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Did not see this when taking the photo. It seems so strange. Reflections or curtains? It reminded me of chest X Rays Any ideas. I brightened the image.19th January 2015 Stafford UK
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Insight - Hammersmith Bridge, London, UK
perpendicular penetration in a state of uncertainty ...
Durchdringung ...
Inkonsequenz ...
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Puck Building sports two gilded statues of Shakespeare's character Puck, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, one on the northeast corner at Houston and Mulberry( photo) , and one over the main entrance on Lafayette.
The residential unit La Cité Radieuse
(in English: the radiant city)
in Marseille was built from 1947 to 1952 according to the plans of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier (Charles Eduard Jeanneret-Gris).
It is 165 meters long, 24 meters wide and 56 meters high with 337 apartments distributed on 17 floors.
The Unité of Marseille was the "prototype" of the Unité d'Habitation (housing machine). Subsequently, four more Unité d'Habitation were built in Berlin, Firminy, Rezé (Nantes) and Briey, based on the Marseille model. (Source: Le Corbusier: 5 × Unité, by Ottmann, Peter (ed.) from Spector Books).
It is a founding work of architectural Brutalism and an important experiment in a new way of living. Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille demonstrates that it is possible to use reinforced concrete as a natural material of equal rank to stone, wood, or terra cotta.
This concrete residential building with colorful accents, ultra-modern at the time, houses 1600 residents, a school, a swimming pool, stores and a center for contemporary art.
The imposing building is reminiscent of a passenger ship moored in the park.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the Cité Radieuse was innovative from many points of view: the sheer size initially astonished contemporaries, as did the materials used or the external impression of a ship.
Even today, Le Corbusier's designs are the subject of controversy. While some praise the color theory and propositions of his works, others see him as the father of metropolitan building sins after the end of World War II.
Completely new was the internal organization of the building as an attempt to create a new "living system", which was explained by the architect himself with the concept of the "living machine". As on a cruise ship, different functions are located on each floor. A street located in the building offers stores, a hotel and restaurants and is intended to encourage collective use of the building.
The last floor houses a dedicated elementary school and a gymnasium that has housed a contemporary art center (MAMO) since 2013. Thus, the residential unit becomes its own village or "vertical city", in the middle of the big city of Marseille, whose residents can enjoy the evenings on the roof terrace overlooking the city and the sea, including paddling pools, play areas, a stage for performances and a 300 m running track .
The Cité Radieuse in Marseille is classified as a monument and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2016 along with other works by Le Corbusier.
The residential units
Each of the 337 apartments consists of two floors connected by an internal staircase.
The apartments are designed according to a total of 23 different basic types. Each apartment runs from one facade to the next and from east to west. Thus, all residential units are flooded with light and can be optimally ventilated.
Special attention was paid to the comfortable equipment of the living spaces. Central heating, running hot water, an extra bathroom for children, two adjoining children's rooms and numerous closets made of high-quality materials were unheard-of comforts at the time.
How well-considered the planning and interior design of the apartments were becomes particularly clear in details. For example, the threshold to the terrace is basically designed so wide that it can be used as a sitting area. All window sills are continuous and can thus be used as shelves or to prop up the arms. Cooking pots find their place on the racks provided for them in each case.
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Die Wohneinheit La Cité Radieuse
(zu Deutsch: die strahlende Stadt)
in Marseille ist von 1947 bis 1952 nach Plänen des Schweiz-Französischen Architekten Le Corbusier (Charles Eduard Jeanneret-Gris) gebaut worden.
Sie ist 165 Meter lang, 24 Meter breit und 56 Meter hoch mit 337 Appartements auf 17 Etagen verteilt.
Die Unité von Marseille war der «Prototyp» der Unité d’Habitation (Wohnmaschine). Nachfolgend wurden vier weitere Unité d’Habitation in Berlin, Firminy, Rezé (Nantes) und Briey nach dem Vorbild von Marseille erbaut. (Quelle: Le Corbusier: 5 × Unité, von Ottmann, Peter (Hrsg.) von Spector Books)
Sie ist Gründungswerk des architektonischen Brutalismus und ein wichtiges Experiment einer neuen Art des Wohnens. Die Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier’s in Marseille zeigt, dass die Verwendung von Stahlbeton als natürliches Material von gleichem Rang wie Stein, Holz oder Terrakotta möglich ist.
Dieses Wohngebäude aus Beton mit farblichen Akzenten, ultramodern zur damaligen Zeit, beherbergt 1600 Bewohner, eine Schule, ein Schwimmbad, Geschäfte sowie ein Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst.
