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Two or three story circular lobby with a center plant and fountain area. In an insurance company's abandoned building. Recently sold. Lights still on. Plastic plants? The dirty looking baseboard is probably figured marble • Photographed through the only lobby window that had no reflections.
iPhone 6s with ProCamera+vividHDR app • Photoshop Elements with Nik's Define plugin, DxO's ViewPoint plugin and three filters from Anthropics' Smart Photo Editor plugin
Ananda Pahto : Le temple Ananda, situé à Bagan, Myanmar, est considéré comme l'un des rares chefs-d'œuvre survivants de l'architecture Mon. Aussi connu comme le plus beau plus grand, le mieux conservé et le plus vénéré des temples de Bagan. Lors du tremblement de terre de 1975, Ananda a subi des dommages considérables, mais a été entièrement restauré. Il aurait été construit vers 1105 par le roi Kyanzittha. Ce temple aux proportions parfaites annonce la fin stylistique de la première période Bagan et le début de la période médiane. En 1990, pour le 900e anniversaire de la construction du temple, les aiguilles du temple ont été dorées. Le reste de l'extérieur du temple est blanchie à la chaux de temps à autre. Il y a une légende disant qu'il y avait 8 moines qui sont arrivés un jour au palais demander l'aumône. Ils ont dit au roi que, une fois, ils avaient vécu dans le temple de la grotte Nandamula dans l'Himalaya. Le roi était fasciné par les contes et a invité les moines à retourner à son palais. Les moines, avec leurs pouvoirs méditatifs, auraient montré au roi le paysage mythique de l'endroit où ils sont allés. Le Roi Kyanzittha a été tellement enthousiasmé à cette vue qu’il aurait désiré construire un temple qui serait frais à l’intérieur au milieu de la plaine de Bagan. Après la construction du temple, le roi aurait exécuté les architectes afin de préserver l’unicité du style du temple.
Ananda Pahto ; Ananda temple, located at Bagan, Myanmar, is considered to be one of the rare surviving masterpiece of the Mon architecture. Also known as the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. During the 1975 earthquake, Ananda suffered considerable damage but has been totally restored. It is said to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha. This perfectly proportioned temple heralds the stylistic end of the Early Bagan period and the beginning of the Middle period. In 1990, on the 900th anniversary of the temple's construction, the temple spires were gilded. The remainder of the temple exterior is whitewashed from time to time. There is a legend saying that there were 8 monks who arrived one day to the palace begging for alms. They told the king that once, they had lived in the Nandamula Cave temple in the Himalayas. The King was fascinated by the tales and invited the monks to return to his palace. The monks, with their meditative powers, showed the king the mythical landscape of the place they have been. King Kyanzittha was overwhelmed by the sight and had a desire for building a temple which would be cool inside in the middle of the Bagan plains. After the construction of the temple, the king executed the architects just to make the style of the temple so unique.
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The Bank of Italy Building (also known as the Bank of America Building), 15-stories, built in 1926. Built by architect H. A. Minton to be one of the Bay Area's first "earthquake-proof" constructions. Tallest building in San Jose for 61 years. Owned by Bank of America from 1927 to 1970. Bank of Italy, later to become the Bank of America, was founded by San Jose native A.P. Giannini, mindful of his origins, established his first out-of-town branch in San Jose.
My restorative day at the spa. Scrubbed and massaged by a nice Czech woman who thinks English is the most beautiful language in the world and who told me not to settle.
The False Front Buildings (1894–1895) held the Commissary, Trusty Dorm, Barber Shop (1902-1960s) and Hospital (originally the blacksmith shop, but was remodeled in 1912 and remained the prison hospital until the 1960s).
shelburne, nova scotia
1973
dock street
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Quacky Duck Lego Bricks Building Guide
Hello Lego friends,
Here is our first design of a .pdf bricks building guide booklet (with the choice of two replicas in 1/1 scale with different diameter of wheels and Lego logo) concerning version 3 of the famous Lego wooden quacky duck model ( 1948-1956).
This building guide will be available at Rebrickable: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-87081/Aloha.Bricks/lego-bricks-w...
Or by email request here: aloha.bricks@gmail.com.
Thank you
The Alohoa Bricks team :-)
James Stoodley's Tavern, built in 1761, was a gathering place of Revolutionary patriots and a destination of Paul Revere's visit in 1774. It was also a site of colonial auctions of bulk goods, and sometimes enslaved people.
It was moved across town in Portsmouth when it was slated for demolition in 1964. The building that stands in Stoodley's original location is now slated for demolition after about 40 years. Ironic isn't it?
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the tallest building in Asia from 1934 to 1958
Architect: László Hudec
Hudec was in the Austro-Hungarian army, captured by the Russians in WWI, escaped and made his way to Shanghai, where he lived until 1947. He had some difficulty in obtaining a passport from the successor states of Czechoslovakia and/or Hungary in the 1920's and 1930's, eventually obtaining Hungarian citizenship. He lived in Berkeley California from 1947 to his death in 1958.
