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Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip

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WORLDWIDE CONCRETE: FROM CHICAGO TO SEOUL

We’ve covered Blue Crow Media’s maps in the past, which focus primarily on modernist architecture (such as this roundup of cities from San Francisco to Tbilisi to Pyongyang) and also cover more specialist areas such as Berlin’s U-Bahn Stations. Here we take a look at four maps from their “Concrete” series, showcasing the wildly varied concrete forms of four cities.

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PHOTO GALLERY: PAIMIO SANATORIUM

Paimio Sanatorium, located among the pine forests of southwestern Finland, is both a modernist marvel and a leading example of human-centered architecture. Completed in 1933, and based on a contest-winning design by the young husband-and-wife team of Alvar and Aino Aalto, the building was designed from the ground up as a place of healing, rest, and tranquility.
Set among the pine forests east of Paimio, a small town about thirty kilometers east of Turku, the building is surrounded by green space on all sides…

John Peck
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