Das imposante Gebäude erinnert an ein im Park festgemachtes Passagierschiff.
Die Cité Radieuse war zu Beginn der 1950er Jahre aus vielfacher Hinsicht innovativ: Die schiere Größe verwunderte die Zeitgenossen anfangs genauso wie die verwendeten Materialien oder der äußere Eindruck eines Schiffes.
Bis heute werden die Entwürfe von Le Corbusier kontrovers diskutiert. Während die einen die Farblehre und Propositionen seiner Arbeiten loben, sehen andere ihn als Vater der großstädtischen Bausünden nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
Völlig neuartig war die innere Organisation des Gebäudes als Versuch eines neuen "Wohnsystems", das vom Architekten selbst mit dem Konzept der "Wohnmaschine" erklärt wurde. Wie auf einem Kreuzfahrtschiff sind in den einzelnen Stockwerken unterschiedliche Funktionen untergebracht. Eine im Gebäude befindliche Straße bietet Geschäfte, ein Hotel und Restaurants und soll zur kollektiven Nutzung des Gebäudes anregen.
In der letzten Etage sind eine eigene Grundschule und eine Turnhalle, die seit 2013 ein Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst (MAMO) beherbergt, untergebracht. So wird aus der Wohneinheit ein eigenes Dorf oder eine "Vertikale Stadt", inmitten der Großstadt Marseille, dessen/deren Bewohner die Abende auf der Dachterrasse mit Blick auf Stadt und Meer, inklusive Planschbecken, Spielbereichen, einer 300 m Laufbahn und einer Bühne für Aufführungen, genießen können.
Die Cité Radieuse in Marseille ist als Denkmal klassifiziert und im Juli 2016 zusammen mit weiteren Werken von Le Corbusier in die Liste des UNESCO-Weltkulturerbes aufgenommen worden.
Die Wohneinheiten
Jede der 337 Wohnungen besteht aus zwei Stockwerken, die mit einer Innentreppe verbunden sind.
Die Wohnungen sind nach insgesamt 23 verschiedenen Grundtypen gestaltet. Jede Wohnung läuft von einer Fassaden zur nächsten und von Ost nach West. So sind alle Wohneinheiten lichtdurchflutet und können optimal belüftet werden.
Besonderes Augenmerk lag auf der komfortablen Ausstattung der Wohnräume. Zentralheizungen, fließend warmes Wasser, ein extra Bad für Kinder, zwei nebeneinander liegende Kinderzimmer und zahlreiche Wandschränke aus hochwertigen Materialien waren zur damaligen Zeit ein unerhörter Komfort.
Wie wohlüberlegt die Planung und das Innendesign der Wohnungen waren, wird an Details besonders deutlich. So ist z.B. die Schwelle zur Terrasse grundsätzlich so breit angelegt, dass sie als Sitzplatz genutzt werden kann. Alle Fensterbänke sind durchgehend und können so als Ablage oder zum Aufstützen der Arme genutzt werden. Kochtöpfe finden ihren Platz an den jeweils für sie vorgesehenen Gestellen.
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Taken during the recent Fine Art Architecture Berlin workshop I taught in October 2024. The next is a 5-day dual city fine art architecture workshop in Barcelona-Madrid in March 2025. Fine art architecture is all about manifesting the unique individual experience and at the same time celebrating the architectural design. Not just one of the two. See my website. Also, my website store will be 30% off on videos and plugins from December 23 to January 1, 2025. Happy Holidays!
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Architectural details from the departure hall at Bangkok International Airport, Thailand.
Inspired by the work of some of my flickr contacts, in particular Martin Turner.
Nikon D7000 & 16-85mm VR
Pretty much straight from camera other than a crop and using the cameras "VIVID" tone rather than my usual choice of "neutral". The D7000 continues to blow me away, as does my 16-85mm.
Got lucky with the light on this one... Sun came good for me. Took about twenty shots before I got this one.
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Traffic - Piccadilly Circus, London, UK
Film: Lomochrome Metropolis
Camera: Olympus TRIP 35
See this and more at my LomoHome: www.lomography.com/homes/ale2000
unentschlossen
ungern verlasse ich mein Raster
bin schon verunsichert
wenn ich ein wenig daneben stehe
hinaus in die Welt
so brüchig wie ich bin
mit meinen Löchern
und Kantenüberschärfungen
habe ich die richtige Frequenz
stimmt mein Radius
muss ich den Algorithmus senken
und wenn ich rausche
Artefakte bekomme
so viele Linien
und Möglichkeiten
der Wind
das Licht
würden durch mich hindurch gehen
wie komme ich akustisch an
finde ich die Liebe
dort bin ich ein Fremder
ich weiß nicht …
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my Flickr friends...