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This building, completed in 1928, witnessed the Great Depression, a World War, and other tumultuous times, but it cannot endure the ravages of a cannibalistic commercial real estate market in Manhattan.
This sturdy fixture at the iconic intersection of two of the city's major streets, Broadway and West 57th Street, is known to many as the Newsweek Building after the magazine moved its headquarters here in the early 1990s. Originally it was called the Columbus Tower, soon it will have part of than name restored to it when it is renamed 3 Columbus Circle, but everything else will be about this building will be left only to fond memories and photographs.
The buildings columns, cornices, bricks, and windows are being hidden (or removed, no one is sure which) behind another curtain of reflective glass. Gone will be the sense that here stands a rugged old friend who has weathered good times and bad and still stands guard at the head of the street. Instead, another shiny, slick, featureless clone of every other post-modern edifice churned out by the hundreds these days. The new building's website states, "Enduring Location, Modern Vision." Odd that it doesn't boast an "Enduring Vision," or perhaps, "Enduring Edifice." I suppose the developers realize that nothing is enduring except an address.
Notice how the waning sunlight strikes the varied surfaces of the building. Note too, the warm afternoon glow on the brick facade. The varying shapes of the shadows cast on its surface. Never again will that play of light be enjoyed here, instead only cold reflections of the surrounding buildings. The building will have shape, but no sense of a tangible surface.
How long must American cities be wrapped in what amounts to shrink-wrap and aluminum foil? If the old techniques which constructed this building are a lost art, then why must we destroy the remaining relics of a bygone age? Do we knowingly destroy a Michelangelo because there are no more Michelangelo's sculpting? This building's exterior hasn't been cleaned in decades, what would it look like if it was given a good scrubbing? We'll never know. It wasn't given a chance to spruce itself up.
For more information about the demise of 1775 Broadway, check these links:
curbed.com/archives/2008/01/28/meanwhile_in_architectural...
The Lighthouse in Glasgow is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. It was opened as part of Glasgow's status as UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999.
The Lighthouse is the renamed conversion of the former offices of the Glasgow Herald newspaper. Completed in 1895, it was designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The centre's vision is to develop the links between design, architecture, and the creative industries, seeing these as interconnected social, educational, economic and cultural issues of concern to everyone.
The Lighthouse Trust went into Administration in August 2009. At its peak the Lighthouse Trust employed around 90 staff. Its Directors moved on: Nick Barley is now Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Following a substantial redundancy programme the remaining staff were transferred to Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) and Glasgow City Council (GCC). The Lighthouse building remains in the ownership of Glasgow City Council, which has made financial provision to meet the costs of operating the Centre, re-establishing it as Scotland's National Centre for Architecture and Design.
A Steering Group - made up of representatives of Glasgow City Council, Glasgow School Of Art, Scottish Enterprise, Creative Scotland, and various independent architects and designers - has now implemented a range of permanent and temporary uses within the building including a conference/events programme, catering facilities, temporary and permanent exhibitions, a limited amount of business space, and a design shop (TOJO) on the ground floor. Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) now occupy one of five floors of the building and continue to run a range of programmes on that floor. The remaining staff have recently been awarded extended contracts of employment with GCC.
One of the key features of The Lighthouse is the uninterrupted view over Glasgow's cityscape available from the Mackintosh Tower at the north of the building, which is accessible via a helical staircase from the third floor.
There is also another modern viewing platform at the south of the building, on the sixth floor and is only accessible via lift
Das Realgymnasium Schottenbastei, auch Lise-Meitner-Realgymnasium „Schottenbastei“ genannt, ist ein seit 150 Jahren bestehendes Realgymnasium im 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt.
Geschichte
1861 beschloss der Gemeinderat in der im heutigen 9. Bezirk liegenden Rossau, im Gemeindehaus Nr. 80 eine Unterrealschule mit Öffentlichkeitsrecht zu errichten. Diese wurde drei Jahre danach in eine Oberrealschule erweitert. 1869 legte der erste Maturajahrgang die Reifeprüfung ab.
Im Zuge des Baus der Wiener Ringstraße siedelte die Schule dann in den ersten Bezirk: Denn mit dem Schleifen der Basteien, veranlasst durch das Kaiserliche Manifest 1857, „hatte zunächst die Erweiterung der inneren Stadt in der Richtung gegen die Rossau und die Alservorstadt zu geschehen“. Damit wurde das unverbaute Wiener Glacis parzelliert . Der Bereich Mölkerbastei - Schottenschanze - Elendbastei wurde 1861 abgebrochen. Damit war auch in diesem neu geschaffenen Rasterviertel der Ringstraßenzone Platz für ein neues, eigenes Schulgebäude.
