Here are some frightening huge dust storms, from all over the world. Dust storms like these can be cross-continental events, eating up everything in their path for hundreds of miles. If they make it into the upper atmosphere, they have been known to travel to the other side of the world, carrying with them all manner of viruses and respiratory ailments. They are called apocalyptic dust storms.
Designed by Frank Gehry, 8 Spruce Street is the world’s largest residential tower at 867 feet tall with 903 residential units.Each apartment on the north side has a bay window that is not vertically aligned to its neighbor and each apartment is configured differently to fit the building’s seven-sided design which is comprised of 10,500 stainless steel panels of different shapes.
The new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal is being constructed on the site of Hong Kong’s former airport, at the tip of the old runway. Establishing Hong Kong as the preeminent regional hub for cruise liners, the terminal will have capacity to berth two large 360-metre-long vessels, each with more than 4,000 passengers and over 2,000 crew, as well as anticipating the demands of a next generation of larger ships.
“On the JR Yamanote Line, it’s common during peak times for cars designed to hold 160 passengers to carry twice that number.” ~Japan Today Photographer Michael Wolf’s “tokyo compression” focuses on tokyo’s underground system. Every day thousands and thousands of people enter this subsurface hell for two or more hours, constrained between glass, steel and other people who roll to their place of work and back home beneath the city.
In Wolf’s pictures you can look into countless human faces, all trying to sustain this evident madness in their own way. The Huffington Post called the series “zen commuters.”
