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This is a part of one of the most powerful cranes in the world.
It is currently located in Grevenbroich Neurath where a new coal power plant is build. This is the site were the tragical accident happend last week.
Blogged at : www.jaillustration.com/2011/08/mile-end.html
Two sketches today in Mile End - probably my favourite part of Montreal. On the right, a corner of the fire department which is located on the corner of St Laurent and Laurier. This building also houses a Fire fighter's museum, which I have not yet visited. I'll have to go back and sketch more of this building – it is quite an interesting, castle-like place that deserves a much bigger part of the page.
To the left, Fairmount Bagel, an institution in Montreal eating. To maintain bagel-equality, I promise I will sketch St-Viateur Bagel another day. The two are the main Montreal bagel headquarters.
Palace of Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
The enormous palace was built during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaucescu in Romania from 1983. This is the second largest administrative building of the Earth. (The Pentagon is a little bit larger.) The volume of the building is the third on the planet after the rocket assembly hangar of Cape Canaveral and the Quetzalcoatl pyramid. The total cost of the building is estimated to be more than 6 billion dollars (the Romanian GDP in 1993 was 17 billions). Many citizens worked on the palace free as "patriotic labor".
The palace is located in the geometrical center of Bucharest and it is surrounded by similar administrative buildings. To create the construction site, parts of the old town were demolished. A dozen churches, a cathedral and many 19th century buildings were destroyed and a new Stalinist style quarter was created. There were apartment buildings along the 3.5 km large Avenue of Victory of Socialism for those "more equal than the others".
Some halls of the palace are bigger than a football field. During the construction 1 million m3 of marble, 3500 tons of crystal and 3500 m2 of leather was used. The purpose of the palace was to create a place for the administrative institutions of the State and the Communist Party. The building was called People's House. Its architect was Anca Petrescu. During the construction in the country electricity, heat and food was rationed.
The palace is now called Palace of Parliament and houses the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, two museums, other parts of the building are used during conferences, etc. (The movie Amen of Costa Gavras was partially filmed here in 2002.)
The government of the Swiss Confederation has been based in the Bundeshaus (Parliament) in Bern since the building was completed in 1902.
Built to the plans of architect Hans Wilhelm Auer in the Neo-Renaissance style, it is home to both the National Council and the Council of States, with each of the country’s cantons represented.
Guided tours are available in many languages, allowing you to look around both of the chambers and the impressive domed hall which stands between them and beneath the copped-topped dome seen from the outside.
The parliament is fronted by the Bundesplatz, where 23 water jet fountains – one for each of the cantons – shoot up into the air from the pavement every day.
Marina City is a mixed-use residential/commercial building complex occupying an entire city block on State Street in Chicago, Illinois. It lies on the north bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, directly across from the Loop district. The complex consists of two high rise corncob-shaped 65-story towers (including five-story elevator and physical plant penthouse), at 587-foot (179 m) tall. It also includes a saddle-shaped auditorium building, and a mid-rise hotel building, all contained on a raised platform adjacent to the river. Beneath the raised platform at river level is a small marina for pleasure craft, giving the structures their name. Marina City is notable in that it is the first building in the United States to be constructed with tower cranes.
One of the buildings of the Roycroft Campus. A community of artisans that produced furniture , pottery, printings, copper ornaments all part of the arts and crafts movement of the early part of the twentieth century
From British Listed Buildings, www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-456228-numbers-85-to-...
Terrace of four houses. 1933-4 by Berthold Lubetkin, in conjunction with A V Pilichowski. Monolithic reinforced concrete construction, painted, with flat roof. Narrow frontage houses, 7.7 metres deep, on three floors, the ground floor lower than the road owing to the extremely steep site. Houses arranged in mirrored pairs. Ground floor with entrance halls, loggia rooms and garages, first floors with reception rooms and kitchens, the second floors with three bedrooms and bathrooms.
