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13> Thursday afternoon 3rd of May 2007 - Sightseeing Zagreb
Pretty easy we found a small new youth hostel in the centre and we left our luggage there. It was still early enough to visit museums, they were all open. First we went to the museum for naive art. This a small museum with a particular collection of paintings about life on the countryside, made by very gifted but non educated artists. Many paintings had some hidden humor in it and also the rich contrast was quite special. Afterwards we went to the Atelier Mescovic with an enormous collection of sculpturen from his hand. The work had been established in a splendidly old house, in the adjacent sober workshop space and in the garden. Sturprisingly it seemds that in both museums we were about the only visitors, whereas it was pretty busy and lively in the city centre. Also surprising was the oasis where we came after we past by a little gate and came in a park right in the middle of in the city. It was very quiet over there. You could you hardly hear that we were in the city, also because the park is in a valley between two town parts so you don't hear any traffic. On the way back to the city centre we walked down passing beautiful view points and little stairways.
The Newby-McMahon Building, the 'world's smallest skyscraper', was built in 1919 in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. It is 18 feet deep, 10 feet wide and 40 feet tall.
It was built by a scam artist who peddled the blueprints to investors as a skyscraper during the oil boom in north Texas. What he didn't tell the investors was that the measurements on the blueprints were in inches not feet! AND, it was built without stairs! Occupants had to use ladders to get between the floors.
I remember as a boy, my mom taking me to the building and telling me the story.
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Michael's Craft Store under construction at Marlton Crossing over what was part of an access road. Next to the former Super Fresh, now DSW Shoes and TJ Maxx.
Visitors to campus can get information on where to park and where buildings are located from this soon-to-be open parking information center along Folino Drive. In the background immediately behind the kiosk is the Fullerton Marriott and on the right is Langsdorf Hall.
Title: Building east side Friend Street corner Hanover Street
Creator: Boston Transit Commission
Date: 1905 November 5
Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009
File name: 5000_009_0996
Rights: Public domain
Citation: Public Works Department photograph collection, Collection 5000.009, City of Boston Archives, Boston
Picture Taken From Bryant Park Of Seven Bryant Park Building Under Construction On Sixth Avenue Between 39th/40th Street In New York City. Photo Taken Friday March 14, 2014.
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The art deco facade of the 'Burton Buildings' is a similar design throughout the uk.
Notice the stylised elephants.
Many buildings in the centre of Rejkjavik are dull, but this facade stood out with its decorative elements.
Over the past few years, the City of Chicago has acquired about 500 homes & businesses in Bensenville, Illinois that make up about 15% of the entire town. The City of Chicago wishes to demolish these structures to make way for O'Hare Airport Expansion. Most of them been bought & boarded up, but about 25-30 of the homes remain occupied.
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This was originally a bank with three attached storefronts, one being a pharmacy. Not sure what the other two were over time.
Building is a relic from the early Tantie days.
Was very fortunate to be able to get some interior shots thru open wall spaces and crevices.
The Pinnacle@Duxton is a 2.5-hectare residential complex located at 1 Cantonment Road, Singapore.
The project consists of seven connected 50-storey towers, labelled 1A to 1G, with a total of 1,848 units.
The Pinnacle@Duxton features the world's two longest sky gardens of 500 metres (1,600 ft) each, on both the 26th and 50th floors. All seven towers are the world's tallest public housing buildings.
In June 2010, The Pinnacle@Duxton was the recipient of the 2010 Best Tall Building Asia and Australasia award by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
The Pinnacle@Duxton is an iconic housing project in Singapore's public housing history, with many unique features that set it apart from other Housing Development Board (HDB) housing projects.
Located at the site where the first two HDB blocks in that area were built, it is the first 50-storey public housing project in Singapore, housing 1,848 apartments in 7 towering blocks.
Born out of the first international design competition for public housing, it is also the first in the world with 2 unique skybridges linking the 7 blocks at the 26th and 50th storey. The skybridges create possibly the longest continuous skygardens in the world, offering panoramic views of the city skyline.
The original two HDB rental blocks at the site of The Pinnacle@Duxton were completed in 1963.
The rental blocks were announced for the HDB Relocation Programme in August 2001, as part of an estate renewal strategy to rejuvenate the Tanjong Pagar area and attract new households into the city.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority, in consultation with the Singapore Institute of Architects, organized an International Architectural Design Competition in August 2001 to select the best design for the public housing development at the site. A total of 227 firms from 32 countries took part, with 74% of the entries from the Asia Pacific Region, 15% from Europe and the Middle-East and 11% from the Americas.
ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism, Singapore was named the winner of the International Architectural Design Competition on 30 April 2002.
The flats at The Pinnacle@Duxton were launched for sale under HDB's Build-to-Order System on 29 May 2004.
Construction works commenced in April 2005.
The final connecting skybridge was launched on 2 September 2009 by the Minister for National Development.
The flats were completed in December 2009. A keys-hand over ceremony was held on 13 December 2009.
Autrefois, ces maisons bourgeoises étaient occupées par une seule famille avec du personnel pour accomplir les tâches ménagères ,a partir des années 30 ,la plupart de ces bâtisses ont subi des transformations en y ajoutant des annexes même au dernier étage pour en faire un appartement par niveau
Formerly, these mansions were occupied by a single family with the staff to perform household chores, from the 30's, most of these buildings have been transformed by adding annexes to the same floor to make an apartment level
Closed in 2003, Medfield State Hospital was used to film Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. In my opinion, along with others, it is one of many films that is underrated. Spread across 900 acres this hospital was used for psychiatric rehabilitation. Built in 1892, it included 58 buildings and had roughly 2,200 patients.
