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If current plans go ahead, Britain's first shopping centre will be reborn as a Westfield

Der Fachwerkbau wird im Fachjargon auch Skelettbau genannt.

 

Fachwerk ist eine gewichtsparende Stabkonstruktion, die vor allem bei der Konstruktion von Häusern, Brücken, Türmen und im Flugzeugbau eingesetzt wird.

Als Baustoffe werden Holz oder Metall verwendet.

 

Alle weiteren Bauteile, wie die Ausfachung der Wandelemente, die Decken und Böden sowie das Dach werden von der Konstruktion getragen.

Entscheidend ist ein fertigteilgerechter Entwurf, um das Zeit- und Kosten-Potential der Vorfertigung zu nutzen.

 

Stahl-Skelettbau

Im Stahlbau werden gewalzte Stahlträger, Bleche und Rohre aus Baustahl durch Verschrauben, Verschweißen oder Nieten miteinander zu einem Tragwerk verbunden.

Aufgrund seiner hohen Festigkeit kann er auch bei geringem Konstruktionsgewicht und filigranen Strukturen mühelos ganze Hochhäuser tragen.

Der Stahlbau verbindet den Vorteil der vergleichsweise kurzen Planungs- und Bauzeit mit einer flexiblen Ausführung des Tragwerkes. Diese Flexibilität ergibt sich beispielsweise durch die Verwendung relativ leichter und schlanker, hochbelastbarer Bauteile und einen hohen, wie auch präzisen Vorfertigungsgrad und damit verkürzte Montagezeiten.

 

Ab 1989 wurden einige Berufe neu geordnet und anders benannt. Aus dem Bauschlosser wurde der Metallbauer-Konstruktionstechnik, dem Kunstschlosser der Metallbauer-Metallgestaltung

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modern complete framework

 

Die Detail-Schwäche der Nikon kit lens ist andererseits ihre Stärke:

- Die Verzeichnung wird intern automatisch - per preset - korrigiert.

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Primary AF Point Center

AF Points Used

Center, Top, Bottom, Mid-left, Upper-left, Lower-left, Far Left, Mid-right, Upper-right, Lower-right

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+ Vari Program Autumn Colors, Herbstfarben

+ mit Polfilter

+ Auto Bracket Set Active D-Lighting, 2 shots

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 3.5-5.6/18-55 mm DX VR G ED

KIT LENS

 

Exif data

Camera Nikon D5100

Exposure 0.033 sec (1/30)

Aperture f/9.0

 

Focal Length 18.3 mm, aka 27 mm

ISO Speed 400

"High-End-Photo"

hong kong, 1972

 

queen's road central

 

part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf

 

© the Nick DeWolf Foundation

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The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited was a bank based in Sydney, Australia. It was established in 1834, and in 1982 merged with the National Bank of Australasia to form National Australia Bank.

This building is heritage listed with the Register of the National Estate. Description, and details, can be found here:

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This old bank building has been closed up for ages. Today I noticed a broken window above my head so I stuck my camera inside and this is what it saw. (sorry for the poor focus, I really was shooting blind!)

 

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This is a nice period photo with much to appreciate. The Mobil logo here is sort of in a hybrid stage from the previous one which was that shape but incorporated a pegasus logo in the point underneath and the one that eventually took over was a rectangular sign with the point removed but otherwise as it appears here. The building is an excellent example of this period of US style service station architecture and we see a moped rider with pillion passenger, an early Ford Escort, and Co-op and Dunlop signs of the era. It’s clearly a winter scene! There's every chance that this garage still exists in the present day and is here - based largely on the one remaining Poplar tree having grown a bit bigger and is in almost exactly the right spot compared to this photo - and it is on what is now called the Old Walsall Road.. www.google.com/maps/@52.5302439,-1.9288083,3a,75y,100.61h...

first time trying this -- 6 sets of 3 photos, converted into 6 HDRs, stitched together.

Rolleiflex 3.5F with Kodak Ektar 100. El Paso, TX. Monastery.

