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World’s First Solar Powered Stadium In Taiwan

Taiwan recently finished construction on a solar-powered stadium that will generate 100% of its electricity from photovoltaic technology Designed by Toyo Ito. The 50,000-seat arena will officially open later this year to welcome the 2009 World G ames which features many sports not included in the Olympics Such as parachuting, tenpin bowling and rugby sevens

Banpo Bridge – Fountain Bridge

What was once an ordinary bridge in South Korea, is now a world wide attraction. The Banpo Bridge spans the Han River in Seoul, Korea. Drivers on this bridge are treated to an amazing water display as they pass across the bridge. Similar to driving through big puddle of water. A network of water canons [...]

The real Avatar Floating Mountain

The mountains used in the block buster movie Avatar were previously called as Southern Sky Mountains. These mountains are situated in a beautiful part of southern China. These Mountains which have recently been renamed to the Avatar Hallelujah Mountains after the floating mountains. The floating Hallelujah Mountains in the movie were the inspiration of a [...]

Huacachina

Only 5 km from Ica lies the desert oasis of Huacachina. It is a small lake with medicinal water, lying in the middle of a spectacular sand desert which make you think you are in the Sahara. You can walk around, swim, relax, and when you can afford it you can take a room or [...]

Telectroscope

The Telectroscope was born from a very old, wacky idea of digging a tunnel to the other side of the world. Many of us had this idea or at least saw it in practice in children’s cartoons but nobody was crazy enough to try it. Nobody except artist Paul St. George who actually did it…sort [...]

Kinkaku – The Golden Pavilion

Built in 1397 as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Kinkaku is a three-story building, with the last two, fully covered with pure gold leaf. The temple was set on fire by a monk in 1950, but it was restored and the new gold coating dating from 1987 is much thicker than the original [...]

World’s Most Expensive Engineering Projects

Here is a list of the world’s most expensive engineering projects with estimated costs and short descriptions of each project (sources: iCivilEngineer, China Daily, Wikipedia). Some of the projects are already completed, some are under construction, so the cost estimates are not definitive. 5. Gerald R. Ford Class Aircraft Carrier: 8.1 billion USD Artist’s concept of [...]

The World’s Smallest Ring Gun

Highway Passing Through A Building

Gate Tower Building is a 16-story office building in Fukushima-ku, Osaka , Japan . And what makes it notable is the highway that passes through the 5th-7th floors of this building. The highway is part of the Hanshin Expressway, a network (239.3 km) of expressways surrounding Osaka , Kobe and Kyoto , Japan . The [...]