Architecture, Planning and all the Weirdness in between

A student of town planning

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r/europe - Urban aesthetic in Warsaw

6,412 votes and 225 comments so far on Reddit

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Check this out. Take a ride on a suspended monorail in Japan. Some quirky transport infrastructure. The video is hypnotic and some of the routes it takes are quite exciting.

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The French Banksy of Fake Facades

The French are already really, really good at beautifying their towns and cities, but not every façade can look like it's straight out of a postcard– that is unless you enlist the services of Patrick Commecy. Let's just say this guy is the Banksy, the Michelangelo (or the Frida Kahlo) of fakery...

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On this day in music history: April 6, 1956 - The Capitol Tower in Hollywood, CA is dedicated. The newly opened headquarters for Capitol Records, located at 1750 Vine Street (near the famous corner of Hollywood and Vine) is a thirteen story circular building by architect Welton Beckett (Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Pan Pacific Auditorium, The Beverly Hilton), designed to look like a giant stack of records on a spindle. The blinking light on top of the building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse Code since the buildings’ official opening. It was temporarily changed to blink “Capitol 50” to celebrate the labels’ fiftieth anniversary in 1992. Since then it has returned to its original message. Besides  the labels business offices, it also houses three world class recording studios (with echo chambers designed by musician and technical innovator Les Paul) that remain highly in demand to this day. Also known as “the house that Nat built” (after musician Nat King Cole), The Capitol Tower becomes an iconic structure in Hollywood, and is added to the List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles in November of 2006.

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Pyramid of Austerlitz, built by bored Napoleonic troops in 1804 (Woudenberg, the Netherlands)

Via  harrymuesli on  Reddit

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North Mall, Cork City

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A sole needle of cityscape, a television tower pokes out of groundfog, Pecs, Hungary.

Image credit: Tamas Soki/AP

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Jeff Speck: Four Road Diets

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Flatland II: Warped Photographic Landscapes

Series by Aydın Büyüktaş

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A short video about the The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system

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Never built New York: the city that might have been – in pictures

From an elevated 19th-century pneumatic railway to a skyscraper cathedral and a Native American alternative to the Statue of Liberty, Never Built New York chronicles ambitious plans for the city which never saw the light of day

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This image is taken from the ‘Where We Live’ section of “Overview.” Learn more about the book here: http://amzn.to/2hNxMpr 26.604391°, –81,958473° (The Daily Overview Blog, 2016)

I was given a copy of this satellite / aerial photography book “Overview” for Christmas. The detail of each image and the informative textual insight makes for a fascinating gander.  Great for the coffee table. Visit the DailyOverview blog here for more great satellite images.

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A Visual Size Comparison of a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer and Manhattan

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#Important

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John Atkinson Grimshaw’s Canny Glasgow, 1887 (via here)

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The Niagara Hudson Building by National Register