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The Regensburg Cathedral (German: Kathedrale St. Peter or Regensburger Dom), dedicated to St Peter, is the most important church and landmark of the city Regensburg, Germany.The church is the prime example of Gothic architecture in Bavaria.
Explore #189 May 24,2008
Is the oldest theatre in Central America. Its construction was started November 3, 1911, by the French architect Daniel Beylard; and inaugurated March 1, 1917. It is of French Renaissance style with modern touches. It was decorated by the Italian architect Lucio Capellaro, and its Great Hall is the most beautiful and elegant in Central America.
Zalipie - malowana wieś
Zalipie - painted village, Poland
More about Poland: www.poland.gov.pl
Fot. Mariusz Cieszewski
More photos from a downtown Chicago walk-about. I had gotten up early one Saturday morning to take pictures of the city from the lake shore. However, my best shots of the day came a bit later while walking home.
As one looks up into the sky while in the walkway next to the Wrigley Building. The sky bridges are all too often a memory of Minneapolis for me (as a means of avoiding walking outside on those bitter cold days).
Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and completed in 1996, it features swooping curves of steel truss and glass; the outside is shaped like an elongated boat.
Standing between Tokyo Station and Yūrakuchō Station, its address is in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, on the site formerly occupied by Tokyo City Hall (before it moved to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in 1991).
Hereford Cathedral, in Hereford Herefordshire. The current Hereford Cathedral dates from 1079 and is a Grade I listed building. Its most famous treasure is Mappa Mundi, a mediaeval map of the world dating from the 13th century.
The cathedral is dedicated to two patron saints, namely Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint Ethelbert the King. The latter was beheaded by Offa, King of Mercia in the year 792. Offa had consented to give his daughter to Ethelbert in marriage: why he changed his mind and deprived him of his head historians do not know, although tradition is at no loss to supply him with an adequate motive. The execution, or murder, is said to have taken place at Sutton, four miles (6 km) from Hereford, with Ethelbert's body brought to the site of the modern cathedral by 'a pious monk'. At Ethelbert's tomb miracles were said to have occurred, and in the next century (about 830) Milfrid, a Mercian nobleman, was so moved by the tales of these marvels as to rebuild in stone the little church which stood there, and to dedicate it to the sainted king.
Before this, Hereford had become the seat of a bishopric. It is said to have been the centre of a diocese as early as the 6th century. In the 7th century the cathedral was refounded by Putta, who settled here when driven from Rochester by Æthelred of Mercia. The cathedral of stone, which Milfrid raised, stood for some 200 years, and then, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, it was altered. The new church had only a short life, for it was plundered and burnt in 1056 by a combined force of Welsh and Irish under Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, the Welsh prince; it was not, however, destroyed until its custodians had offered vigorous resistance, in which seven of the canons were killed.
Hereford Cathedral remained in a state of ruin until Robert of Lorraine was consecrated to the see (made Bishop) in 1079 and undertook its reconstruction. His work was carried on, or, more probably, redone, by Bishop Reynelm, who was next but one in the succession, and reorganised the college of secular canons attached to the cathedral. Reynelm died in 1115, and it was only under his third successor, Robert de Betun, who was Bishop from 1131 to 1148, that the church was brought to completion.
Of this Norman church, little has survived but the choir up to the spring of the clerestory, the south transept, the arch between the north transept and the choir aisle, and the nave arcade. Scarcely 50 years after its completion William de Vere, who occupied the see from 1186 to 1199, altered the east end by constructing a retro-choir or processional path and a Lady Chapel; the latter was rebuilt not long afterwards—between the years 1226 and 1246, during the Early English style—with a crypt beneath. Around the middle of the century the clerestory, and probably the vaulting of the choir, were rebuilt, having been damaged by the settling of the central tower. Under Bishop Aquablanca (1240–68), one of Henry III's foreign favourites, the rebuilding of the north transept was begun, being completed later in the same century by Bishop Swinfield, who also built the aisles of the nave and eastern transept.
St. John's Co-Kathedrale in Valetta/Malta ------ Die St. John’s Co-Cathedral (maltesisch Kon-Katidral ta' San Ġwann) ist die Konkathedrale des römisch-katholischen Erzbistums Malta in Valletta. Sie wird als Ko-Kathedrale bezeichnet, da sie als zweiter Sitz des Erzbischofs von Malta neben der Kathedrale St. Paul in Mdina dient. Die Kirche wurde zwischen 1573 und 1578 von den Maltesern errichtet, in Auftrag gegeben von Großmeister Jean de la Cassière als repräsentative Klosterkirche an der Ordenszentrale. Entworfen wurde sie vom maltesischen Militärarchitekten Gerolamo Cassar, der auch viele andere Gebäude in Valletta konzipiert hat. Während der Bau nur vier Jahre dauerte, benötigte die vollständige Ausstattung des Innenraums über 100 Jahre. 1820 erhob Papst Pius VII. die Kirche zur Ko-Kathedrale, um ihre Bedeutung für Land und Stadt auch nach der Vertreibung der Malteserritter durch Napoleon im Jahre 1798 zu unterstreichen; der eigentliche Bischofssitz befindet sich in Mdina. Geweiht ist sie dem heiligen Johannes dem Täufer, Schutzpatron des Malteserordens. Das Innere aus der Zeit des Hochbarock wurde sehr kunstvoll und reich dekoriert. Die Kathedrale wird sogar als eine der schönsten Kirchen im Mittelmeerraum angesehen. Der Innenraum wurde zum Großteil vom kalabrischen Künstler und Malteserritter Mattia Pretiin ausgestattet. Er schuf die kompliziert geschnitzten Steinwände und bemalte die Gewölbe und Seitenaltäre mit Szenen aus dem Leben des Heiligen Johannes. Bemerkenswert ist, dass die Schnitzereien an Ort und Stelle geschaffen wurden und nicht wie üblich unabhängig voneinander geschnitzt und dann an den Wänden angebracht wurden (wie z. B. Stuck).
