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People's Square is the very center of Shanghai. It is actually not a square per se, but a large pedestrianized district that contains government buildings, museums and parks.
Народная площадь расположена в самом центре Шанхая. На самом деле это не площадь, а целый пешеходный район в котором располагаются правительственные здания, музеи и парки.
Now I'm right outside rather than looking across the bay, but the old place looks equally magnificent!
The tall white building (100 in today's numbering) was the place where the world's first public distribution of gas took place in 1807, an event commemorated to this day by thousands of street lamps in central London still lit by gas.For the fascinating earlier history of this building (it was where the rules of cricket and horse racing were formed) see LondonMyLondon.co.uk
Starting life during the Second World War, the signal or radio station at Killylane was used to communicate with Atlantic convoys as they made their trecherous journey. After the war, the station (which was well sited for its transatlantic communication) continued to be used by the military. It appears as if the site closed in the 1960's. The staff working here would most likely have been accommodated in the nearby RAF Eglinton domestic site at Ballygudden Road. Lough Foyle and the Atlantic can be seen in the distance in some of the images.
The site has laid abandoned on this exposed hilltop since, and as of 2019 is up for sale once again, this time with planning permission and it is likely the buildings will be demolished in the near future.
Photographs from late afternoon on a bitterly cold day after Christmas 2017.
Further to the west on the spit are the buildings of the second phase. The most distinctive structures built during this phase were the two Vibration Test Buildings, now commonly referred to as ‘The Pagodas’ (National Trust buildings E2 and E3). The specification for the Vibration Test Buildings included the ability to withstand the accidental detonation of 400lbs (181.4kg) of high explosives; they were designed by G W Dixon ARIBA for the UK Atomic Energy Authority and are identical. Both Vibration Test Buildings, their control room and centrifuge were constructed in 1960.
They comprise a large reinforced concrete central cell 16.47m (54ft) by 7.30m (24ft) covered by a massive reinforced concrete roof supported on sixteen reinforced concrete columns. To the south and east of the main chambers are self-contained plant rooms. The main access to the building is from the south through an entrance passage which was originally sealed by a pair of outward opening metal covered wooden doors. On its western side, adjacent to the main entrance passage is a blocked doorway that led to a small staff room and toilet. Inside the buildings on the eastern side of the passageway one set of stairs gives access down to the main test cell and another to a walkway around the top of the chamber. At the end of the passageway is a lift pit, which allowed test pieces to be lowered on to the floor of the main test cell. To assist in manoeuvring heavy objects there are a number of substantial steel eyelets screwed into the underside of the roof. A travelling crane also ran on rails mounted on a ledge beneath the windows, a loose plate on the floor recorded ‘Becker twin Lift Maximum Working Load 40 tons serial A-2647-2’.
The floor of the main cell is formed of parallel and narrowly spaced steel ‘I’ section beams for test rigs to be firmly secured to the structure. To either side are cable ducts. At the same time as being vibrated objects might also be placed in jackets to simulate extremes of heat and cold, or in a portable altitude chamber to mimic the effects of altitudinal changes. Set into the north wall are seven steel plates with vertical cruciform slots that were also used for securing tests rigs or monitoring equipment. Below these are eight pipes opening from the service passageway to the north. In the south wall are three steel plates with horizontal slots, above the plate is stencilled 1-27ft and below it 1-7.5m. The walkway around three sides of the cell was originally protected by a handrail and there is another handrail fixed to the main wall. Running around the wall is a cable conduit and attached to the wall are various pipes for carrying electrical wires, switches, junction boxes and pressure gauges. Signs on the wall above the lift pit record ‘Telephone Instrument Room’, ‘Vac Pump Running, Vac Pump Stopped’ with associated light fittings. At the north east corner of the cell is a doorway to the rear service passage running east to west along the north side of the building. To the east a flight of stairs gives access to the eastern plant room. To the west another set of stairs provides access to the northern side of the lift pit, the upper walkway and to an emergency escape passage through the north side of the traverse. To the south of the main cell are free-standing Burwell brick-built plant rooms. The main plant room is entered through two sets of double doors on its south side, internally are four machinery mounting plinths. Attached to its west wall is a metal cabinet that probably housed equipment to operate the hydraulic compressor for the internal lift. At the eastern end of the building is a store room with a blocked doorway to the south.
Walking around London with a group of friends and a camera. Seeing the contrast been new and old buildings.
All photos taken after an access permit was granted. Some buildings appear to be under current construction. Recent fire damage visible in some photos.
They have all four letters in pavement. Part of the new landscaping. This area used to be Laclede Street and you could park on the street right in front of the college. Now that Harris Stowe has other buildings, Laclede Street is not a street here anymore. Harris Stowe looks more like a college campus now instead of an old high school.
Service buildings in brick and stone flanking the avant-cour. Vaux-le-Vicomte was originally planned to be constructed in brick and stone, but after the mid-century, as the middle classes began to imitate this style, aristocratic circles began using stone exclusively. Rather late in the design process, Fouquet and Le Vau switched to stone.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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