Bunker 599

Bunker 599, one of the small sproket in the New Dutch Waterline, it was originally built in 1940, to defense up to 13 soldiers during bombing raids of second world war and the intervention by Dutch Studios RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon Reveals. The small, dark space inside, which are normally hidden from view. The Defense used between 1815 and 1940 to protect the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by flooding the area with water. In 700 bunkers the Bunker 599 is slice through the solid concrete bunker in 40 days along the New Dutch Waterline, a part of the series of water-based defenses. The building has been rupture down from the middle and create a unique and competent war memories. Now days it is a part of tourist attraction. Ronad Rietveld of RAAAF said " Our aim with the project was to question the policies on monuments by doing this intervention." The set of stairs is also connect the near by road to path that leads through the center of the bunker onto a wooden boardwalk raised above the flooded area. 

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Rolling Bridge in London

London's Rolling Bridge is a type of curling or folding movable bridge is the part of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London. Inspite of the connotation of its name, it is more accurately described as Curling. Heatherwick Studio's was commissioned to designed by SKM Anthony hunt with Packman Lucas, and built by Littlehampton Welding Ltd. The Hydraulic design and development was done by Primary Fluid Power Ltd.

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The eight triangular sections hinged at the walkway level and connected above by two parts links that can collapsed towards the deck by Hydraulic Cylinders, which are concealed in vertical posts in the bridge parapets. The 12 meters long footbridge when it extended in resembles a conventional steel and timber. It allow the passage of boats, the hydraulic pistons are activated and the curls up until it two ends joins, to form an octagonal shape measuring 1 ½ of the waterway's width at that point.

Tuhala Witch's Well

The Witches' Well, located in Tuhala in northern Estonia is a famous phenomenon. Every year, the well explodes in an unusual way around March and April. The well is spewing water at a rate of 100 liters per hour, flooding the whole neighborhood. This is often accompanied by bubbling waters. People believe the Tuhala witches have created an underground sauna, and are whipping each other with birch whips. The great war took place in a very short time each year. The Witches' Well, which has a depth of 2.5m, returns to its peaceful original appearance for the remainder of the year. It is no different than ordinary wells.

Tianjin Porcelain House | The Private Museum

Tianjin Porcelain House is also known as ‘China House’ or ‘Yuebao House’ is a contemporary museum of pottery and antiques in Tianjin, china. The House was opened in September 2007. Tianjin Porcelain house is located on chifeng street in Heping Deistict, the Tainjin Commercial Center, which has been radically re-decorated bye its present owner, Zhang Lianzhi. The area of a House is 3000 square meters, 

The Old French style building with a history of over 100 years. Zhang Lianzhi  spent one million Yuan approx US$ 125,000 buying the house. The owner refurnish it with hundreds of thousand of porcelain pieces daiting from Tang (AD 618-907)  to Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. It is calculated more than 400 million pieces of ancient porcelain, 16 thousand pieces of ancient chinaware, 300 white-marble carvings, and 20 tons of natural crystals were used in the process, costing approximately over 2 billion RMB(Chinese currency). About 80 Percent of the porcelain used in the house is broken or damaged antiques. The these pieces had been carefully disguised when being pasted on the wall, and more lively and interesting composition and presented in 2007 for visitors.

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Building in munich re-imagined in 88 ways | Victor Enrich

Photographer Victor Enrich has re-imagined an interesting photos of a building in 88 différents configurations, Which he has captured in Munich, Germany. Victor Enrich, a Barcelona based photographer, For his most recent project, he took an image of the NH Deutscher Kaiser hotel and the the name Project NHDK. The Most are impossible twists and turns, but some pass as surprisingly realistic. Some of the renditions are pretty tough to see toward the end. But all of the images are available as prints in multiple sizes on Enrich's web. An exciting project, allowing the artist to show us the full extent of his imagination through a series of images.

Dune of pilat | The Largest Sand Dune in Europe

Natural phenomena - phenomena of nature, which is difficult to find a reasonable explanation. Great dune of pyla of pilat looking for tons of sand on the French coast, it seems that this is a joke of some wizard: take a piece of the Sahara and move it here, in the waters of the Bay of Biscay near the Bay of Arcachon, neatly stacked on the border of coniferous forests sixty kilometers from Bordeaux.

The Great Dune of PYLA, or PILAT (both spellings are corrects, oddly enough), the tallest sand dune in Europe.

The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku | Azerbaijan

Zaha Hadid Architects have designed the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. “The Heydar Aliyev Center hosts a variety of cultural programs, its design is a departure from the rigid and often monumental architecture of the former Soviet Union that is so prevalent in Baku, aspiring instead to express the sensibilities and diversity of Azeri culture. The Center’s design establishes a continuous, fluid relationship between its surrounding plaza and the building’s interior. The plaza, as the ground surface, accessible to all, rises to envelop an equally public interior and define a sequence of event spaces within. Undulations, folds, and inflections modify this surface to create an architectural landscape that performs a multitude of functions: welcoming, embracing, and directing visitors throughout the center; blurring the conventional differentiation between architecture and landscape, interior and exterior. Fluidity in architecture is not new to the region. The continuous calligraphic scripts and patterning of historical Islamic architecture flow from carpets to walls, walls to ceilings, ceilings to domes; establishing seamless relationships and blurring distinctions between architectural elements and the ground they inhabit. The Center’s design relates to this historical understanding of architecture, not through the use of mimicry or a limiting adherence to the iconography of the past, but with a firmly contemporary interpretation.”