.Casa Monica has been totally rebuilt and is a wonderful place to stay..if you can swing it...some of the best food in town also..There are wonderfuls shops to the street side on the left..with an art gallery in the building along with a nice coffee shop...It is right on the town square (to the left out of sight), right in front of the Flagler Museum (to the right.) Shops are within walking distance along with the nearby historical district...Built in the Spanish Renaissance style...Saint Augustine is the oldest city in the United States.
When Florida was being populated, this used to be the last stop of the railroads and this hotel along with another (across the street, which was bought and is now Flagler College) were very exotic places for the rich and famous of the day for wintering. Flagler eventually extended the railroad down through Florida to the Miami area.
I have taken some shots of these beautiful buildings at night without using HDR, and they are good, but WITH HDR it is a lot easier to control the lights and contrast..and therefore get a better picture. I can do some of the same things in Shadows/Highlights, but it is nice to have another tool (which I know can only be as good as the toolee!) As long as I take sharp pictures and don't move between shots, the HDRs are staying sharp..which was my main concern along with not creating halos, etc. You pretty much still have to go through your PPing routine with them though, after they have been blended.
A Generation on Eve of Election
(Politics Never Were the Answer) (James Watkins)
This generation is stuck on the bulwark,
Frozen in headlights gathering stones-
Indiscriminate sons of the morning,
Atrophied assets with merits unknown.
Set in the light of internal combustion,
Self deprivation, contiguous bones-
Crushed in the conflict
Of rising occasion,
Lost in the moment
The monument grows.
Dancing with moonlight,
Moonbeams in starlight,
Ridiculed remnants that rattle and roll-
Quixotically quoted in
Careless convention,
National parlance
Of future payrolls.
Pay for the privilege,
Pose for the prattle,
Pause for refreshment,
That causes the cure.
Simple deliverance in
Smokescreen obedience,
Rationale railways
That run on the ruins.
Come to the purpose in patriot persuasion,
Stand in the gap with righteous reward,
Fly in the face of cupcake convention,
Pulses of power that pull
At the thorns.
Hold fast in fear; don’t fall at the junction,
Waste away weather maps
Conjugal forms-
Failing at formats with frogs in the foyer,
Padded with passive, political porn.
Packed into parlors with pigs of persuasion,
Multiplied monsters fixed to the floor-
Pass on to poundings of crux congregations,
Critical mass for the petrified poor.
Crept in concealment configured in catacombs,
Built on the fragments of families forlorn-
Terrified teamsters with tales of their talisman,
Tickled and tortured, then swamped by the storm.
Fancy faced forecasts with fabricate filters,
Lies at the bottom where captives are shorn-
Files of the caveat castaway cheviots,
Horns of the altar now cut to the stone.
Sanctified delegates step to floor-
Out on the borders, go right for the snore.
Sniping at mystical magical merchandise,
Mopping up munchkins with heroes galore.
Gift of gab purposeful prophets in paradise,
Parabolic poetry prose-
Deft and defiant in damaged delusion,
Filled up with ideas but stuck in the door.
Pamplified pollsters perched on the pedestal,
Pale prognosticates barren and bored-
Doubters and doers and leaders and lovers,
Catch me the top of the hour has flown.
Dudley dead do-rights don’t come down a crashin’
Cackling crackers conducive to scorn,
Capped out and crapped out
In Wall Street enduros,
Boiled down to futures and factual whores.
Just enough knowledge to keep them from happiness,
Just enough money to keep them enthroned,
Just enough polish to keep each one sparkling,
Just enough selfishness keeps them alone.
James Watkins 09-02-08
Lobby area
The MAM recently gained international recognition with the construction of the white concrete Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava (his first completed project in the United States), which opened on May 4, 2001. The pavilion was engineered by the Milwaukee-based engineering firm, Graef. The structure contains a movable, wing-like brise soleil which opens up for a wingspan of 217 feet during the day, folding over the tall, arched structure at night or during inclement weather. The brise soleil has since become a symbol for the city of Milwaukee 1399
Old wooden Greek Catholic church of St. Paraskevi in Kwiaton in Poland. Famous example of Lemko church architecture inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The Art Gallery of Alberta (designed by Randall Stout) … this image is a composite… the sky in the original was cloudless, evening dusk and not interesting, so I borrowed a sky from a Lake Huron sunset go with this wonderful structure… it just looks better on black…taken with my simple P&S...
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