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The Eaton Centre today
The complex was designed by Eberhard Zeidler and Bregman + Hamann Architects as a multi-levelled, vaulted glass-ceiling galleria, modelled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy. At the time, the interior design of the Eaton Centre was considered revolutionary and influenced shopping centre architecture throughout North America.
Despite the controversy and criticisms, the centre was an immediate success, spawning many different shopping centres across Canada bearing the same brand name of Eaton. The mall's profits were said[who?] to be so lucrative that it has often[who?] been credited with keeping the troubled Eaton's chain afloat for another two decades before it finally succumbed to bankruptcy in 1999. Today, the Eaton Centre is one of North America's top shopping destinations, and is Toronto's most popular tourist attraction.
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The mall contains a wide selection of 330 stores and restaurants.[8] The mall is served by two subway stations, Queen and Dundas, located at its southernmost and northernmost points respectively.
With the demise of the Eaton's chain, the department store space at the north end of the mall is now occupied by Sears Canada, which is the chain's largest store in the world at about 817,850 square feet (75,981 m2), though they have converted the uppermost floors to corporate offices and the lowest floor was converted to mall space. Shortly after Sears' acquisition of Eaton's, the Timothy Eaton statue was moved from the Dundas Street entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum.[9] The complex retains the Eaton Centre name, representing an ongoing tribute to Timothy Eaton and the small shop he once opened at this location.
The Olympiastadtion in Berlin was built for the Summer Olympics in 1936. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party have used the Olympics for their grandstanding while they were already preparing the Second World War. So this really is a very historic place. One of the most famous athletes during the Summer Olympics in 1936 was Jesse Owens, representing the United States of America.
The current Olympiastadtion became modernized for the FIFA World Cup in 2006. So the stadium is a very interesting mixture of modern and historic architecture. You still can feel the historic atmosphere, while it meets todays requirements for big events.
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Centre Commercial Beaugrenelle 10/08/2015 14h39
The colorful atrium of the new shopping mall in the 15ème arrondissement, Centre commercial Beaugrenelle.
Centre commercial Beaugrenelle
The Centre commercial Beaugrenelle is a shopping mall in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France. Located on the Front de Seine, the shopping mall opened in 1978 and reopened Oct. 23, 2013 after total reconstruction. It was redesigned by Valode and Pistre architects in a style reminiscent of the classic Parisian department stores with an oval atrium and colourful skylights providing natural light.
The outside facade is glass with metallic mesh.The Centre commercial Beaugrenelle provides an area of about 46,500 m2 of retail and leisure, (110 stores, a department store, restaurants and a movie theater multiplex). The stores are a mix of traditional French luxury brands such as Guerlain or Baccarat, and international brand names. Beaugrenelle is also host to a large Marks & Spencer. Most of the restaurants offer a view of the river. The roof top is planted with native regional flowers and hosts honey producing hives.
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The central sky lit dome of a resplendent victorian arcade . Melbourne is fortunate to have a number of these grand shopping arcades of the past .
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Mark 8:34
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Poplar is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in Travelcard Zone 2. It is served by three of the six regular routes on the DLR (Stratford-Lewisham, Bank-Woolwich Arsenal and Tower Gateway-Beckton) making it one of the busiest stations on the network in terms of services.
Long before the opening of the DLR in 1987, there had been three stations with the name Poplar. However, none was on the site of the current station.
Poplar railway station was on the London and Blackwall Railway between 8 July 1840 to 4 May 1926. This is near the site of Blackwall DLR station.
Poplar (East India Dock Road) railway station on the North London Railway was in use from 1866 until 1944. This is now the site of All Saints DLR station.
A third station named Poplar was constructed in 1851 but never opened. This was sited due south of the North London Railway station (now All Saints DLR), and due east of the present DLR depot.
Poplar DLR station was opened on 21 August 1987, originally with just two platforms, being served only by the Stratford-Island Gardens branch of the DLR. As the DLR was expanded eastwards, the station was extensively remodelled, given two extra platforms and expanded to take two-car operation. On 28 March 1994 Poplar became the western terminus of the new Beckton branch, which opened the same day; on 31 July 1995 the line was extended west, joining Poplar with Westferry via a flying junction and enabling Beckton services to run to Tower Gateway. Bank to King George V (later Woolwich Arsenal) services through the station commenced on 2 December 2005.
The mall, a public pedestrian space between the ICC and Symphony Hall, in Birmingham, England.
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The International Convention Centre.
It all started back in 1987, when construction work on the ICC began on the site originally occupied by Bingley Hall, which was the world’s first purpose-built exhibition space when built in 1850. Rather fitting really, as the desire to be at the forefront of exhibition innovation lies in our very foundations. Quite literally in this case.
