The Rocks That Give Birth
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 12, 2018
In the Freita mountain range in northern Portugal, close to a village called Castanheira, is a huge block of granite that periodically eject...
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Yaodong: China’s Pit Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2018
For more than four thousand years, on the Loess Plateau in northern China, people have been residing in caves known as yaodong, which is Chi...
Rainbow Colored Mountains
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2018
Soil is typically brown, but when mixed with the right minerals in right quantities, it can yield a fascinating range of colors. You can see...
Tianducheng: A Fake Paris in China
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2018
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
The Floating Fish Farms of China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2017
In the sheltered coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are large fish farms whe...
The Mystery of The Longyou Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2017
In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...
The Moving Facade of Bund Finance Center, Shanghai
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2017
A new financial quarter is being built near the waterfront of Shanghai's old town. Designed by British architectural firms, Foster + Par...
The Temple of The Flying Monks
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2017
That tiny orange figure levitating above this futuristic structure high on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, is indeed a monk, al...
Lucky Knot Bridge in Changsha, China
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2016
A curvaceous new footbridge inspired by the Mobius strip has opened in Changsha, China, that offers pedestrians a variety of different route...
Taipei’s Typhoon-Bent Mailboxes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
In August 2015, a powerful typhoon named Soudelor slammed into the east coast of Taiwan bringing torrential rain and fierce wind in excess o...
