Imogen Thomas Funny's Moment In Red Mini Dress

Imogen Thomas flashing her blue pants in red mini dress in London.

The new Google office in London

The new Google Engineering office in London - a combination of the interior elements of science fiction, white flat surfaces and bright bold colors. Designed by some of the rooms hard to take seriously, but they are real jobs with a carefully thought-out ergonomics, which is behind all this pretentiousness and glamor. One of the interesting features of the new office: All tables are height adjustable, walls in the corridors can be used as the magnetic marker board. According to tradition, a lot of space set aside for recreation, which also can arrange informal meetings.

10 Most Photographed Places on Earth

Mining data from 35 million Flickr photos, scientists at Cornell University made some surprising discoveries: Not only did the world's most photographed cities (and the most captured landmark in each) emerge, but also so did the most common angles for shooting each place. So what do the results say about us as travelers? The findings suggest that through our cameras, we "vote" for our favorite places, things, and the best representation of them—and, by and large, we agree. We reached out to the researchers to see if the results had changed since the study was released in April 2009, and they crunched the numbers for us again—with a few exceptions (the Lincoln Memorial, for example, has replaced the Washington Monument as most photographed place in D.C.) not much had changed.

But how can you photograph world wonders in a way that makes something special out of the overly familiar? In our slide show, we showcase the most commonly shot landmarks from the top 25 cities—first showing you its classic angle and then offering fresh alternatives, with tips from our photo editors on how to put your own unique spin on these iconic destinations. Consider this your photographer's guide to the Flickr Wonders of the World.

10: Amsterdam

Landmark: Dam Square

Created in the 13th century as a dam around the Amstel River, this expansive plaza is now flooded with street performers and tourists (and pigeons). It's hard to capture the frenzied feeling in a wide shot.

9: Rome

Landmark: Colosseum

This ancient site is filled with the ghosts of dueling gladiators, tormented prisoners, and slaughtered animals, contained, centuries after the fact, within a stunning framework of Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic columns. It's a gorgeous dichotomy indeed, and it's hard to not want to capture it all.

8: Seattle

Landmark: Space Needle

What began as the symbol of the World's Fair in 1962 has now become the symbol of this supercool city. The 360-degree view from the top is expansive, taking in sights from the Puget Sound to Mount Rainier.

7: Washington, D.C.

Landmark: Lincoln Memorial

This marble memorial to the 16th president—featuring Ionic columns, oil-paint murals, and a 120-ton statue

6: Chicago

Landmark: Cloud Gate sculpture

Anish Kapoor's 110-ton bean of stainless steel is the shiny centerpiece of Millennium Park's AT&T Plaza and makes for a striking photo in just about any composition.

5: Paris

Landmark: Eiffel Tower

Gustave Eiffel's 1889 masterpiece, constructed in celebration of the French Revolution's 100th anniversary, is magnificent at any angle; but why choose one that you can easily find on a postcard?

4.San Francisco

Landmark: Union Square

The main downtown plaza—used as a rallying site to support troops during the Civil War—is now a mecca for hardcore shopping and people-watching. It's also a great place to hop aboard a cable car.

  3: Los Angeles
Landmark: Hollywood Walk of Fame

Begun in 1960 as a Hollywood marketing tool (with filmmaker Stanley Kramer the first honoree), the series of coral-colored stars was at 2,441 in May 2011 and continues to grow.

2: London

Landmark: Trafalgar Square

John Nash designed and developed this former palace courtyard into a public space in the early 1800s; it has since been further transformed with sculptures, fountains, and staircases, and has become a local hotspot for protests—all worthy subjects for your lens.

 

1.Landmark: Empire State Building

Built in one year and 45 days in the midst of the Great Depression, this iconic skyscraper draws about 3.5 million visitors a year to its observatories. On a clear day, you can see as far as Massachusetts, but backward glances at the soaring architecture are pretty seductive, too.

Fancy building museums in the world

 The world is full of unusual buildings, demonstrating the flight of the thought of an architect. Quite often, these buildings are built as a museum. Today's look at the ocean and the surf museum, Art Museum and the Museum of Nanjing Sifang Felix Nussbaum.

1. Felix Nussbaum Museum

Felix Nussbaum Museum (Felix Nussbaum) - continuation of the Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück, he focuses on the work of Felix Nussbaum, a Jewish artist born in Osnabrück in 1904.

 2. The museum illustrations and pictures taken before his murder at Auschwitz, all focused on the themes of racism and intolerance.

 3. The building was completed in summer 1998. with the participation of firms Reinders and partners, it was visited by more than 4 million visitors.

 4. The building consists of three main parts: high and narrow central corridor Nussbaum, long the main part and the bridge that connects the building with the old museum.

5. The building's design reflects the life of Felix Nussbaum, the track suddenly break off, unpredictably intersect and lead to a deadlock.

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9. Center for Ocean and surf

Center for Ocean and Surf (Cité de l'Océan et du Surf) is studying the surf and the sea, their role in our leisure, science and ecology.

 10. The shape of the building comes from the spatial concept of "under the sky / under the sea. " Form Code "under heaven" creates the character of the main outdoor space "Place of the ocean. "

11. Convex constructive ceiling creates an exhibition space "under the sea. " Spatial features of the building begins at the entrance, where hallway and stairs pass extensive view from the top of exhibition space, as they pass along the dynamic curved surface, which is enlivened by a moving image and light.

12. Certain union into a single entity concept and the topography makes the building unique shape. In relation to the ocean, form a set of open parking buildings will be extended through the landscape.

13. Landscape with corners slightly cupped shape, blending the fields and native vegetation are a continuation of the building and will take the festivals and daily activities, they are integrated with the device of the museum.

 14. Art Museum Nanjing Sifang

The new museum is located at the entrance of modern international exhibition of architecture in a lush green landscape Pearl Spring near the city of Nanjing, China. It examines the changing point of view, the layers of space, the expansion of mist and water, which characterizes the depth of displacing each other space mysteries of early Chinese painting. Soon Art Museum Nanjing Sifang will be open to visitors.

 15. Perspective - the fundamental historical difference between Western and Chinese painting. After the 13th century western painting developed the idea of the vanishing point in the fixed term. Chinese artists, though aware of the term, rejected the method of single vanishing point, but instead they created a landscape with "parallel perspective", in which the viewer travels inside the picture.

16. The museum has a form of "field" of prospective parallel spaces and garden fencing in a black base, formed of bamboo, over which hangs light "figure". Direct transitions to the ground floor is gradually transformed into the winding passages above figures

17. The upper gallery, hanging high in the air, turns clockwise, and culminates in a "prescribed in a given situation" as the city of Nanjing in the distance. The value of this space becoming an urban village with the help form on the capital of the great Ming Dynasty city of Nanjing.

 18. A courtyard paved with reused old bricks from the ruined Hooton courtyards in the center of Nanjing.

 19. Limitation Flowers Museum black and white ties him with an ancient painting, but also serves as a backing for the transfer of colors and textures of works of art and architecture, which will be exhibited in a museum.

20. Bamboo, previously grown on the place of the museum, was used to design the base with black intersections on the walls. The museum used geothermal cooling and heating and recycled rainwater.