
Published in the New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 2 1932. Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a photograph taken atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller […]
Rue de Lyon, Paris, France, 1910. Photo: Albert Chevojon
In the foreground we can see the famous Burj Al Arab hotel.
Some of Delhi’s neighborhoods, India, are not green at all.
The sun can’t shine through like that now due to the surrounding tall skyscrapers.
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 16:00 on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for […]
Colourful Russian dachas near the city of Arkhangelsk are contrasted against the white snow covering the town.
Yemen’s old walled city of Shibam is the oldest metropolis in the world to use vertical construction with mud (until 8 floors!).