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Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2016
This close-up shows just one portion of a cladding panel of the entrance-portico wall depicted in Part 3 of this series.
To get the most out of the following discussion of the constituent rock types visible in this image, take a moment to review the description in Part 1.
My hand provides scale. From tip of the longest finger to the wrist is 9 in = 22.9 cm.
Before we discuss the details of this photo, keep in mind that the Morton Gneiss is a classic example of that offbeat metamorphic rock type known as migmatite. As such, it's experienced different episodes of tectonic activity, metamorphism, and injection by younger granitoid magmas. That's why it's sometimes described, by me and others, as a "composite rock type."
While a migmatite's later ingredients may or may not be subsequently metamorphosed themselves, it's always best to classify the overall migmatite as metamorphic rather than igneous. After all, it's characteristic of very highly deformed and partially melted rock bodies found in ancient metamorphic terranes.
So please note that I've never said, in either my Flickr posts or my books, that the Morton should be classified as igneous.
That understood, this photo shows two of the Morton's several constituents. The gray gneiss to the right of my hand is what I take to be the oldest granitoid-derived type. Originally granodiorite and tonalite, it has been assigned an age by the very sophisticated SHRIMP ("sensitive high-resolution ion micro-probe") technique of 3524 ± 9 Ma, or about 3.524 Ga. That makes it three-quarters the age of our planet. The black amphibolite shown in Part 4 may be as old or older, but to my knowledge it has not been dated yet.
In contrast, the pink gneiss at left and bottom center is one of the more youthful (but by our puny standards still ancient) intrusions, which have been dated from 3.37 Ga (3370 Ma) to 2.619 Ga (2619 Ma).
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my Magnificent Morton Gneiss album.
More London is a development on the south bank of the River Thames. It includes the City Hall, a sunken amphitheatre called The Scoop, office blocks, shops, restaurants, cafes, and a pedestrianised area containing open-air sculptures and water features, including fountains lit by coloured lights. The Shard is also referred to as the Shard of Glass. It stands approximately 309 metres (1,014 ft) high, and is currently the tallest building in the European Union. HMS Belfast is a museum, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser. It is permanently moored in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum.
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[This set has 7 images] Built 1921-1922 in Spanish Mission style, St. Agnes Catholic Church in Mena, Arkansas, uses fieldstone as its primary building material, the entire structure on a continuous cast concrete foundation. The locally obtained stone enhances the architectural style well. All the roofs are clad with green ceramic tile, from the gable roof on the front (eastern) facade to the hipped roof surfaces over the asymmetrical towers flanking the front entrance. My bad knee prevented taking photographs of the 3-sided apse on the western facade and other facades. The church is a single story. In the central gable above the entrance is a monumental symmetrically placed Gothic window of leaded glass and a trim of bricks as its surround. Stone simulates quoins on either side of this window. Below is a large entrance that mimics the shape of the window above. There is a double-leaf door with large single-pane sidelights. Just above the door is a rectangular stained glass pane and above this a single pane of an exaggerated triangle. Brick surrounds the door frame on 3 sides. The shorter tower at the entrance has a low hipped roof and two lancet windows, a short one at the lowest part and a taller one above (again with the brick at the outer edges). There are corner buttresses to this tower. The taller tower has the two lancet windows plus an open belfry in addition to the corner buttresses. On each tower is a cross. The National Register of Historic Places nomination form (link below) provides more information on the other facades and details of the interior, which I was unable to photograph. The dimensions of the church and 85x50 feet, the walls being 1 1/2 feet thick. The final cost in the early 1920s was about $25,000. St. Agnes was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 5, 1991 with ID#91000696.
The nomination form in .pdf format is found at www.arkansaspreservation.com/National-Register-Listings/P...
The church website is at www.stagneschurchmena.org/
The photos in this series:
1) front facade
2) front facade and a partial view of the north facade
3) a portion of the tall tower at the entrance
4) the shorter tower at the entrance
5) the entrance
6) the monumental window above the entrance
7) a close-up of the building material used throughout
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Bruno Kaiser / 10000 Jahre Schaffen und Forschen
- ein kulturgeschichtliches Volksbuch mit 266 Holzschnitten von Paul Boesch
> Illustration: Eisenbeton
Pestalozzi-Verlag Kaiser & Co. AG
(Bern / Schweiz; 1940)
ex libris MTP
This series complements my award-winning guidebook, Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City's Architectural Geology. Henceforth I'll just call it CSC.
The CSC section and page reference for the building featured here: 7.6; pp. 106-108.
Looking southwestward at the northern and eastern elevations.
It's world-famous for its design as an early skyscraper with load-bearing masonry walls. While it does in fact have some interior support provided by iron beams and columns, the structure's outer shell does most of the work, and the visceral impact of its dark and massive construction can only be fully experienced by visiting the building in person.
