Archive for November, 2008
Kazakhstan Futuristic Pyramid

Since 2006, kazakhstan’s new capital city of astana, itself an enormous hub of construction since it inherited the title in 1997, has been home to one of the world’s most impressive and visually futuristic pyramids, known as the palace of peace and reconciliation. it was designed by british super-architects foster + partners, cost 8.74 billion kazakh tenge (i don’t need to tell you bright young humans that this equates to approx. £35m) and was built to accommodate the triennial ‘congress of world and traditional religions’. if there was ever a positive to be found for the existence of the idiocy we know and love as religion, this building could be it, as after an impressively rapid 2 years of design and construction, the end product is a masterpiece.

The visible 5-storey pyramid section of the palace is as high as its base is wide (203ft) and is to be the centrepiece of the country’s ‘presidential park’.

A plan of the pyramid. the interior is just as impressive as the outer skin. this place is like a tardis and below the above-ground pyramid itself sits, amongst other things, an enormous 1’500 seat opera house – see final photo below.
Japan Skyscrapers

Roppongi Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Skyscraper.
by sunset_k08
25 Pictures Skyscrapers…
Philippines Island

White Beach, Boracay Island, Philippines.
by elmar
20 Paradise Pictures Philippines Islands.
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