Bad Belzig (bis 2010 nur Belzig ohne den Zusatz "Bad)" ist ein Thermalsole-Heilbad mit etwas über 11000 Einwohnern etwa eine Stunde mit dem Auto oder der Eisenbahn südwestlich von Berlin. Erstmals urkundlich erwähnt wurde Belzig im Jahr 997. 1636 wurde die Stadt im Dreißigjährigen Krieg weitgehend zerstört, danach wieder aufgebaut. 1702 erhielt Belzig die vollen Stadtrechte. 1815 fiel die Stadt, die bis dahin immer zu Sachsen gehört hatte, an Preußen infolge der Beschlüsse des Wiener Kongresses. Erst 1914 wurden die Burg Eisenhardt und die Gemeinde Sandberg zu ihren Füßen nach Belzig eingemeindet. 1996 wurde eine Quelle mit Thermalsole in 775 m Tiefe erschlossen, 2002 ein Thermalbad eröffnet.

 

Bad Belzig (until 2010 only Belzig without "Bad") is a thermal brine spa with about 11,000 inhabitants at about an hour's distance by car or train to the south-west of Berlin. It was first named in 997. During the Thirty Years War, in 1636, Belzig was nearly totally destroyed and later rebuilt. In 1702 it received full city rights. In 1815, due to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, Belzig, that always had belonged to Saxony, was turned over to Prussia. As late as 1914 Eisenhardt Castle and the community of Sandberg at its feet were incorporated into Belzig. In 1996 a thermal spring was opened up in a depth of 775 m, leading to the inauguration of a thermal brine spa in 2002.

This wing has slight differences from its other section, but both come together to form an agreeable whole.

1504 West 63rd Street, Chicago Illinois. Built, 1926.

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The Vienna Opera Ball

Viennese Opera Ball

Just as already the operetta and the waltz had been imported from Paris to Vienna, comes also the model for the Vienna Opera Ball from the Seine metropolis. By a corresponding approval of Duke Philip of Orleans, on 2 January 1716 a "public ball" can be held for the first time, to which everyone has access who can pay the admission fee of five livres. First, the balls take place at the Comédie française, but already in 1717 was given the Académie de Musique, the Paris Opera House, the special right of the organization. Nevertheless, in the Comédie furthermore take place balls, with the audience far more popular than the 'opera balls'.

In 1861 the construction of an opera house begins at the Ringstrasse, on the explicit desire of Emperor Franz Joseph not solely intended for performances of operas and ballets, but also for the staging of the Opera Ball. With this, have been created both the spatial and the official conditions for a genuine Viennese Opera Ball according to Parisian model. It should, however, take another eight years before a dance event in the opera could be held for the first time after the completion of the house in 1869.

Initially, due to the increasing violence at the Paris balls but only Court Opera soirees take place. This includes elegant evening soirees with musical entertainment, but without dancing. On 11 December 1877 opened the court musical director Wilhelm Gericke the first Court Opera Soirée with the "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn. After several concert pieces the baton is handed over to the Strauss family. First, Johann Strauss son conducts the Vienna Philharmonic with a waltz, followed by his brother Edward with a specially for this day composed "Opera Soirée Polka". After that, the dance-crazed Viennese are no longer stoppable: all chairs were put to the side, and the evening, which was thought without dance pleasure, ends like a ball. This is the hour of birth of the opera ball, even though for the time being still far away from being called so.

Already the second event on 15 January 1878 is announced officially as "Second Hofopernsoirée (Ball)". The third, for 12 February 1878 scheduled Soirée, is canceled for reasons of piety, since Pope Pius IX. a few days earlier had died. After the uncomplicated election of Leo XIII. to new head of the Church the ball is on 23 February rescheduled.

After these three opera soirees from March of the same year take place redoutes in the Court Opera, continuing the tradition of masked balls and linked with strict dress code: "in the hall, with the exception of the lodges, the ladies the stay is only permitted in an elegant mask, short costumes are not allowed. The gentlemen of civil appear in evening dress with white cravat, cylinder or Claquehut (opera hat - chapeau claque). "During the next twenty years during the carnival time each year should be organized two, in some seasons even three redoutes. However, at these festivals the Viennese society is not as boundless as once united in the common ball pleasure, because in the meantime the guests are spread across three different levels, not only differing in space but also in the appearance of guests from each other. Are the boxes the aristocratic guests in elaborate ball gowns reserved, so gather in the stalls the bourgeois guests, for which there is no mask constraint. In addition, there are the galleries that are accessible to every viewer without special admission ticket.

