Watts Towers

Turm und Drang - einestages

Chicago World's Fair, 1933

Chicago Worlds Fair, 1933 | Retronaut

Construction of Tower Bridge, 1890s

Yugoslavian monuments

25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future | Crack Two

Fiat Lingotto

Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang

Florida landscapes

Human landscapes in SW Florida - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Shimizu's futuristic mega-projects

Futuristic mega-projects by Shimizu ::: Pink Tentacle

Nunavut buildings

I don't remember where I took these pictures from, but these are houses in the towns of Iqaluit and Igloolik in Nunavut, Canada's northernmost territory. Due to the extremely low temperatures and freezing winds, these are not build from regular building material but from resilient plastic if I recall correctly. Check out the link for a portrait of the typical Nunavut community Gjoa Haven, population 1000.

Gjoa Haven, Nunavut: A Community Profile

Reflection of mineral

Reflection of Mineral is a crazy small house in Tokyo, covering just 44 square meters, designed by Yasuhiro Yamashita. Really neat though and it has a covered area for a car. I like!

Toxel.com: Modern Compact House in Tokyo

Hitler's new chancellery

For building the Neue Reichkanzlei (Reich Chancellery), Hitler issued a blank cheque to his favorite architect Albert Speer. (In fact, the total costs exceeded 90 Million Reichsmark, more than a billion dollars today.)

Hitler wanted to create an impressive building to wow foreign diplomats, who were supposed to be intimidated by having to walk hundreds of meters through the building on expensive yet slippery marble before they would meet the Führer.

The sheer dimensions of the rooms and hallways (some up to 20 meters in heights) and the extravagant decorations (nearly 150 paintings were bought from museums) were designed to reflect the power of the Third Reich and instill in the visitor a sense of worthlessness.


Even though the building was only lightly damaged by air bombings, the Soviet occupation force decided to tear it down shortly after the ending of the war, as it had become one of the symbols of the Nazi reign. Some pieces of the extraordinary marble mosaics are said to have been reused in a Berlin subway station.

einestages: 70 Jahre Neue Reichskanzlei