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Wood Buffalo National Park – Alberta
Jan 7th
outdoorsica.com
Spilling across Alberta’s northern border into the Northwest Territories, Wood Buffalo encompasses a large area of the subarctic plain. It is a huge national park, certainly the largest in Canada and one of the largest in the world. The park extends 176 miles at its greatest length and averages about 100 miles in width, taking in more than 17,000 square miles—an area five times that of Yellowstone. More >
Hala Ludowa – Wroclaw, Poland
Oct 12th
The building, designed by architect Max Berg, is set on a quatrefoil plan, with a centrally positioned, circular 426-foot-wide (130m) hall connected by a double-ring foyer to 56 auxiliary exhibition spaces offset outward. Each side of the floorplan’s main axis is marked by an entrance hall with the main west access point, facing the city centre, emphasized by double-story height, and an oval floor.
To provide appropriate acoustic conditions, the walls are partially constructed of concrete mixed with wood or cork. The elevations’ concrete finish, textured with the imprints of wooden shuttering, adds to the brutal charm of the building. More >
Mount Tongariro
Oct 3rd
by tph567
The multi-coloured lunar-like volcanic massif of Tongariro, on New Zealand’s North Island, is both otherworldly and spectacular. A toxic, turquoise mountain lake surrounded by decaying, sand-hued decaying mounds, the Tongariro massif comprises several volcanic cones, rising to a peak elevation of 1,968 metres.
The centre is surrounded by an extensive ring plain made of stream, debris flow, lahars, lava, and ash-flow deposits. As a result, the land combines remarkable contrasts of barren lava flows, winter snowfields, hot springs, and active craters. The varied vegetation looks pre-historic; no one quite understands how it manages to eke out an existence on the poor soil. More >
Vizcaya Bridge – Bilbao, Spain
Sep 20th
The Vizcaya Bridge, which crosses the mouth of the Nervion River northwest of Bilbao, is the world’s first transporter bridge. Its local name, Puente Colgante, which means ‘suspension bridge’, is something of a misnomer because the structure is quite different from a true suspension bridge. More >
Altamira Caves – Santillana del Mar, Spain
Sep 20th
Altamira belongs to the Franco-Cantabrian belt of decorated caves, which extends from southwest France to northeast Spain. The cave itself had been found by a huntsman in 1868, but it was only eleven years later that a 5-year-old girl noticed the paintings. More >
