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GUARDA (Portugal): Nave central da Sé Catedral.
A majestosa nave central, iluminada por um clerestório de frestas maineladas, é coberta por uma abóbada de cruzaria de ogivas, cobertura essa que também se observa nas naves laterais.
The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: Menara Petronas, or Menara Berkembar Petronas), are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)'s official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and remain the tallest twin towers in the world. The buildings are a landmark of Kuala Lumpur, along with nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower.
These old buildings in Darlaston are next to (I believe) an old petrol station station to which the sign (Cleveland) still remains on the left.
Darlaston, Walsall, UK
Handheld single exposure which was intended to be a test shot but turned out to be a keeper for my client. Shot approximately an hour before sunset. Shot in Raw, processed in Aperture and tweaked in Photoshop.
1926; architect Benjamin Wistar Morris. The bank failed in 1990; the building lives on.
Despite the seeming solidity of the ashlars, I'm sure a building of this vintage and height would be structural steel with a stone facing, not structural masonry.
Marina City Towers (designed by Bertrand Goldberg) and the IBM building (designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) in Chicago.
The commune of Baugé-en-Anjou came into being in January, 2013 when the former communes of Montpolin, Pontigné, Saint-Martin-d'Arcé, Baugé and Le Vieil-Baugé were merged into one commune. It is situated in the Maine-et-Loire département of Pays de la Loire region in north western France.
The Château de Baugé is a restored 15th century château situated in the centre of the former commune of Baugé which in 1999 had a population of 3,672.
Het huidige (en derde) stationsgebouw Antwerpen-Centraal werd gebouwd tussen 1899 en 1905 als kopstation. Het gebouw bestaat uit een stalen perronoverkapping en een stenen stationsgebouw. De stalen perronoverkapping werd ontworpen tussen 1895 en 1899 door ingenieur Clement van Bogaert. De overkapping is 43 meter hoog (hoogte die nodig was om de stoom van de locomotieven op te vangen), 186 meter lang en 66 meter breed en bood ruimte aan 10 kopsporen. Het stenen stationsgebouw (ontvangstgebouw) werd gebouwd tussen 1899 en 1905 door Louis Delacenserie (bijgestaan door Charles Poupaert) in eclectische stijl (een combinatie van stijlelementen uit vroegere perioden). Delacenserie liet zich inspireren door het stationsgebouw van Luzern en het Pantheon in Rome. Het hoogste punt van het station (75 meter) is een grote koepel. Het station werd op 11 augustus 1905 geopend.
In het midden van de twintigste eeuw verkeerde het gebouw in slechte staat. Een mogelijke afbraak werd echter afgewend toen het station omstreeks 1975 de status van beschermd monument kreeg, maar door de maand na maand erger wordende slechte staat van de overkapping, besliste de NMBS op 13 december 1985 dat Antwerpen-Centraal op 31 januari 1986 om veiligheidsredenen zou sluiten als er geen beslissing gebeurde over de restauratie van de perronoverkapping en gevels. Uiteindelijk werd op 20 december 1985 beslist dat de NMBS de nodige restauratiewerken zou uitvoeren. Die restauratie begon op 24 maart 1986 en duurde tot kort voor de grote ombouw in 1998. Het glas van de overkapping werd vervangen door polycarbonaatplaten, opdat de veiligheid van de reizigers zou worden verzekerd. De fundering van de bogen werd hersteld en waar nodig heropgebouwd. Staal werd gereinigd en opnieuw geschilderd.
Direct bereikbaar vanuit de perrons zijn twee hoge grote eetzalen ingericht. Die aan de stadskant is overdadig gedecoreerd met spiegels en bladgoud. Deze ruimte is ingericht als bar. De zaal aan de dierentuinkant werd tot voor de verbouwing gebruikt als personeelskantine; er zijn plannen om er een congres- en vergaderruimte van te maken. Het personeelsrestaurant is heden ingericht in het nieuwe gedeelte op etage -0,5, met uitzicht op de sporen. Bovenaan zijn diverse kantoor- en personeelsruimtes die niet toegankelijk zijn voor het publiek. De grote voorzaal (kathedraal) met marmeren vloer wordt vaak gebruikt voor allerlei evenementen en optredens, waaronder dansdemonstraties. In een hoek aan de stadskant was een telegraaf- en telefoonkantoor ingericht. Dit is nog te zien in de teksten op de gevel.
