Buildings

This is the Armadillo in Glasgow. Oh all right, it's really the Clyde Auditorium, but everyone calls it the Armadillo. It was designed to be a 3,000 seat extension to the boxy beige building to the north - the Scottish…

As reported by both the Google Earth Blog and Ogle Earth, Microsoft has provided an awesome update to the UK satellite imagery on their Live Local service. (I still can't work the zoom tool unfortunately, has anyone else noticed that…

Update: For anyone who watched the first episode, can I just say... Oh. My. God. I really do despair. Oh blimey. Is it that time of year again already? This year, they've gone and hidden 100 golden tickets in special…

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California is funded by the US Department of Energy but operated by Stanford University. The SLAC has a 3km long underground linear accelerator which is the longest linear accelerator in the world and…

One of our readers, Morgan, lives in Chappaqua, New York, and he'd heard that Bill Clinton (the 42nd President of the United States) lives here too. So Morgan took a little wander with Google Maps, and when he found a…

So what are we looking at here? Well, it's clearly a bus about to crash into a Roman Amphitheatre. Duh. This is the second largest city in Bulgaria, Plovdiv, which is built around 7 hills. Back in the 70s they…