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Inlaid flowers across Sheikh Zayed mosque’s 183,000-square-foot marble courtyard.

Photograph by Dave Yoder, National Geographic

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Empire of Dust Amélie Labourdette

Amélie Labourdette interrogates which is in the landscape is a priori invisible. There is always a blurred zone of concern and a landscape located below the visible landscape, another landscape that is not given at first gaze.

This series of photographs, Empire of dust has been realized in south Italy, in the regions of Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia, where financial crises and embezzlement have made of the incompleteness, an architectural aesthetics.

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Scars on the Earth | Emmet Gowin | Socks Studio

US artist Emmet Gowin discovered aerial photography after receiving a scholarship from the Seattle Arts Commission in 1980 and consequently being asked to photograph the massive eruption of Mount Saint Helens. Since then, she has been taking black-and-white pictures of the surface of the Earth for over twenty years documenting the landscape of the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Gowin’s pictures record the impact of human action on the planet in a subtle yet very impactful way. Her subjects are ammunition storages and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, nuclear test sites and battlefields which from above look like abstract shapes superposed to natural features. The reading of Gowin’s photos requires a double level of attention: while at first they appear as a compelling, almost romanticized, landscapes, at a second look they reveal the traces of man’s exploitation of the planet.

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SOFTlab’s Nova Pavilion reflects kaleidoscopic views of New York’s Flatiron District

Photos by Alan Tansey

At the foot of New York’s soaring Flatiron Building, local design studio SOFTlab has built an aluminum pavilion that reflects and reveals kaleidoscopic views of the surrounding cityscape. ‘Nova’, commissioned by the Flatiron 23rd street partnership following a competition by the Van Alen Institute, offers glimpses of the ever-shifting landscape of neighboring towers and bustling pedestrian traffic through a series of scopes.

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obr architetti / residenza lh2, clapham old town london

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Church emerges from the water in a reservoir in Mexico

The remains of a mid-16th century church known as the Temple of Santiago, as well as the Temple of Quechula, is visible from the surface of the Grijalva River, which feeds the Nezahualcoyotl reservoir, due to the lack of rain near the town of Nueva Quechula, in Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.

Picture: David Von Blohn/Associated Press

Source: Mashable