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The Cinque Terre is a national park made up of five small towns and natural areas that are under protection from development. It is a UNESCO world heritage site and walking from town to town is a popular attraction. Enjoy the charms of North Italy. Riomaggiore dating from the early eight century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. It's in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower houses. A lovely hike along the Mediterranean coastline takes you through the quaint towns of Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso. The hike starts from the train station at Riomaggiore. The walk here is called the Via dell’Amore or Lovers’ Way, probably because of the beautiful view from the cliffs overlooking the ocean inspire people to declare their love for each other. This part of the hike is short and easy, about 30 minutes until you reach Manarola.
Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks. The town is situated in a small valley just along the coast. The quay is suggestive and framed among typical coloured buildings called "case torri" -tower houses. Torre Guardiola's path starts from the small Fossola beach is an incredible botanic walk in the nature. Unforgettable is "Via dell'Amore" the most famous path of Cinque Terre from Riomaggiore to Manarola.
Riomaggiore is het meest oostelijk gelegen dorp van Cinque Terre en het eerste wat u tegenkomt vanuit La Spezia. Gelegen in de vallei van de nu gedempte stroom van de Rivus Maior en gebouwd op verschillende terrassen. Het dorp vindt zijn oorsprong in de 8e eeuw door een groep voortvluchtige Grieken. De huizen zijn geverfd in de typische Ligurische kleuren en hebben het typerende torenhuis kenmerk, dat wil zeggen dat ze hoog gebouwd zijn, met wel drie of vier verdiepingen. De entree van deze huizen is op de begane grond, maar ook aan de achterkant op een van de hogere verdiepingen, dit dankzij het hoogteverschil van de omgeving. In het hoger gelegen deel van het dorp vinden we de parochiekerk van San Giovanni Battista, die gebouwd is in 1340. In Riomaggiore begint de Via dell’Amore, die u naar Manarola leidt, een prachtige wandelroute met uitzicht op schitterende landschappen en het geluid van de golven die breken op de kliffen.
Architect: schmidt hammer lassen architects
Built in: 2015
Client: Skanska Sverige AB
This is the new 54,000 square metres large concert, congress and hotel complex in Malmö. The building consists of a composition of cubic volumes that are mutually twisted and given different sizes to meet the directions and building heights of the surrounding city. The façades are designed with a homogeneous expression to make the composition appear as one architectonic sculpture.
The new cultural centre becomes an open, expressive and dynamic building that is manifold in both its activities and its architecture. The point of departure for the building design is the modern Scandinavian architectural tradition with the clear functional organisation and the accessible and open ground floor lay-out. The building becomes the focal point and a landmark for Malmö – a place where the spirit of the city, the diversity and the intimacy is given an architectonic expression.
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Se trata de una puerta monumental construida entre los años 1540 y 1576. Se conforma por dos grandes puertas entre torres, con un gran patio interior. Destaca un gran escudo en piedra de Carlos V con el águila bicéfala.
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Built in Neo-Byzantine style, it serves as the cathedral church of the Patriarch of Bulgaria and it is one of the largest Christian church buildings, as well as one of Sofia's symbols and primary tourist attractions.
The Cathedral is a cross-domed basilica featuring an emphasized central dome. The cathedral's gold-plated dome is 45 m high, with the bell tower reaching 53 metres (174 ft). The temple has 12 bells with total weight of 23 tons, the heaviest weighing 12 tons and the lightest 10 kilograms (22 lb). The interior is decorated with Italian marble in various colors, Brazilian onyx, alabaster, and other luxurious materials. The central dome has the Lord's Prayer inscribed around it, with thin gold letters.
The construction of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral began in 1882, when the foundation stone was laid, but most of it was built between 1904 and 1912. The cathedral was created in honor of the Russian soldiers who died during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, as a result of which Bulgaria was liberated from Ottoman rule.
The cathedral was designed by Alexander Pomerantsev, aided by Alexander Smirnov and Alexander Yakovlev, and was a radically chang to the initial 1884-1885 project of Ivan Bogomolov. Construction and decoration were done by a team of Bulgarian, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and other European artists, architects and workers.
The name of the cathedral was briefly changed to the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral between 1916 and 1920 (since Bulgaria and Russia belonged to opposing alliances in World War I), but then the initial name was restored. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was consecrated on 12 September 1924 and in 1955 was declared a cultural monument.