1899 the popular balls for the time being come to an abrupt end, as is discovered that the opera for such festivals does not comply with the safety regulations. Since an appropriate conversion proves to be too costly, the redoutes are discontinued for an unforeseen period of time. A certain compensation for those festivals offers in the following years the in the new town hall held "Ball der Stadt Wien".

Only in 1921, the tradition of the redoutes in the Court Opera has been resumed, but without being able to follow on the success of previous years. After several breaks followed in 1924, 1928 and 1929 again opera redoutes, neither musically nor stylistically corresponding with the level of the defunct imperial monarchy-time and they are not characterized by the former wit, charm and temperament. The twenties are not only politically, but also culturally a very different time in which with the progressive emancipation of women the meaning of a redoute became obsolete.

And so 1935 is launched the first as such referred to Opera Ball. In a time of political uncertainty, it complied in addition to social also with diplomatic and official representative purposes. Therefore, it takes no wonder that the guest list has many personalities from politics. The last opera ball before the outbreak of the Second World War should be organized in 1939, when Austria was already 'connected' by Adolf Hitler to the German Reich. Therefore respectively stiff and artificial resulted according to that this night on which no happiness will raise, previously the rule.

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Reopening of the Vienna State Opera, 1955

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Shortly before the end of World War II, the Vienna Opera House on 12 March 1945 almost completely was destroyed by a bomb. It should take ten years until the house was rebuilt and with Ludwig van Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" at the 5th November 1955 ceremoniously could be opened. In the following carnival season with this also the first opera ball of the post-war period can be celebrated, but which has changed its face much: "Actually, the Opera Ball is not a Viennese event anymore, but already a pan-European one. A ball night for which the world envies us".

This new image has remained to this day, with the only difference that the Opera Ball is now no longer considered only as a pan-European, but as an international event. A highlight of the evening is the annual opening of the ball by about 180 debutantes who on the arm of the to them for this evening assigned Cavaliers in a Polonaise move in. After the Vienna Philharmonic for many years had taken over the musical interpretation of the evening, there is since 1982 a Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra grounded specifically for this purpose. In addition, since 1984, there is also a Viennese Opera Ball Ladies Ensemble, made ​​up of 15 musicians and beyond the ball unfolding a very busy concert schedule.

Today on the Opera Ball there is not exclusively danced just waltz anymore. Up to ten orchestras or soloists play at the same time in different places of the house, and as a concession to modern times there is since some years even a nightclub. And yet, the waltz enjoys as the king of dances to this day unbroken popularity, without which for many no Viennese Opera Ball is thinkable. Another innovation is also the since 1981 in the Schwind Foyer installed Viennese Opera Ball Casino, which is a special attraction especially for the younger guests. Collectors will also appreciate the annually by the casino issued special Opera Ball chips.

How to become a debutante?

Proposals are now mostly send in by the dance schools of the country. The first condition is the perfect mastery of the links waltz, which is checked at a Vortanztermin (dance audition date - don't worry, the Lipizzans are doing the same!). Has the potential debutante overcome this hurdle with flying colors, it is about to find a suitable partner for the big night. The criteria for this choice are less situated in personal relationships than in pure dance qualities. After finally the couples have found each other, for five days under the expert guidance of several ballet master not only the links waltz, but also the choreography of the marching in is practiced until everything is perfectly rehearsed. The question of clothes is strictly regulated for the couples: the ladies in white dresses with a little crown on the head and the gentlemen in evening dress. To underline the internationality of the ball, every year also Debütantinnen and Debütanten from around the world are invited.

Guests

Artists from the world of the theater and the music, film and television can be found on the Vienna Opera Ball as well as well-known athletes and fashion designers. Diplomats and politicians from home and abroad appreciate the special atmosphere, and every now and then you meet also members of the European nobility. The Opera Ball today is no longer just a lavish celebration in which together a whole evening and a full night is celebrated, but increasingly also a social forum that connects professional and political contacts in a pleasant way with a social event.

