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Foto genomen vanaf het griendwerkers onderkomen aan de Jeppegatweg.
100% crop van een 230mm tele opname.
Afstand camera - object : 1100 mtr.
Driepoot, OIS uit, timer aan.
16.3 Mp camera.
I kid you not. This building which looks for all practical intents and purposes like a church is actually a music hall in the small town of Blind River, Ontario. The tell is the music symbol on top of the spire instead of a cross. A Google search showed that the building was originally Immanual Baptist church building in 1908.
The new library and council offices in Rochdale.
Today the Library had its formal opening, but this was the view outside.
Architects: FaulknerBrowns of Newcastle
Downtown Austin is changing rapidly. It feels like a different city from this viewpoint near the river.
Los Feliz Neighborhood - One has to keep up with one's reading. There are loads of stores which offer something for everyone - 10/01/2005 - Photo taken by Robin Kanouse
Heligan House, the former centrepiece of the Gardens of Heligan, now believed to be flats and not part of the Gardens.
The first large building at Heligan, near Mevagissey in Cornwall, was a manor house constructed in the 13th century, but the gardens date from the 18th century, first noted in 1766. For many years the gardens were developed extensively, with a Chinese Garden and an Italian Garden amongst others, but all came to an abrupt end upon the outbreak of war in August 1914. The shelterbelt trees were cut down for the war effort, the house became a convalescent home, almost all of the staff went off to war, and the gardens went untended and soon became overgrown.
The much quoted "it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good" really applies here as it was the devasting storm (the so-called hurricane) of October 1990 that revealed the first clue as to what had been here and set in train a process that is ongoing. Since then, the work of many dedicated people, paid and unpaid, has recreated much of what the gardens once were, in an ongoing project that is the largest garden restoration in Europe.
From this part of the East End of London this is a hard building to miss!
30 St Mary Axe (formerly the Swiss Re Building, and informally also known as "the Gherkin") is a skyscraper in London's financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened at the end of May 2004. With 41 floors, the tower is 180 metres (591 ft) tall, and stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange, which was extensively damaged in 1992 by the explosion of a bomb placed by the Provisional IRA.
After the plans to build the Millennium Tower were dropped, 30 St Mary Axe was designed by Norman Foster and Arup engineers, and was erected by Skanska in 2001–2003.
The building has become an iconic symbol of London and is one of the city's most widely recognised examples of modern architecture.
Younger viewers of the CBeebies channel will know the building as the hospital in 'Me Too'
1914 postmarked postcard view of the intersection at Main and Second Streets, Roanoke, Indiana. The message was addressed to Miss Elizabeth Spaulding at Maumee, Ohio and reads, "arrived at Roanoke at 5 p.m. Bad Roads but got here O.K."
Identifiable businesses in the view include the S. B. Dinius harness and buggy manufacturing building and the State Bank of Roanoke. A wagon parked in front of the bank advertises grain and seeds. A grinding wheel (?) and other items have been placed on the sidewalk at the corner, presumably for advertising and sale.
From a private collection.
Selected closeup sections of this postcard can be seen here, from left to right in the image.
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The message on the back side of this postcard can be seen here.
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Constellation House (52nd St) is an Oceanfront building with lovely accommodations & amenities. Located just along the water's edge, this property offers you the best of both worlds: a quiet, Mid-Town setting with all of Ocean City's fun & excitement right at your fingertips. Many great shops, activities & restaurants are within walking distance, including Seacrets, Macky's Bayside Bar & Grill, Candy Kitchen, Maui Golf & Action Watersports. Best of all, you’ll be just minutes from the popular OCMD Boardwalk, thrilling amusement rides & world-class golf.
Don't wait to make your reservation! Call (410) 723-2002 or visit www.VantageOceanCity.com. Vantage Resort Realty of MD is located at 5200B Coastal Hwy., Ocean City, MD 21842.
O CondomÃnio Dolce Vita está localizado em Talatona, cidade de Luanda, Angola.
A imagem mostra um edifÃcio de escritórios e apartamentos para arrendar.
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Apartments and offices to rent in Talatona, Luanda, Angola.
For more information, contact us: geral@wlamar.gcc.co.ao
Built between 1889 and 1895, this grand and massive Chateauesque-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for George Washington Vanderbilt II and his wife, Edith Vanderbilt, whom had decided that Asheville would be an ideal place to build a French-style self-sufficient country estate.
The house is the largest private residence in the United States, with a 178,926 square foot (16,622.8 square meter) interior floor space. The house was named for De Bilt, the place where the Vanderbilt family came from in the Netherlands, and originally sat at the center of a 125,000 acre (195 square mile or 510 square kilometer) estate, which included Mount Pisgah, much of the present Pisgah National Forest Biltmore Village, and the upscale Asheville suburbs of Biltmore Forest and Biltmore Park, much of which has been parceled off and sold to help assist with keeping the estate running, with 86,700 acres of reforested land surrounding Mount Pisgah being sold to the United States government in 1915. Prior to becoming part of the estate, the land, which straddles the French Broad River, was home to small farms, and was in very poor condition, with Frederick Law Olmsted designing the landscape of the estate, reforesting large areas and creating a park-like setting with natural and artificial landscaped areas surrounding the house.
