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Russo-Chinese bank was built 1901 and was designed by Heinrich Bake
the Bank of Taiwan Building was built in 1924 for a japanese bank of that name. The two floors above the main banking hall were originally rented out, whilst the top floor provided living quarters and recreational rooms for bank staff.
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'the Bund'
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York, officially the City of York, is a city and unitary authority area in North Yorkshire, England. Located at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss, it is the county town of the historic county of Yorkshire and was the home of the House of York throughout its existence. The city is known for its famous historical landmarks such as York Minster and the city walls, as well as a variety of cultural and sporting activities, which makes it a popular tourist destination in England. The local authority is the City of York Council, a single tier governing body responsible for providing all local services and facilities throughout the city. The City of York local government district includes rural areas beyond the old city boundaries.
The city was founded by the Romans as Eboracum in 71 AD. It became the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, and later of the kingdoms of Deira, Northumbria and JórvÃk. In the Middle Ages, York grew as a major wool trading centre and became the capital of the northern ecclesiastical province of the Church of England, a role it has retained. In the 19th century, York became a major hub of the railway network and a confectionery manufacturing centre, a status it maintained well into the 20th century. During the Second World War, York was bombed as part of the Baedeker Blitz. After suffering heavy damage in the Blitz, most buildings were completely gutted and left in disrepair until restorations began during 1960s. In 2000, York suffered very severe flooding as the River Ouse rose, affected over 300 homes underwater.
The economy of York is dominated by services. The University of York and National Health Service are major employers, whilst tourism has become an important element of the local economy. In 2016, York became sister cities with the Chinese city of Nanjing. An agreement signed by the Lord Mayor of York, focusing on building links in tourism, education, science, technology and culture. Today, the city is a popular tourist attraction to Chinese visitors.
At f/5.6 we're not Elgeet sharp, but it's quite pleasant.
On the whole, though, it's not a lens I'd use very often. While it's nice to have a *good* zoom on the Q, it's heavy, bulky, overbalances the camera, and has to be stopped way down to get good performance. Even with the inferior image quality and limited range, I'd probably use the native 02 Zoom more, just because it's comfortable to use on the camera.
Philadelphia City Hall. Designed by Scottish-born architect John McArthur, Jr., and constructed from 1871 until 1901 at a cost of $24 million. Originally designed to be the world's tallest building, by the time it was completed it had already been surpassed by the Washington Monument and the Eiffel Tower, though it was the world's tallest habitable building at the time of opening, topped by a statue of William Penn. It remained the tallest building in Philadelphia until the construction of One Liberty Place (1984–1987) broke the informal "gentlemen's agreement" that limited the height of tall buildings in the city. This was cited as a reason, the curse of Billy Penn, why Philadelphia Sports teams failed to win any trophies after 1983 - since lifted with the Phillies winning the world series in 2007. is the largest municipal building in the United States
Cherbourg-Octeville France. A beautiful French city and port in southern Normandy. Spent a lovely day touring the old town. 30th of April 2016.
Early C18. 2 storeys, attic and basement. Brick on projecting stone base, double stepped. Chamfered stone quoins. Moulded stone cornice with carved brackets, acanthus ornament. Hipped old tile roof swept out over cornice, 2 dormers with heavy moulded cornice heads. 6 windows, with stone architrave surrounds and cills on 1st floor. 5 similar windows on ground floor with additional curved frieze and cornice to each. All with glazing bars intact. Large 8-panel double door, off centre, in stone bolection surround, with curved frieze, moulded cornice and broken pediment on carved stone brackets, acanthus ornament. The door approached by a flight of 3 semi-circular stone steps from small terrace across front of house. 2 wrot iron scroll pattern scrapers. 4 basement windows in narrow areas. Area rails plain wrot iron, diagonal and rectangular pattern, returned each side of door with bold strap scroll guards. The sides of house have a deep coved cornice. Interior has fine plasterwork and panelling. Original staircase. Adjoining to right hand with yard in front: a stable block - late C18. Brick with dentilled eaves and old tile roof. Pair of 3 central-arched stable doors (one blocked) and central-arched door with radiating fanlight. 2 circular and central oval loft windows over... EH Listing [Railings are Grade II* listed] EH Listing
John Cowan, politician, presenting a new ambulance to an army officer identified as Captain Bushell outside the Institute building at Murray Bridge, South Australia in July 1915.
