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Fresh Meadows (1946–49)
Architect: Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith
Landscape Architect: Alfred Geiffert Jr.
Fresh Meadows, Queens
In 1946, the New York Life Insurance Company bought the 175-acre Fresh Meadow Country Club (opened 1923) for development as housing. Designed with people in mind, it consists mostly of two-storey row houses, three- to four-storey walkups and two thirteen-storey apartment towers.
© Matthew X. Kiernan
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In the village of Fontevraud L'Abbaye, within the Loire Valley, Fontevraud Royal Abbey is one of the largest surviving monastic cities from the Middle Ages. The Abbey was listed as an Historic Monument in 1840, and, as part of the Loire Valley, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Since its creation nearly a thousand years ago by an eccentric monk, the Abbey has always been a ‘singular foundation’. A place of social and gender diversity, the Abbey was run by an abbess, who gave shelter to both men and women in the four priories: Sainte-Marie for the ‘contemplatives’, Sainte-Marie-Madeleine for the lay sisters, Saint-Jean de l’Habit for the monks, and Saint-Lazare for nuns caring for lepers.
The conical-shaped building (here looking toward the north) housed the kitchens for the entire abbey. It is an enormous space inside, quite impressive.
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost 500 years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government.
Built in 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 720,000 m2 (7,800,000 sq ft).[1] The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture,[2] and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987,[2] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum's former collection is now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War.
Il palazzo Ducale di Parma sorge all'interno del parco Ducale. Voluto da Ottavio Farnese nel 1561 e costruito su progetto del Vignola, oggi l'aspetto non è quello originale ma ha subito vari
rifacimenti ad opera sia del Bibiena che, nel 1767, da Ennemond Petitot.
Inveraray enjoys a picturesque setting on the shores of Loch Fyne, where it meets Loch Shira. It was built on the site of an earlier fishing village in the mid 1700s by the 3rd Duke of Argyll, Chief of the powerful Clan Campbell. He demolished the original village to give his rebuilt castle more space, and rehoused the population in a new town that is one of the most attractive in Scotland.
The original village of Inveraray stood in the parkland that now extends south east from Inveraray Castle to the main A83. It had grown following the move of the Campbells to "old" Inveraray Castle in the mid 1400s from their previous stronghold at Innis Chonnell Castle on an island in Loch Awe.
Inveraray was well enough established to become a burgh of barony in 1472 and a royal burgh in 1648. With a good natural harbour and lying at a key focal point in the limited road network across Argyll, it had effectively become the legal and administrative centre for the county by the early 1700s. Its development went hand in hand with the growing power of the Campbells and the importance of their seat at Inveraray Castle.
The idea of replacing the 1400s tower house with a modern residence befitting the status and power of the Dukes of Argyll first occurred to the 2nd Duke in 1720. When the 3rd Duke of Argyll succeeded to his title in 1743 he commissioned an architect, and work began in 1745. As part of the project he created open parkland by demolishing the existing village of Inveraray, which stood between the castle and the sea.
The new town of Inveraray was built on a site to the south than its predecessor, out of sight of the castle. The new town had two main elements - Front Street ran almost west from the harbour to a large inn placed near the gates to the park for Inveraray Castle and the very grand Main Street ran parallel with the shore of Loch Fyne and at right angles to Front Street.
This comprised large white-harled buildings on both sides while in its centre it bulged out into Church Square to accommodate the classical bulk of the Glenaray and Inveraray Parish Church, built between 1792 and 1802 by Robert Mylne. This was originally built as a double church, with one half worshipping in Gaelic while the other half worshipped in Scots.
The area between Main Street and Loch Fyne is a warren of small streets, but a large part of it is occupied by Inveraray Jail. To the west, Main Street backs onto The Avenue, now the village's main car park.