Scandals

In recent decades, the Vienna Opera Ball, however, has not only found unanimous support, but has been increasingly criticized. In the 80s made fights between angry citizens that characterized the event as a "festival of the political and monetary bigwigs" and the police the headlines. Unforgettable is also the demonstration against the reprocessing plant Wackersdorf when in 1987 the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz-Josef Strauss participated in the Opera Ball. In addition, now almost every year during the opera ball take place demonstrations against these seemingly senseless waste of funds in the face of hardship and misery, hunger and wars, social and health problems in the world.

Nevertheless, the Opera Ball has lost none of its fascination and all over the world - from Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur and Korea to Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul and Dubai, Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, Prague and Budapest to Rome, New York, Los Angeles and Washington - it found imitation, without being able to ever really come close to the Viennese model. Even if the question of the contemporaneity of the Vienna Opera Ball ever and again was controversially discussed, at the latest in 2005 has been shown that even this traditional event cannot stop short before general social changes: for the first time a smoking ban for the Opera Ball was pronounced.

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Capitolio, Washington, DC.

Construction site, Süddeutschen Zeitung in Munich - Berg am Laim.

Train Tracks in Brussels

 

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Canon 60D

With a new building going up that looks like it will be one of the tallest in the country. View from the Queen's Walk adjacent to City Hall.

The 143,404 square metres satellite building accommodates international flights departing and arriving at KLIA. Passengers have to travel to the satellite building via the Aerotrain. There is a wide array of duty-free shops and prestige brand boutiques in the satellite building. This includes international brands such as Burberry, Harrods, Montblanc, Salvatore Ferragamo and Mango. Among all international labels available within the terminal, some boutiques such as Harrods are only available in the airport. A number of restaurants and international airlines' lounges are available as well as an Airside Transit Hotel.

 

Within the terminal, wireless internet (Wifi) is provided free of charge. The terminal also has prayer rooms, showers and massage service. Various lounge areas are provided, some including children's play areas and movie lounge, broadcasting movie and sport channels. The terminal also features a natural rainforest in the middle of the terminal, exhibiting the Malaysian forests. The gates in Satellite Terminal A have the prefix C. The Satellite A Terminal has 27 boarding gates altogether. en.wikipedia.org

Classic Decatur, IL--Staley Building (now Tate & Lyle), railroad crossing, traffic lights, pawn shop, and Save-a-Lot. This is at U.S. Route 36.

An image of the Scotia Square construction site as seen from the top of the Trade Mart building. The view includes the Royal Bank of Canada building, City Hall, the Moir's Factory, and part of the City Market building.

 

Date: October 1, 1968

Photographer: Halifax Regional Police Department

Format: b&w print ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 inches)

Retrieval Code: Halifax Police Department photograph, 102-16N-0068.24

May Day at Audley End

 

Roll up, roll up and see May Day fun as it used to be!

Enjoy our Victorian side shows and brass band, and marvel at our incredible displays of Victorian falconry. Then watch as your little ones learn circus skills or take part in a play. All of which, coupled with the spectacular house and grounds at Audley End, is sure to make this a day out to remember for all the family!

 

Enjoy a great day out at one of England’s grandest stately homes; Audley End House.

 

The doors of our restored historic stables recently opened, complete with resident horses and a Victorian groom. Our stables experience includes an exhibition where you can find out about the workers who lived on the estate in the 1880s, the tack house and the Audley End fire engine. Try our dressing up clothes in the stables and meet our horses, Duke and Jack, too.

 

Children can let loose in our fun themed play area next to our Cart Yard Café which is always very popular with visitors.

 

Audley End House itself is a magnificent house, built to entertain royalty, and includes a Victorian Service Wing complete with kitchen, laundries and a dairy.

 

With beautiful grounds to explore, including an impressive formal garden and the working Organic Kitchen Garden, there’s so much to see and do at Audley End House.

 

Originally adapted from a medieval Benedictine monastery, the house and gardens at Audley End were amongst the largest and most opulent in Jacobean England. Today Audley End is set in a tranquil landscape with stunning views across the unspoilt Essex countryside. Visitors can enjoy the painstakingly restored parterre with its eye-catching bedding scheme and a walled kitchen garden run entirely on organic principles. It's possible to see elements of English gardening on a grand scale at Audley End carried out by the most influential designers of the day such as Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.

