Build Up Japan - 50 years Celebration of LEGO
This incredible map of Japan was made from a whopping 1.8 million Lego bricks. The project was made by over 5,000 people in over 6 regions of Japan, then the separate pieces were combined in Tokyo for an event called Build Up Japan. The map was created in celebration of 50 years of LEGO in Japan. In addition to the incredibly intricate map, the children in attendance were encouraged to create structures of how they’d like Japan to look in the future.
The German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann was awarded the 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, a biennial award bestowed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for significant achievement in contemporary art. As the winner of this award Feldmann received an honorarium of $100,000. For his solo exhibition at the Guggenheim, Feldmann has tacked up the same amount to the walls in a large gallery room such that the entire space is now covered with a grid of overlapping one-dollar bills.
World's Widest Street - 9 de Julio Avenue
9 de Julio Avenue (or Avenida 9 de Julio, in the local tongue) in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, is not just any street. Nine lanes wide, with gardened medians between the opposing flow of traffic, this is the widest street in the world. Only those with a quick pace and long legs will be lucky to get to the other side before the traffic lights at the intersection changes. A pedestrian crossing this street usually requires a few extra minutes and two to three traffic light rotations. 9 de Julio Avenue is only 1 km long but 110 meters wide.
The avenue's unusual width is because it spans an entire city block, the distance between two streets in the checkerboard pattern used in Buenos Aires. The avenue runs to the west of the Río de la Plata waterfront, from the Retiro district in the north to Constitución station in the south. It has up to seven lanes in each direction and is flanked on either side by parallel streets of two lanes each.
The avenue was first planned in 1888, with the name of Ayohuma; but the road was long opposed by affected landlords and residents, so work did not start until 1935. Even the French government refused to submit the embassy building for demolition, and local preservationists opposed the move as well, as the building is widely hailed as an architectural masterpiece. The initial phase was inaugurated on 9 July 1937 and the main stretch of the avenue was completed in the 1960s. The southern connections were completed after 1980, when the downtown portion of the tollway system was completed. Clearing the right-of-way for these intersections required massive condemnations in the Constitución area.
The Plastic Fish Tower - An Floating Recycling Center
The Plastic Fish Tower is specifically meant for the reduction of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, instead, of marine life. Floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii, this huge accumulation of generally minute bits of the world’s plastic debris is twice the size of Texas. Ocean currents bring tons of useless plastic and other waste, creating the garbage vortex. The Plastic Fish Tower is designed to gather and recycle the plastic debris by using a circular floating barrier that creates a 1.2-mile (1-kilometer) circle around the sphere. The fence is kept at its place by the extended arms installed at the bottom. The Plastic Fish Tower has been designed and illustrated by Kim Hongseop/Cho Hyunbeom/Yoon Sunhee/Yoon Hyungsoo, eVolo.
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