Entrances set back behind single pilotis to each house, which support the projecting upper storeys, and given further enclosure by curved projection to side. Most houses retain their original Crittall metal doors, and No. 91 has original bell. Garages, set further back, retain original doors. First floor with continuous horizontal windows across facade, each of ten vertical lights with some opening casements, set in projecting concrete frame – a very early use of such a feature. The second floor has a similar five-light window, with to side, doors on to balcony with cyma-curved concrete front and steel sides. This is a very distinctive and classic Lubetkin design, perhaps derived from the Bauhaus but evolved by him into one of the most characterful design features of the 1930s. Rear elevation simpler, though with similar Crittall windows surviving to Nos. 87 and 91 and to the upper floors of No. 85. The small bathroom and toilet windows to No. 89 survive, but the others have been altered. Ground floors originally with open loggias, now infilled with wood or glass but retaining their ‘garden room’ characteristic. The interiors survive remarkably well in all the houses, though No. 91 is the most complete.
The devastation just goes on and on when it comes to the banks of the River Humber in this area. It is there and needs presenting to show what can and will take years to correct.
Detail der Fassade des reich geschmückten, doch recht mitgenommenen Zinshauses aus dem Jahre 1899, in der Annenstraße 46, gleich neben dem Esperantoplatz, im IV. Grazer Stadtbezirk, Lend.
Das ehemals wohl sehr aufwändig verzierte Mietshaus mit der vorgeblendeten Backsteinfassade hat auch schon bessere Zeiten gesehen. Das hier im Ausschnitt zu sehende dritte Stockwerk ist zwar nicht mehr vollständig erhalten, vermittelt aber dennoch einen schönen Eindruck davon, wie wunderschön das Gebäude einmal war.
Bedauerlicherweise wurden erst vor ein paar Jahren die wunderschönen alten Kastenfenster durch gesichtslose, moderne Fenster ersetzt. Aber man muss dem Besitzer zugute halten, dass die neuen Rundbogenfenster tatsächlich auch rund sind (was vielerorts nicht berücksichtigt wird) und dass die Fensterrahmen braun gehalten sind.
(Foto: Juli 2014)
In Back to the Future, Part II this building was re-dressed to become the Holomax Theater. The theater was showing Jaws 19 - This time it's really, really personal
Former Picture House in Horden, later the Carlton Bingo Club. Opened c1933 and in use as a cinema until 1970 when it was converted to bingo. This closed in 2013 and by 2016 the building had been demolished. Originally, it had 1,120 seats in stalls and balcony levels.
Horden, County Durham, North East England - Picture House / Carlton, Sunderland Road / Shotton Road
January 2008, image reworked 2022
Fotos de Alejandro Blanco www.flickr.com/photos/alejandro5000
Catedraleseiglesias.com
Álbum 2668
www.iglesias-espana.blogspot.com/
Localidad: SANGÜESA (31400)
Dirección: Calle Mayor, 1
Zona: Zona Media
Estilo: Románico
Siglos de construcción: XII
Horario de visita: de otoño 2011 (incluyendo el puente del Pilar): de lunes a sábado, de 10:00 a 13:30 y de 16:00 a 18:00. Además se puede visitar media hora antes de las misas. Misas: de lunes a sábado, a las 19:00. Domingos y festivos, a las 12:00 y 19:00.
Precio visita: de la entrada: 1,95€. Consultar descuentos para grupos y determinados colectivos.
Teléfono: 948870132
Santa María la Real
Iglesia románica. Fue donada en 1131 por Alfonso I el Batallador a la orden de San Juan de Jerusalén.. Se trata de una pequeña iglesia románica de tres naves. La torre de planta octogonal es gótica de los siglos XIII-XIV.
Lo que ha hecho famosa a esta iglesia es la gran portada románica, que constituye una de las obras más interesantes y complejas del arte medieval navarro, además de representaciones religiosas hay múltiples relieves de rico simbolismo.
Leodegarius firma la imagen de Santa María que decora la segunda columna del lado izquierdo en el primer cuerpo. Ante el retraso de la obra, el rey, retira a Leodegarius de la dirección de la misma, y se la entrega al experimentado y viejo, Maestro de San Juan de la Peña, que la termina.
En su interior el retablo mayor es plateresco (1550-1570) de Jorge de Flandes (que residió en Sangüesa desde 1554 hasta su muerte en 1586).
Green and red newbuild bit on back of The University of Sheffield's Regent Court in Portobello Street