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Paul Octavious has visited the same hill for the past 2 years, and documented the location. He says “Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.” Quite beautiful work.

In 1984, Vodafone was a tiny UK startup. Today, it is one of the world’s leading mobile telecommunications companies with activities around the globe. Vodafone’s well publicized Portuguese headquarters is located on Avenida da Boavista in Porto (Oporto), the namesake of Port wine and Portugal’s second global city after Lisbon.

The delightfully modern building was designed by architects José António Barbosa and Pedro Guimarães of Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos.

In Maracon, Switzerland, it is a beautiful and contemporary house by Swiss architectural practice Localarchitecture sitting in the Swiss countryside, it was designed to respect the morphology and scale of the other constructions in the village.

These base jumpers defy common sense and bend gravity with their wing suits. Simply amazing. 

These people defy common sense and bend gravity. Truly incredible. 

Interesting materials and architecture used to convert an old warehouse into a space for public events. 

Evolver is an architectural artefact intervening on the panorama surrounding Zermatt. It was designed and executed by a team of 2nd year students from the ALICE Studio (photographs by joel tettamanti), at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In an effort to take full advantage of the site’s extensive and astounding views, the project sits strategically next to the lake Stelli at an altitude of 2,536 m (8,320 feet).

Sited south of the Yarra River in one of Melbourne’s many beautiful neighbourhoods. The team of architects won an Architecture Award for Interior Architecture at the 2009 Victorian Chapter Awards.

Japanese town logos — official symbols designed to communicate the identity of each municipality — come in a vast array of shapes and colors. Many of these municipal symbols incorporate typographical elements (particularly kanji, hiragana, katakana, and Roman letters) into their designs. In most cases, the stylized characters are straightforward and easy to spot (even if you don’t read Japanese), but sometimes you have to bend your eyes to see them. The more complex logos encode the name of the town into a puzzle-like symbol that begs to be deciphered. You can see a more extensive list at the original post from pink tentacle.

Breathtaking video shot by Jon Rawlinson with the new canon 5D MRKII at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan.