Mukesh Ambani's Billion-Dollar Home picture
The currently-constructing architect in downtown Mumbai will cost around $2 billion and be 550 feet high with 400,000 square feet of interior space when it is finished in January, 2009. The future 27-story Ambani home named Antilla will host nine elevators, six floors of parking, a four-story vertical garden, and three rooftop helicopter landing pads. Undeniably, it will be the world's largest and most expensive home on the planet. Link
Received from a circulated email:
A Polish businessman and philanthropist says he has built this upside down house to remind people of wrongdoings against humanity. The house has been attracting thousands of tourists. People visiting the house start to feel sea-sick once they are inside. "Mankind spoiling this world, and only mankind can fix it...", the owner of this new wonder said. The house took 5 times longer to build than a normal house.
It took 114 days to build the structure - a typical project made by Czapiewski's cooperation which specializes in wooden houses, would normally take 21 days to construct. He remembers that his workers had to take an hour's break every three hours while working inside the house because they were feeling disorientated and confused from the strange angles of the walls.
The facility will be put into use during the forthcoming Spring Festival in February 2008.
Source: CRI
SWASTIKA
? The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the 1960s, are on the Coronado amphibious base and serve as a barracks for Seabees. From the ground, or even adjoining buildings, the configuration cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view.
But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis.
So now the U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.
In August, UK' Barclays removed their 317-year-old Eagle emblem from its headquarters after it was complained about the resemblance to a Nazi Eagle symbol.
Source: Navy to mask Coronado's swastika-shaped barracks @ Latimes
The sign in the picture taken by nichollejean reads:
Pennsylvania Hospital
, is the first hospital in the U.S. Chartered by Colonial Assembly in 1751 for 'relief of the sick poor.' Benjamin Frankilin and Dr. Thomas Bond were its chief founders. First building, erected in 1755, is still used.
From Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia
The indefatigable Franklin raised money to help found the hospital in 1751, in conjunction with Dr. Thomas Bond. When the United States declared independence from Great Britain, the hospital was already 25 years old. Franklin also served on the hospital's original Board of Managers, as well as being its first secretary and second president.
The hospital's original home was the Pine Building, still a section of the hospital, which was built in three sections over 50 years. The primary architect, Samuel Rhodes, a member of the Carpenters' Company, took his inspiration from the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh [established in 1729].
via What is the oldest existing hospital in the US? @ Yahoo! Answers
The world’s largest and most advanced airport building - not only technologically, but also in terms of passenger experience, operational efficiency and sustainability – Beijing Airport
. The building is like a piano, and its stairs is in violin shape. It's learned that the building is primarily used to display models of the city new development projects. Link
After more than a decade of delays, China’s tallest building Shanghai World Financial Center is slicing through Shanghai’s hazy, skyscraper-studded skyline — a new trophy built by a Japanese property tycoon Mori Building Co.. The 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, a 1,614 foot wedge-shaped tower (shorter than 1667-foot high Taipei's 101 Building) with a rectangular hole at the very top, was topped out Friday September 14 as its last beam was laid.
Sparked by welding work, a fire broke out in an elevator shaft on the 40th floor of the building and was extinguished after more than an hour in August.
Among the Thousand Islands in the U.S.- Canada border Saint Lawrence River on Alexandria Bay in upper state New York, there is a pair of islands near Rockport called Zavikon. An international bridge between the bigger part of Zavikon in Canada and the smaller part in the USA, is deemed as the "world's shortest international bridge". One can see by the national flags on the bridge that Canada is on the left and America is on the right.
Source: the world’s shortest international bridge @ Deputy-dog
Can't imagine that there is such a beautiful road with totally no trees on its two sides.
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road
The road is cut into the Jebel Hafeet Mountain
, the highest peak in the United Arab Emirates , the oil-rich Persian Gulf state. The mountain spans the border with Oman and lies about 90 minutes' drive southeast of the thriving city of Dubai . It looks down upon a dusty, desert landscape that belies a nation of astonishing wealth.
Source: Mountain Road in UAE @ Fordac's Blog
KI introduced this stunning 109,000-square-foot house in his blog
This is a view of the Biltmore house from the Esplanade which is probably about 1/4 mile from the house. How would you like to mow that lawn? The size of the living space in the house is about 4 acres and it is the largest private residence in the U.S. It was built by George Vanderbilt who inherited a vast fortune. His grandfather Cornelius amassed the unheard of $150 million in shipping and railroads. Cornelius' son doubled the fortune to $300 million which in today's money would be worth about 90 some odd billion if I heard the tape correctly. But they had no sinks in the 43 bathrooms even if they had the then new commodes.