Het Amerikaanse weekblad Newsweek plaatste het station in februari 2009 bij de wereldtop. De Amerikanen bezochten een aantal prestigieuze stations en kwamen tot de conclusie dat de Antwerpse spoorwegkathedraal een vierde plaats waard is.
1. St. Pancras, London
2. Grand Central Terminal, New York
3. Chhatrapati Shivaji, Mumbai
4. Central Station, Antwerp, Belgium
5. Gare des Bénédictins, Limoges, France
6. Lahore Railway Station, Pakistan
7. Central Railway Station, Maputo, Mozambique
8. Hua Hin Railway Station, Thailand
9. Atocha Station, Madrid
Station Antwerpen-Centraal werd in 2010 gekozen tot mooiste station van Europa, door bezoekers van StedenTripper.com.
Local call number: PR30135
Title: Brokaw-McDougall House: Tallahassee, Florida
Date: 2006
General note: The Brokaw-McDougall House, located at 329 North Meridian Road in Tallahassee, Florida, was built in 1856. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Photographer: Beatrice M. Queral
Physical descrip: 1 digital image - col.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/16974
I somehow love bridges, they connect you to places, take you to places. Somehow seem symbolic that obstacles are meant to be challenged and overcome. I guess I'm rambling, but then again, do people really read the descriptions?
Café Landtmann
(further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Café Landtmann at the Palais Lieben-Auspitz, left the University Ring
The Café Landtmann, photographed from the roof of the Burgtheater
Winter garden and summer beer garden, behind the Town Hall
Great Hall at Café Landtmann
Schanigarten
(Wikipedia: Schanigarten is the Austro-Bavarian term for tables and chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of eating and drinking places. Unlike normal beer gardens (Gastgärten), the customers actually sit on public property. Originally, Schanigärten (pl.) referred only to Viennese coffee houses, but now the expression is used in other parts of Austria and for other types of establishments like restaurants and taverns)
Projection on the façade
Winter Garden, looking towards Universitätsring
The Zuckerkandl room in Landtmann's Bel-Etage
The Café Landtmann in Vienna is a typical Viennese coffee house in the Ringstrasse style. It is located in the first District at the University Ring 4, corner Löwelstraße 22, and is known throughout the city.
Location
The cafe is located on the ground floor of the Palais Lieben-Auspitz called Mietwohnhauses (apartment building), in the immediate vicinity of the Burgtheater, the University of Vienna and the party headquarters of the Social Democrats and close to the Vienna City Hall with the City Hall Park, the Federal Chancellery and three ministries. The café is therefore frequented by, among other actors, politicians, civil servants and journalists and is the venue for press conferences.
History
The coffee was on 1 October 1873 of the Cafétier (café owner) Landtmann as "Vienna 's most elegant and largest café-localities" in a prominent, 1872 built corner house at the at the time also new Franzensring (so to 1919 the address of this part of Vienna's Ringstrasse) opened. The ring road was indeed opened by emperor Franz Joseph I in 1865, but still long not completed in the area of the coffee house: The city hall was under construction since 1872, but was only opened in 1883. The university main building was built 1877-1884, the Burgtheater from 1874 to 1888. The coffee was thus in his early years surrounded mainly by large construction sites.
1881 sold Landtmann his coffeehouse to the brothers Wilhelm and Rudolf Kerrl who continued it under the name Landtmann and extended it in the direction of Oppolzergasse. Rudolf soon retired from active business life, Wilhelm Kerrl led on the café alone until 1916 and then sold it, worn down by the economy of scarcity of the First World War, to Karl Anton Kraus, previously a butcher and innkeeper. He led the coffee for only five years, because in 1921 it was operated by a Hokare Ges.mbH (unlimited company) (the name stands for hotel, coffee and restoration companies). This company had to be liquidated 1925/1926.
The Café Landtmann was now bought in the fall of 1926 by Mr. and Mrs. Conrad and Angela Zauner. The new owners had it in 1929 after a design by Ernst Meller, experienced in the establishment of coffee houses, fully restored: with the preserved to this day interior which is under preservation order. Particularly striking are four wooden pillars at the entrance, which were created by Hans Scheibner and their decoration representing premiere scenes of the Burgtheater. With this elaborate interior design Landtmann consolidated its position as the most elegant café in town. In 1949, Konrad Zauner's son Erwin took the management of the café and led it on with great success.