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Grundtvig's Church | Copenhagen, Denmark

Grundtvig's Church or Grundtvigs Kirke is located in the Bispebjerg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a rare example of expressionist church architecture. Due to its unusual appearance, it is one of the best known churches in the city. The commission for the construction of a church to be named after the Danish philosopher and hymn writer N. F. S. Grundtvig was decided through a competition, won by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint in 1913. The foundation of the new church was only laid after World War I, on 8 September 1921, Grundtvig's birthday. Building took place mainly from 1921 to 1926 when the tower section was completed, leading to the initial inauguration of the so-called Tower Church in 1927. Further work on the interior and on adjacent buildings continued until 1940 and was completed by Klint's son Kaare Klint after his father's death in 1930. The church stands at the centre of a residential development (1924–36), also in yellow brick, designed by Jensen-Klint in harmony with the church.

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Murinsel River Bridge | Austria

Like a giant turtle shell or inverted in the midst of the river Mur in Graz is a unique bridge-island that so called - Murinsel, Mur Island.

The Murinsel — German, literally Mur island, in Graz, Austria, is actually not an island at all, but an artificial floating platform in the middle of the Mur river. This landmark of Graz was designed by New York artist Vito Acconci on the occasion of Graz becoming the 2003 European Capital of Culture.

The building is in the form of a giant sea shell and measures 47 m (154 ft) in length, about 350 people here who can spend time with children, spectate neighborhood, with this structure, they look totally different angle. Two footbridges connect it with both banks of the Mur. The center of the platform forms an amphitheatre. Below a twisted round dome there is a café and a playground.

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Island platform anchors secured to the bottom of the river resembles a sink with two uniform zones: open and closed. In one part of the shell-bridge, under glass, there is a cafe-bar in the other, under a clear sky - amphitheater. Between children's playground and a maze of ropes.

With two different coasts of the platform are metal ladders in the overall picture obtained bridge island. In the evening the lights gives an unusual sight, bridge island is revealed on the other hand, wrapped in a mysterious mystery. Bridge Murinzel became the new pride of the city. It was built temporarily for a period of celebration, but the locals have left him forever, as another cultural heritage of a new era.

Numerous Emotions and Fleeting Expressions By Uli Knorzer

Uli Knörzer studied visual communication at the Academy of Art and Design, Offenbach and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He currently lives in Berlin, working as an illustrator for various national and international magazines. A central theme of his art is the human being, whose numerous emotions and fleeting expressions he skillfully captures in minimal, precisely positioned pencil strokes. Uli's illustrations quietly celebrate the beauty of transient moments and it goes without saying that every observer is inevitably invited to this intimate celebration. Uli Knörzer —  Based: Berlin (Germany) / long-term: Paris (France), Speaks: German, English, French

Antirrhinum¸ Dragon skull flower | Snapdragon Seed

Skull flowers | The Execrable Complexion of Snapdragon Seed Pods — The Antirrhinum, commonly known as the snapdragon, has been a popular garden plant for many years, and is also known as the dragon flower, its common name derives from the flower's resemblance to a dragon's head.

When laterally squeezed, the dragon will open and close its mouth: ask any grandparent whose flowers have been decimated by over keen but clumsy grandchildren. Yet once the skull flower has died, leaving behind the snapdragon flower seed pod, something a little more macabre appears. The dragon skull flower – just a visual metaphor, after all – appears to have a skull.

Flowers that look like skulls, skull and flower 

Combe Laval Road | France

Route De Combe Laval — This road through Combe Laval is often referred to as the most beautiful road in the French Alps. It was built between 1861-1898. It originally served timber transportation from the Foret-de-Lente to St-Jean-en-Royans (France).

Serpent d’Océan – Sea Snake Skeleton

Stuck in a perpetual state of decay on the French shore at Saint Brevin Les Pins, the massive metal sculpture entitled Serpent D'Océan is a terrifying vision with an environmental message. 

Sea snake skeleton — The serpent d ocean skeleton was unveiled in 2012 as part of the Estuaire art exhibition, which invites international artists to create large-scale works using the Loire River's environment between Nantes to Saint-Nazaire. The result was produced by Chinese-French artist Huang Yong Ping, who used the rough iconography of China's mythological dragons to design the over 400-foot long serpent art monster. The beast is posed in slithering movement despite being nothing more than bone serpent, giving the light metal frame an unsettlingly life-like quality. 

Sea snake skeleton

Traditional Japanese Temari Handballs

A Spectacular collection of embroidered traditional Japanese Temari and balls by a 92-year old Japanese woman has amazed the world with her spectacular collection of embroidered traditional Japanese Temari handballs. We may never have seen them if not for her granddaughter, Flickr user NanaAkua, who posted photos of the entire collection on her profile. The small-toothed grandmother learned this technique in the 60s and, since then, her collection of large handmade Tamari has grown into about 500 different pieces.

Traditional Japanese Temari Handballs

The Highest waterfall in New York | Letchworth State Park

Letchworth State Park is a park that has beautiful waterfalls and is surrounded by beautiful nature. The Park is approximately 55 km southwest of Rochester and 95 km southeast of Buffalo in Livingston or Wyoming Counties. Letchworth State Park is home to the highest waterfall in New York. There are three large waterfalls in the park that run on the Genesee River, as well as as as many as fifty waterfalls that can be found on the tributaries of the river.