Three of the famous buildings in the Bund row. View them on a black background.
Left: The Peace Hotel (和平饭店). Formerly called Sassoon House and Cathay Hotel, completed in 1929. The building has an "A"-shaped footprint, is ten storeys tall, in parts thirteen storeys. In total the building stands 77 metres tall. The green color of the pyramidal roof is caused by it's exterior copper coating.
After a 3 year renovation it reopened in 2010 as the "Fairmont Peace Hotel Shanghai".
Middle: The 18-storey tall old Bank of China Building (中国银行大楼) was built on the site of the former German Club. It housed the headquarters of the Bank of China. The cut-off appearance of the building's top is allegedly caused by Victor Sassoon's insistence that no other building on the Bund could rise higher than his (Sassoon House) - the original design was for 34 storeys and the foundations were actually built to bear this load.
The foundation-laying ceremony was in 1936, but the war started by the Japanese in 1937 postponed the completion of the building - actually the Bank of China did not move into the building until 1946.
Right: ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China), the former Yokohama Specie Bank Building (横滨正金银行大楼). Build in 1924, six storeys tall. After the revolution in 1949 it became home of the People's Bank of China, in 1956 the Shanghai Textile Industry Bureau moved in, now it houses the ICBC Shanghai Branch.
Taken from the Lujiazui Riverside Promenade on the opposite side of the Huangpu River.
To see these three buildings with all their neighbours in a complete Bund panorama, please click here.
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Original photo: Park Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1896)
When in the city, most of us look at the shops on the lower levels of buildings and miss the great architectural details at the tops.
I changed the image to B&W, then upped the contrast to give it a graphic ambience and highlight the details. Then I put blue back into the sky and on the windows that reflected the sky in the original photo. At first, I removed the corner of another building in the top left, but that threw off the composition, so I replaced it.
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The Park Building is located on the corner of Smithfield and Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh. It is the oldest surviving steel-framed structure and the first high rise in Pittsburgh to have automatic elevators. The building stands on the former site of the Pittsburgh Iron Foundry, which supplied artillery and projectiles to American forces in the War of 1812.
Designed by George B. Post, for steel industrialists David and William Park in 1896, the 15-story Park Building is adorned by what preservationists call “the most beautiful cornice east of the Mississippi” which depicts telemones, men kneeling on one knee holding up the roof line of the building (above each column in this image) and is one of the stopping points in nearly every historical tour of downtown Pittsburgh.
No one knows who sculpted the telamones, but there is speculation that they were designed by Karl Bitter (1867-1915) because he worked with architect Post on other buildings.
I wish I could have gone to a high floor of a nearby building to get a better view of the top.
Historical information from:
www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10507676.htm
and
wikimapia.org/14449561/Park-Building
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Go here to see a close-up of the details of a man holding up the roof cornice:
Keskustorilla sijaitseva palatsimainen raatihuone on historiallinen uusrenesanssityylinen edustustila, jossa järjestetään kaupungin eri tilaisuuksia. Raatihuone on rakennettu vuonna 1890 keskustorin laidalle, jonka jälkeen se on toiminut historiallisten tapahtumien keskeisenä paikkana.
The "XYZ" buildings, 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), New York.
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The Union League of Philadelphia, founded in 1862 as a patriotic society to support the policies of Abraham Lincoln, is today a private members-only club.
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This is historic Creek Street which from 1903 to 1954 was Ketchikan’s red light district. In modern times it of course caters to tourists with shops and restaurants. The boardwalk and buildings are on stilts due to the uneven terrain and the tide which fills the surrounding area with water during high tide.
View from Flatiron Plaza across from Madison Square Park, New York City, New York
The distinctive triangular shape of the Flatiron Building, designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and built in 1902, allowed it to fill the wedge-shaped property located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan. The building has vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling the epitomizes the style developed amoung Chicago architects at the time. The building was intended to serve as offices for the George A. Fuller Company, a major Chicago contracting firm. At 22 stories and 307 feet, the Flatiron was never the city’s tallest building nor largest buildings, however many argue it is one of New York's most dramatic-looking,. Because of its popularity with photographers and artists it has become an enduring symbol of New York City.