Showing posts with label building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label building. Show all posts

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Draw me some stars on the sky

Have you ever looked at the skies and thought: "Ah, that looks like three guys, two of whom are drawing stars.., and a poodle, and a cat"? Well, Thomas Lamadieu has.

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Here you can find more of his work.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Tomorrow is (always) the day

You know how sometimes in the evening you make a big plan for the next day?
With all those things you are sure you will start doing from the second you wake up..
And, of course, you are planning to wake up early...



Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Get hooked

When you look up, you can see that most of the buildings in Amsterdam have these devices sticking out from under the roofs.

 
I was told that, due to the steep narrow staircases, hardly anything can be taken up the stairs. So, these hooks on ropes are used to lift furniture, which you then pull into your apartment through the window.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

What time is it?

Putting a sun-clock on a building in the center of a beautiful city, is a great idea... Unless the city is in a no-sun country.


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Monday, April 2, 2012

The city of the tilted buildings

Have you even been to Amsterdam? Did you notice that quite a lot of the buildings there are pretending to be The Leaning Tower of Pisa?

Like this one, in the middle:


Or maybe this picture makes for better demonstration:


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