The colossus of Leshan
While watching a documentary called Rediscovering the Yangtze, I found — as a geologist in a former incarnation — the geomorphology mind blowing. There...
Saving light
Each year more than 120,000 people visit Cape Reinga and its lighthouse. The Cape itself is certainly worth checking out as it is currently...
Beijing’s Beaut Birds Nest
Dr Rodgers takes a gander at the auspicious centrepiece of China's 2008 Olympics
Its image has appeared in newspapers and on television for...
Raurimu’s twisting spiral
The date: 1898. The problem: How to achieve a workable climb for New Zealand’s main trunk line from Taumarunui to the summit at National...
Christchurch salutes the Deans
AMI Stadium is the latest incarnation of what was once Lancaster Park that began life in 1880 under the auspices of the Canterbury Cricket...
The world’s largest greenhouse
The world’s largest greenhouse is the brainchild of Tim Smit. He wanted a way of showing the connection between plants and people. The upshot...
A Dinky-Di 75th . . .
The bridging of Sydney Harbour took 117 years. The notion was first voiced in 1815 by convict and architect-about-town Francis Greenway, who designed many...
Jerusalem’s Wall of Tears
Forty-one years ago the Israeli army occupied Jerusalem. For the first time in nearly two millennia the city was united and back in Jewish...
Unravelling mysterious Chankillo
Tucked away in the Peruvian Andes, some 400km north of Lima, is a large, 2300-year-old ancient ruin named Chankillo.
A plan view of the concentric...
The Louisiana Superdome
No building came to make us so aware of the human misery caused by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath than did the Louisiana Superdome....