modusoptimus

Some 15 millions metric tons of steam flow every year under the streets of Manhattan. Steam is efficient and cost effective for high-rise buildings and most of it is used for heating and cooling. The city’s infrastructure is old, with much of it being built 50 to 100 years ago. Just maintaining this system, which cracks and breaks every day, is a very difficult task.

After the two weeks in Asia, I realized how nice the weather is usually in NYC and especially how often the sky is clear. So here goes a sunset picture (like the millions on the Internet, except I took it from my window ) of west Manhattan and Hudson River.

As a continuation to the previous post, I added six pictures taken in Hong Kong. Three of them are views of Victoria Harbour from Kowloon at night, a panorama of three stiched pictures (below) and the last one just before the sunset.

During the last day there was a typhoon hoist no. 8, which basically means almost everything shuts down, the insurance does not cover you and … anyway here is a HDR is from Pacific Place on HK Island.

Eight pictures of Tokyo during a business trip to Asia. Check out the “Flamme d’Or” by Philippe Stark.