Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
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Continuing our journey along Germany’s “Walk of Ideas” we arrive at a giant pill entitled “Milestones of Medicine”. Then there’s “Milestones in Music” – a collection of giant musical notes in front of the Konzerthaus. Which leads us to “Modern…
The ‘Walk of Ideas’ was an ‘art project’ throughout Berlin which was put in place of the World Cup earlier this year. The 6 sculptures promoted the best of Germany, and not very subtly provided advertising for the project’s two…
ICP, a crew of graffiti artists in the San Francisco area, have tagged up this roof and thanks to the passing photography plane have gained more exposure than they probably expected. My initial worries that the tag was related to…
Brand new on Google Maps/Earth this week is Fort Boyard, located between the Île d’Oléron and the Île-d’Aix in the Pertuis d’Antioche straits, on the west coast of France. It was designed to bridge the gap between the two islands,…
Man, there’s a whole heap of people in Trafalgar Square since the latest image update. Does anyone know what they’re all doing? Update: dda worked it out – this is the 29th of January 2006, and we’re seeing several thousand…
Amongst several other interesting kite-shadows here at the Lincoln City Summer Kite Festival, Oregon, is the perfect outline of a giant sky-blue teddy bear! The huge flying teddy is 12 metres long, and you can actually pick one up in…
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: … but from street…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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