These multi-billion-dollar, audacious engineering projects are reshaping our planet. ~A Thread🧵
1. The Line (Saudi Arabia)
- $725 billion linear city project
- 110 miles long, 1,600 ft tall mirrored buildings
- Planned for 9 million residents
- Zero-carbon city with high-speed underground transport
- Construction began in 2022
2. Three Gorges Dam: A $37B Engineering Wonder
The biggest human-made entity on the surface of Earth. It's capable of elevating ships weighing up to 3000 tons, along with a volume of water roughly equivalent to four Olympic sized swimming pools.🛳️
2. In 1994, photojournalist Sebastião Salgado returned to his home in Minas Gerais, Brazil, only to find the lush forests of his childhood reduced to barren land.
His wife, Lélia, proposed replanting the forest, and over the next 20 years, they planted 2.7 million trees. This effort restored 1,500 acres of rainforest, reviving 293 plant species, 172 bird species, and 33 animal species, some near extinction.
3. The side of a building before and after an absolutely incredible paint job.
Legend tells of a couple torn by family rivalry. On their wedding day, the bride's father murdered the groom. Devastated, the bride begged Mother Nature to turn her into a waterfall, a symbol of her eternal love.
3. Do these around 900 years old Sculptures at Patilana Jain Temples, Gujarat, India depict modern communication devices?
2. In the Russian dance Berezka, the women move with very small steps, creating the illusion that they are floating
3. The San Siro football stadium in Milan has a spiral walkway, when it is being used it creates an optical illusion that the whole building is rotating