The Astounding Design Of Eixample, 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: The Tunnel Of Trees.
200th Photo Contest Winners: A Day in the Life of NOAA. Spiral Patterns on snow in the Rocky Mountains & Illusion & The Most Amazing Creations in Art, Photography, Design, and Video. - StumbleUpon. Artist Sonja Hinrichsen teamed up with five volunteers to create an outdoor art installation entitled “Snow Drawings.”
Link via Bored Panda Photos © Cedar Beauregard. Drowning Beautiful. Chinas Abandoned Wonderland - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - StumbleUpon. In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn.
Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be "the largest amusement park in Asia," stopped around 1998 after disagreements with the local government and farmers over property prices. Developers briefly tried to restart construction in 2008, but without success. Bus Graveyard on the Behance Network. Souvenirs vs The Real Thing. Very neat. (Must Watch!) Overgrown Railroad Tracks in the Forest. - StumbleUpon. Photo Library. - StumbleUpon. Create A Personal Planet With Google Street View. Photo by Ryan Alexander.
No man is an island (unless you’re Simon & Garfunkel), but what if your home was a planet? Not an independent planet within a solar system, but rather your street, your house, backyard and front yard were all part of its own self-contained globe. What would that look like? A new project called Stereographic Street View transforms any location into its own three dimensional panoramic floating island.