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New York Pool

This swimming pool at Bhakti Park in Mumbai India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of Global Climate Change. It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

 

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Hitler’s office in Berlin

Interior view of the massive offfice of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler in the Reichskanzlei (Reichs Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, late 1930s or early 1940s. (Photograph by Hugo Jaeger/Time & Life Pictures).

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Japan Subway System

The Tokyo Subway System…it is massive and like nothing you have ever seen before…To put the size into context… The green circle in the middle is called the Yamanote Line. It takes one hour to complete the circle… massive.

[via Dave Powell on Google+]

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Copenhagen Harbour Swimming Pool

In Copenhagen, the water in the former industrial harbour in the center of the city is now so clean that you can swim in it. Actually, several years ago the city opened a public bath in the middle of the habour. Tomorrow, “swimming pool” number three will open in the Danish capital as an integrated part of its effort to establish itself as a green city. It is already the bicycle capital of the world.

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