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Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building en Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan / Japón・日本・東京都・中央区・銀座
cityscape / lights / buildings / night / skyscrapers
El Tokyo Metropolitan Government building o "Tocho", como se le conoce más coloquialmente, es la sede del gobierno metropolitano de Tokio y sus 242 metros de altura lo convierten en el rascacielos más alto de la ciudad. Curiosamente, la Torre de Tokio con sus 333 metros parece mucho más pequeña y es que el diseño del arquitecto Kenzo Tange (supuestamente inspirado en un microchip) es realmente imponente.
¿Os imagináis cómo será el Tokyo Sky Tree cuando se termine de construir en 2012 y alcance los 634 metros planeados?
En fin, si mal no recuerdo, la fotografía está tomada desde una minúsculo mirador del Keio Plaza Hotel que vi desde el observatorio del Tocho. Un saludo a Jose de UnGatoNipón, quien sembró en mi el gusanillo por explorar las alturas desde cualquier edificio con pinta de ofrecer una buena vista diferente de las típicas estampas de las guías turísticas.
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government building or Tocho it's the government headquarters in Tokyo and its 242 metres high make it one of the highest skyscrapers in the city. Curiously, the Tokyo Tower (333 metres high) looks much smaller and it's because of the design by architect Kenzo Tange (inspired by a microchip) is really impressive.
Can you imagine how the Tokyo Sky Tree will look like when completed in 2012 with 634 meter high?
Pulsa L para ver sobre negro / Hit L to see on black
Pulsa F para marcar como favorita / Hit F to fave
One of my favourite photos from 2010 was taken from a simple point and shoot. For this reason i wanted to get the same shot by with a better camera, longer exposure and sharper details. I feel it was a good result.
Nikon D3100
20" Shutter - F14 - ISO100
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (Germany)
(For more architecture photos from Berlin take a look here: Berlin Architecture)
Copyright Susan Ogden
This trip gave me the chance to see parts of the nations capitol that i have not yet seen. Our hotel was just a few blocks from the Capitol Building and the Congressional Library. We did a tour of the one and a self guided tour of the other.
The night before, we met my youngest daughter for dinner with her boyfriend, and his parents (who i have never met before). They live if Manassas and my daughter complains that i never visit her...because she has no kids to babysit for....just dogs!!! I chose a place for dinner on the recommendation of the concierge at the hotel, and used the GPS in my husbands phone to navigate the walk to it. The GPS took us a block too far, and corrected itself to make us take a right in the direction that we had just come from. i was puzzled, as this seemed to be walking in circles to get to the restaurant. When we turned the corner, there were a couple standing at the corner of the overpass, casually leaning on it.... and maybe 10-15 feet further up was a person....a young girl in her 20’s maybe...standing ON the overpass with one foot behind the railing and one foot in front of it................staring at the cars flying by on Route 395 below. straight down....staring and not flinching. i stopped dead in my tracks, my eyes wide as saucers, and quietly said “THIS looks not good at all”. My husband asked the couple that was there what was going on....they shrugged and just brushed it off as nothing. i was simply paralyzed. i could not walk past and NOT try to help. My husband said “Excuse me” a few times as we got closer and she did not budge....just stared at the passing cars below. Finally she turned her head to look at us. He asked if she was ok...her eyes stared back at us. empty and devoid of life....i have never seen eyes that looked like that. Absolutely no expression at all. i wanted to cry. she simply turned her head and began to stare at the traffic below again. i began to feel panic and started to trot to the corner to stop a police car or find someone to help us. My husband began dialing 911 as he tried talking to her, telling her to come down and we would try to help her. As i approached the corner, miraculously a patrol car rolled up to the light...i ran to it and when he saw me coming to tap his window he rolled it down to help me. I told him there was a girl poised on the bridge as tho to jump. his response was “You are shi^^ing me!” I was too afraid to even laugh!! i showed him where she was and told him to PLEASE HURRY.
A few people also out walking had strolled by and never stopped to help....but when they got to me they asked if i had spoken to the police....they said someone was talking to her trying to convince her to come down....i told her i knew that...and yes i had gotten the police to go there. We turned in time to see the police officer approach her quietly and say something and at just the right moment, grab her and take her to the sidewalk. i was never so relieved in my whole life. Within 3 minutes there were at least 5 other officers, in police cars, several on foot and on segways or bikes there to assist....oh...and a fire engine!!! we were detained to give a statement.
