In Orlando township in the urban area of Soweto, in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, stands two cooling towers of the decommissioned Orlando Power Station. Continue reading
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Orlando Towers in Johannesburg
Jal Mahal: Jaipur’s Submerged Water Palace
Submerged in the waters of an artificial lake, in the “pink city” of Jaipur, in the state of Rajasthan, India, is the beautiful marbled palace of Jal Mahal, or “Water Palace”. Not much is known about its history, except the fact that it was constructed by Maharaja Madho Singh in the 18th century Continue reading
Breathtaking Skyscraper in Bangkok
The Mahanakhon Tower is 77-storey high building located in the business area of Bangkok. Its pixelised area make it look very fragile: the architect’s of Ole Scheeren wanted that the traditional massive look of towers integrated better in the city’s landscape. Continue reading
City of Dreams
Poland-based artist, Tytus Brzozowski, is behind this collection of paintings. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, he went on to work in Finland, where he searched high and low for Nordic art and design. 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