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I visited the Integratron building for a sound bath in Joshua Tree, California, for my birthday, September 2018. It was the most incredible experience and I highly suggest EVERYONE go for this deep and expanding cleansing.
080917 Cumming, GA: The wrap-around verandah at the home of Karen and Dean Davis. SEAN DRAKES/Special
Frankfurt at Night
Alte Oper (Old Opera). It is a major concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The building was inaugurated on October 20, 1880.
It was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical triumphal arch in Berlin, and one of the best-known landmarks of Germany. It is built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs.
It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation).[1]
During the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall, and the area around the gate was featured most prominently in the media coverage of the opening of the wall in 1989.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.
In the background are No. 3 The Union Building, and No. 5 The NKK Building. In the distance is the newer Bund Center, where the Westin Hotel is located.
I refer to this as Samsung Cathedral, because there is a huge ad for the company draped over the front of the building. Samsung is helping restore the church.
I love the contrast in materials between the wooden arbor and the granite and glass building in the background.
I traveled to India for the first time to present a keynote at the 3rd Global Conference on Emerging Trends for Business Librarianship, November 21-22, 2017 at the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. I will also be attending the Asian business librarian meeting on Monday the 20th. Sunday the 19th of November we did some sightseeing and enjoyed the Heritage Walk of the center of this historic city. Here are various pictures of temples, mosques, historic buildings, cattle and other sites from the inner-city of Ahmedabad. We had a tremendous tour guide and it was a wonderful way to learn about the history of Ahmedabad. Here is the description of tour: "The 600 years old city of Ahmedabad (1411 A.D) has some of the finest Indian-Islamic monuments and exquisite Hindu and Jain temples. Its carved wooden houses are another unique architectural tradition. To experience the glory of Ahmedabad it is necessary to walk through the 'Walled City' and truly observe the nature of its rich and varied architecture, its art, religious places, its culture and traditions.With the purpose of unveiling this aspect of the city to the tourists and the citizens themselves The Heritage Walk of Ahmedabad was launched by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in association with CRUTA Foundation, an NGO, on 19th November 1997, during World Heritage Week.A special feature of Ahmedabad is the plan of the old city, comprising numerous 'Pols', self-contained neighborhoods, sheltering large numbers of people. Some of these 'Pols' are virtually small villages, traversed by narrow lanes, usually terminating in squares (Chowks) comprising 'Community Well' and 'Chabutro' (for feeding birds). These 'Pols' were protected by gates, cul-de-sacs and secret passages. These historic residential settlements are explained in detail during the walk.The walk commences from the early 19th century Swaminarayan temple Kalupur, encompasses 20 main spots besides numerous areas and aspects of the old city and concludes at the famous 15th century Jama Masjid. Hence the Walk is popularly known as the journey of 'Mandir to Masjid'.The Walk, initiated more than one and a half decades ago, the first one of its kind by an Urban Local Body (ULB), has been continuing its journey with an unbroken record of 15 years and has lived up to its purpose of reviving the old city through rediscovery. The Ahmedabad model of Heritage Walk is being replicated in many other historic cities and towns of India like Jaipur, Amritsar, Lucknow etc. to conserve heritage and promote tourism." Pictures from Sunday November 19, 2017.
Construction site.
It is good that the city takes care of its buildings, however, it has a melancholic look to it.
Scenes along the way from Shilshole Bay Marina to 24th & Market Streets in Downtown Ballard and back to Shilshole Bay via NW 57th Street. Scenes of the path, of buildings along the way, of the Leif Erickson monument, and other elements including the jumble of signs along that 4 mile loop.
The Luma Building is a rare example in Glasgow of an art deco building and was built to coincide with the Empire Exhibition that same year and held in the nearby Bellahouston Park.
Its designer Cornelious Armour was a house architect for the SCWS who worked on a number of their factories and shops. Not a lot is known about his original work although he is credited with extensions to the SCWS linoleum factory, a listed building still in Falkland, in Fife. Interestingly, the same Swedish cooperative also had an interest in this factory. The fact is that Cornelius may simply have been a project architect working to a given design, for the Luma building is strikingly similar to the Luma building in Stockholm designed by Artur von Schmalensee and Eskil Sundahl in 1930. Like Luma in Glasgow, the Lumafabrikens buildings in Stockholm, now called Luma Park, are listed and preserved as offices and housing.
Fotografías tomadas durante unas vacaciones en Cuba.
Photos taken during a vacation in Cuba.
JULIO 2017
Salvador Cueva ©
Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS
Listed: 08/04/2004
Wichita’s East Douglas Avenue Historic District is significant under Criterion A in the area of Commerce and under Criterion C in the area of Architecture. The district comprises an intact collection of historic resources located along the most significant historic commercial thoroughfare in the city and possibly the state. Wichita was one of the Midwest's key commercial and industrial centers from the late nineteenth century up through and after World War II. Its role as one of the nation's wholesale distribution centers, as a meatpacking and milling center, and as an industrial center brought prosperity to a city, which at first glance, might not seem to possess many natural advantages. Just as Wichita's economy was diversified, so were its commercial buildings. Douglas Avenue, as the most significant commercial thoroughfare in Wichita, therefore contains buildings associated with a variety of commercial activities.
