Dropping Balls to Tell Time
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2016
Everyday, at five minutes to one, a bright orange ball on the roof of Flamsteed House at Greenwich’s Old Observatory in London, slides half-...
Artist Installs Floating Piers on Italian Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
A three-kilometer-long floating walkway made up of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes connect two small islands to the shore on Lake Is...
America’s Oldest Mall Converted Into Micro-Apartments
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
The Westminster Arcade, also known as the Providence Arcade, in Providence, Rhode Island, was opened in 1828 as America’s first enclosed sho...
Velká Amerika: The Czech Grand Canyon
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 14, 2016
Velká Amerika, or the Great America, is an abandoned limestone quarry located near the village of Mořina, in the Central Bohemian Region of ...
The Island Town of Sviyazhsk
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2016
When Ivan the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Moscow and the first Tsar of Russia, ascended the throne in the middle of the 16th century, he d...
Mount Conner: The Rock That Fools You
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2016
One of Australia’s most recognizable natural icon is a large sandstone rock formation called Ayer’s Rock or Uluru, located about 450 km away...
The Ancient Aqueducts of Nazca Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
Dotting the landscape across the dry valleys of southern Peru, near the city of Nazca, an area famous for the mysterious Nazca lines, are la...
The Haytor Granite Tramway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
To the north of Haytor Rocks, on the eastern edge of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon, are the disused remains of an old granite quar...
The Murals of Sherbrooke
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2016
Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...
The Alpine Lakes And Waterfalls of Jiuzhaigou
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2016
The Jiuzhaigou Valley, located at the foot of the snow-capped Minshan Mountain, in the north of Sichuan province, China, is a place of excep...
