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Palais Angerer
9 District, Roosevelt Square 15
Year 1876/77
Architect Emil Forster
Style of historicism
Short description - built as a residential palace for John Angerer at that time Maximiliansplatz
- Later opening of Pilsenetzer beer hall on the ground floor
- The waiter George Kremslehner leases the restaurant and receives the hotel franchise 1907
- Kremslehner bought the building and opened the Hote Regina
- In the second World War partial use as a hospital
- By 1958, occupied by the Americans
- Following an extensive renovation the hotel Regina reopened
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are regarded as the most influential band of all time. They were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements.
Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. As their popularity grew into the intense fan frenzy dubbed "Beatlemania", the band acquired the nickname "the Fab Four", with Epstein, Martin and other members of the band's entourage sometimes given the informal title of "fifth Beatle".
By early 1964, the Beatles were international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market and breaking numerous sales records. They soon made their film debut with A Hard Day's Night (1964). From 1965 onwards, they produced records of greater complexity, including the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and enjoyed further commercial success with The Beatles (also known as "the White Album", 1968) and Abbey Road (1969). In 1968, they founded Apple Corps, a multi-armed multimedia corporation that continues to oversee projects related to the band's legacy. After the group's break-up in 1970, all four members enjoyed success as solo artists. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001. McCartney and Starr remain musically active.
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of over 800 million units worldwide.[4] They are the best-selling act in the US, with certified sales of 183 million units. They hold the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart, most number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and most singles sold in the UK. The group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and all four main members were inducted individually between 1994 and 2015. In 2008, the group topped Billboard's list of the all-time most successful artists on the Billboard Hot 100. The band received seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 film Let It Be) and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. Time magazine named them among the 20th century's 100 most important people.
GUARDA (Portugal): Nave central da Sé Catedral.
A majestosa nave central, iluminada por um clerestório de frestas maineladas, é coberta por uma abóbada de cruzaria de ogivas, cobertura essa que também se observa nas naves laterais.
A great, throbbing architectural boil or zit on the elegant old face of York, Stonebow House is perennially voted one of the ugliest, most inappropriately situated buildings in Britain yet it survives all attempts to have it demolished and the site redeveloped.
Recently, this building topped a BBC Magazine poll of the most disliked public buildings in the UK.
Afternote: the latest info is that the complex is to be turned into luxury appartments!
Given my very, very brief visit in Boston, sleep was, unfortunately, not quite on the agenda for this night photographer. After exploring the city the night before, I went to bed around midnight only to wake up around 3:45am so I could find the location I had in mind for the sunrise at 5:48am.
I have never used GPS to find any location. I’m an avid connoisseur of maps, globes, and road atlases. (Yes, I’m rather "19th century" in that sense). Of course, in my confused state of mind somewhere between lethargy and exhilaration, I realized I had forgotten my maps in the hotel room. It was too late, though -- the key was in the ignition and I was already driving through the empty streets of downtown Boston. Going back to get the maps would waste precious time, which I had so little of, so I had to use my wits and regional topography to get me to East Boston.
For me, there’s always something very enjoyable about cruising on the empty highways of a major American city when everyone’s asleep! With the cool wind blowing through the windows, I began to wake from my drowsy stupor. With a few right turns and a few wrong turns, I managed to reach an alternative spot to get the view you see posted above.
The place I really wanted to be was a good mile and a half (2.4km) away, which is where this photo was achieved (after jogging the distance and avoiding a skunk in the park who seemed to be oddly drawn to me and wanted my company that early in the morning -- I had to dodge that fellow with stealth). Running with one's camera, backpack, and tripod while racing with the sunrise is no easy feat. That skunk almost blew my chances too!
Regardless, these are the entertaining details of my adventures of capturing Boston before dawn! Have an excellent week!
The Boston galleries (City Images) (Aerials) are completed and now available on my official website, which has also been overhauled, and undergoing more changes! Enjoy!
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I tend to avoid shopping trips to Glasgow, even more so at this time of year as I find the crowds of shoppers rather oppressive. Was in town nonetheless last Saturday though - crowds were hellish as expected but saw and snapped this view of a building at the foot of Buchanan street catching the ending days light with my compact.
Beautiful building, easy to forget the hustle and bustle going on below looking at this.
Don't know the name of this building but would like to, if there any experts out there?
More of my images at - www.ayrshirearranphoto.co.uk
cambridge, massachusetts
1957
rogers block, corner of main and broadway
set includes photographs of various buildings and construction sites in new york city and cambridge, massachusetts. part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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Yomiuri Shimbun Head Office Building (読売新聞東京本社ビル).
Architect : Nikken Sekkei (設計：日建設計).
Completed : 28 November 2013 (竣工年：2013年11月28日).
Structured : Steel Reinforced Concrete (構造：SRC造).
Height : 656ft (高さ：200m).
Floor : 33 (階数：33階).
Floor area : 964,995 sq.ft. (延床面積：89,650.99㎡).
Location : Otemachi 1-7-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：東京都千代田区大手町1-7-1).
Referenced :
www.nikken.co.jp/ja/news/2013/20131128.html
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Kodak Ektar 100
Double exposure of NY street and random building. I'm playing with this more and more.
The vaulted Nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
This image was far more difficult to achieve than I originally planned. I brought my tripod but was told I could not use it. It was exceptionally dark inside and I had to go to plan "B". Luckily there was a pew in the back of the Nave and I was able to brace the camera and hold on for the long exposure. I used my wide ange at 10mm and set the ISO at 3200 and had to deal with an exceptional amount of noise. I cleaned most of it up with Topaz DeNoise. I would have preferred to center the shot but I'm still somewhat pleased with it. A magnificent architectural structure that would look more at home somewhere in Europe than the heart of New York City.