Ancient Thonetschlössl, District Museum

Object ID: 32954 Josef Deutsch-Platz 2

Former Capuchin monastery of 1631, 1785 secularized and acquired in 1786 by Giacomo Cagliano. Altgräfin (grandduchess) Elise von Salm the building had rebuilt similar to a castle. In 1889, it was acquired by the Thonet family, 1930/31 by the Savings Bank of the City of Mödling that housed there the since 1904 existing District Museum.

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History

 

Plaque to the founder of the Hyrtl'schen orphanage Joseph Hyrtl and Joseph Schöffel

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The Biedermeier-influenced city on the edge of the Vienna Woods is the capital of the district Mödling in the south of Vienna. The town has experienced in its 1100-year history since the first mention very different phases: in the Middle Ages briefly Babenberg residence, for centuries an economically potent wine market, from the 19th Century summer resort and industrial center, since 1875 town, in the 20th Century for almost two decades XXIVth district of Vienna, since 1954 again an independent municipality of Lower Austria and as a school and garden city popular residential area in the vicinity of Vienna.

Mödling has partnerships with cities in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria and Italy.

The historical tradition of Mödling goes back far beyond the first written mention, how settlement finds from the Neolithic Age, Hallstatt period (eg calendar mountain) and Roman times as well as the great Avar burial ground "at the Golden Staircase" from the 7/8th Century BCE prove. In the year 903 Mödling is first mentioned (Medilihha). The later settlement was probably made in the 11th Century beneath an early castle building on the church mountain (Kirchenberg), where later a Romanesque predecessor of Othmar church was built.

In the late 12th century Mödling was for a few decades the residence of a Babenberg branch line. Henry the Elder, a brother of Duke Leopold V., had since the 1170 century belongings in and around Mödling. He and his son Henry the Younger, calling himself "Duke of Mödling", resided on the castle probably built around 1150 in the Klausen, among whose most famous visitors was Walther von der Vogelweide. With the death of Henry the Younger in 1236 extinguished the Mödlinger line of the Babenberg and the reign became princely domain. The time of the Babenberg commemorates the in late 12th Century built Romanesque ossuary at Othmar church - a circular building with an apse - as well as the denomination "Babenberg".

In the late Middle Ages, Medlich developed into a major wine market (1343 mention of market town) which in the 15th Century as one of the four princely spell markets was also represented in the Parliament - in addition to Gumpoldskirchen, Langenlois and Perchtoldsdorf. For centuries shaped the wine-growing the economy and social structure. The Mödlinger wine was good and helped the market particularly in the 15th and 16th Century to its prosperity. The settlement reached at the end of the Middle Ages that extent, which until the 19th Century should remain essentially unchanged. The center formed ​​the area around the Schrannenplatz with a dense stand of late medieval and early modern town houses that bear evidence of the wealth and self-confidence of the citizens of the market town. From the late medieval Schrannen building, the official residence of the market judge, was created in 1548 the representative Renaissance town hall with loggia.

The elevated lying Othmar church became in the 15th Century by transferring the rights of the church of St. Martin parish church of Mödling. The massive late Gothic church was built in a nearly 70-year construction period from 1454 to 1523 on the walls of six predecessors and able to resist fortified. As Mödling was destroyed in 1529 by the Ottomans, the just completed church lost its roof and remained for over a century till the restoration in 1660/70 a ruin. On the Merian engraving from 1649 the uncovered Othmar church on the left side is clearly visible. As a temporary parish church served the about 1450 built late-Gothic hospital church.

The internal conditions at this time were mainly marked of the clashes of the market with the princely rule Burg Mödling - since 1558 combined with the rule of Liechtenstein - which reached its climax in 1600 under the energetic administrator Georg Wiesing (1593-1611). During the Reformation, the market largely became Protestant. In the course of recatholicization a Capuchin monastery was founded in 1631, which served as a factory after the repeal under Joseph II and was then bought by the Thonet family (so-called Thonet Schlössel, today Bezirksmuseum).

In Türkenjahr 1683 (besiegement of the Turks) took place in the Othmar church a horrific bloodbath, in which hundreds of people who had sought refuge there were killed. The church was destroyed again, but this time built up rapidly with the market judge Wolfgang Ignaz Viechtl in a few years.

