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Bellagio is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. It is owned by MGM Mirage.
Inspired by the Lake Como resort of Bellagio in Italy, Bellagio is famed for its elegance. One of its most notable features is an 8 acre (32,000 m²) artificial lake between the building and the Strip. The fountain shows on the lake are a major free attraction and provide a romantic ambiance for couples walking along the strip.
Original 6-story base:
1927, Joseph Urban
The tower addition was built 80 years later:
Constructed 2003-2006; architect Norman Foster
The original base was commissioned by William Randolp Hearst and was designed to accommodate a tower. However this was not built, due to the depression. Some 80 years later a tower of jarringly different style was built. In fact, the original base was gutted, with the facade preserved.
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ON THE TOURIST BUS.
Historic buildings around the harbour - Port Vell.
On the official Barcelona City Tour Bus.
You must do the two tour routes - West (2 hrs) and East (2 hrs 15 min).
The Deco Arts building, 55th & Lake Park, in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. look-up-chicago.tumblr.com/post/88410350544/deco-arts-bui...
This building has witnessed a sad history of years of neglect since the last occupant shut down in 1990. The current owners seem disinclined to do anything with the building unless they can sell it for some $700,000 more than its assessed value.
Top viewed photograph of 4 June, 2011.
Capitol Hill Veterinary Clinic, once Senart's Oyster House.
520 8th St SE, Washington DC
This building is likely a century old, as it is mentioned in a 1913 newspaper article.
Article on this building/mural:
www.capitalcommunitynews.com/CCN_Website09/images/papers/...
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Marina City (I & II)
Architect: Bertrand Goldberg & Associates
Date: 1964
Style: modernism
Address: 300 North State Street, 301 North State Street
Height: 588 ft. (61 floors)
Program: residential condominiums, parking
The Marina City Towers, located on North State Street, were designed by Bertrand Goldberg & Associates in 1964. The two buildings are corncob-shaped apartment buildings with a marina on the Chicago River. They are the tallest cylindrical buildings in Illinois and in 1965 earned an award from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
With big fences going up it will be harder to get shots of the hospital buildings but I will try and follow its demolition whenever I am passing. These shots are October 2016.
L2R:
Royal Liver Building
Cunard Building
Mersey Docks and Harbour Building
and in the foreground, the new extension to the Liverpool - Leeds Canal.
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U.S. Air force Airman with the 201st Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, build a new school for Guatemalan kids, in La Blanca, Guatemala, May 31, 2016. Task Force Red Wolf and Army South conducts Humanitarian Civil Assistance Training to include tactical level construction projects and Medical Readiness Training Exercises providing medical access and building schools in Guatemala with the Guatemalan Government and non-government agencies from 05MAR16 to 18JUN16 in order to improve the mission readiness of US Forces and to provide a lasting benefit to the people of Guatemala. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Tamara Cummings/Released)
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though no longer at the geographic center of the Federal District, the Capitol forms the origin point for the District's street-numbering system and the District's four quadrants.
The original building was completed in 1800 and was subsequently expanded, particularly with the addition of the massive dome, and expanded chambers for the bicameral legislature, the House of Representatives in the south wing and the Senate in the north wing. Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial branches, the Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Both its east and west elevations are formally referred to as fronts, though only the east front was intended for the reception of visitors and dignitaries.
Historic buildings, downtown Binghamton, NY
The brown building towards the center of the picture is a good example of what happened all too often in the 60's and 70's -- putting a modern facade on an older to make it more marketable. This example is surprisingly odd, since usually there was more of an effort to try to hide the age of the building. The blue building on the right side of the picture was a very nice restoration that seemed to be occupied on most floors.
Makes most sense if viewed as part of Coming Out/Northeast set
Travelling from Prague to Berlin by train. I thought this was a mosque, but apparently not. It is Yenidze, a former cigarette factory built between 1907 and 1909 and is used today as an office building. It is notable for its Orientalizing exterior design which borrows design elements from mosques.
"Yenidze" was the name of a tobacco company started by the entrepreneur Hugo Zietz, which imported tobacco from Ottoman Yenidze, Thrace (modern Genisea, Greece). The "Oriental" style of architecture publicized the origin of the tobacco. It has 600 windows of various styles; the dome is 20m high.
The architect Martin Hammitzsch designed the building in 1907. It has large, colored dome chimneys which resemble minarets. It was sometimes referred to as the "tobacco mosque", a term which is no longer officially used as the building is not a mosque.
Two obelisks, in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, resting on the backs of Giambologna tortoises, once served as the turning posts for the "chariot" races held here from the 16th to the mid-19th century.
Grieghallen (1967-78) by Danish architect Knud Munk (1936-2016); expanded (2006-8), fully renovated (2015-16). The shape and form is said to have been based on a grand piano.
The hall was designed by Munk and the concrete frame constructed, but the project was stopped for five years due to funding issues.
Concert hall and conference centre, the home of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen National Opera and Bergen International Festival. The building is named after the orchestra’s former music director, the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
Grieghallen is Norway’s largest combined congress and culture venue. The building includes a main concert hall of 1500 seats, a smaller hall seating 700, plus 21 music practice rooms, radio and TV facilities as well as offices and shops.
www.grieghallen.no/article.aspx?pageId=77
www.cmr.no/extraordinary-stories/2016/02/03/grieghallen-r...
The administrative headquarters of the Corporation of London, in the City of London. There's an art gallery next to it (on the right of this photo), as well as a modern office block to the left.