Der Spatenstich dazu erfolgte 1876. Am 5. September 1891 genehmigte Kaiser Franz Joseph, dass die von der Gemeinde Wien errichtete Realschule in die Verwaltung des Staates übernommen werde. Gemeinsam mit den Gymnasien erhielten die Realschulen 1909 neue Lehrpläne – 1962 wurden sie im Schulunterrichtsgesetz als ein Zweig der AHS zu Realgymnasien umbenannt.
Nach dem so genannten Anschluss Österreichs an das Dritte Reich 1938 wurde die Schottenbastei zu einer sogenannten „Sammelschule“, in der jüdische Schüler aus ganz Wien vorerst zusammengezogen wurden. Diese wurden Ende des Schuljahres 1937/38 dann der Schule verwiesen.
Nach einem, diesen Teil des 1. Bezirks schwer treffenden, Bombenangriff im Jänner 1945 mussten wegen dieser Zerstörungen Schüler und verbliebene Lehrkräfte in andere Schulgebäude der Umgebung ausweichen. Erst im Schuljahr 1948/49 konnte wieder ein einigermaßen geregelter Unterricht im Schulgebäude auf der Schottenbastei stattfinden. Es brauchte aber bis 1954, bis der durch den Bombentreffer zerstörte Turnsaal im Hof wieder in Betrieb genommen werden konnte. 1959 bis 1962 erfolgte dann eine schon dringend notwendige Generalsanierung der Schule.
Einen wesentlichen Akzent setzte der benachbarte Bau des Juridicums der Universität Wien. Zwar beeinträchtigten die Bauarbeiten ab 1970 den Schulbetrieb, am Ende aber war vor der Schule damit auch eine Fußgängerzone errichtet worden. In den darauffolgenden Jahrzehnten wurde das Schulhaus nachhaltig modernisiert und umgebaut.
Am 20. Juni 2000 erhielt das Bundesrealgymnasium Schottenbastei den Zusatz „Lise Meitner-Realgymnasium“. Das Realgymnasium ist Partnerschule der FH-Technikum Wien. Gedenktafeln an der Außenmauer des Schulgebäudes erinnern an berühmte Absolventen.
Absolventen
Robert von Lieben - Physiker, Erfinder der Radioröhre
Walter von Molo - Schriftsteller
Hermann Broch - Schriftsteller
Alban Berg - Komponist
Rudolf Hausner - Bildender Künstler
Ernst Wolfram Marboe - ORF-Intendant
Siegfried Meryn - Internist
Arash T. Riahi - Filmregisseur
Georg Hauger - Prof. an der TU Wien
. 8872 Einzelhaus - Vorstadtvilla, Gründerzeit - Haus im Grünen, Bilder aus Ahrensburg, Kreis Stormarn. © www.christoph-bellin.de
Ahrensburg liegt nordöstlich von Hamburg im südöstlichen Holstein; sie ist die größte Stadt des Kreises Stormarn und gehört zur Metropolregion Hamburg.
The Toronto Jail was built between 1862 and 1865 with most of the current jail facilities being built in the 1950s, although a jail has stood on the site since 1858. Designed by architect William Thomas (also designed St. Lawrence Hall and St. Michael's Cathedral) in 1852, its distinctive façade in the Italianate style with a pedimented central pavilion and vermiculated columns flanking the main entrance portico is one of the architectural treasures of the city and one of very few pre-Confederation (1867) structures that remains intact in Toronto. Owing to its sturdy construction, its interior has gone largely unchanged in the last fifty years as renovations would be both difficult and expensive, even in an empty facility; as such, it is considered badly outdated as a prison facility. The old Jail was closed in 1977.
Hudson Yards is a large-scale redevelopment program planned, funded and constructed under a set of agreements among the State of New York, New York City, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with the aim of expanding New York City's Midtown Manhattan Business District westward to the Hudson River. The program includes a major rezoning of the Far West Side.
The centerpiece of Hudson Yards is a 28-acre (11 ha) mixed-use real estate development of the same name by Related Companies and Oxford Properties, currently being built over the West Side Rail Yard. According to its master plan, created by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Hudson Yards is to consist of 16 skyscrapers containing more than 12,700,000 square feet (1,180,000 m2) of new office, residential, and retail space. Among its components will be six million square feet (560,000 m2) of commercial office space, a 750,000-square-foot (70,000 m2) retail center with two levels of restaurants, cafes, markets and bars, a hotel, a cultural space, about 5,000 residences, a 750-seat school, and 14 acres (5.7 ha) of public open space. The railyard project broke ground on December 4, 2012; the first tower, an 895-foot (273 m) office building in the southeast corner of the site, opened on May 31, 2016. Hudson Yards will accommodate a projected 65,000 daily visitors when completed. At over-US$20 billion, it is the most expensive development project in history.