OpenStreetMap data + Cinema4D = Cool city visualizations
Topography, architecture and traffic routes give every city a unique structure.
These conditions create the typical and individual inner structure of a city.via Luis Dilger
Self-Sustaining islands: the future of farming?
The islands mainly deal with fish and gardens powered by solar panels. The development has assured farmers an extra mass of floating 2.2 million square feet of farming space. The multidimensional barges-like farms are created by the Forward Thinking Architecture, a firm in Barcelona.
How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
It’s a statistic so mind-blowing that it stunned Bill Gates and inspired haiku. But can it be true, and, if so, how?
The Solar System to scale – in the desert
“The only way to see a scale model of the solar system,” Wylie Overstreet says, “is to build one.” So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets’ orbits and then filming a time-lapse video from a nearby mountaintop in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
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via NPR
Warped Photos of Abandoned Buildings
North Carolina-based photographer Walter Arnold first fell in love with photographing modern ruins when he stumbled upon an airplane graveyard in Florida. Now, he works with preservation societies across the country to identify sites in danger of disappearing.