Swiss wildlife photographer Franco Banfi and a team of scuba divers were following a pod of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica Island in the Caribbean Sea, when suddenly the large creatures became motionless and fell into vertical slumber. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Floating
Capturing Life on Marble Island, Alaska
Deep in Southeast Alaska, surrounded by whales and bears, lies a remote island known as the Marble island. The story is a poetic journey through life of a young man who lives on the island. Continue reading
Peaceful Pictures of Fishing Houses on Water
American photographer Chris Becker dedicated his series titled Lobster Cars to the little shelters of fishermen that are peacefully floating on water. Continue reading
Clear Orb Sculpture Will Provide Energy and Water
Clear Orb Sculpture will provide energy and drinkable water, for the city of Santa Monica, California.
Clear Orb Sculpture designed by Jaesik Lim, Ahyoung Lee, Jaeyeol Kim, and Taegu Lim, is a 40-meter diameter glass sphere. Continue reading
Small Concerts on Floating Islands
Floating on a lake in Mantova, Italy, is a performance platform that was inspired by the lotus, a plant that is quite common in Mantova’s lakes. Continue reading
Off the Grid: A Couple Spends 24 Years Building a Floating Island Home in Canada
Twenty-five years ago artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams made the realization they would never have enough income to afford real estate so they made a fairly radical decision: they would build an island. Continue reading
Floating Fields
Floating Fields is based on the idea of creating a “place-based bio-social urbanism” that offers an alternative, organic lifestyle. It engages public space by creating an edible landscape and a polyculture ecology that once defined the landform of the Pearl River Delta. Continue reading
The Island Town of Sviyazhsk
When Ivan the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Moscow and the first Tsar of Russia, ascended the throne in the middle of the 16th century, he decided to put an end to the Khanate of Kazan, a medieval Bulgarian-Tatar Turkic state occupying the territory of former Volga Bulgaria, and ruled by the descendants of Genghis Khan. Continue reading
The Floating Piers
The floating piers designed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a system of 220,000 high-density poly-ethylene cubes, covering 100,000 square meter, in an area 100 kilometers east of Milan lake Iseo. Continue reading