Month: July 2007

Dam architecture

Why not build your house like a gigantic gravity dam? It wouldn’t have to hold back water – so there’d be no flooding to worry about – and you’d have big windows on either side. You’d span canyons and have an incredible roof deck.

wow. check out the “apartments in dams” picture. this blog is pure crack

Europe railways

Whether through competition, co-operation or both, a plethora of European directives such as the “Railway Interoperability Directive” and the “Third Railway Package” will encourage the emergence of this new era of international rail travel. Rail bosses note that on 6-hour journeys they are typically winning more than 60% of the leisure market from airlines. The same is happening with business travelers on 4-hour journeys. It may be a while before you can choose between a French TGV or a German ICE to ride to Bucharest or even Naples. But as when Lenin sped in his sealed carriage through war-torn Germany 90 years ago, the train of revolution has left the station.

london – paris at 2:20. suck it, airlines.

Galaxiki

would be way better if based on a mature setting like orion’s arm. instead, we get a mostly empty site with the very occasional hello world. but then again, maybe that is closer to the real galaxy.