Hole in the Clouds

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The Floating Egg

May 9, 2012

The National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing is an ellipsoidal dome of glass and titanium completely surrounded by an artifical lake; the only entrance to the three theaters inside the dome is via a tunnel underneath the lake.

The architect is Paul Andreu, a Frenchman who spent most of his career designing airports, including those at Dubai, Cairo, Shanghai, Jakarta, Manila, and both airports in Paris. He's been busy lately working on structures for the Olympics in Kazakhstan.

architecture Beijing opera reflection National Center for the Performing Arts (Image credit: Trey Ratliffe, via stuckincustoms.com)

One from Two

Jul 19, 2013

The top of One Liberty Place, way above the setting sun, as viewed from about 500 feet up in Two Liberty Place, a block away.

The spire of One Liberty Place is said to top out 945 feet above the ground.

cityscape night sunset skyline clouds One Liberty Place skyscraper reflection Philly

From My Mother's Kitchen Window

Nov 16, 2013

In the morning, in Bethesda, Maryland.

My mother-in-law's window also offers a fine view.

window Bethesda, MD reflection courtyard Helen B. Highland Park, IL Sandra H. (Image credit: Little Fuji)

Rabin Lights

Nov 17, 2013

Smokestacks of Israel's largest power plant, Orot Rabin, loom over the beach at Hadera, north of Tel Aviv. The plant's coal-fired turbines produce almost one-quarter of Israel's electricity.

The low structures leading from the chimneys to the left edge of the picture are part of the power station's coal port offshore in the Mediterranean, where ships offload 18,000 tons of coal every day.

The plant is called Orot Rabin–Rabin Lights–in remembrance of Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. Electricity generated here lights much of the country, producing something like the memorial lights of Jewish tradition, helping to keep alive the memory of those who are gone.

landscape beach clouds Mediterranean industry reflection electricity coal-powered Hadera Israel power plant (Image credit: Gilad Benari)

Eyeing

Mar 22, 2014

When the photographer snagged this zebra, he was shooting from the open window of the car that had caught the zebra's eye.

animal portrait reflection zebra close-up eye (Image credit: Eclectant)

Skipped

Feb 10, 2015

It was a nice flat little rock that hopped across a nice icy little river, at the foot of a nice little rocky mountain in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia.

To see how it's done, see here.

West Virginia water reflection Cacapon River ripples (Image credit: Fuji T)

Heading Both Ways

Feb 21, 2017

With shopping bags, at the new town hall building in the Palaio Faliro district of Athens.

cityscape Greece architecture reflection walking Athens glass (Image credit: Dimitris Polydoropoulos)