The buildings associated with these enterprises represent a range of commercial building types, depending upon the means and tastes of the business owners as well as the buildings’ intended uses. As befitting a regionally prominent commercial center, many buildings are architect-designed and are high-style representatives of various popular styles from their period of construction. Other buildings which housed smaller local businesses are simpler and are typical of vernacular commercial construction found throughout the country. Although Wichita was one of the most significant commercial centers in Kansas during the late nineteenth century, most of the extant buildings in the proposed East Douglas Historic District date from the early twentieth century. This is reflective of the building activity that took place in Wichita during its second “boom” period after the turn of the twentieth century, when many Victorian era commercial buildings built during Wichita’s first boom of the 1880s were replaced with the Classical Revival style buildings popular in the early twentieth century. The extant buildings in the district represent two major periods of growth in Wichita.
Finally, some individual resources are significant under Criterion A in the area of Transportation. There are thirty-nine contributing buildings, five contributing structures, and six non-contributing buildings. This includes three buildings already listed on the National Register within the proposed boundaries of the East Douglas Avenue Historic District. The period of significance for the district extends from 1887, the construction date for the oldest extant commercial buildings in the district, through the end of World War II (1945), when demolition of historic buildings began occurring within the district.
Utah State Capital from an opposite hill. Another night shot with film. Visit photocapm.com/2009/04/13/night-shooting/ to see this photograph in a blog.
Dernière der Lichtshow über Demokratie am Bundeshaus in der Stadt Bern in der Schweiz
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Da die Show wie ein Film mit bewegenden Bildern zusammen mit Musik aufgebaut ist sollte man sie unbedingt selber anschauen gehen! Sehr empfehlenswert
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Lichtshow über Demokratie am Bundeshaus
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Das Bundeshaus in Bern wird zur Kinoleinwand: Ab Mitte O.ktober projizieren Lichtkünstler während sechs Wochen allabendlich eine Lichtshow an die Fassade des Bundeshauses.
Auf die architektonischen Eigenheiten des Parlamentsgebäudes zugeschnitten soll dem Zuschauer die Geschichte der Schweiz und der direkten Demokratie in Bild und Ton nähergebracht werden.
«Wir wollen den Leuten einen speziellen Kunstgenuss bieten, der mehrere Sinne anspricht», sagt die Mitinitiantin Brigitte Roux gegenüber der S.onntagsZ.eitung. Die Kunstform mit dem Namen «Son et lumière» ( Ton und Licht ), bei der meist historisch bedeutsame Gebäude illuminiert werden, stammt aus F.rankreich.
Das Freilichtspiel beim Bundeshaus ist der bisher grösste Anlass dieser Art in der Schweiz. Die Organisatoren arbeiten dafür mit Lichtkünstlern aus F.rankreich zusammen. Allein der Aufbau der Infrastruktur wird drei Tage in Anspruch nehmen. Für den Anlass erhielten die Organisatoren eine spezielle Bewilligung von der Verwaltungsdelegation des Parlamentes und der Stadt Bern. Am 1.6. O.ktober wird die Show den Teilnehmern des internationalen Parlamentariertreffens in Bern präsentiert.
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Bundeshaus der Schweiz
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Als Bundeshaus ( franz. Palais fédéral, ital. Palazzo federale; lat. gemäss Aufschrift am Fries
"Curia Confoederationis Helveticae" ) wird das Schweizer Regierungs- und Parlamentsge-
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Das Gebäude wurde 1902 nach Plänen des Architekten H.ans W.ilhelm A.uer ( 1.8.4.7 – 1.9.0.6 )
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Es besteht eigentlich aus drei Gebäudeteilen
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- Bundeshaus W.est ( ehemaliges B.undes - R.athshaus 1.8.5.2 – 1.8.5.7 )
- in der Mitte das markante Parlamentsgebäude ( fertiggestellt 1902 )
- Bundeshaus O.st ( 1.8.8.8 – 1.8.9.2 )
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Das typische Merkmal des Bundeshauses ist die D.achkonstruktion des H.auptgebäudes :
Die drei K.uppeldächer.
Diese sind aus K.upfer angefertigt und waren dementsprechend früher einmal K.upferfarbig,
da das K.upfer aber mit der Zeit oxidierte, hat sich eine grünliche Patina gebildet die bis
heute geblieben ist.
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( BeschriebBundeshaus AlbumBundeshausinBern AlbumStadtBern Schweizerische
Eidgenossenschaft Kanton Altstadt Bern Bärn Berne Berna Bundeshaus Palais fédéral
Palazzo federale Gebäude Building Archidektur Parlamentsgebäude Regierungsgebäude
Regierung Parlament Sandstein Curia Confoederationis Helveticae confoederatio
helvetica Helvetia Hauptstadt Capitol StadtBern Stadt City Ville シティ By 城市 Città Город
Stad Schweiz Suisse Switzerland Svizzera Suissa Swiss Sveitsi Sviss スイス Zwitserland
Sveits Szwajcaria Suíça Suiza )
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Unterwegs in Bern am Mittwoch den 26. November 2011
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2019 February Light on Bryant Park Trees with the Empire State Building and American Standard / Radiator Building on horizon near New York Public Library in Bryant Park on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue NYC 02/09/2019 cab taxi tree corner Saturday Winter weather Skyline tree
In the vicinity of Gamzigrad lie the ruins of a huge Roman complex called Felix Romuliana, one of the most important late Roman sites in Europe. It was conceived and built by one of the Tetrarchs, Emperor Galerius, the adopted son and son-in-law of the great Emperor Diocletian.Galerius started construction in 298 (after a victory over the Persians that brought him admiration and glory) to mark the place of his birth. The name Felix Romuliana was given in memory of his mother Romula, who was also a priestess of a pagan cult. During the 31st Session of the Unesco World Heritage Committee in Christchurch, New Zealand from the 23rd of June to the second of July, The World Heritage Committee decided to place Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius on the World Heritage List.