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Dome Saint Salvator of Fulda. The Fulda Dome is the symbol of the city. Inside the cathedral is, inter alia, the tomb of St. Boniface, the first apostle of the Germans. The plans of the cathedral were in 1700 by one of the most important German baroque architects, Johann Dientzenhofer (1663-1726), on behalf of Prince-Abbot Adalbert von Schleifras manufactured. The previous building, the Ratgarbasilika, once the largest basilica north of the Alps, has been razed to the ground in favor of the new cathedral, before in 1704, the construction in the (then current) Baroque style was begun. On August 15, 1712, cathedral was consecrated. The Fulda Cathedral in its internal system is modeled according to the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The Ratgar Basilica was built in 791-819 in Fulda monastery and named after the builder, the monk Ratgar. The basilica was a Holy Sepulcher over the relics of St. Boniface. It was created after the model of the great Peter's Basilica in Rome and was the largest church building north of the Alps. Construction swallowed so considerable amounts of ressources that Abbot Ratger was expelled from the convent of the monastery.
During the Middle Ages the building structure crumbled more and more, so that the Ratgar Basilica in 1700 was demolished. In its place, the baroque Fulda Cathedral was built by Johann Dientzenhofer over the tomb of Boniface.
Die Ratgar-Basilika wurde zwischen 791 und 819 im Kloster Fulda erbaut und nach dem Baumeister, dem Mönch Ratgar, benannt. Die Basilika war eine Grabeskirche über den Gebeinen des Heiligen Bonifatius. Sie entstand nach dem Vorbild des großen Petersdoms in Rom und war der größte Kirchenbau nördlich der Alpen. Der Bau verschlang so große Mittel, dass Abt Ratger vom Konvent des Klosters vertrieben wurde.
Im Verlaufe des Mittelalters zerfiel die Bausubstanz immer mehr, sodass die Ratgar-Basilika 1700 abgerissen wurde. An ihrer Stelle wurde über der Bonifatiusgruft von Johann Dientzenhofer der barocke Fuldaer Dom errichtet.
Dom St. Salvator zu Fulda: Der Fuldaer Dom ist das Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Im Inneren des Doms befindet sich u. a. die Grabstätte des Hl. Bonifatius, des ersten Apostels der Deutschen. Die Pläne des Doms wurden im Jahr 1700 von einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Barockbaumeister, Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726), im Auftrag von Fürstabt Adalbert von Schleifras angefertigt. Der Vorgängerbau, die Ratgarbasilika, einst größte Basilika nördlich der Alpen, wurde zugunsten des neuen Doms niedergelegt, ehe 1704 der Bau im (damals aktuellen) barocken Stil begonnen wurde. Am 15. August 1712 wurde der Dom geweiht. Der Dom zu Fulda ist seinem inneren System nach an den Petersdom in Rom angelehnt.
Walnut Tree Court is on the site of a former Carelite Monastery founded in 1922. The Walnut Tree Building on the right dates from around 1617. Only the ground floor of the original construction remains after a fire in 1777. It was rebuilt from the first floor upwards and the battlements were added in 1823. The College Chapel was designed by George F Bodley and consecrated in 1891.
All is quiet here, on the morning that the Amtrak Capitol Limited would arrive in Connellsville with both a Phase IV and Phase II 40th Anniversary locomotive. I got here early just in case. This station will have an official ribbon-cutting and grand opening on April 29th, though it is already being used.
**Wytheville Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 94001179, date listed 1994-09-30
Roughly bounded by Monroe, Eleventh, Jefferson and Twelfth Sts. and W. Railroad Ave.
Wytheville, VA (Wythe County)
The Wytheville Historic District is located in the center of Wytheville, an incorporated town of slightly over 8,000 population located in Wythe County, Virginia. The approximately 170-acre district is located between 2,260' and 2,320' in elevation and is characterized by gently undulating topography. A small spring-fed stream flows southeast through the center of the district to Reed Creek, a tributary of the New River. The district contains 292 buildings, mostly commercial and residential buildings with an admixture of churches, schools, government buildings, and transportation-related buildings. Of these buildings, 245 are classified as contributing and forty-seven as noncontributing to the historic character of the district. The oldest buildings in the district appear to date to about 1830, although it is possible that some date to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The most recent contributing buildings date to the early 1940s, and there are buildings in the district constructed as recently as 1994.
115-165 E. Main St. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Birthplace. Ca. 1845. 139-2. C.