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TITLE: New York Stock Exchange, Broad Street
CALL NUMBER: LOT 3788, box 6 [item] [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-124933 (b&w film copy neg.)
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1908.
CREATOR:
Underhill, Irving, d. 1960, photographer.
NOTES:
H111802 U.S. Copyright Office.
No. C 6612.
Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.
SUBJECTS:
New York Stock Exchange--Buildings--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
Stock exchanges--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
Pediments--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
FORMAT:
Photographic prints 1900-1910.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c24933 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c24933
CONTROL #: 00650325
Cebu's famous landmark - The Fuente Osmeña Circle. Seen here, one of the tallest building in the city, the Crown Regency Hotel.
Haydarpaşa Station, on the Asian side, is a major intercity rail station and transportation hub in Kadıköy, İstanbul.
The tracks do not cross the Bosphorus, but there is a train ferry, that carries rail cars from HaydarpaÅŸa, on the Asian side, to Sirkeci, on the European side.
In 1871 Sultan Abdülaziz ordered a rail line to be built from Haydarpaşa to İzmit. Haydarpaşa station was built by German architects Otto Ritter and Helmut Conu in a neo-classical arhitecture. Its foundation is based on 1100 wooden piles, each 21 meters long, driven into the mushy shore by a steam hammer. German and Italian stonemasons crafted the facade embellishments of the terminal. The new station was inaugurated on November 4, 1909 for the anniversary of Mehmed V. Since the station was built next to the Bosphorus, freight trains would unload at Haydarpaşa and the freight would be transferred to ships. In 2010 a fire caused by carelessness during the restoration process, destroyed the roof and the 4th floor of the station building. Haydarpaşa Railway Station temporarily closed to long distance trains for at least 30 months for modernisation works.
Corktown, so named because there used to be a distillery in the area. In recent years, the area has been promoted as the "Distillery District".
The cottage-style row houses are small but ineresting.
Bright Street, King Street East and Parliament Street area, Toronto.
Quattro’s Bar & Brasserie opened in the centre of Accrington in December 2007 on the site of a former McDonalds. An extensive refurbishment has created a modern and stylish Italian restaurant that’s part of a small family run chain with restaurants in Cabus, Samlesbury and Bickerstaffe.
Was Woolworths link below
Now known as Paper Place Lofts
801 S. Wells St.
Chicago, IL
Architects: Daniel Burnham & Co.
This red brick and limestone building once served as a general warehouse for businesses near Grand Central Station that once stood to the west on Wells St.
(further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
John's Church (Hanau)
Southern Facade .
The John's Church (today also Old John's Church) was established in 1658 as the Church of the Lutheran community in Hanau.
North side
Historical context
It owes its existence to the biconfessionality of the German Reformation, particularly in the county of Hanau-Münzenberg. The county was reformed since the reign of Count Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg. When the Counts of Hanau-Münzenberg became extinct in 1642, their heritage fell to the Lutheran Count Frederick Casimir of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
The city of residence of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg, Hanau, consisted at that time of two legally independent cities: Old and New Hanau. The latter was at the turn of the 16th to 17th Century inhabited by reformed religious refugees from France and the Spanish Netherlands. Their ruling class consisted of wealthy citizens, merchants and tradesmen who took within the county a dominant economic position, which faced a weak position of the new count at taking office. Some lords of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg tried the from the far away Hanau-Lichtenberg arrived to deny his heritage. In addition, the county was due to the Thirty Year's War heavily in debt and on the credit of the citizens. The citizens presented for the accession conditions, and Frederick Casimir had no choice but to grant the demands to ever being able to accede to his heritage. This included especially the guarantee of the future free exercise of religion of the Reformed. The Lutheran religious service for the Count and his court should be limited to the castle chapel.