It has bothered me so much that i did not ask to speak to her as she sat on the ground....those eyes, so vacant have haunted me since then, and i regret not sitting on the sidewalk and just telling her that she was a valuable person with so much to live for, if she would just begin to believe that. She needed something to cling to....i feel like she needed just a tiny speck of kindness and hope. i still feel a twinge in my heart that i could have done more.... i have said a prayer that she will get help...and that the fact that i stopped to try to help might make her see that SOMEONE thought she was valuable enough to do that.
I honestly believe that there is no such thing as coincidence and that this glitch in the GPS was meant to happen....a God Wink, if you will. i hope that i passed the test....altho i still so wish i had asked to speak to her for just a moment. Just in case i could have put a spark back into her eyes.
The Historic Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, Wyoming has hosted many notorious guests over the years including Butch Cassidy and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill, Tom Horn, Teddy Roosevelt, President Herbert Hoover and Ernest Hemingway. The Virginian Restaurant at the Occidental Hotel is named after the famous novel "The Virginian" by Owen Wister who also spent a fair amount of time there. Colorful cowboys, lawmen and drifters were regular customers. Today, the hotel has been accurately and beautifully restored to its original grandeur.
The hotel is supposedly haunted by the daughter of one of the ladies working in the brothel of the hotel from many years ago.
inwildwyoming.blogspot.com/2010/05/ghost-girl-at-occident...
One final look at Ghent's Gravensteen Castle.
Gravensteen Castle is built on a small piece of land that juts into Leie Canal giving the castle the appearance that it is floating on water. The outer walls are the castle’s most unique feature. Unlike most castles, whose walls tend to be of the flat curtain type with round or square towers placed at intervals, Gravensteen’s walls have exterior supports, with turrets not rising from the water but jutting out over it.
Also known as “Castle of the Counts” in Dutch, the was built in 1180. Today it houses the Arms Museum and the Museum of Judicial Objects displaying various weapons used in warfare and other contraptions used for punishment and torture during medieval times.
Castle History:
After the death of Charlemagne, Belgium and the other Low Countries were incorporated into the short-lived Central Kingdom. Soon afterwards the kingdom collapsed and most of the local area broke apart into a succession of tiny feudal states nominally under the influence of the Holy Roman Empire and France.
Ghent, the region’s largest city and capital of the province of Flanders soon became a local power and eventually chief city of the region. Located in the geographic heart of Northern Europe, neutral Ghent became a major trading centre for the Germans, French and English. By the 11th century it was one of the largest cities on the continent.
Ghent was the seat of the County of Flanders, but it lacked an aristocratic residence that reflected the region’s political importance and wealth. When Count Philip returned to Ghent from the Second Crusade, he immediately set about rectifying the situation. Adapting the architectural style of the castles he had become familiar with in the deserts of the Holy Land to the watery landscape of Belgium, he designed and built Gravensteen Castle towards the end of the 12th century.
Gravensteen remained the residence of the Counts of Flanders for the next two centuries. When they moved out in the 14th century, the practical citizens of Ghent put the castle to good use. For years it housed governmental offices as well as the city’s court and prison.
Ghent and Gravensteen were ravaged during the Thirty Year’s War, at which time the castle was abandoned and frequently used as a stone quarry. Later, during the earliest stages of the Industrial Revolution, Ghent became one of Europe’s chief manufacturing centers. Desparate for space, Gravensteen Castle got a reprieve when it was pressed into service as a textile factory.
By the 1800s, Gravensteen had been substantially reduced due to years of war and neglect. However, the good citizens of Ghent again came to their castle’s rescue. Shortly before it was to be demolished, what was left of the castle was publicly acquired and subsequently fully restored. Even sections that were long gone, including substantial portions of the keep, were replaced. It is now only threatened by the hordes of tourists who visit every year.
At the Titanic Museum on the grounds of the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. September 10, 2016.
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The Banski Dvori (which means Ban or Viceory's Palace) and is today the Presidential Palace.
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Centro Internacional das Artes José Guimarães / International Centre for Arts José Guimarães
Location: Guimarães (Portugal)
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The city of Marrakech gathers for dinner in the center square, Jemaa el-Fnaa.
Dhanushkodi has the only land border between India and Sri Lanka which is one of the smallest in the world-just 50 yards in length on a shoal in Palk Strait. The Dhanushkodi railway line running from Pamban Station was destroyed in the 1964 cyclone and a passenger train with over 100 passengers drowned in the sea.This is one of the church destroyed in 1964 cyclone
Source : wikipedia