The Futuro House
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
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The world’s largest sculpture, The Spire of Dublin, is 120 metres tall and is located on the site of the former Nelson’s Pillar which was destroyed in an IRA bombing. The pillar is really just a very big spike, with…
Inside Beijing, lies the Forbidden City, the location of the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the world’s largest palace and features a six meter deep moat, a ten meter high wall, five halls, seventeen palaces…
Standing atop Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro is a 40 metre tall monument of “Cristo Redentor” (Christ the Redeemer). Since its inception in 1921 the monument has become the symbol of Rio de Janeiro and Brazilian people, who receive…
With it’s 217 foot tower the Liberty Memorial is the United States’s only major World War I monument. Built in 1921 the monument incorporates two Sphinx sculptures, two museums and the tower, which is topped by four large stone figures…
Parliament Hill is the seat of power for the Government of Canada. The white dome to the north is covering the Library of Parliament which is currently being restored. The library was built in 1876 and is the only part…
The 131 foot tall Edison Memorial Tower marks the original site of Thomas Alva Edison’s original labs in the Menlo Park section of what is now Edison Township in New Jersey, USA. The tower is topped by the world’s largest…
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
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…
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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