Designer John Wellborn Root did employ some lighter-toned Graniteville Granite quarried in the St. Francois Mountains of Missouri, but the bulk of the original Monadnock and Kearsarge sections is built of deep-brown Chicago Anderson Pressed Brick. In contrast, the Wachusett and Katahdin additions at the southern end of the block, were clad with matching Tiffany Pressed Brick manufactured in Momence, Illinois.
The massive Anderson brickworks complex was located on the bank of the Chicago River's North Branch. The firm most often used as its base material underclays (ancient soils) and marine shales extracted in the great coal-mining district of the Illinois Basin. These dated to the Pennsylvanian subperiod (Upper Carboniferous period),
On the other hand, the Tiffany works—not to be confused with Louis Comfort Tiffany's ornamental-glass and faience company headquartered out East—used clay mined on its own property, apparently from Quaternary glacial or postglacial sediments. When fired, this turned a standard red color; but when combined with manganese, it produced the required brown color instead.
For more on this site, get and read Chicago in Stone and Clay, described at its Cornell University Press webpage.
The other photos and discussions in this series can be found in my "Chicago in Stone and Clay" Companion album. In addition, you'll find other relevant images and descriptions in my Architectural Geology: Chicago album.
Zespół regeneracyjnych pieców wapiennych.
A battery of two 450 tpd PFR lime kilns.
Drugim niezwykle ważnym zakładem w kujawskim "białym" zagłębiu" jest wytwórnia wapna palonego i hydratyzowanego. W obecnym miejscu zakład istnieje od roku 1956, kiedy to w ramach powojennej modernizacji obiektów zagłębia wapiennego powstały dwa piece obrotowe do wypału wapna. W 1975 roku uruchomiony został nowy oddział wypału wapna Bielawy II w oparciu o dwa nowoczesne piece regeneracyjne firmy MAERZ. Ich zasada działania opiera się o dwa naprzemiennie pracujące szyby, z których w jednym zachodzi proces wypalania wapna, a drugi jest ogrzewany spalinami z tego procesu. Co kilkanaście minut następuje zamiana, czyli tzw. rewersja i szyb opalany staje się szybem ogrzewanym. Dzięki temu uzyskuje się duże wydajności produkcyjne wapna przy jednoczesnym niskim zużyciu paliw w porównaniu do tradycyjnych pieców szybowych czy obrotowych. Paliwo dostarczane jest do pieców poprzez szereg lanc, umieszczonych w ich górnej części. Każdy z tych pieców ma wydajność 450 ton wapna palonego na dobę. Aby uzmysłowić duży rozmiar instalacji warto nadmienić, że wysokość kominów wynosi 50 metrów. Piece opalane są obecnie pyłem węgla brunatnego oraz rezerwowo gazem ziemnym. W przeszłości podstawowym paliwem był mazut, lecz restrykcyjne przepisy środowiskowe i konieczność jego ciągłego podgrzewania zadecydowały o wycofaniu tego paliwa. Tuż obok znajduje się zakład hydratyzacji wapna, gdzie produkowane jest wapno gaszone, używane między innymi w budownictwie. Obecnie zakład należy do spółki Trzuskawica SA, która jest częścią globalnego koncernu Cement Roadstone Holding (CRH).
World-traveling exhibition of several separately designed pavilions offering glimpses of future building materials and design.
Philadelphia, chosen as the only N. American stop!
Phila., PA
My 18 sec. long exposure capture.
Processing the work from this shoot right now, going back for more, when the light's right.
© Blue Perez 2008 all rights reserved.
location | leach pottery, st. ives, cornwall
photography | blue
processing | not analog
blogged | here
prints | available
The Shard stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high and is currently the tallest building in the European Union. It is also the second tallest free standing structure in the United Kingdom. The glass pyramidal tower has 72 floors, with a viewing gallery and open air observation deck on the 72nd floor which stands at a height of 244.3 metres (802 ft).
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. This is for Vinculum cast stone, a produce made by a subsidiary of the large Tarmac Ltd whose head offices were based at Ettingshall in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
Tarmac Ltd had been founded in 1905 by the Wolverhampton worthy Sir Alfred Hickman whose iron works at Ettingshall produced the waste material slag that formed the basis of 'tarmac' along with tar. The product had been the brain child of one Edgar Hooley who had in 1902/3 first patented the mix and formed the first works at Denby. These had foundered and Hickman bought the concern out. Tarmac prospered as the need for durable roads and surfaces became vital as road traffic increased and by the 1930s they had several works close to iron works so as to be able to utilise the waste materials.