See also Arnold Chase's Mega Mansion, Among USA's Largest Single Family Houses
Who is Arnold Chase? Too many people are now keen to know him. He is a West Hartford-based businessman, the boss of Gemini Networks. He has donated 66 miles of fiber optic cable to Hartford residents for their wireless access and once constructed WTIC-TV, FOX's Channel 61.
Currently, Arnold Chase, is building a mega 50,900-square-foot mansion at his town in New England of Connecticut. Together with the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina,109,000-square-foot (10,125-square-meter), Oheka Castle in Huntington and Donald Trump's 80,000-square-foot (7,430-square-meter) Maison de l'Amitie in Palm Beach, Florida, Arnold Chase's masion will become one of largest single family house in US.
The enormity of the house Arnold Chase is building on Avon Mountain is not fully apparent from the outside, where only 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters) of it lies in plain view.
It is the two-level, 33,500-square-foot (3,110-square-meter) basement complex, complete with a 103-seat movie theater, ticket booth, concession stand, game room and music annex, that will make it the largest occupied single-family home in the New England states in the northeast U.S.
At nearly 50,900 square feet (4,730 square meters), the Chase home will be slightly larger than billionaire Bill Gates' home in Washington state, about 4,000 square feet (372 square meters) smaller than the White House and 20 times larger than the average-size home in America.
Besides the two-tiered movie theater, soda fountain and men's and women's bathrooms, the Chase home will include a 400-square-foot (37-square-meter) "observatory," five bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and five half bathrooms, according to documents filed with the West Hartford planning office. The game room, in the "upper" basement, will take up nearly 4,900 square feet (455 square meters) — nearly twice as big as the average-size house.
Source: AP via Hfxnews earlier seen at SN
Indeed Beautiful! Amazing in appearance, The Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque is too beautiful to be true. The Holy Place is Brunei's proudest architectural achievement. It sits on an artificial lagoon near the Brunei River in Kampong Ayer, which is appropriately enough, known as a 'water village.' A structure in the water that resembles a ship was at one time used for official state ceremonies. The mosque is the largest in the Far East, and considered among the most beautiful in the world. It reaches a height of 52 meters and is topped with a gold dome supported by walls of Italian marble, which also forms the mosque's columns, arches, and towers. The stained glass was hand made in England and the carpets are Saudi Arabia.
Dubbed as the oldest skyscraper-city in the world, or Manhattan of the desert, Town Shibam located at Hadramawt of mideast country Yemen was once the capital of the Hadramawt Kingdom. (It is somewhat disappointed that my Yemeni friends never talk about it before.)
Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, but most of the city's houses come mainly from the 16th century and currently has about 7,000 inhabitants. The Shibam houses safeguarded under UNESCO's human cultural heritage programme are made out of mud bricks, with only about 500 tower houses currently still there, rising 5 to 9 stories high. Inside the city there is virtually no traffic due to the extremely narrow alleyways.
The following is a Youtube video tour of Shibam Town
Archnet.org hosts a photo gallery on this human heritage.
Source: Wiki & Deputy-dog
It's excited when knowing Safeway Homes that can withstand hurricane force winds! Let's take a look at some of the special features that Safeway Homes can offer Safeway Homes have a special roof cap system which means that any Safeway Homes can be weather tight in only a few hours. As there is usually a few days notice if a hurricane is coming, then Safeway Homes can easily be made ready to protect you and your family in that time.It is so great, especially for the people living in hurricane risk areas! LinkSafeway Homes also are built to be capable for standing 150 mph winds, so Safeway Homes should be okay in the event of a hurricane.
The under-constructing China's highest building Shanghai World Financial Centre caught a fire on a high floor at afternoon of August 14, 2007. Shanghai Firemen have managed to put it out in one and a half hours. There were no casualties and the exact cause of fire is being investigated. Link
The under-constructing Burj Dubai has reached to the 141st story, with a height of 512 meters, it has overtaken Taiwan's 508-meter-tall Taipei 101 and become the world's tallest building. The Burj Dubai sets to be the Symbol of Dubai by standing at more than 693 meters once it completes in the oil rich Gulf state of Dubai at the end of 2008. Link
From Japan Probe Some folks at the Nagano branch of the Bank of Japan have created a 1/70 scale replica of Matsumoto Castle out of paper money. About 100 million yen [818,000 US dollars] of out of circulation 5,000 and 10,000 yen bills were used in its construction. The 70 centimeter tall replica was build to commerate the 100th anniversary of the creation of Matsumoto City.
At first glance, I believe the buildings are just parts of an amusement park, but there are not.
The brick masters are at it again, and this time, they've recreated Switzerland in LEGO.Check out more photos at TechEblog
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