Deze 19de-eeuwse hoeve ligt aan de Werkenstraat, ten zuidwesten van de parochiekerk van Bovekerke (Koekelare). De hoevesite is al aangeduid op de Ferrariskaart. Het huidige, witgeschilderde bakstenen boerenhuis dateert volgens jaarankers in de zijgevel uit 1828. In het achteruitspringend gedeelte links bevindt zich de paardenstal. Ten zuiden van het erf bevindt zich een bakstenen stalling uit 1868. De dwarsschuur ten oosten van het boerenhuis dateert uit de jaren 1920. In 2011 werd de hoeve voorlopig beschermd als monument.
Foto: Willy Vereenooghe
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.
The Empire State Building as viewed from the northern side of 34th Street in August 2008.
Few buildings replicate the dominating presence of the Empire State Building.
Ehemals: "Museum für Völkerkunde" (1, Neue Burg, Corps de Logis-Trakt), 1876 als Anthropologisch-ethnologische Abteilung am Naturhistorischen Museum begründet, jedoch 1928 zu einem eigenständigen Museum umgestaltet und seither in der Neuen Burg untergebracht. 2001 erfolgte die Eingliederung in den Verbund des Kunsthistorischen Museums. Seit 2013 firmiert das Museum unter Weltmuseum Wien. Nach einer umfangreichen Sanierung und einer Redimensionierung wird das Museum im Herbst 2017 neu eröffnet werden. Das Museum ist eine Forschungs-, Dokumentations- und Bildungsstätte von internationalem Rang und zählt zu den führenden ethnographischen Dokumentationszentren Europas.
Sammlungen
Das Museum besitzt über 200.000 Objekte, von denen nur ein Teil in der ständigen Schausammlung gezeigt werden kann. Schwerpunkte sind Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Religion, Brauchtum, Trachten, Schmuck, Haushaltsgeräte, Waffen, Musikinstrumente, Handwerk, Kunst und so weiter aus außereuropäischen Kulturkreisen. Österreich besaß zwar niemals Kolonien, doch war das geistige, kulturelle, historische und religionsgeschichtliche Interesse an außereuropäischen Menschen, deren Lebensweise und Kultur sehr rege. Die ältesten Bestände (darunter die altmexikanischen Kostbarkeiten mit dem berühmten Federkopfschmuck) gehen auf das frühe 16. Jahrhundert zurück und befanden sich damals im Schloß Ambras (Tirol); die Sammlungen wurden durch Forscher, Reisende, Sammler, Ärzte und Diplomaten, von denen viele durch ihr Mäzenatentum Bedeutung erlangten, ständig vergrößert (beispielsweise James Cook, Hawaii; Etta Becker-Donner, Mexiko, Venezuela, Guatemala, Liberia; Johann Natterer, südamerikanische Indianer;Weltreise Erzherzog Franz Ferdinands). Das Museum verfügt über eine umfangreiche Fachbibliothek und ein (seit 1881 geführtes) Fotoarchiv; es veranstaltet Großausstellungen, gibt Kataloge heraus und ist mit seinen Mitarbeitern volksbildnerisch tätig.
Dauerausstellung
Nach mehreren abgebrochenen Anläufen wurde das Museum mit Hilfe der Museums- und Ausstellungsgestalter Ralph Appelbaum Associates und dem schottischen Architekturbüro Gareth Hoskins Architects von 2014 bis 2017 neu gestaltet. Die redimensionierte Dauerausstellung wird 3.127 Objekte in 14 Sälen des Mezzanins des Corps de Logis präsentieren:
Benin und Aethiopia. Kunst, Macht und Widerstand
Orientalia
Ein Dorf in den Bergen - Himalaya
Faszination Indonesien
1873 – Japan kommt nach Europa
Made in China
Südsee-Expeditionen
In eine Neue Welt - Nordamerika
Im Lande des Quetzals - Zentralamerika
Ein österreichisches Mosaik Brasiliens
Die Wiener Schule
Im Schatten des Kolonialismus
Welt in Bewegung
Museomanie! Drei Habsburger und die exotische Fremde
Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank later Martins Bank, Market Street, Bacup
Market Hotel, Hooley's, Barclays Bank
The iconic Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, on the corner of Market Street and Union Street, stands proud with its corner turret, four Harry Potter-esque gargoyles, three shields and two lions - even the bank safe remains in the basement. Now, thanks to a loan of £195,000 from the Architectural Heritage Fund, through the Heritage Impact Fund, and further funding from Rossendale Borough Council, building preservation charity Valley Heritage is investing in the Grade II Listed building’s future.
“In the 19th Century when building banks, the architecture was high quality and the design of the building was all about trying to engender a sense of confidence and that is appropriate to what we are doing today,” said Valley Heritage chairperson Stephen Anderson. “It is one of the most beautiful buildings in Bacup with its instantly recognisable Scottish Baronial style. It is utterly beautiful. Valley Heritage has got confidence in Bacup and that is why we want to preserve that building, there are challenges but there are real indications of positive change.”
Valley Heritage will now be bidding for a further £400,000 to renovate the interior, once remedial work to make the place watertight is carried out. Its future use will be two-fold. The ground floor and basement storage will be a co-working hub for freelancers and people currently working from home with separate spaces to use for meetings. This will be in partnership with Indycube. Upstairs will be four supported self-contained apartments for single young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and will be run in conjunction with the M3 Project in Rawtenstall.
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Die ältesten Teile des Hölderlinhauses gehörten der mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung an. Vermutlich aus dem 13. Jahrhundert stammen Stadt- und Zwingermauer als nördliche und südliche Begrenzungen, sowie der Sockel eines Befestigungsturms, dessen Schießscharten heute noch zu sehen sind.
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In den Bauplänen erschien erstmals die Bezeichnung "Hölderlin's Turm".
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.