blockpaua

hansaviertel / berlin / germany

visualization of a housing project — nuuk / greenland

drawing from argentina

lithuania

beijing / china

(An image from the Changping County 12th Five Year Plan. Changping is over 20 miles north of central Beijing. H/T Piper Gaubatz.)

this beats everything (in a sad way).

ghuangzhou / china

any guesses how many people live in this complex?

shenzhen / china

hard to imagine that only 30.000 people lived in shenzhen during the 1970s. today it’s the wealthiest city in china with over 12 million inhabitants.

shenzhen / china

last week i’ve stumpled upon the chinese map service baidu. the site has a special feature that allows you to view some of china’s biggest cities as illustrated 3d-maps. the site seems to be quite overloaded and it takes a lot of time to browse it but i managed to capture some screenshots that made me go: “whoa!”

beijing / china

highrises

james gulliver hancock wants to draw all the buildings in new york. and guess what? there are blocks in new york too! — manhattan / new york / usa

kurfuerstendamned put up a bunch of 3D-graphics redrawing what berlin-spandau looked like in the 80’s.

spandau / berlin / germany

pihläjämäki / helsinki / finland

wolgast / germany