The Most Beautiful Train Stations in the World

A compilation of the most beautiful train station in the world…

Atocha Train Station — Madrid, Spain

 

Rossio Station — Lisbon, Portugal

Sirkeci Station — Istanbul, Turkey

King’s Cross Station — London, England

Union Station — Los Angeles, California

Grand Central Station — New York City, New York

Gare du Nord — Paris, France

Sao Bento Station — Porto, Portugal

Central Railway Station — Helsinki, Finland

Dunedin Train Station — Dunedin, New Zealand

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Marina Bay Sands Hotel: The Pool In The Sky

The Sands SkyPark in Singapore is an awe-inspiring engineering wonder. This unique structural masterpiece, designed by visionary architect Moshe Safdie, floats atop the three soaring Marina Bay Sands hotel towers 200m in the sky. At the top of the 55 storey building is a 150-meter infinity swimming pool.But swimming to the edge won’t be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. The pools have two circulation systems. The first functions like that of a regular pool, filtering and heating the water in the main pool. The second filters the water in the catch basin and returns it to the upper pool.The infinity pool on the roof of SkyPark spans the three towers of the hotel. The platform itself is longer than the Eiffel tower laid down and is one of the largest of its kind in the world. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650ft up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height.
The hotel, which has 2,560 rooms costing from ?350 a night, was officially opened with a concert by Diana Ross. The ?4billion hotel makes it the world’s most expensive hotel.

The general view. The three towers of more than 2,500 rooms. On the rooftop there is a pool. Large white a lily is the Museum of Contemporary Art. At the foot there are shops, theaters and restaurants.

View of the roof. There are several restaurants and nightclubs there. The construction of each floor of the hotel took only 4 days.

The view from the window.

There is a huge casino for 1000 gaming tables and 1400 gaming machines

In one of the atria there is a huge steel weblike sculpture of Antony Gormley, consisting of 16,100 segments. Installation of 14.8 tonnes was collected by 60 workers.

Bathroom

There is a real tropical garden of 250 trees and 650 different plants. All trees and palm trees are real.

A jacuzzi is hidden among the trees.

With a great view.

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Zodiac Signs Made With Light

29-year-old light-artist Darren Pearson likes to make pictures using light graffiti. In this series he created the 12 signs of the zodiac with light.

1. Aries. (CATERS)

2. Taurus. (CATERS)

3. Gemini. (CATERS)

4. Cancer. (CATERS)

5. Leo. (CATERS)

6. Virgo. (CATERS)

7. Libra. (CATERS)

8. Scorpio. (CATERS)

9. Sagittarius. (CATERS)

10. Capricorn. (CATERS)

11. Aquarius. (CATERS)

12. Pisces. (CATERS)

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18-Year-Old Girl Has Britain’s Most Beautiful Face

Artists and sculptors have tried to find the ideal proportions of the human face for centuries. This girl has been born with them. Meet the winner of the “Britain’s Most Naturally Beautiful Face” contest Florence Colgate.Florence, an 18-year-old student with a Saturday job at a seaside food shop, has beaten 8,000 entrants to win the contest that prohibited the use of any make up, plastic surgery or chemical enhancements. Her face was considered to have the ideal proportions of the eyes, mouth, forehead and chin.Female face is said to be the most attractive when the distance between the pupils is about half the width of the face from ear to ear, and the space between the eyes and the mouth makes one third of the distance form hairline to chin. Florence has these ratios equal to 0.44 and 0.328 respectively, not to mention that her face is also almost perfectly symmetrical.

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