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+]
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.
Winner announced for new Museum Garden in Copenhagen
Polyform, a rapidly rising star on the Danish architectural scene, will be in charge of the design for a new Museum Garden in front of the National Gallery of Denmark. That is the final verdict of a project competition launched by the Gallery and the City of Copenhagen on the basis of a donation from the Annie and Otto Johs. Detlefs’ Foundations – OJD. The Foundations will also fund the physica creation of the new Museum Garden and a thorough modernisation of the Gallery’s entrance area. [Source]
The world’s largest model airport opens at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg
The world’s largest model airport has opened at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. Miniatur Wunderland is the world’s largest model railroad landscape, and its model airport goes into operation following six years of development and construction and an investment of 3.5 million euros. [Source]
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