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model of the Valley of the Kings (clear fiberglass topography with tomb complex below) (via)

via Super Colossal

prostheticknowledge:

Beautiful Large-Scale Model of Chendu City At Night

A worker installs the Chengdu city model at the Chengdu Planning Hall in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Following the four state-level new development areas, including Shanghai Pudong, Tianjin Binhai, Chongqing Liangjiang and Shanxi Xixian new districts, Tianfu New District has been written into the regional planning of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone. Sichuan plans to build the Tianfu New District, which covers an area of 1,578 square kilometers, into an international modern new urban area that will be clustered with modern manufacturing and high-end service businesses and is also a livable place.(Photo By Zheng Duo/Color China Photo/AP Images)

Damon Rich using the Panorama of New York City (9,335 sq ft scale model) to visualize the foreclosure crisis in 2009 (foreclosed properties are marked with pink triangles)

via Gothamist

scale model of Zeche Zollverein (a former coal mine, now a park), UNESCO World Heritage site, Essen, Germany.

via F1rstdesign

ayse:

Even the Model of Shanghai is Huge (via Bren)

once on a family road trip, we stopped at some corps of engineers facility that let people tour their model of the tennessee river. it was a working model of the river with locks, dams, the works. and it was awesome.