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80+ Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture | instantShift
In the late 20th century many new concept was included in the compass of both structure and function. Now days, before performing any action we keeping future in our visions. same applies in Architecture also. In the selection below, we present over 80 Strange & Fantastic Buildings Architecture of modern world. All photographs are linked and lead to the source - the respective photographers.
Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal - it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!
Solar-Powered Street Sculpture Tests Human Perception : TreeHugger
An experimental installation called ‘The Beacon’ on London’s Old Street is hoping to offer answers on how human perception works. Designed by a neuroscientist at the University College of London, the six-metre tall installation features brightly patterned plexiglass lit by electricity from solar panels, some of which include solar paving stones embedded in a mix of resin and local recycled glass.
Update: Robot Bike Storage in Tokyo : TreeHugger
Earlier this year we showed a lousy video in Japanese describing a robotic bike storage system. Now the Washington Post shows a much better one, in English, describing the machine.
The Believer - Interview with David Simon
The Wire is a Greek tragedy in which the postmodern institutions are the Olympian forces. It’s the police department, or the drug economy, or the political structures, or the school administration, or the macroeconomic forces that are throwing the lightni
cityofsound: A simulated Baltimore
Early in the conception of the drama, Ed Burns and I—as well as the late Bob Colesberry, a consummate filmmaker who served as the directorial producer and created the visual template for The Wire—conceived of a show that would, with each season, slice off
Short Film on Vélib, World's Biggest Bike-Sharing Program in Paris : TreeHugger
StreetFilms has produced an excellent short video on Vélib, the great bike-sharing program in Paris that inspired so many others around the world. Almost 1,500 bike stations are spread all over the city, with over 20,000 bicycles and 3 million subscribers
Redesigning Urban Transport : TreeHugger
In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. Respiratory illnesses are rampant. In the United States, the number of hours commuters spend sitting frustrated in traffic-congested st
Green Roof Creates "Image of a Mountain" in Japan : TreeHugger
Green roofs are all the rage now, but back in 1995 it was pretty unusual when Emilio Ambasz and Associates extended Fukuoka's Tenjin Central Park with a terraced building covered in gardens.
Busy Hanoi intersection has no traffic lights - Boing Boing
a really cool time-lapse video showing the harmonious nighttime traffic flow in Hanoi at an intersection without any traffic lights.
YouTube - 'Pushers' pushing people on a crowded Japanese train
This video is a good example of just how crowded it gets on Japanese trains.
Sydney in 2030: 3-D vision of future - National - smh.com.au
The City of Sydney Council has released a 3-D animation of what the CBD could look like by 2030 if its ambitious plan to transform some of our most significant landmarks comes to fruition.
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper.
"It's technically possible that the traditional older suburbs could actually produce all of the food needed to sustain the people living there," he says.
Trees Block Solar Panels, and a Feud Ends in Court - New York Times
Call it an eco-parable: one Prius-driving couple takes pride in their eight redwoods, the first of them planted over a decade ago. Their electric-car-driving neighbors take pride in their rooftop solar panels, installed five years after the first trees we
Turning Big Box Stores into Solar Power Plants in California : TreeHugger
Southern California Edison (SCE) wants to build... a 250-megawatt farm with a twist: It will be distributed among many commercial rooftops, starting with southern California's Inland Empire, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
Extreme makeover for Quay, Darling Harbour and beyond - National - smh.com.au
TEARING down the Cahill Expressway, moving Circular Quay railway station, remaking Darling Harbour and building a huge convention centre over the tracks at Central are part of the City of Sydney's grand vision for 2030, to be made public today.
Sydney makeover vision wins widespread support - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A draft plan for a massive overhaul of Sydney by 2030 has received widespread support.
Under the City of Sydney's plan, the Cahill Expressway and monorail would be demolished and a new convention centre would be built over the rail tracks at Central Stat
City of Sydney presents 2030 vision for a green, global and connected Sydney :: Sydney Media :: City of Sydney
What if Sydney had a light rail loop in the city centre, an Indigenous Cultural Centre, a major new park at Darling Harbour, George Street reclaimed for people, and sustainable development over Central Railway Station's rail tracks?
New Sydney 'all about sustainability' - Breaking News - National - Breaking News
George Street would become a pedestrian mall and the Western Distributor would be buried beneath... Darling Harbour. A light rail loop... between Central and Circular Quay, and retail and business development... over... rail lines... Central Station.
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