Stunning Places

The artist is known for his trademark sculptures made out of wooden planks. His installations are built to provoke reaction and to intervene in the daily life of passersby confronted with his sculptures. Quinze sees his installations as places where people meet each other again and start conversations. [Source]

Red seabeach, located in Dawa County, Panjin Liaoning, China. The Sueda species is one of the few species of grass that can live in highly alkaline soil. Its growth cycle starts in April when it is coloured light red, while the colour of the mature species is deep red. [Source]

Quite literally, in fact, since it's located very close to the actual geographical center of Australia. The official name is actually Uluru, which is a lot easier to pronounce than the name of the local people of that area: Pitjantjatjara. The sandstone rock is 1,141 ft. high and covers 1.29 sq. miles of desert. [Source]

Hawa Mahal, is a palace in Jaipur, India. Its unique five-storey exterior is also akin to the honeycomb of the beehive with its 953 small windows called jharokhas that are decorated with intricate latticework. Built of red and pink sandstone, the palace is situated on the main thoroughfare in the heart of Jaipur’s business centre. It forms part of the City Palace, and extends to the Zenana or women's chambers, the chambers of the harem. It is particularly striking when viewed early in the morning, lit with the golden light of sunrise. [Wiki]

The Plaza Athénée is a hotel in Paris, France. It is located at 25 Avenue Montaigne, near the Champs-Élysées and the Eiffel Tower. It is part of the Dorchester Collection group of international luxury hotels.
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Lady's slipper orchids are orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioideae, which includes the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium.They are characterised by the slipper-shaped pouches of the flowers – the pouch traps insects so they are forced to climb up past the staminode, behind which they collect or deposit pollinia, thus fertilizing the flower. Unlike other orchids, Cypripedioideae have two fertile anthers they are "diandrous".
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The designers of the Pavilion, Pernilla & Asif, are critically acclaimed up-and-coming architects who were selected through a process designed to help discover the next big architectural talent in the UK and give them an opportunity to showcase their talents at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. [Source]

Amazing snap. Lava fall in the middle of the Ice mountain in Iceland. [Source]

Urban design and landscape architects west 8 has sent us images of the recently completed 'garden of 10,000 bridges', a project conceived for the 2011 xi'an international horticulture exhibition in china. the design explores the notion of poetry and narratives through a winding pathway that oscillates from ground level to a raised span. [Source]

Dennis Oppenheim was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. He is Coming out of the conceptual art movement, Oppenheim's early work was associated both with performance/body art and the early earthworks/land art movement. This is one his Beautiful creation. [Source]

Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, flowing from the tongue of the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica. The reddish deposit was found in 1911 by the Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, who first explored the valley that bears his name. The Antarctica pioneers first attributed the red color to red algae, but later it was proven to be due only to iron oxides. [Wiki]

The Traffic Light tree was created by French sculptor Pierre Vivant following a competition run by the Public Art Commissions Agency. The Traffic Light tree was installed in 1998 on the site of a plane tree, that was suffering as a result of pollution. It was initially intended that the lights would be triggered to reflect flurries of activity on the London Stock Exchange, but this proved to be too expensive to put into practice. The Traffic Light was situated on a roundabout near Canary Wharf, at the junctions of Heron Quay Bank, Marsh Wall and Westferry Road in one of London's financial districts. [Wiki]

MEITAN, China-At 73.8 meters in height, and featuring a floor area of over 5,000 square meters, this unique teapot museum of Meitan, south west China, sets the new world record for the Largest Teapot Monument. With a maximum diameter of 24 meters, and a capacity of 28,360.23 cubic meters, the Meitan tea museum is by far the World's Largest Teapot Monument. China's Meitan County is known as the "hometown of Chinese green tea", and the reputation of Meitan green tea has surpassed national borders, so there was really no better place to build a museum of tea culture. [Source]

Unusual scene. A Tree growing out side of the building wall. Some amazing beauty of the nature. Nature Have some beautiful unusual powers. [Source]

Red Beach is a suburb and beach on the Hibiscus Coast, Orewa, New Zealand. But the majority of traffic travels along the Northern motorway inland instead, and the motorway will be redesignated as State Highway 1 when an extension is complete in 2009. [Source]