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Captured: New York City from Above. Posted Jul 13, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare126 A look at New York City from the air. Office and residential buildings stand in the financial district of Manhattan in this aerial photograph taken over New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg # The Empire State Building stands in this aerial photograph taken over New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 7, 2010.

Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg # New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue is viewed in this aerial photograph from a helicopter over New York on November 11, 2008. The United Nations (UN) Secretariat building stands along the East River in this aerial photograph taken over New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. The former headquarters of Bear Stearns, now owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co., center, stands in this aerial photograph taken over New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. The Consolidated Edison Inc. Aerial view of Madison Square Garden, 01 July 2007, in New York City. "Venezuela. Surroundings of Angel Falls" - (&)AIRPANO.RU - Project by Oleg Gaponyuk - StumbleUpon.

Mosque in Istanbul - Bayezid Mosque - Pictures in 360 degrees Panorama QTVR Photo. Eiffel Tower, Tour Eiffel Paris - 360 Virtual Tour - Photo-Images - 360 VR Photos Panoramique. The Eiffel Tower in Paris Torre Eiffel - Tour Eiffel - Eiffeltornet The Eiffel Tower in Paris needs no presentation, it is one the most well known monuments in the world visited by more than 5 million people each year. Built 1889 for the Universal Exhibition in celebration of the French Revolution. Height 324 m. Friday 2 Aug 2002 they launched a new website with panoramas photographed by Denis Gliksman one of the veterans in VR photography. Enjoy the sundown from the second floor above and visit the site (produced by TRIMARAN) and see the other 18 panoramas showing the tower both as night and day views. PHOTOGRAPHER: Denis Gliksman www.gliksman.com Denis Gliksman is one of the veterans in VR photography. He is a photographer from Paris with more than 25 years of experience.

Read interview at VRMag Also by Denis Gliksman D-Day. San francisco. Hong Kong. Paris panorama. Barcelona. Constructed in the early 20th century, Eixample is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona known for the urban planning that divided the district into octagonal blocks. Influenced by a range of schools of architecture, Eixample Barcelona was designed in a grid pattern with long streets, wide avenues, and rounded street corners. Despite being in the center of a thriving European metropolis, the district provides improved living conditions for inhabitants including extensive sun light, improved ventilation, and more open green space for public use.

And of course, the result from the grid-like structure is astounding from above: