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This is another of the statues at the former palace that is now the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
The palace was commissioned by the Egyptian ruler, the Khedive Ismail, and was designed by architect Karl von Diebitsch to host French Emperor Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress Eugénie, during the celebration of the inauguration of the Suez Canal in 1869. At the Khedive's request, the architect designed it to resemble the Versailles Palace.
In 1880, the palace was seized by Ismail's creditors and was eventually leased to the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels, which turned it into "The Ghezireh Palace Hotel" in October 1894.
During World War I, the hotel served as a second Australian hospital to cope with the large number of casualties from the Battle of Gallipoli.
In 1919, The Ghezireh Palace Hotel was sold to Syrian businessman Habib Lotfallah, who converted it into a private residence.
The palace was nationalized in 1952 and eventually converted back to a hotel, reopening in 1962 as the Omar Khayyam Hotel.
In the late 1970s, two large towers were added and the entire hotel was completely rebuilt. President Hosni Mubarak presided over the grand reopening in 1982 as the Cairo Marriott Hotel.
I lived across the street from the hotel for many years as a child, and often played with my friends in its extensive gardens. Later, it became a favorite place to take my dates for dinner.
Irix Dragonfly 150mm f/2.8 macro, edited in Affinity, custom tone map Piper Fawn Light. Argiope trifasciata (Forskal, 1775), Banded Garden Spider
Building: 30 Old Bailey, London
Architect: Fletcher Priest Architects / Sauerbruch Hutton
Completed: 2015
Roof of King's Cross Station western concourse extension. Designed by architect John McAslan and opened in 2012.
Architect Gunārs Birkerts (also: Gunnar Birkerts) (1925-2017) is one of Latvia's most celebrated architects, well-renowned in the USA and further afield for his striking Modernist designs.
Le Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux, commandé par le maréchal de Richelieu, gouverneur de Guyenne, et édifié par l'architecte Victor Louis, a été inauguré le 7 avril 1780 avec la représentation de l'Athalie de Jean Racine.
Classé monument historique en 1899 , réminiscence de l'Antiquité par son péristyle, l'ouvrage de 88 mètres sur 47 de style néo-classique, s'inscrit dans l'opulent urbanisme bordelais hérité du siècle des Lumières. Il abrite une salle de spectacle d'un millier de places, exemple parfait de théâtre à l'italienne.
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is a public art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its collection includes more than 80,000 works spanning the first century to the present day. The gallery has 480,000 square feet of physical spacethat houses, in addition to display galleries, an extensive library, student spaces, workshops, a high-end restaurant, a café, an espresso bar, a research centre, a theatre and lecture hall, a Frank Gehry-designed gift shop, and an event space called the Baillie Court. The AGO has hosted and organized some of the world's most important exhibitions.
Since 1974, the gallery has seen four major expansions and renovations, the most recent being the addition of the Weston Family Learning Centre, which opened in October 2011, and the David Milne Research Centre, which opened in April 2012. Both projects were designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. Previous major renovations were designed by noted architects John C. Parkin (1977), Barton Myers and KPMB Architects (1993), and Frank Gehry (2008).
Detail of London College of Fashion building, East Bank, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Designed by architects Allies & Morrison and completed in 2023.
Sagrada Família
The Basílica de la Sagrada Família, commonly known as the Sagrada Família, is a large unfinished Roman Catholic minor basilica in Barcelona, Spain. Designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), his work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Municipal building (Gemeentehuis) Community Usquert by H.P. Berlage (1856-1934) architect.
Exhibiton about the famous Dutch architect in this former town hall: August 6 - October 30, 2011.
See also: www.architectuurroute-usquert.nl
The White Rose (De Witte Roos) is a 13 story social housing project in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, designed by 25H Architects. Its organic shapes look different from all angles and is beautiful to its tiniest details. It never ceases to intrigue and inspire. I photographed its four corners and brought them together in this composition as a tribute to the design of this sparkling jewel of Dutch architecture.
127 Brant Ave, Brantford, ON N3T 3H5
MMMC Architects is a full-service, LEED accredited, design firm providing architectural services, programming and space planning, strategic planning studies and project management services. Over five decades the firm has completed over 1,400 projects, many for repeat client who value our commitment to service excellence.
Pierre Cardin ...
Fashion of the sixties and seventies ...
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Hey team how are we all doing?
It be throwback Thursday today and I've finally finished processing a photo taken 2 weeks ago from my trip to Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
Renown for its unique architecture this crazy critter being the Sydney Opera House continues to fascinate and inspire architects all around the world, or so I'm led to believe. This photo was shot from the Milson's Point side with a 70-300mm telephoto lens on a dodgy tripod.
The processing was done like this; firstly the photo was taken into Lightroom where the massively blinding highlights and whites were dulled down. The shadows were raised up a tad too as some parts of the photo were too dark. Then I played around with the colours using the HSL panel until I got the feel that I liked. I aimed to contrast the bluish sky with the orangey/yellow lights inside the building. I cropped the image and fixed up the horizon to make it straight. I then brought the photo into Photoshop and did some noise reduction using Imagenomic's Noiseware Professional software. Finally I cleaned off the image by using a combination of the clone stamp tool, spot healing brush and the brush tool. The most challenging part of this process was to get the image right in camera with the nasty gale forced winds of that night.
Hope you enjoy this one, and as always feel free to use this image in your videos, your website, you blog, print it out, remix it or do whatever you wish with it as per the CC licence.
All the best my people, don't stop shooting.
Architect P.L. Marnette, in dienst bij Publieke Werken van de gemeente Amsterdam, ontwierp in 1924 een nieuwe gietijzeren lantaarnpaal die tot in de jaren '50 op grote schaal werd geplaatst in nieuw gebouwde wijken. Het armatuur leek op een soldatenhelm, waardoor de officieel als 'PW24' betitelde lantaarnpalen in die jaren na de Eerste Wereldoorlog al snel de bijnaam 'onbekende frontsoldaat' kregen.
De uitvoering met één gloeilamp van 60 Watt was standaard. Ik herinner me dat die lantaarnpalen vooral in de bredere straten van nieuwbouwwijken zoals Slotermeer maar weinig uitrichtten tegen de duisternis.
De tweelamps uitvoering stond oorspronkelijk vooral op vluchtheuvels, waar de paalvoet voorzien was van raampjes met groen glas waarachter ook nog een lamp brandde. Op tramhaltes was naast het armatuur een arm met transparanten 'Tramhalte' en het/de lijnnummer(s) bevestigd. De vluchtheuvelpalen zijn vanaf 1934 vervangen door verkeerszuilen. De soldatenhelmen op de overige palen maakten in de jaren '50 en '60 plaats voor moderne 'Holbein'-armaturen met kwikdamplamp
Street lamp in Amsterdam School style, designed for Amsterdam by P.L. Marnette in 1924. The two-lamp version was used mostly on traffic islands, while one 60 Watt incandescent lamp was standard. Especially in the wider streets of the modern suburbs, this lighting was very poor, until the armatures were replaced in the 50s and 60s by a new model with mercury vapour lamp
Architectes : Antoine-Marie CHENAVARD & Jean-Maire POLLET (1831) & Jean NOUVEL (1993)
Construit sous le nom de Grand Théâtre, il est totalement restructuré et agrandi par Jean NOUVEL.
Built under the name of Grand Théâtre, it was completely restructured and enlarged by Jean NOUVEL.
the architect of what it's wondered
roaming the playing fields
and stamping the corns
fighting for the urban corner
spreading the disease of the metropolis
overpoulated armies of flats and apartments soon to rise immune to non profit vaccinations
echoing the high rise blocks of an old decaying past
why are they building just round this corner
on a kids playground I ask
there seems such an abundance of better space
yet the architect decides and who am I to question his madness
Concert hall in the harbour of Hamburg. It is one of the largest and acoustically most advanced concert halls in the world. The new glassy construction sits on top of an old warehouse building, built 1963. The top of the warehouse is also an observation deck.
The complex also houses a hotel with 244 rooms, conference rooms, restaurants, bars, 45 luxury apartments, a spa and a parking garage for 433 cars!
Inaugurated: 2017. Architects: Herzog & de Meuron.
L’extension moderne de la Zeughaus située au Unter den Linden 2, Berlin, Allemagne.
Datant du début des années 1700, cet ancien arsenal est considéré comme le plus vieux bâtiment sur le boulevard. Il est certainement l'un des plus beaux, fait dans le style baroque dominé par Minerve, la déesse de la Sagesse. Depuis la réunification, il abrite le Deutches Historisches Museum.
Ce projet nécessita une extension à l'arrière du bâtiment, au Hinter dem Gießhaus 3, qui fut confiée à Ieoh Ming Pei, l'architecte de la Pyramide du Louvre. La façade principale de cette extension est convexe avec un foyer translucide et rompt avec l'environnement rectiligne propre aux autres constructions baroque et néo-classiques situées à proximité. La cage d'escalier en verre constitue l'autre attrait de l'entrée principale.
Well Court (on the left) was built in 1886 for the owner of the "Scotsman" newspaper to "provide good quality housing for local people" . The architect included a mix of apartment sizes and a hall "to encourage social interaction and community spirit amongst the tenants."
Although Edinburgh has been identified as one of 14 tourist sites worldwide that have become overwhelmed with visitors, they were all over on the Royal Mile. This beautiful village on the edge of the downtown area, but within the city, was virtually deserted!