Chungking Mansions
Obligated stopover for who arrives in Hong Kong in search of fortune, this is Chungking Mansions, a 17-floor five-block building of frenetic life, made famous as the perfect location for "Chungking Express", the masterpiece by local filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai.
Hutong
Estimated to more than 7000 in the 1950s, the number of Beijings traditional hutongs today is reduced to a few hundreds because of the need for wider avenues and new shiny buildings to the upcoming olympics.
Art Factory 798
Once a giant Chinese state-owned model factory constructed in the 1950s in collaboration with East Germany, today this Bauhaus-influenced complex houses the most avant-garde art galleries in Beijing.
Pak Mun Dam, Thailand
The construction of big dams on the Mekong river and its tributaries is threatening the life of 60 million people aswell as the vital and unique ecosystem of the river.
Theun Hinboun Dam, Laos
The construction of big dams on the Mekong river and its tributaries is threatening the life of 60 million people aswell as the vital and unique ecosystem of the river.
Se San River, Cambodia
The construction of big dams on the Mekong river and its tributaries is threatening the life of 60 million people aswell as the vital and unique ecosystem of the river.
Cambodia's Painting Children
The Cambodian Children's Painting Project where the poor children of Sihanoukville gets the chance to earn money for education and their family in a safe and creative way.
Vajont, Italy
On October 9th 1963 a giant landslide collapses into the artificial lake created by the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, provoking a 250 meters high tsunami killing more than 2.000 people in a foreseen disaster.
Soviet nostalgia in Barentsburg
The miningtown of Barentsburg is the last remaining Russian settlement on the Norwegian Svalbard islands where about 500 persons still continue the rugged life in a doleful and surreal town where time and history seem frozen in an indefinite moment of the past.