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Architecture Various

The biggest indoor swimming pool in the world

“Ocean Dome”, located in Miyazaki, it’s the biggest indoor swimming pool in the world. It’s 300 meters long and 100 meters wide, and it’s located 500 meter from the sea. The temperature inside the pavilion it’s always around 30 degrees and the roof is sky-blue and it has even “clouds”. It has an artificial volcano and also an artificial waves generation system. “Unfortunately” it seems that this world guinness record swimming pool closed this year, I guess they where not making enough money.

Piscina

Piscina

Piscina

Searching on The Net I found this interesting picture. It’s supposed to be the first swimming pool in Japan, almost 100 years ago. Even before the war it seems they already had space problems 😉

Piscina
Picture from Oldtokyo.com

The biggest outdoor swimming pool is located in Chile, here there are some pictures.

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Architecture

The shit building

When I went the first time to Asakusa and saw the Asahi Beer headquarters, my imagination told me that the strange sculpture on top of the building could be a “drop of beer”, because it’s golden and it looks like a drop? But a friend told me that the french artist who created the sculpture designed it to be a “flame”. My guess was far from right.

After some time I realized that Japanese have a nickname for this building. They call it “the shit building” (うんこビル) because it looks like the shape how Japanese/mangakas usually draw shits.

What do you see, a shit? a beer drop? a flame? a tarako? a spermatozoid?

asahibeer

asahibeer

asahibeer

asahibeer

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Architecture Videogames

Bandai headquarters

bandai

bandai