Johann Georg II, presentation of a Krönungsdiarium (coronation diarie) from 1658 - name giver of the in the same year initiated John's Church
Model of the church before destruction
Construction
On 4 June 1658 the foundation stone for the Lutheran Church of John in the presence of the elector and name giver Johann Georg II of Saxony was placed. This had come from the coronation of Emperor Leopold I from the neighboring Frankfurt am Main across. This was preceded by appeals in the Lutheran abroad, as the reformed subjects, of course, refused to support such a project and the Count himself was constantly in financial trouble. The inauguration took place on 17th Januar 1664. Then the organ was built in by Abraham Fischer from Marktbreit.
The foundation stone to the tower was on 8 August 1679 laid, the works on 10th July in 1691 completed.
The building
The church was built in the old town of Hanau in relative proximity to the castle. It includes in its west wall the medieval city walls of the old one. Stylistically, it is noticeable that it is - in the middle of Baroque - serving of gothic style elements, for example, as lancet windows and a Gothicising - but north-facing - choir. The latter is due to the cutting of the available land. The main entrance was so in the south and is crowned by the on the narrow side centrally arranged 47 meters high tower. The backward-looking style choice could be due to the fact that the adjacent Reformed Mary's Church a gothic embossed building from the Middle Ages is, which architecturally should be couterbalanced or it should architecturally historicity of the Lutheran confession in Hanau be faked, that did not exist.
The interior of the church looked quite different from what the external form of architecture seemed to appear: At least after renovation and expansion in 1727 was the Interior - pulpit and altar - facing west, perhaps because such a "horizontal format" in terms of visibility from the galleries was cheaper to design.
The building further on contained the burial place for the Lutheran branch of the House of Hanau and was - even after 1736 of the Hessian heirs - to the 19th Century used but destroyed in the Second World War.
During the Second World War, the church was badly damaged. The community built as a replacement the New John's Church on other location. The remaining perimeter walls of John's Church on three sides were used in creating a community center for the neighboring community of Mary's Church. The church interior was divided horizontally by a false ceiling. Even after a renovation in the seventies of the last century this concept and this utilization have been preserved, so that in the interior not much of the historic building can be seen anymore.
In November 2012, the church with a simplified but closely based on the historical model steel structure got back its top.
Name
Originally the church was called "Lutheran Church". It was only after the beginning of the 19th Century as it came in the Hanauer Union to a unification of the Reformed and the Lutheran Church in Hanau and the previous name "Lutheran Church" was inoperable, it was given the name "John Church". It was named after the Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony, who was present as its foundation stone was laid.
Morganza High School
752 South Louisiana Highway 3050
Morganza, Louisiana
Pointe Coupee Parish
The school was established in 1906 as a three-room school building.[1] The two story building last used as Morganza High School was built in 1940. It was closed as a high school in the early 1980s. The school's mascot was the Tigers. Morganza High School's football team won a state championship in 1955 while playing as part of a six-man football scheme.[2] The former high school building later became home to Morganza Elementary which was administered by the Pointe Coupee Parish School Board.
The school buildings and grounds are currently being used as a law enforcement training facility for the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office.
The beautiful gatehouse of the Mercure Hotel in Madely. My sister is having her wedding here in September, so I'm trying to get lots of practice shots in - she wants me to photograph the whole thing (what a cheepskate, 'hiring' your own sibling to shoot your wedding!)
The Missouri State Penitentiary was constructed in the early 1830's to serve the newly-admitted state of Missouri. Jefferson City had been designated the state capitol in 1822, and Governor John Miller suggested that the state's main prison be constructed there.
The facility opened for business in March 1836, the same month as the fall of the Alamo in Texas and ran consecutively until its closing in September of 2004.