End of the 18th Century occurred in Mödling the settlement of industrial enterprises, especially textile mills that took advantage of the cheaper production possibilities and also its proximity to Vienna. Was decisively shaped the character of the place but by the rise to a summer resort, initiated by Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein beginning of the 19th Century, which acquired in 1807 the rule of Liechtenstein-Mödling with the former family ancestral home. He had the area under enormous cost reforested (Schirmföhren/pinus mugo, acacia, etc.) and transformed to a public park in Romantic style with promenade paths, steep paths and artificial constructions (Black tower, amphitheater, Husarentempel). The ruined castles Mödling and Liechtenstein were restored. The former Liechtenstein'sche landscape park is considered a remarkable example of the garden culture in 1800 and is now a popular tourist destination (1974 Natural Preserve Föhrenberge).

Since the Biedermeier Mödling in the summer was an extremely popular artist hangout. Among the most famous artists of the 19th Century who were inspired by the romantic nature here, were Franz Schubert, Franz Grillparzer, Ferdinand Waldmüller, Ferdinand Raimund and Ludwig van Beethoven, who here worked on one of his major works, the "Missa Solemnis". In the 20th Century settled inter alia Arnold Schönberg, Anton von Webern, Anton Wildgans, Franz Theodor Csokor and Albert Drach temporarily or permanently down. To Beethoven, Schönberg and Wildgans memorials have been established (Beethoven House, Schönberg House, Wildgans archive).

In the second half of the 19th Century Mödling became administrative center (District Court, District administration) and an industrial site and educational location with high schools and colleges (eg educational establishment Francisco-Josephinum). The good traffic situation at the southern railway, the progressive industrialization and the expansion of health facilities (park, Kursalon) led to a rapid expansion of the hitherto for centuries unchanged market. Under mayor Joseph Schöffel (1873-1882), who became famous because of his successful engagement against the deforestation of the Vienna Woods as the "savior of the Vienna Woods", followed the methodical installation of the so-called Schoeffel(before) city - Schöffelvorstadt (New Mödling) east of the Southern Railway and the establishment of workers' settlements. Later followed the exclusive residential areas of the turn of the century with their representative residential buildings. Probably the most important building of the late 19th Century is the Hyrtl'sche orphanage (1886-1889), founded by the Viennese anatomist, Joseph Hyrtl and Joseph Schöffel. The Orphanage church St. Joseph was built on the in 1787 demolished Martin Church.

On 18th November 1875 the emerging market town was raised to the status of a city, two years later the incorporation of Klausen and Vorderbrühl took place. Through the establishment of Great-Vienna under the Nazi regime on 15th October 1938 the young city for 16 years lost its municipal autonomy; 1954 it became again a part of Lower Austria.

Symbol for the characteristic environment of Mödling was the "width pine" on the Anninger whose age goes back to the 16th Century (around 1550). It was a well-known natural landmark and has become the symbol of the city. 1988 died the tree and it had to be removed in 1997 for safety reasons. The remains are now in the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum.

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This image showcases the iconic Ferry Building Clock Tower in San Francisco, a timeless landmark symbolizing the city’s rich history and maritime heritage. The architectural style of the tower is inspired by the 12th-century Giralda in Seville, Spain, yet it possesses a distinctly San Francisco character. The structure features classic lines, a muted beige facade, and four prominent clock faces that are a defining feature of the waterfront skyline.

 

At the very top, the American flag flutters gently, adding a sense of pride and identity to the scene. Below, a white flag bearing a logo and the California state flag flank the base of the tower, further grounding the image in its locale. The overcast sky provides a soft, diffused light that highlights the textures and details of the tower's design, while the faint hints of blue in the clouds contrast subtly with the building’s warm tones.

 

The clock faces are elegantly designed with Roman numerals and ornate black hands, giving them a classic yet functional aesthetic. The open colonnade near the top of the tower adds depth and a sense of lightness to the otherwise solid structure, creating a balance that draws the eye upward.

Candi Prambanan or Candi Rara Jonggrang is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimurti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Sustainer (Vishnu) and the Destroyer (Shiva). The temple compound is located approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) east of the city of Yogyakarta on the boundary between Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces.

 

The temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia, and is one of the largest Hindu temples in Southeast Asia. It is characterized by its tall and pointed architecture, typical of Hindu temple architecture, and by the towering 47-metre-high (154 ft) central building inside a large complex of individual temples.

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