Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
To follow-up from the Copper Mining earlier in the week, we head over to the German coal mining town of Bottrop, where there’s lots of industrial stuff going on.
But if you’re more of an art person, on a nearby disused slag heap we find ‘Tetraeder Bottrop‘, a giant big Tetrahedron artwork-thingy by Wolfgang Christ. 230 tonnes of steel went to make what is basically large viewing platform, 60m tall on a 90m heap.
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The irregularly formed long green building at the southeast of the tetrahedron is an indooor skiing hall - before anybody asks
If you fly a little to the NE, you’ll find the Warner Brothers Movie Park
I have been on the Tetraeder. Nice construction.
The uppest round platform is 42m height and leaned to the side by 8° and is mounted only with steel cable. So on a windy day it is really scary up there.
by the way.
A little to SW you can find the Centro in Oberhausen. It is europeans biggest shopping mall.
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentrO
and the Gasometer Oberhausen:
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasometer_Oberhausen
Ok. the wikipedia sides are german, but there are some nice ground level pics.
Call that mine!
Now this is a mine!
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Its near Koln and try zooming out until you cant see it! Never mind the old ’see the Great Wall of China from space’ thing - you can see this from Mercury!
Everyone knows that the Tetraeder Bottrop thingy is actually a UFO landing site for when the space aliens decide to land and take over this planet.
hi this is alsome