The Big Bend project by New York architectural studio Oiio Studio proposes building one of the tallest buildings in the world in the shape of a horseshoe

The Big Bend project by New York architectural studio Oiio Studio proposes building one of the tallest buildings in the world in the shape of a horseshoe. The idea of a 610-metre arched skyscraper is described in Beaux-Arts magazine, although so far there are no specifics, and the building still remains merely a project.

If you will permit me, I shall put an original question to an unlimited circle of persons: WHAT FOR?

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The Big Bend project by New York architectural studio Oiio Studio proposes building one of the tallest buildings in the world in the shape of a horseshoe

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s