Buildings

This is Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, France. Completed in 1952, it's a modernist residential housing complex for up to 1,600 people which features 337 apartments over 12 stories. Interestingly, every apartment is built over 2 floors and is…

It's tough keeping up with the Joneses... In this Californian community the latest trend is apprently having a tennis court in your back garden. It doesn't seem that this is an isolated case either, tennis court communities are springing up…

This is Wohnanlage Moabiter Werder (Moabiter island housing?) which sits just to the west of the main government district in Berlin, and although I believe it's residential housing for parliamentary staff, Google's automatic translation doesn't help much. But never mind…

Have you ever wondered what happens to traffic at a border between two countries that drive on opposite sides? The Lotus Bridge between mainland China and the former Portuguese colony of Macau was completed in 1999 and is a fantastically…

This is the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Now I think I've got this right when I say that the Opryland is the third largest non-casino hotel in the world. Regardless, it's enormous, with 5 restaurants, 6 eateries, 14 retail…

Remember the Afghan Royal Palace? Well David Quin from Melbourne had seen it from ground level and took photos! He writes: I was in Kabul in September 2003 working with the UN, writing the software for the voter's registration system…