Living in the light of God
Located in Hamburg, Germany, built above an old 1960's waterfront warehouse is a cultural complex, with a public plaza, a hotel, apartments, and a philharmonic hall. Swiss architects from Herzog & de Meuron completed this liquid-looking, ephemeral glass tent-like structure in 2012.
Located in Mumbai, India and designed by James Law Cybertecture International firm, the Cybertecture Egg entangles materials of technology, multimedia, intelligence and interactivity. It uses much less surface area than average buildings. According to its designers the concept for the structure was ...
Located on Lake Neuchatel in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, the Blur Building was designed by Diller & Scofidio for the Swiss Expo of 2000. Regarded as 'structure which blends into its surroundings', the Blur building is made by spraying tiny drops of lake water from 31500 jets that adjust to ...
Located in Graz, Austria, and designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, the Kunsthaus is an avant-garde "celluloid" building that is 2,500 square meter in its area. it is dotted in sleek skin with adjustable lights and create an external image belying the art museums interior collection. The valve ...
Located in Rio de Janiero, this building resembles a flying saucer, and looks even more so when it is lit up at night. It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The gorgeous views of the Guanabara Bay, Sugarloaf Mountain, and the surrounding cityscape can be experience at the end of the winding res path ...
In 2010 a catastrphic 7.0 magnitude earthquake his Haiti, with the epicenter near Leogane (west coast), about 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti`s capital. It had a depth of 8.1 miles, with 59 aftershocks ranging from 4.2 to 5.9 magnitudes in strength. The strongest earthquake to hit the country ...
August 1931, torrential rains hit southern China, which caused the Yangtze River to flood killing nearly 3.7 million people. This was considered the worst natural disaster of the 20th century. Abnormal weather over central China began in the winter of late 1930. this was followed by a Spring thaw ...
April 3-4, 1974 was the most violent tornado outbreak ever recorded, with 148 tornadoes passing through 13 states including, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York, within 24 hours, leaving 330 ...
