On a lazy Sunday morning, Navi Mumbai-resident Aditi Mathur is up early to prepare a healthy, filling brunch for her in-laws arriving from Delhi for the summers. Aditi, in a bid to make the most of a precious Sunday, hurriedly flips through her favourit…
Year: 2019
Plain of Jars to become Laos’ third World Heritage Site | #AsiaNewsNetwork
Laos has been working for 20 years to have the Plain of Jars, known locally as Thong Hai Hin, listed as a World Heritage Site. When UNESCO announces the site’s inscription, it will be the third such site in Laos. Director General of the Heritage Depar…
Chile’s Valparaiso, An Open Air Graffiti And Mural Art Gallery | Star2.com

Chilean artists Sammy Espinosa (right) and his wife Cynthia Aguilera finish a street mural in Valparaiso, Chile. Photos: AFP Arts May 15, 2019 Arts, Culture By AGENCY Related Articles French artist Argadol uses pop art’s boldness to raise social a…
Osaka tombs to be listed as a World Heritage Site – A Market Journal – Latest news, Updated News, Global News

Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency declared listing of Osaka tombs among the sites of World Cultural Heritage. On Tuesday a UNESCO warning board suggested the inclusion of the gathering of antiquated tombs from the Osaka Prefecture. The listing of the Mo…
A Sculptural Observation Tower Has Opened In Denmark

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A Factory that Processes Your Dandelion Wishes

(photo by Michèle M Waite, courtesy the Art Department) LOS ANGELES — Across every metropolitan area, there are numerous electrical substations that keep power pulsing through the city. They’re home to steel behemoths that generate high-voltage ele…
Unearthly Views of the World’s Oldest Spaceport

From Baikonur, Earth (courtesy The Piranesi Experience) The camera pans across an architectural model of a city — a clean, uniform environment of repetitive gray rectangular buildings and light green trees. Everything appears to be new; it’s a pictu…
10 Photos That Will Make You Want to Visit Cambodia
Cambodia is amazing and should definitely be on your travel to-do list. There’s Angkor Wat, the world heritage site made up of dozens and dozens of ancient temples, the bustling city of Phnom Penh and all the other breathtaking sites along the way. …
Strange hotels across Iran constructed to lure tourists

To have new experiences, tourists prefer to stay in hotels in new destinations that are totally different from those which they have previously stayed in. The more different, the more attractive the new residential centers will be to them. In foreign c…
Inside Kharanaq: The 1000-year-old ghost town set to become Iran’s newest World Heritage Site

“Be careful,” our guide warns as we set off to explore the passageways that form the collapsing arteries of the more than 1000-year-old village of Kharanaq, set to become Iran’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site. “And don’t…
Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

In 1908 German-born American Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) went on a 6-month visit to Japan. Already a famous celebrity photographer based in San Francisco, Genthe took hundreds of photographs of the Asian country during what was called the Meiji era. A pe…
Haunted Hotel: Unfinished Abandoned Okinawa Resort Inn

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] The reputedly haunted Nakagusuku Hotel in Okinawa, Japan freaked-out construction workers so much, they walked off the job before the hotel was even finished. Guest Lost The ruins of the Nakagusuku Ho…
Beauty in ruins: the wonder of abandoned buildings – a photo essay

It was like hell on earth; everything coated in red dust and rust. The noise was immense, with steam and chemicals belching from all over – at one point I walked into a cloud of ammonia without a respirator. It was a massive nickel refinery and I was …
Portraits and Windows

Portraits and Windows Soomin Ham After discovering a lost box of photos made by her grandfather in the 1930s, this photographer constructed new visual composites by integrating her own contemporary images, printing everything on traditional handmade Kor…
Forget diet and exercise—for better health, we need better cities

In the places around the world where people live the longest, they don’t actually pursue health. They live longer because health ensues from the right environment. That is according to Dan Buettner, Blue Zones founder and National Geographic fellow, w…
Wonderful Cecil Beaton Photographs of the Tyneside Docks in 1943

Cecil Beaton is with out much doubt one of the great 20th Century photographers – famous for his images of society and fashionable subjects. Later in his life he turned just as successfully into film costumes (he won Oscars for My Fair Lady and Gigi) …
The Artistry of the Mentally Ill: The 1922 Book That Published the Fascinating Work of Schizophrenic Patients, and Influenced Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky & Other Avant Garde Artists

It’s an enduring irony of art history: artists whose work has come to define high culture are often characterized by various mental health issues. But the artwork of ordinary, anonymous people who struggle with those same issues is regarded as the…
Ship in Which Hundreds of Migrants Died Will Be Shown at the Venice Biennale

The Tunisian shipping vessel sank off the coast of Libya (Photo courtesy of BARCA NOSTRA © BARCA NOSTRA) The majority of migrants who have died trying to reach Europe have drowned in the turbid waters of the Mediterranean Sea. In 2015, more than 2,900 …
Darjeeling: Train stops, driver removes bike from tracks, moves on
Darjeeling: Are the motorists in Darjeeling risking their lives along the tracks of the famous Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR), also known as ‘Toy Train’? Over the course of the past few days, two photos involving the World Heritage Site have gon…
Azerbaijan in Eid: Top five things to do this festive season at the Pearl of the Caucasus

An Eastern city with a Western outlook, Baku is an exceptional combination of antiquity and novelty with several sites of interest. A constantly evolving tapestry of life and energy from bazaar to Jazz clubs, prepare to be mesmerised! For millennia, A…