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Skywalk - Glass Walkway on the Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon West, a destination owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe at the Grand Canyon’s western rim.

Opened on March the 28th, the Skywalk is the first-ever cantilever shaped glass walkway to suspend more than 4,000 feet above a canyon’s floor and extend 70 feet from the canyon’s rim.

The multi-million pound steel enforced structure is located at Grand Canyon West’s Eagle Point.

The Skywalk facility also include a 6,000 square-foot visitor’s center on three levels – underground, first story and second story – containing a museum, movie theater, VIP lounge, gift shop, and several restaurants and bars, including a high-end restaurant called The Skywalk Café that offers outdoor patio and rooftop seating on the edge of the canyon.

The Skywalk is open from dawn to dusk and costs $25 per person in addition to the cost of a Grand Canyon West entrance package.

THE GLASS WALKWAY PROJECT

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Norman Foster presents ultra green city in the desert

Foster + Partners says the walled city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi will be the world’s first zero-carbon and zero-waste city

Norman Foster said: “The environmental ambitions of the Masdar Initiative – zero carbon and waste free – are a world first. They have provided us with a challenging design brief that promises to question conventional urban wisdom at a fundamental level. Masdar promises to set new benchmarks for the sustainable city of the future.”

Unveiled today at the Cityscape conference in Abu Dhabi, Foster + Partners said Masdar would be a dense, walled development constructed in two stages. The first phase would see the construction of a large photovoltaic power plant, which would later become the site for the second phase.

The development is set to open in late 2009.

FOSTER & PARTNERS

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WALL OF THE WORLD!

The Wall of the World project starts on 19 April, 2007. And from then on every inhabitant of the world can contribute to the Wall of World.

The Wall of the World is a magnificent 47 hectare park with 272 granite walls, each 3.5m high and 0.5 m thick. Both sides of each wall will show the details of 65 million people or 1% of the world’s total population - name, family name, town and birth data.

Thus the Wall of the World will be created by 65 million people. People who highly value the unity of humankind, friendship and peace.

The Wall of World will be the largest ever man made testimony of the existence of humankind. The Wall of the World will be the greatest evidence of the unity of humankind.

ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

(Note: WallOfTheWorld Website is designed by FMCS’s interface designer and all round good guy Eriks Cernevskis).