These are cut by lasers on mounting board. Fascinating and beautiful. Each map takes about 2 hours to cut.
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2012 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
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This is believed to be the only photo ever taken of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. And it’s for sale.
China’s Guangzhou opera house perches on a patch of grass like a spaceship that’s just touched down. (Photo from “Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls” by Victoria Newhouse)
In the last decade, concert hall construction has been booming. And according to architectural historian Victoria Newhouse, these buildings are changing our experience of live music in unexpected ways. She singles out two that reflect the extremes of the concert hall boom: the nearly billion-dollar opera house in Oslo, Norway (where visitors can walk on a slanted roof that leads to water) and the brand new opera house in Guangzhou, China, designed by Zaha Hadid. More.