Buildings

Here in Saudi Arabia, there's a large square with a smaller circle inside it. Um... yeah, I really don't know what this place is! It's just outside of a small town, and the square is about 500 metres across, defined…

Following up on a comment in Alex's TGV post back in October, I present Saint-Exupéry International Airport in Lyon and more specifically the TGV terminal . The airport was built in 1975 but the TGV terminal with its stunning roof…

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…

Thanks to the various Google Maps updates of imagery in Germany we can now get a good look at Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" or Kehlsteinhaus as it is properly known. The Eagle's Nest was part of the Berghof complex in the…

Fantastic shadow being cast from the sign on top of the Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery in Las Vegas. There's actually two signs, which means we can see it backwards too. Nice. Useless fact about this hotel?…

The Potsdamer Platz is a huge traffic intersection and square in Berlin. In the 20s and 30s it was one of the busiest traffic centres in Europe and was the heart of Berlins's nightlife. As is sadly the case with…