'The Olympic stadiums are the ruins of the future' Financial Times It's the ruins of the future: all of those stadiums and pavilions are going to be cracked and stalled and warped; in a few years Zaha Hadid's fantastic swimming centre will look like your garden furniture that you've left out for too long in the rain.
A race to shore up the ancient walls of Babylon Christian Science Monitor Only a fraction of the 4000-year-old site has been excavated but the ruins above ground have been eroded by wind and salt water, and damaged both by sweeping reconstruction ordered by former President Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and the more recent US ...
Japan's Tsunami, Quake Spurs Manga Novel for Forgotten Victims BusinessWeek In another, a student searching the ruins for her mother discovers that rather than being a reckless spender, she had been working two jobs to save money. “I started drawing for each one of the victims,” Ishizawa says. “I thought the best way would be ...
The road to nirvana The Hindu The ruins of Nalanda stretch out below us, a poem in red. The remains of this ancient monastic university, located on the way from Patna to Rajgir consist of classrooms, stupas, monk's cells and temples. The crimson of the bricks glows in the light of ...
Sutro Baths was test case for blacks' civil rights San Francisco Chronicle The opening of the new visitor's center above the ruins of Sutro Baths conjures up these historic images. But the new attention on the baths has unearthed another hidden story of a most unlikely subject - the fight against race discrimination in ...
Dirt-biking, tomb-raiding and tarantula-tasting Daily News & Analysis The ruins surrounding Seam Reap — including sites like Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm — are for the more historically inclined. Frankly, we were left quite cold by these tourist traps because of the huge crowds. We South Indians are jaded by ...
Amid the ruins in Homs, Syrian rebel anger burns Chicago Tribune HOMS, Syria (Reuters) - Burnt houses, collapsed buildings and rubble line streets strewn with broken glass and spent shells in Homs' devastated neighborhoods, for months the front line in the revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
