The Floating Houses of IJburg, Amsterdam
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2015
The IJburg neighbourhood is the latest district of Amsterdam built over a number of artificial islands which have been raised from the IJmee...
An Abandoned Fishing Village on Gouqi Island, China
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2015
Gouqi Island belongs to a group of nearly 400 islands known as Shengsi Islands, and form a part of the Zhoushan Archipelago, located outside...
Guy Laramee’s Latest Book Carvings of Brazilian Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 6, 2015
Master sculptor Guy Laramee ( previously on Amusing Planet ) who specializes in book carving has unveiled his latest series of book sculptu...
Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2015
For as long as one can remember, the people of Belgium wanted to have an inland waterway that connected the Meuse river with the Scheldt riv...
Heligoland: the German Island the British Tried to Destroy
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 5, 2015
At the end of the Second World War, the British Army had a huge surplus of ammunition and explosives that started to give them ideas. It was...
Which Airports are Farthest From the City They Serve?
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2015
A city always begins with one airport, usually located outside the city limits to allow the city some space to grow, but still close enough ...
Manik & Ratan’s Pet Dragon Interacts With Everyday Objects
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 4, 2015
“Everything we know about you guys is wrong,” said Hiccup in the DreamWorks Animation movie How to Train Your Dragon . “They're not what...
Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2015
The Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark is a volcanic field located 110 km east-northeast of Tonopah in Nye County, in central Nevada. Th...
St. Louis City Museum in an Abandoned Shoe Factory
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2015
The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, isn’t really a museum. It’s actually a 600,000 square-foot playground housed in a former shoe factor...
The Gaudy South Indian Houses That Inspired Ettore Sottsass
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
Tiruvannamalai, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a small town of 144,000-odd people with a strange taste in architecture. The hou...