In 1868 Housing Unit 4, formally known as A-Hall, was finished. The building was constructed entirely of stone quarried on site was built mainly with inmate labor.
It is still standing today, and housed inmates until the day the prison was closed. A museum is currently being set up in this housing unit.
These are photos I shot during my tour there in June of 2010.
Hollywood is a famous district in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
It is prominent for its place as the home of the entertainment industry, including several of its historic studios. Its name has come to represent the motion picture industry of the United States. Hollywood is also a highly ethnically diverse, densely populated, economically diverse neighborhood and retail business district.
Hollywood was a small community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It merged with the City of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a film industry began to emerge, eventually becoming dominant in the world. New buildings, roadways and a public transportation system have transformed the neighborhood.
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Chronology
Period Description
1704-1712 overall planning and construction period
History
The Episcopal Church in Hessian Fulda looks to a history reaching back to Frankish time that is closely linked to the missionary work of the Empire territory.
The karolingical predecessor construction
On the site of a probably in the Saxon wars destroyed Frankish Herrenhof (manor farm) founded Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, the monastery of Fulda. After the Anglo-Saxon missionary was killed by the Frisians 754 and was buried in the newly built church, developed this quickly to a popular pilgrimage site. Not least the growing number of monks and pilgrims made ​​a comprehensive extension of the as hall church with a semicircular apse designed construction necessary. So the abbot Ratgar (791-819) first began with the establishment of a new Ostanlage (east layout) before to the then to a three-aisled basilica expanded building then a weitausladendes (elaborate) transept was added a second apse in the west. This Westanlage (west layout) refers clearly back to the Constantinian Church Old St. Peter in Rome and documents architecturally impressive the Rombezug (reference to Rome) of the directly to the Holy See subordinated monastery when it was founded.
Also the ring crypt under the western apse follows the example of the early Christian Roman Peter Church. There, Pope Gregory I about 600 had made the grave of the Prince of the Apostles by a similar facility for the pilgrims accessible.
The baroque new building
Not only the for its time of creation unique size and complexity of the Ratgarbasilika, but also its religious significance as burial place of Boniface allowed the Carolingian building to become a model for its Baroque successor. Thus Johann Dietzenhofer oriented himself with his in 1704-12 erected new building at the disposition of the previous building, those foundations were taken as far as possible. Also the baroque atypical system as three-aisled basilica seems explicable only from the reverent preservation of the original design. Only the west choir of the early medieval double chancel replaced the architect through a two-tower facade.
After air war damage during the Second World War, the restoration was completed in 1954.
Architecture
Following the example of the Carolingian episcopal church, Johann Dietzenhofer built the baroque cathedral as a three-aisled basilica with a transept and crossing tower. The above discussed Rombezüge (references to Rome) of the "Ratgarbasilika" he revived by a clear reference to Francesco Borromini's reconstruction of the Lateran Basilica once again. The Roman model paraphrasing, alternate in the nave large arched openings with smaller rectangular, above which figure niches are set into the high nave wall. In the aisles the individual yokes appear as independent, by horizontal oval domes centered spatial units.
Above the intersection arches a massive dome, whose drum is divided by double pilasters between which windows and figure niches alternate.
The as canopy formed high altar, where Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Marmorziborium in St. Peter's Church is evoked, gives a clear view of the elongated monk choir.
The exterior building is largely determined by the additive looking arrangement of towers, domes and chapels. The per se narrow twin-tower facade with its incorporated Ottonian towers is corrected in its Gesamtproportionierung (overall proportioning) by the two laterally attached chapels. The two flanking obelisks let the show side of the church gently fade away.
Decoration and equippment
The spatial effect is determined by the contrast between the white of the wall surfaces and the stucco on the one hand and the black and gold color chord of the architectural elements and the equipment to another.
The stucco with its many figurative representations was created by Giovanni Battista Artari.
Of the rest of its features, especially the numerous baroque tombs deserve special attention.
Markus Golser
Wikipedia article
Baroque Cathedral Church Basilica Two towers Crossing tower