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The vast emptiness of an upscale shopping mall 10 minutes before closing time.
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Pittsburgh, PA
Photo taken from Market Square during the Doors Open Pittsburgh event in October 2017. See my Doors Open Pittsburgh album for more Pittsburgh architecture, both old and new: www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/albums/72157671390229503)
Appropriately the Pittsburgh Plate Glass corporate headquarters is a complex of buildings (PPG Place) created with 19,750 sheets of plate glass. The spires were designed to pay homage to the Cathedral of Learning, a gothic style skyscraper on the University of Pittsburgh campus.
"Upon completion of the project, architectural critics and the media called PPG Place 'the crown jewel in Pittsburgh's skyline,' 'the towering success of downtown Pittsburgh,' and 'one of the most ambitious, sensitive and public spirited urban developments since Rockefeller Center.' In 2006, readers of the Pittsburgh City Paper voted PPG Place as the best building in Pittsburgh."
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPG_Place)
Architects: Philip Johnson, John Burgee
The main building of 40 stories was dedicated in 1984.
Submitted to 7 Days With Flickr's 2 Jan 2018 theme: "Monument or emblematic building of the place where we live"
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More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPG_Place
Note that Pittsburgh has a history of buildings that have skins that are made from the corporation's own products. The 1953 Alcoa Building (now the Regional Enterprise Tower) was covered in aluminum, which greatly reduced construction costs due to aluminum being much lighter than other facade materials. The newer (1998) Alcoa Corporate Headquarters has an aluminum and glass facade. The 1971 U.S. Steel Tower is covered in Cor-ten steel, which resists rust and other corrosion caused by weather.
I borghi più belli d'Italia
The most beautiful villages in Italy
Les plus beaux bourgs d'Italie
Civita è una frazione del comune di Bagnoregio, in provincia di Viterbo, nel Lazio, facente parte dei borghi più belli d'Italia, famosa per essere denominata "La città che muore".
Civita venne fondata 2500 anni fa dagli Etruschi. Sorge su una delle più antiche vie d'Italia, congiungente il Tevere (allora grande via di navigazione dell'Italia Centrale) e il lago di Bolsena.
All'antico abitato di Civita si accedeva mediante cinque porte, mentre oggi la porta detta di Santa Maria o della Cava, costituisce l'unico accesso al paese. La struttura urbanistica dell'intero abitato è di origine etrusca, costituita da cardi e decumani secondo l'uso etrusco e poi romano, mentre l'intero rivestimento architettonico risulta medioevale e rinascimentale.
Civita was founded by Etruscans more than 2,500 years ago.
The location of his boyhood house has long since fallen off the edge of the cliff. By the 16th century, Civita was beginning to decline, becoming eclipsed by its former suburb Bagnoregio.
At the end of the 17th century, the bishop and the municipal government were forced to move to Bagnoregio because of a major earthquake that accelerated the old town's decline. At that time, the area was part of the Papal States. In the 19th century, Civita's location was turning into an island and the pace of the erosion quickened as the layer of clay below the stone was reached in the area where today's bridge is situated. Bagnoregio continues as a small but prosperous town, while Civita became known in Italian as il paese che muore ("the town that is dying"). Civita has only recently been experiencing a tourist revival.
The population today varies from about 12 people in winter to more than 100 in summer.
The Quality Knitting building on John Street in Toronto, built in the Edwardian Classical style. I cannot find the historical details of this beautiful structure. The Quality Knitting company was established in 1956 and is still in production.
Test shot with a portable tabletop tripod. 75 sec @ f22. Lessons learned: 1) Be sure to clean the UV filter first. 2) I was hoping to make this into a "street shot" but at 75 seconds, all the heavy foot traffic is gone.
Drove by, turned around and was thankfully wearing non-skid boots so I could navigate the icy road. Seeing this cute little 1930s era barn in a snowfall was momentous it had so much character. Most likely this tiny barn was used for a pair of horses to pull a buggy into the small town which is about a half mile to the left...
Empire State building in Manhattan viewed from One World Observatory in the evening light.
Best viewed large.
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The roughly circular historic centre is the main attraction of Amersfoort. The Eem river runs diagonally through the old city, south-east to northwest, from the Monnickendam to the Koppelpoort. It is crossed at right angles by the Langestraat, part of the old highway from Utrecht to Zwolle, and still the main street. The station is on the west side, and the Town Hall is at the western edge of the old city, on the road to the station. Most of the office buildings in the centre are located on or near this road. Apart from the Langestraat, most of the shopping streets are on the west side of the centre also.