Vinculum was another product born out of such waste - in this case, slag dust bound with Portland cement and cast into reinforced forms. The material was not only used to help Tarmac expand into the growing council house construction market but was also, as here, sold as an ideal material for the 'decoration' of suitably imporessive civic and commercial building facades. So here we have six views of municipal swimming baths and pools - one of which certainly bears a local Wolverhampton coat of arms so I think that nails a possible location for that one! The others - well..
The design of the advert is quite charming if 'staid' in graphic design terms but the use of the fish motif along with bubbling water certainly adds to the theme!
I Photographed Conrad Yelvington CYXX Number 2108 and Conrad Yelvington CYDZ Number 239 in a Siding parallel to the main CSX Track just South of the CSX Yard in Wildwood, Florida.
CYXX 2108 is an EMD GP30M (aka: Rebuilt GP30), which was Built for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in November 1962.
It's Heritage is as follows: Conrad Yelvington #2108, ex CSXT #6931, exx Alabama & Gulf Coast Railroad (aka: AGR), nee: B&O #6931.
CYDZ 239 is an ALCO S2m, which was Built in June 1946 as Ontario Northland #1202. It's Heritage is as follows: Conrad Yelvington #239, ex IMC-Agrico #202, nee: Ontario Northland #1202.
There is a Wye here, which connects to the CSX Track which crosses Main Street (aka: US Route 301) on a CSX Track which went West to was used to go West towards Leesburg (Paralleling Sumter County Road 44A) where Surplus Freight cars were stored during the last Real Estate Recession. That Spur Track was later removed and now ends near Phillips Lane in Wildwood.
Kiln is one of many in a terracotta brick and tile factory in Sa Dec, Vietnam. The hopper above the access door contains rice husks - fuel for the fire.
Iran's Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is an architectural masterpiece of Safavid architecture. Its construction started in 1603 and was finished in 1618.
Photo taken on August 23, 2007 in Isfahan, Iran.
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. I do love the fact that the company name is so wonderfully specific - not only giving the town but also the county and the main product! In truth I suspect that the "Middlesex" was there to distinguish it from the other 'Enfield' brick company who were based in another heartland of red brick manufacturing, Accrington in Lancashire.
Enfield, as the diagram shows, was on the fringes of London and even today as one of the outer London Boroughs it is, to the north, still mainly open land thanks to the Green Belt legislation of the post-war era. However - southwards was during the Victorian and into the 20th Century prime building land for the massive expansion of the Metropolis and the Enfield Brick Company would have been well placed to exploit both the clay beds in this part of Middlesex and Essex as well as the growing market for bricks. As well as the standard 'Reds' the company made a 'Roman' brick with a distinctive bench-marked facing.
This is a wall made of local brick. The aloe vera plant spreads naturally in Tucson's Sonoran Desert environment
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In the 1959 issue of the City of Wakefield official guide an advert for the local brick and stone supplier of George Armitage & Sons Ltd. It is always good to be able to ascribe a materials supplier to a particular building or structure and I can say that the Darrington Hotel still stands, in use as a pub, now adjacent to the Great North Road at Darrington. Equally it is interesting to see the name of the Leeds City Architect R A H LIvett whose work with that City's social housing is still recalled.
Armitage's had a long history having been founded in 1824 when work began to quarry stone at Robin Hood near Wakefield. By 1864 the company was making bricks with clays associated with quarrying and later from coal seams, and in 1907 it became associated with the brickworks at Oulton/Woodlesford to the south east of Leeds. In 1952 a further site was opened at Swillington and by 1975, their 150th anniversary, they were making some 64 million bricks a year. They sold out to Halifax based Marshalls in 1988 and so became part of Hanson's empire. There is still, apparently, a family link to the trade as one of the Armitage's now runs the York Handmade Brick Company.
Construction d'une usine pour la fabrication d'éoliennes en mer sur le site du port du Havre.
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Normandie
Département : Seine-Maritime (76)
Ville : Le Havre (76600)
Adresse : avenue Lucien Corbeaux
Fonction : Industrie
Construction : 2020 → 2021
► Architecte : ENIA Architectes
► Gros œuvre : GTM Normandie-Centre
PC n° 076 351 19 H0078 délivré le 27/11/2019
Hauteur : ≈20,00
Surface de plancher : 22 ha
santa fe, new mexico
1975
the inn and spa at loretto
under construction
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
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A bit closer shot of the grocery store construction. Materials for the project are seen at the left. A chain link fence top was the point of view.. An amazing cloudscape frames the shot.
Iran's Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is an architectural masterpiece of Safavid architecture. Its construction started in 1603 and was finished in 1618.
Photo taken on August 23, 2007 in Isfahan, Iran.
BRICK YARDS, HOBART, IND.
Date: Circa 1910
Source Type: Postcard
Printer, Publisher, Photographer: M. L. Photo (#11)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
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