Buildings

This is the fantastically modern-looking Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, (which reminds me of The Flight of the Navigator!). As I've said before, everything on this site seems to be the tallest/biggest/highest something, and this building proves to be…

Overlooking Victoria Harbour (as seen in our previous post), is the Two International Finance Centre, which at 415.8 metres it is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong. Check out that shadow! Apparently it is the third tallest building in…

The site of the Chernobyl nuclear power station is in Ukraine, at the far east of Europe. There isn't super-high res imagery of the area but you can get the general idea of the layout. For an annotated image there…

The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao was designed by Frank Gehry of California and is considered by many to be an architectural masterpiece. It looks just as odd from above as it does from the ground. Thanks: Jason B, Holden Lewis,…

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…

The Colosseum (or Coliseum) was built in 72 AD and is 160 ft high with 80 entrances. It held more than 50,000 spectators and was actively used for gladiator fights for 400 years. The Colosseum obviously featured in Ridley Scott's…