Part of the estate included Biltmore Village, formerly a small railroad town known as Best, which was redesigned to resemble a rural French medieval village, with a fan-shaped street grid centering around the Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls, which was attended regularly by the Vanderbilt family. The village also features Norman-style cottages, various shops, a train station, a hospital, and a school for the families of workers at the estate, with many of the buildings being designed by Richard Sharp Smith, who took over as lead architect following the death of Richard Morris Hunt. Today featuring many shops, restaurants, and tourist accommodations, Biltmore Village has since been annexed by the city of Asheville. The portion of the estate bordering Biltmore Village features an iconic gatehouse, which melds the cottage-like materials of the village with the more imposing design language of the mansion inside the estate. Between the gatehouse and the mansion, a 3-mile-long (5 kilometer long) driveway known as the Approach Road winds its way through carefully cultivated landscapes, as well as crossing under Interstate 40.
The grounds around the estate include a walled garden with rusticate granite walls, a large rose garden, gardener’s cottage, and a conservatory featuring various tropical plants that would not naturally grow in the local climate. Closer to the house, the large South Terrace enclosed by a rusticated retaining wall stands immediately south of the house, with a gazebo at the southwest corner of the terrace. East of the terrace is the Italian Garden, which features a formal layout, fountains, and Italian-style sculptures, with a more natural Shrub Garden and vine-covered arbor south of the Italian Garden. In front of the house is a large lawn, which runs east to the Esplanade, a stone wall with a series of stairs and ramps that switchback to an upper lawn, with a decorative series of six stone fountains embedded into the base of the wall, and a small belvedere with a Statue of Diana at the upper end of the lawn. West of the house is a grassy knoll, which leaves the views from the house of the surrounding mountains unobstructed. Finally, below the Walled Garden, an enlarged former mill pond, which predated the estate by many decades, is now known as the Biltmore Bass Pond, and has been stocked with fish, and features a boathouse, with a dam and waterfall at the lower end of the pond along the exit road from the house.
The Biltmore House features elements from various historic French Chateaux, including the stair tower and hipped roofs of the Chateau Royal de Blois, as well as various elements from the Chateau de Chenonceau, Chateau de Chambord, also in France, and Waddesdon Manor in England. The house features a facade clad in Indiana Limestone, with lots of Gothic details, leaded glass windows, casement windows, and double-hung windows, towers with steeply pitched hipped slate roofs and decorative copper cresting, ornate wall dormers, an elevator tower at one side of the staircase, a large conservatory known as the Winter Garden next to the front entrance tower, which features an octagonal glass roof with an wooden Gothic support structure, a loggia on the west side of the house with sweeping views of the Pisgah National Forest in the distance, and a stable wing on the north end of the house, with a porte cochere tower entrance to the stable courtyard, stone chimneys, and a loggia on the south side of the house. The smooth limestone exterior of the house is contrasted by the house’s rusticated granite base, quarried on the grounds of the house, which also was utilized in the massive retaining wall around the adjacent South Terrace.
Inside, the house features luxurious finishes, including carved woodwork, intricate plaster details, electric lighting and steam heat, multiple fireplaces, a large kitchen and laundry in the basement, many guest rooms, a massive four-story chandelier in the grand staircase, a basement swimming pool, bowling alley, and gymnasium, a large grand banquet hall, bedrooms for staff, and a two-story library. The house features antiques and decorations sourced from the Vanderbilts’ many international excursions and antique dealers, as well as lots of art.
The house was opened for public tours in 1930, which has, over time, expanded in scale to feature more areas of the house and estate. The house was utilized to store 62 paintings and 17 sculptures from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC 1942, with Asheville believed to be a safe haven for them in the event that the United States was invaded by a foreign military, with the house remaining the repository for these important works until 1944, when the tides of war had turned. Biltmore Estate was designated as a National Historic Landmark 1963, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, owing to the house’s significant size, intact detailing, and connections to notable individuals. Still owned by the Cecil family, the descendants of Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, George and Edith Vanderbilt’s only child, the house is today utilized as a museum and open to tours, with the 8,000 remaining acres comprising the modern grounds of the estate having been developed with tourist amenities, including the conversion of the estate’s various barns into museums, restaurants, and a winery, as well as the construction of a luxury hotel, shops, and additional support facilities. The estate today is a major tourist attraction, seeing nearly 2 million visitors every year.
