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Le terme « flatiron » peut se traduire littéralement par « en forme de fer à repasser ». Sa forme caractéristique est due au croisement à cet endroit de la 5e avenue avec Broadway qui est la seule et unique avenue de New York ne respectant pas les croisements à angles droits habituels des autres artères. Il a donc fallu construire un immeuble en pointe à l'intersection !!!
I love strange buildings, crooked, oval, anything out of the ordinary, and this one qualifies. Placed close to the old harbor in Copenhagen. Like many other great cities around the world Copenhagen has changed the harbor front to something more modern, since the old wharfs and store houses were not needed any more. Photo by: Jacob Surland, www.caughtinpixels.com
DN Tower 21 (DNタワー21（旧・第一生命館）)
Architect : Jin Watanabe, Kousaku Matsumoto (設計：渡辺仁＋松本興作).
Contractor : Shimizu-gumi (施工：清水組).
Completed : 1938 (竣工：1938年).
Height : 377ft (高さ：114.9m).
Floor : 21th (階数：21階).
Location : 1-13-1, Yurakucho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：東京都千代田区有楽町1-13-1).
This building was used by Mr.MacArthur of GHQ (General Headquarters of the Allied Forces) on the 6th floor as GHQ's head office. It is important place where MacArthur and Emperor Showa held conversation. In 1995, it increased behind building.
The Zenith Centre is a skyscraper located in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood. (Wikipedia)
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See also : my time lapse video of these two buildings.
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Buildings of Pacific Blvd. Photographed with Canon 5D mark III and Contax Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f2.8. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Zgrade na Pacific Bulevaru. Fotografisano sa Canon 5D Mark III i Contax Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135mm f2.8. Vankuver, Britanska Kolumbija, Kanada.
Il Fuller Building, meglio noto come Flatiron Building ("ferro da stiro"), con i suoi 86,9 metri di altezza è stato uno dei più alti grattacieli di New York sin dal suo completamento nel 1902. Situato a Manhattan, l'edificio fu progettato dall'architetto di Chicago Daniel Burnham in stile Beaux-Arts su un lotto triangolare compreso tra la 23a strada, la 5th Avenue e Broadway guardando verso il Madison Square Park Conservancy.
I newyorkesi furono subito attratti dall'edificio tanto da scommettere quanto a lungo sarebbe riuscito a resistere alle forti raffiche di vento che soffiano dove sorge. Il nome Flatiron fu coniato proprio dai cittadini della Grande Mela a causa della forma del palazzo che ricorda molto quella di un ferro da stiro (in inglese Iron). La punta dell'edificio è larga solamente 2 metri e si estende per 86,9 metri in altezza, divisi su ventidue piani. Il Fuller Building restò l'edificio più alto di New York City fino alla costruzione del Park Row Building.
Fonte Wikipedia.
The most famous and recognizable feature of Haussmann's renovation of Paris are the Haussmann apartment buildings which line the boulevards of Paris. Street blocks were designed as homogeneous architectural wholes. He treated buildings not as independent structures, but as pieces of a unified urban landscape.
In 18th century Paris, the architecture still existing before Haussmann, buildings were usually narrow (often only six meters wide); deep (sometimes forty meters) and tall - as many as five or six stories. The ground floor usually contained a shop, and the shopkeeper lived in the rooms above the shop. The upper floors were occupied by families; the top floor, under the roof, was originally a storage place, but under the pressure of the growing population, was usually turned into a low-cost residence.
In the early 19th century, before Haussmann, the height of buildings was strictly limited to 22.41 meters, or four floors above the ground floor. The city also began to see a demographic shift; wealthier families began moving to the western neighborhoods, partly because there was more space, and partly because the prevailing winds carried the smoke from the new factories in Paris toward the east.
In Haussmann's Paris, the streets became much wider, growing from an average of twelve meters wide to twenty-four meters, and in the new arrondissements, often to eighteen meters wide.
The interiors of the buildings were left to the owners of the buildings, but the facades were strictly regulated, to ensure that they were the same height, color, material, and general design, and were harmonious when all seen together.
The reconstruction of the rue de Rivoli was the model for the rest of the Paris boulevards. The new apartment buildings followed the same general plan:
•ground floor and basement with thick, load-bearing walls, fronts usually parallel to the street. This was often occupied by shops or offices.
•mezzanine or entresol intermediate level, with low ceilings; often also used by shops or offices.
•second, piano nobile floor with a balcony. This floor, in the days before elevators were common, was the most desirable floor, and had the largest and best apartments.
•third and fourth floors in the same style but with less elaborate stonework around the windows, sometimes lacking balconies.
•fifth floor with a single, continuous, undecorated balcony.
•mansard roof, angled at 45°, with garret rooms and dormer windows. Originally this floor was to be occupied by lower-income tenants, but with time and with higher rents it came to be
Source: Wikipedia