Everything about the building was thought through and exudes quality. The Halls have been built to withstand noise from the surrounding areas and the main line railway track that runs under the building, with the installation of premium sound insulation. The eagled-eyed of you will have noticed that when you walk into the ICC from canalside it is marked as level 2. This is because the architects gave the installation a whole level of its own. The whole building was thought through to the minute details to give the best customer experience. Even the chairs within Hall 1 and 5 were chosen with delegates in mind, who would be sitting still for long periods of time. Each one cost over £1,000 and provides comfort equivalent to those used for first class air travel.
On 2nd April 1991, the ICC hosted its very first event, the British Small Animal Veterinary Association’s annual congress. We must have done something right, as we’ve hosted this event every year since and will do until at least 2020, though it’s fair to say it’s a much larger affair today. Yet our biggest achievement in that time has been ensuring that no two events have ever been quite the same. That corners have never been cut, or laurels rested on. Instead, we’ve pushed for originality at every opportunity.
A few months later on 12th June, the site was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who then attended the International Olympic Committee’s 97th Session taking place at the time. Yet while countless other royals, stars and politicians have generated crowds at the ICC since that landmark opening, it’s the crowds inside our venue we’re truly focused on. And always will be.
Fast forward to 2015 as the venue approached its 25th anniversary, we felt it was time for a change and the right time to refresh the physical look and feel of the space – without taking away from its iconic characteristics – to create an even better experience for The ICC’s customers.
One of the most noticeable improvements was during 2016, as large format digital screens were added throughout the Public Mall and portable screens were installed to make the space more dynamic and interactive. There has also been investment into connectivity with Wi-Fi upgrades, along with modernisation of the lighting throughout the Mall, Registration and Foyer areas.
The programme has also improved the conference facilities for delegates with a facelift to the venue’s largest flat-floored space, the 3,050m² Hall 3, Registration Area and Mall in 2015 followed by refreshes on Halls 4, 9, 10 and 11 along with six of our 10 Executive Meeting rooms to date.
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Symphony Hall
Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue in Birmingham, England. It was officially opened by the Queen on 12 June 1991, although it had been in use since 15 April 1991. It is home to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and hosts around 270 events a year. It was completed at a cost of £30 million. The hall's interior is modelled on the Musikverein in Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The venue, managed alongside Town Hall, presents a programme of jazz, world, folk, rock, pop and classical concerts, organ recitals, spoken word, dance, comedy, educational and community performances, and is also used for conferences and business events as part of the International Convention Centre.
In 2016 the Concert Hall Acoustics expert Leo Beranek ranked Symphony Hall as having the finest acoustics in the United Kingdom, and the seventh best in the world.
Symphony Hall, widely considered one of the finest in the world, was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin, (who together formed the Convention Centre Partnership for the ICC) with specialist help from Russell Johnson, founder of acoustic consultants Artec. A particularly innovative feature is the hall's acoustic flexibility. It has a reverberation chamber behind the stage and extending high along the sides, adding 50% to the hall's volume, the doors to which can be remotely opened or closed. The U-shaped reverberation chamber area has a volume of 12,700 cubic metres (450,000 cu ft). There is an acoustic canopy which can be raised or lowered above the stage. Dampening panels can be extended or retracted to ensure that the 'sound' of the space is perfectly matched to the scale and style of the music to be performed. There are also reverse fan walls at the rear of the hall which provide further reflections of sound. All the walls and the ceiling are 200 millimetres (8 in) thick and are made of concrete.
The hall is built only 30 metres (100 ft) from a covered railway line. To prevent the transmission of vibrations, the hall is mounted on rubber cushions, as is the railway track. The hall is also shielded from heavy traffic on Broad Street by double skins of concrete. Large, low-speed air ducting cuts the ventilation noise.
In 2001, a 6000-pipe symphony organ was installed, designed and built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau in Bonn and specially tailored to the hall's reverberation chambers. This is now the largest mechanical action organ in the UK.
Through its management company Performances Birmingham Limited, Symphony Hall alongside Town Hall has charitable status and through an Education/Community department carries out a number of projects for schools, community groups and families, working with around 12,000 young people and 6,000 adults each year.
life is not only holidays, as we all know, so I interrupt again my Scotland series with some shots of my everyday life... on the way to work...
La Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II es un edificio formado por dos arcadas perpendiculares con bóveda de vidrio que se cruzan formando un octágono; es un espacio singular situado en el lado norte de la Piazza del Duomo en Milán, que conecta con la Piazza della Scala. Su nombre proviene de Vittorio Emanuele II, primer rey de la Italia unificada; la galería fue diseñada originalmente en 1861 y construida por Giuseppe Mengoni entre 1865 y 1877.
El espacio central es octogonal rematado con una cúpula de cristal. La Galería de Milán es mayor que sus predecesoras y se considera un paso importante en la evolución del moderno centro comercial acristalado y cerrado, del cual fue el precursor directo. Además, es responsable del uso del término «galería» en el contexto de los centros comerciales. El uso de la estructura de hierro inspiró también la Torre Eiffel, en París. La Galería conecta dos famosos monumentos de Milán: la catedral o Duomo y el Teatro de La Scala.
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