Heritage Plaza es un rascacielos situado en el Skyline District de downtown Houston, Texas. Con una altura de 232 metros (762 pies),1 la torre es el quinto edificio más alto de Houston, el octavo más alto de Texas y el 60º más alto de Estados Unidos. El edificio, diseñado por la firma local M. Nasr & Partners P.C., fue completado en 1987, con 53 plantas
Within 5 years, not one of the buildings/structures in this photo will remain, thanks to the Ocean Plaza redevelopment scheme.
All Saints, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
I had come from Hauxton and Harston, and now I was at Haslingfield. This is another very big church, set in a wide graveyard. As at Harston, the entrance was from the north. In fact, it is bigger than it looks, because the massive tower makes the nave and chancel appear smaller in proportion. Inside, the wide open spaces of the nave give way to a long, dark chancel crammed with memorials to the Wendy family. One of them features a life size figure, others kneelers and weepers. This church has some good surviving medieval glass (not much, but always worth noting in Cambridgeshire) including the famous Haslingfield lion. There are more lion faces and 14th Century figures of Mary and John at the foot of the cross hidden away in a window in the vestry, normally locked but luckily someone was working in there and showed them to me.
At Haslingfield I was only a mile or so from Harlton, one of my very favourite Cambridgeshire churches, which I had visited last October. (Harston, Hauxton, Harlton, Haslingfield, all these Hs! and Hinxton isn't so very far off!). But instead I climbed Chapel Hill immediately to the south of the church, up, up, towards Barrington, up to the top of the ridge. Looking back from the top I could see the radio telescopes at Lords Bridge, and beyond them all of Cambridge spread out in the plain, some six miles off. It was easy to pick out individual buildings - the Addenbrookes Hospital complex of course, but also Our Lady and the English Martyrs church, the University Engineering Laboratories, Shire Hall, the CB1 development around the railway station. I grew up on the north side of the city with all my family in the fens, thinking Cambridgeshire a very flat place. But here, a few miles off, a child growing up in Haslingfield or Barrington would have thought Cambridgeshire rather a hilly place, I imagined. I headed onwards, and Barrington church appeared in the wooded mist below. Beyond it rippled the chalk ridges that corrugate the south of Cambridgeshire, and in the distance loomed Royston Heath and the Hertfordshire hills.
Maiden Newton House is a stone built Rectory constructed in 1842. Grade 2 Listed with English Hertiage (A Scan from an old print)
This building is still in use as a hotel but what not many people know is a church and cemetary sat on this spot. The church was gone by the time they wanted to put up the hotel in the late 1960s but the cemetary was still there. The graves were dug up and moved where i don't know. I have photos of the church yard when i find them i'll be sure to put them on.
528: Normal Building, Asheville Normal and Teachers' College, Asheville, NC published by the Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, NC Postmarked Jun 15, 1940. From the Georgia Historical Society Postcard Collection, c. 1905-1960s, PhC.45, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
Gainsborough's modernist Guildhall, pictured here from the Lord Street side. The Guildhall was built for the former Gainsborough Urban District Council, and opened on the 7th July 1966 by Sir Roger Stevens, Chairman of the Yorkshire & Humberside Economic Planning Council. (The building had been occupied since April of that year).
It was built directly behing the fine Georgian Terrace on Lord Street that had been the Council's offices up to that point, and would have blocked this view of the Guildhall had it still been standing. Immediately after construction of the Guildhall was complete, the Georgian buildings were unfortunately demolished to allow this side enterance to be accessed. The new building was a concrete framed structure clad externally on the principal elevations with Portland stone and Westmorland slate. Hand-made facing bricks were used on the other elevations. The main entrance on Caskgate Street (though within five years of the Guildhall's construction the route of Caskgate Street was moved about 30 yards to the West) was supported by columns - supposedly in homage to Pillared House, a well known town landmark that had been demolished in the 1930s. Along the roofline of the Guildhall was a concrete wave - a reference to the Aegir (Tidal Bore) on the River Trent which the Guildhall overlooks.
With the reorganisation of local Government in April 1973, the Guildhall became the main headquarters of West Lindsey District Council, which occupied the building (and extended it) until it moved to new premesis in Marshall's Yard in 2008.
Praktica MTL5B, Pentacon 70-210mm lens, Kodak Ektar 100 film
El monestir de Santa Maria de Santes Creus, de l'orde del Cister, fou fundat l'any 1150 originà riament a Valldaura, al Vallès Occidental, per donació dels Montcada i establert definitivament al seu emplaçament actual vora el riu Gaià a partir de 1160. Arquitectònicament, va passar per diferents etapes de creixement al llarg dels segles.
El claustre major, gòtic, va ser fet construir el 1313 per Jaume II, per substituir-ne un de més antic, d'estil romà nic, del qual es conserva el templet hexagonal del lavatori. Cal destacar-ne la decoració dels capitells, que representen un ampli repertori d'iconografia medieval. Des del claustre podem pujar al dormitori, que és una gran sala amb arcs apuntats. Des d'aquÃ, es pot accedir a la Torre de les Hores i al cimbori.