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Some of our neighbours make such an effort at Christmas.
By the way, this is the usual English pathetic attempt at snow. It's enough to make the country grind to a halt though...
We're Here: Christmas Wrapping Paper
Architecture style: Modernism / Art Deco
Building and workshop for painter Alfred Lombard (1884-1973)
Address: 2 rue Gambetta, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Construction: 1928
Architect: Pierre Patout (1879-1965)
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I can't decide between the two images which is the better one this one or version 1 so I'll let you decide and I'll delete the one with the less likes. You may hate both which is equally fine as I'm very unsure myself.
The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, is located in the borough of Manhattan, and was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.
Like a classical Greek column, its limestone and glazed terra-cotta façade is separated into three parts horizontally. Since it was one of the first buildings to use a steel skeleton, the building could be constructed to 285 feet, which would have been very difficult with other construction methods of that time.
The initial design by Daniel Burnham shows a similar design to the one constructed, but with a far more elaborate crown with numerous set backs near the pinnacle. A clock face can also be seen. However, under the advice of John Wellborn Root, this was removed from the design.
When completed, it was officially named the Fuller Building after the building's promoter George Fuller. Locals took an immediate interest in the building, placing bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down and nicknaming it "the Flatiron" because of the building's resemblance to the irons of the day. The building is also said to have helped coin the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building. At the rounded tip, the triangular tower is only 6.5 feet (2 meters) wide. The 22-story Flatiron Building, with a height of 285 ft (87 meters), is often considered the oldest surviving skyscraper in Manhattan, though in fact the Park Row Building (1899) is both older and taller.
Today the Flatiron is a popular spot for tourist photographs, a National Historic Landmark, and a functioning office building, currently home to several book publishers, most of them under the umbrella of Holtzbrinck Publishers. The surrounding area of Manhattan is named the Flatiron District for its signature building.
The signature edge of the Flatiron Building was covered in black scaffolding from December 2005 to March 2006 for renovations. Sidewalk-level scaffolding remains.
The Ferry Building is one of the most imposing port buildings in New Zealand, and testimony to the importance of water transport in early twentieth-century Auckland.<
Erected by the Auckland Harbour Board in 1909-1912, this ornate structure was intended to be a focus for the extensive ferry network entering and leaving the city. Now registered with the Historic Places Trust, it provides a powerful reminder of the importance of ferry transport in the early twentieth century, and the role played by the wharves in the social and commercial life of Auckland.
The Auckland Ferry Building is now home to a number of cafés and restaurants.
M2 Building (M2ビル).
Architect : Kengo Kuma (設計：隈研吾).
Completed : 1991 (竣工:1991年).
Floor : 4th (階層：4階).
Location : Tadasu 2-4-27, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都世田谷区砧2-4-27).
This is not E.T.. lol. Kengo Kuma's work in his young age. Finished his post modern architecture, he come under the global spotlight.
E.T.とかじゃありません（爆 隈先生の若い頃の作品ですね。
A view of Empire state Building in Manhattan, New York city.
The Empire state Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 meters), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft (443.2 m) high. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire state Building was again the tallest building in New York.
The Empire state Building is generally thought of as an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
New York City is the largest media market in the United States. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, nearly all of the city's commercial broadcast stations (both television and FM radio) have transmitted from the top of the Empire State Building, although a few FM stations are located at the nearby Condé Nast Building.
The Empire state Building has one of the most popular outdoor observatories in the world, having been visited by over 110 million people. The 86th-floor observation deck offers impressive 360-degree views of the city. There is a second observation deck on the 102nd floor that is open to the public. The Empire state Building makes more money from tickets sales for its observation decks that it does from renting office space.
The skyscraper's observation deck plays host to several cinematic, television, and literary classics including, An Affair To Remember, On the Town, Love Affair and Sleepless in Seattle.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
April 29, 2012, New York City, NY, taken from Empire State Building here.
I never get tired of seeing the Empire State Building. This shot was taken from near B&H Photo on W. 34th Street near 9th Ave.
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A last bit of grimy vernacular London architecture on film for a while, I’m off to Wales on leave next week and some greenery may find its way back into my life. It’s been a long old stretch this summer term
The Victorians were great social improvers as long as you were the right side of their subjective eserving/underserving poor line. This was especially obvious in their housing policies. The undeserving continued to live in squalid tenements and terraces. The deserving were let into quality housing by the various new housing associations and charities and especially the Peabody and Guinness Trusts.
In Hammersmith both associations built houses opposite each other on the Fulham Palace Road. I used to live near here and my dentist is still here so twice a year I enjoy walking though these lovely estates, drawing on the design of garden suburb and arts and crafts movements. (all garden courtyards and neo-renaissance archways).
I was sorry to see that some of the stairways were being encaged in black steel though. The Victorians would have considered that a failure
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Mechelen - Malines
Samedis, 13 novembre 2012.
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The ex-lace factory, now college, in Nottingham. Seen from St Mary's Gate on a very wintry day in January.
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).
The Wrigley Company was founded in 1891 originally selling products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, William Wrigley, Jr., the company's founder, began offering chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder itself and Wrigley's reoriented the company to produce the popular chewing gum. The building was erected between 1921 and 1924.
This example of Art Deco or Art/Streamline Moderne architecture is slated for the wrecking ball. From the looks of it, there might not anything to salvage.
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I was planning to go out to Melbourne Musuem for many weeks now. Till today I was hindered by interstate trips, business meetings, dinners and/or bad weather, but my moment arrived. A perfect day with no clouds and very little wind. That's it! and here's the result of the long wait. I Hope you like it as much as I do.
History:
The Royal Exhibition Building is a World Heritage Site listed building situated in the Carlton Gardens just North-East of Melbourne's Central Business Distirct. It was completed in 1880 in order to host the Melbourne International Exhibition between 1880-1881.
In Australia it was the first building to receive the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Building being one of the last International Exhibition Houses left of the 19th Century. It is one of three buildings of architec Joseph Reed, who also desgined the Melbourne Town Hall and State Library of Victoria.
Technique:
The picutre is a 3 shot panorama taken about 45min after sunset with a picture exposure of 30s at f/6.3 and ISO 100. I used DxO Optics 6 for the RAW file conversion and lens distortion optimisation as well as for contrast and detail enhancement. As usual Autopano Pro 2 did most of the stitching. I post-editied it in Bridge and framed in Photoshop CS5.
Print:
The end-result is a 34 megapixel photograph which is printable 3.13m x 1.34m at 72 DPI (excl. current frame).
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