Tropical Island Resort is a large artificial “exotic island” resort in Germany. The 107m tall building was designed and built as a hangar for CL160 Super Heavy-Lift Cargo Airships, but the airships were never constructed so the hangar was a bit useless.

A Malaysian company later bought the hangar and added artificial sunlight, palm trees, sand, swimming pools and bird noises to create the illusion of paradise. The resort is open 24hours all year round and perhaps as a homage to the building’s intended use there is a small blimp parked on the runway outside.

But all we really care about is the records - the dome is one of the largest buildings on Earth by volume but its true record is the world’s largest single hall without supporting pillars inside. Wooooo.

Thanks: Pille

This is the Urban Stadium in Nuremberg…

Erm, no. It used to be the Urban Stadium, it now appears to be the Frankenstadion…

Sorry. This stadium has been renamed the easyCredit-Stadion for the next 5 years. Except… FIFA have renamed it the FIFA WM-Stadion Nürnberg for the duration of the 2006 World Cup.

Well whatever it’s called, this is the location of tonight’s match between England and Trinidad and Tobago, which despite the odds is promising to be a very interesting match!

More about, er, the stadium in this post at Wikipedia