Tomorrow the world

New York, containing a detailed model of the Empire State Building, modelled in SketchUp and exported to Google Earth.

Source: ©2005 Google Earth

Collaborations with Google Earth are beginning to give architects, clients and even the public unprecedented ability to test-drive new schemes in virtual neighbourhoods

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