USA Today wondered how this decade’s new construction would look from space. “With the help of Maxar, a provider of advanced, space-based technology solutions, Google and NASA, we’ve taken many more steps back — more than 300 miles above Earth to be exact.”

As Apple stormed toward becoming one of the most valuable companies on the planet, its campus in Cupertino, California, took the shape of a dial on the original iPods — the product that marked Apple’s reemergence as tech leader at the turn of the century.

Apple’s 175-acre, space-age architectural marvel stands out as a monument to tech. The same might be said for tourism, trade and energy about the ostentatious structures and engineering feats that emerged from the sands of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Thirteen of the largest buildings in the world were completed in Dubai — the most in any city — during the past decade, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Their article also includes before-and-after pictures of disaster sites like Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors and the California regions devasated by 2018’s Camp Fire.

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