry season,…
FLOODING IN THAILAND Photograph by MATTHIAS HOCH Photograph by Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images Heavy monsoon rains have been drenching Southeast Asia since mid-July, causing mudslides and widespread flooding along the Mekong River. Parts of Thailand are now experiencing the worst floods in half a century, as water inundates villages, historic temples, farms,…
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