Archive for January, 2010

Leaf House

Posted under Architecture on Saturday, 16 January 2010 by
London studio Undercurrent Architects have completed a pavilion in Sydney, Australia, with a roof that resembles fallen leaves. Overlapping plates form the roof, supported by a twisting tubular steel structure that resembles...
Leaf House

Blue Eye of Siberia

Posted under Nature on Tuesday, 5 January 2010 by
Lake Baikal (Russian: Baygal nuur, meaning “the rich lake”) is in southern Siberia in Russia. It is also known as the “Blue Eye of Siberia”. It contains more water than all of the North American Great Lakes combined. At 1,637 meters (5,370 ft), Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the...
Blue Eye of Siberia

Golden Monkey

Posted under Animals, Nature, Photos on Saturday, 2 January 2010 by
A golden monkey eats pine-cones. Golden monkeys are rare and obscure, and they're just beginning to be studied. They are highly endangered, so it's a race to study them before they disappear. Living in the mountains of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces, Chinese golden monkeys are seeing...
Golden Monkey