If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge at night, explore the sewers of Las Vegas, infiltrate a privately owned 80-story building in Chicago, or sprint through New York’s subway, this video gives you a pretty comprehensive taster. More »
As sad as it sounds, most of us experience the world through photographs. Now MIT software engineers are taking that idea literally and mapping Flickr photos to regional maps in The World’s Eyes project.
This is a model of Shanghai as projected for 2020 by Chinese authorities. At 1,000 square feet, it’s perhaps the biggest model of a city in the world, and–for sure–the best place ever for two grown men to wear their Gamera and Godzilla latex costumes and fight to death. The gigantic dimensions and the detail shown in the photographs are just mind-blowing.
National Geographic has a fantastic story about the “instant cities” in China that have been popping up in response to the tremendous manufacturing boom in the last few decades. These cities are home to manufacturers who specialise in one niche product—such as bra rings, bra straps, plastic bags, or blue jeans—and sell them to the rest of the world.
From afar, Dubai is the most exciting place on earth, almost every day shaping up to be more like the utopic sci-fi fantasy city we had in our heads growing up. Its latest architectural stuntwork/masterpiece is the 1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City designed by Rem Koolhaas, an entire self-contained city resting atop an artificial island that mixes inspirations from ninth-century mosques to Koolhaas’s own ideas about the THX 1138-esque generic city.
