Small Worlds
Interactive 3D miniatures
Small Worlds
Tiny, explorable recreations of the planet's most iconic places — rendered street by street, one landmark at a time. And a few worlds beyond the map, invented from scratch, plus paintings to walk into.
Atlas
Featured cities
Asia
- China
Shanghai
The Bund
A mile of granite palaces floodlit gold above the Huangpu.
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- India
Agra
The Taj Mahal
An ivory mausoleum doubled in its long water, rose-gold at dawn above the Yamuna.
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- Japan
Kyoto
Fushimi Inari Taisha & the Senbon Torii
Thousands of vermilion gates tunneling up a cedar mountain — fox guardians, moss-backed sub-shrines, and the whole of Kyoto glowing below the Yotsutsuji bend.
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- Singapore
Singapore
Marina Bay Sands
Three towers balancing one impossible rooftop over the bay.
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- Taiwan
Taipei
Taipei 101
A jade bamboo stalk rising 508 meters over the Xinyi grid.
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- Thailand
Bangkok
Wat Arun & the Grand Palace
Porcelain prangs and gilded spires face off across the Chao Phraya.
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- Vietnam
Hanoi
Train Street
A metre-gauge main line threading a canyon of cafés, inches from the coffee cups.
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Europe
- Austria
Hallstatt
The Marktplatz & the Hallstätter See
Salt-miners' houses stacked between cliff and dark alpine water — twin spires, boathouses, and the ferry gliding in from across the lake.
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- Croatia
Dubrovnik
The Old Town Walls
Two kilometres of rampart around a bowl of terracotta roofs.
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- Italy
Venice
The Grand Canal & Piazza San Marco
Jade canals threading a floating city — the Rialto's white arch to the Doge's Palace, gold at the day's last hour.
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- United Kingdom
London
Palace of Westminster
A Gothic palace keeping time over the Thames.
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North America
- Canada
Toronto
The CN Tower
Half a kilometre of concrete lit red over the Inner Harbour, the white dome and the rail lands at its feet.
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- United States
Austin
The UT Tower & the South Mall
A limestone tower burning burnt orange at golden hour, live oaks and red-tile halls flanking the mall down to Littlefield Fountain.
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- United States
Los Angeles
Venice Beach Boardwalk
Skate bowls, murals and Muscle Beach iron strung along the sand at sunset.
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South America
Work in progress
- Work in progress
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Ten thousand tons of iron lace over the Champ de Mars.
- Work in progress
Tokyo
Shibuya Crossing
The world's busiest intersection, frozen mid-scramble.
- Work in progress
Seoul
Gangnam Station
Ten lanes of signboard neon over the busiest crossroads south of the Han.
- Work in progress
New York
Times Square
A canyon of billboards that never switches off.
Beyond the map
Worlds invented from scratch
- Just past the garden gate
Veggie Town
The Fountain of Plenty
A cheerful town grown from the garden — eggplant towers and onion-dome shops crowd a market square where the fountain sprays over a pile of giant peppers.
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- Where the seasons keep their quarters
Seasonal Star Orchard
The Star Tree of Harmony Plaza
A circular orchard-kingdom seen as a mandala from above — four seasons ripening at once around a galaxy-crowned tree and a fountain of liquid starlight.
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- Beyond
14 worlds
Floating Rune Isles · Living Origami Empire · Scooptopia & 8 more
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Art
Paintings you can walk into
- Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
The Cypress & the Great Swirl
Van Gogh's night sky built as sculpture — a canopy of turning brushstrokes over a hill village, its windows burning gold under an enormous crescent moon, and a cypress rising out of the fields like dark flame.
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- Raphael
The School of Athens
The Great Vault & the Philosophers' Stair
Raphael's fresco unfolded into architecture — a coffered barrel vault thirty-five metres over a marble stair, colossal gods watching from their niches, and every philosopher of antiquity arguing in the light.
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- Art
5 paintings
The Tower of Babel · The Water Lily Pond · Café Terrace at Night
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