In 1974 the company received the National Award and since then it is allowed to use the Federal coat of arms in commercial transactions. In 1976, the present owner family took the local and renovated it in 1980 again.
In the café was Robert Böck, on duty only called Mr. Robert, working for 28 years, many years as head waiter in a tuxedo, and he knew all the important guests personally. On his last working day, on 23 December 2003, many celebrities came to his departure from the cafe. Mayor Michael Häupl served Mr. Robert, who had so often served him a "little brown". To this end, he handed him the "Golden Rathausmann" "for the most famous, most discreet and most accommodating waiter of Vienna".
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldener_Rathausmann_(Wien)
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Small stage
In the basement below the coffee was after Czeike already 1936-1938 the Cabaret 'Merry Landtmann" for the dancer Cilli Wang set up by her husband. 1953 in the basement the small stage "The Tribune" was established (since 2002: "The new stand", directed by Karl Heinz Wukow). It is one of the numerous small Viennese theaters that operate with modest public support and which offer authors, actors and directors fields of application.
Winter Garden
2007 was built a conservatory on the facade towards the castle theater, designed by Manfred Wehdorn by 1.5 million euros (Bernd Querfeld). With 87 square meters and 29 tables, the conservatory is almost as spacious as the great hall of the café; thus the capacity of the premises has been extended by a quarter.
Landtmann's Bel-Etage
2012 were opened above the café three function rooms, which are referred to as "Landtmann's Bel-Etage". One of the rooms is named after Berta Zuckerkandl, which in the house (entrance Oppolzergasse 6) from 1917 to 1938 run her famous salon, meeting place of artists, scientists and politicians.
Price of water
2013 got the coffee into media because guests who instead of ordering other beverages only want drink tap water this service no longer receive free. The scheme has been criticized partly violently. The glass of water for ordered coffee, as it corresponds to the Viennese coffee house tradition, still is served free.
Miscellaneous
In the Café Landtmann are according to indications of the owner family on average held 2.8 press conferences per day.
Since 2003, the café is every summer venue of the coffee house theater ink & coffee.
In March 2009, was opened in Tokyo in the central district of Minato-ku, in fact, in the district Kitaaoyama in the Aoyama Street, a "Café Landtmann" called local opened.
Guests
The coffee house was according to Czeike visited, among others, by the artists Attila Hörbiger, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Kokoschka, Hans Moser, Max Reinhardt, Oskar Werner and Paula Wessely. Among the politicians he names Julius German, Robert Dannenberg and Karl Seitz, who were part of the "Red Vienna", and in the postwar period the then very popular Chancellor Julius Raab. Gustav Mahler was encountering here with Karl Goldmark, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were among the "by-trotting" guests, the authors Jura Soyfer, Felix Salten, Thomas Mann and John Boynton Priestley also frequented the Landtmann. The owners themselves mention over and above Peter Altenberg, Sigmund Freud, Emmerich Kálmán, Curd Jürgens, Otto Preminger and Romy Schneider as regulars.
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Os chilenos são as pessoas mais amáveis, educadas e prestativas da América do Sul. É um prazer conviver com eles, sabem tratar os turistas de maneira ímpar, agradável e cordial. O Chile vale a pena ser visitado (e admirado).
Uma pena realmente a atitude de parte da torcida brasileira durante a execução do Hino Nacional do Chile na partida válida pela Copa do Mundo de Futebol da FIFA.
Nosso pedido de desculpas aos irmãos Chilenos.
VIVA CHILE !!!!
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Los chilenos son las personas más amables y educadas de América del Sur. Es un placer vivir con ellos, saben cómo tratar a los turistas de una manera agradable y cortés. Chile es digno de ser conocido (y admirado).
Una lástima realmente la actitud de parte de los aficionados brasileños durante la ejecución del himno nacional de Chile en el partido de la Copa Mundial de la FIFA.
Nuestra disculpa a los hermanos chilenos.
VIVA CHILE!
A great, throbbing architectural boil or zit on the elegant old face of York, Stonebow House is perennially voted one of the ugliest, most inappropriately situated buildings in Britain yet it survives all attempts to have it demolished and the site redeveloped.
Recently, this building topped a BBC Magazine poll of the most disliked public buildings in the UK.
Afternote: the latest info is that the complex is to be turned into luxury appartments!