London studio Undercurrent Architects have completed a pavilion in Sydney, Australia, with a roof that resembles fallen leaves.
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
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 world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.
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 their habitats disappear rapidly as the countryside is cleared for more pastures, villages, and roads.
The monkeys are killed for their beautiful fire-orange fur and also their bones, which are believed by Asians to hold special medicinal powers.
Leaf House
Blue Eye of Siberia
Golden Monkey
Rufous Hummingbird