Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, located just 9 km southwest of the city, is the third busiest airport in Europe and one of the busiest in the world. In an average year, more than 63 million passengers pass through Schiphol Continue reading
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Regina Sailing Yacht
Featured in the James Bond film Skyfall, the Regina Sailing Yacht is the rare piece of film memorabilia you can actually use. It’s over 180 feet long and 30 feet wide, with room for up to 12 passengers spread across six staterooms that are finished with mahogany and marble. Continue reading
Fitness Boat Powered by Human Energy in Seine River, Paris
Carlo Ratti Associati has worked together with fitness equipment manufacturer Technogym, the nonprofit architecture group TerreformONE, and the urban regeneration institute URBEM, to create plans for the Paris Navigating Gym, a fitness centre on a boat that uses human energy to propel the boat down the Seine River in Paris. Continue reading
Jacobite Steam Train: Crossing Scotland All The Way To Hogwarts
Everybody, who has seen the Harry Potter movies remembers the legendary Hogwarts train, that leaves from Platform 9 ¾. Although its real name is the Jacobite Steam Train, the Scotland route is known as the Hogwarts train. The beautiful film scenery, though, is real. Continue reading
Paternoster: This Elevator Never Stops
The paternoster is kind of elevator that consist of a chain of open compartments that move up and down continuously through the vertical shaft of a building in a loop and without stopping. Passengers step into the moving compartments in the direction they wish to go and then hop off when the elevator reaches the desired floor. Continue reading
Portraits of Passengers of a Train to Jaipur
Photographer based in Munich, Skander Khlif, offers a fascinating series entitled A Train Full Of Emotions. During a travel in India he could taste the most popular transportation way of the country : train. Often full it is the occasion to be interested in the culture and to talk with the curious passengers. Continue reading
World’s Thinnest Observation Tower i360 Opens in Brighton
A shiny steel and glass, doughnut-shaped viewing platform rose up against a slender pole on the seafront of the English town of Brighton, yesterday afternoon, thus officially opening the world’s thinnest observation tower. Dubbed the “vertical pier” Continue reading
The Story Of A Ship
One sunny day a cruise ship that was created to be unsinkable took it’s first cruise. The ship was full of passengers, from billionaires, millionaires, businessmen, celebrities and professionals. The ship is carrying those valuable persons. Person’s with pride and attainment. Well since the ship was created and dubbed as unsinkable it is carrying it’s pride and elegance as well. Continue reading