Nahe dem Eingang findet sich das Grabmonument des Großmeisters Marc’Antonio Zondadari von Siena. Er war der Neffe von Papst Alexander VII.
Das Hauptschiff ist 53 Meter lang und mit Seitenkapellen 15 Meter breit. Die meisten Wände sind mit Wandteppichen behangen. -------------------------------------------------------------------
St. Johns Co-Cathedral (Maltese: Kon-Katidral ta’ San Ġwann), located in Valletta, Malta, was built by the Knights of Malta between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John, known as the Knights of Malta. The Church was designed by the Maltese military architect Glormu Cassar (Girolamo Cassar) who designed several of the more prominent buildings in Valletta. The church is considered to be one of the finest examples of high Baroque architecture in Europe and one of the world's great cathedrals. The interior, in sharp contrast with the facade, is extremely ornate [1] and decorated in the height of the Baroque period. The interior was largely decorated by Mattia Preti, the Calabrian artist and Knight. Preti designed the intricate carved stone walls and painted the vaulted ceiling and side altars with scenes from the life of St John. Interestingly, the figures painted into the ceiling next to each column initially appear to the viewer as three-dimensional statues, but on closer inspection we see that the artist cleverly created an illusion of three-dimensionality by his use of shadows and placement. Also noteworthy is the fact that the carving was all undertaken in-place (in-situ) rather than being carved independently and then attached to the walls (stucco). The Maltese limestone from which the Cathedral is built lends itself particularly well to such intricate carving. The whole marble floor is an entire series of tombs, housing about 375 Knights and officers of the order. There is also a crypt containing the tombs of Grandmasters like Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Claude de la Sengle, Jean Parisot de Valette, and Alof de Wignacourt.
In 1666, a project for the main altar by Malta's greatest sculptor, Melchiorre Cafà, was approved and begun. Cafà intended a large sculpture group in bronze depicting the Baptism of Christ. Following Cafà's tragical death in 1667 in a foundry accident while working on this work in Rome, the plans were abandoned. Only in 1703, Giuseppe Mazzuoli, Cafà's only pupil, finished a marble group of the Baptism of Christ which might have been influenced by his master's undocumented designs but certainly is strongly dependent on a small baptism group by Alessandro Algardi.[2]
Near the main entrance one finds the funerary monument of Grand Master Fra Marc'Antonio Zondadari of Siena. He was the nephew of Pope Alexander VII.
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Rusting Building, Leadfield. Death Valley National Park, California. April 1, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A rusting corrugated building, one of the few remaining structures at the ghost town of Leadfield, California
This is one of the few standing structures remaining from the boom town of Leadfield, in the backcountry of Death Valley National Park, in the Grapevine Mountains more or less midway between the Beatty, Nevada area and the main Death Valley. The standard story is that this town was the result of one of the biggest swindles and scams in the mining history of the area, and the story is often told of the main promoter salting the mine with ore brought in from other locations and producing brochures featuring boats on the Amargosa River... which is typically completely dry. In the process of preparing this photograph to share I did a bit of reading, and it seems like the story might not be quite so simple nor so dramatic. Apparently there was a history of prospecting and mining in this area before the town was created in the mid-1920s, and lead and perhaps silver were actually mined from the place. A range of problems led to its downfall—the distance the ore needed to be transported, problems with the sale of shares in the mines—but it may not be true that the mine itself was essentially just a scam.
This building is well-known to those who have visited the place, as it is one of two buildings that still stand. Both are located near the entrance to one of the mine shafts, and it seems likely that this was not a residence but rather some building related to mine operations. Today it is a mere shell, but I find it amazing that it still stands nearly 90 years after the "town" (which apparently consisted largely of tents) was abandoned. Even more amazing is to stand at this spot and look out at the surrounding landscape—a rugged and uncompromising mountainous desert terrain—and imagine what it must have been like to live and work in such a place.
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I haven't added a picture of the Liver building for at least two days, so thought I'd better remedy that :)
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Military-men were able to purchase equipment and uniforms privately. These items were superior in quality than the issue type and were very popular with the officer class. I would encourage you to view this image in "original size" and view the merchandise on display in the windows.
The International Space Station passes over the Washington National Cathedral on the evening of a Blue Moon.
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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Flatiron District
Taken during our trip to New York in April 2013.
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Architects: Matthew Cumming (2004), Paul de Bartolo for Marchese Partners Architects (2005), and DBRDS (2011)
Location: San Diego, CA
Another example of using the roof of a car as a tripod... 3-second exposure. I shot it strait on so that the horizontals were straight, as well as the verticals. There were delivery trucks parked just to the left of this shot, so that dictated the framing and preventing me from getting any more of the building in the shot.
Additional description of this project and how it came to be can be found HERE