Two-story brick building with a stretcher-bond front elevation, metal-sheathed gable and shed roofs, and an unusual and complicated form. The building consists of three two-story units-- two front-gabled end units flanking a shed-roofed center unit--that share a single parapeted front with a false third story. The front has three shop fronts at street level under a simple cornice, and a second story with 619-sash windows.
Edith Bolling was born in a second-story apartment in 1872 and lived in Wytheville until 1887. Edith's second marriage, in 1915, was to President Woodrow Wilson, and after Wilson's stroke in 1919, she played an unprecedentedly active role in the operations of the executive branch. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson died in 1961. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/139-0029_...
Realizzato a fine '800, il Teatro dell'Opera di Roma fu costruito dall'architetto ed imprenditore Domenico Costanzi
SMASHfestUK 2018 - Living in Space - behind the scenes of the co-creation process:
"If the world really was devastated by natural disaster, we might have no option except to look to space for a new home for civilisation - could it be the Moon? Could we live on Mars? What would it take to build a world in outer space? How could we resource ourselves out is space?" This was the question that drove our big Living in Space collaborative project through 2017, into 2018. Working with over 6000 members of the public across the UK, during 6 different events; bringing together 5 universities, 4 schools, 2 museums, a software company, Astrocymru and the Royal Astronomical Society, we created a multi-part, semi-immersive experience which debuted at SMASHfestUK FLOOD! 2018 in Deptford.
SMASHfestUK joined with Middlesex University, Deptford Green School, Llangatwg Community School, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College, Christ The King Sixth Form School, Monster Paw Games, Kerbal Space Program, Swansea University, Cardiff University, The National Museum of Wales, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Queen Mary University London, AstroCymru, and Dr. Sheila Kanani and Dr Lucinda Offer of the Royal Astronomical Society, in a project ‘Living in Space’ funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Building on projects funded by the UK Space Agency ‘Space for All’ and the Royal Academy of Engineering ‘INGENIOUS’, exploring ideas and creating experiences with a diverse group of public visitors, young people, and engineering, design, mathematics and science professional experts.
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All photos taken during my Baltic Cruise vacation May-June 2014.
The Flatiron Building (or Fuller Building, as it was originally called) is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building sits on a triangular island-block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway and East 22nd Street, with 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
The Stager-Beckwith Mansion is the oldest remaining easily recognizable mansion on the former Millionaire's Row along Euclid Avenue in Midtown Cleveland. Constructed in 1866, it was built Anson Stager, a general superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Thomas Beckwith bought the house in 1874, after making a fortune running the Beckwith Sterling Company further down Euclid Avenue in Downtown Cleveland. Though Beckwith died within a few years of moving into the mansion, his family continued to reside there until his widow died in 1900, and it was sold to Charles Brush, whom lived in and kept up the structure in order to ensure it wasn't lost to the increasing commercialization of the corridor. In 1913, the house was sold and converted into the University Club, a private organization that remained in the building until 2002, greatly expanding the structure to the rear, adding a large wing with a large dining room, ballroom, squash courts, and tennis courts. In 2017, the Children's Museum of Cleveland moved into the building, renovating and restoring the structure in order to house their exhibits and programs.
With a population of just over 350,000, Bilbao is the capital city of the Biscay province within the autonomous community of the Basque Country (El Pais Vasco). It is the 10th largest city in Spain and considered to be the economic powerhouse of Northern Spain. That description rather belies the fact that it is a beautiful city in its own right with large, open squares, parks, impressive buildings and monuments and pleasant riverside walks. But for many, the main attraction of the city is the quite amazing Guggenheim Museum designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. Many would argue that the regeneration of this fine industrial city owes much to this building, which was completed in 1997. Whilst the museum houses many fine works by prominent modern and contemporary artists/sculptors - including David Hockney - it’s the curvy, titanium-clad building that draws the most attention. According to the weather, the time of day and the season, the effect of the light on its exterior can change quite significantly leaving the observer to marvel at its design. There are plenty more photos of Bilbao and other Spanish towns/locations if you take a look at my 'Albums' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.