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A framed view of the clocktower (formerly a belltower) of the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti or Palazzo Affari at Piazza Mercanti in Milan.
Michigan highway M-52 is Main Street as it passes through Chelsea. At the north end of town are the old buildings of the Glazier Stoveworks, with the clocktower anchoring the front corner of the factory building. At the right is the old recreation building that management provided for their factory employees.
The buildings have recently been refurbished as a retail and commercial complex.
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The clock tower of "Karl-Seitz-Hof" viewed from an interior court.
Der Uhrturm des Gemeindebaus "Karl-Seitz-Hofs" von einem Innenhof aus gesehen.
St Mark's Clocktower is a clock tower situated on St Mark's Square in Venice, adjoining the Procuratie Vecchie. It houses the most important clock in the city, St Mark's Clock (alternatively known as the Torre dell'Orologio or the Moors' Clocktower).
It was constructed as a display of Venice's wealth, and as an aid to sailors on the Grand Canal about to depart on a voyage.
The building was designed by Mauro Codussi and constructed between 1496 and 1499. It has five bays, of which the central bay is the widest. This bay incorporates a two-storey gateway, with the large clock face above, topped by a single storey tower with a depiction of a Lion of St Mark against the night sky, while two blackened bronze figures intended as giants but known as the "Moors" stand on top and ring a bell on the hour.
The clock mechanism, dating from 1499 and much restored since then, drives the main clock face, which consists of several concentric dials. The outermost displays the number 1 to 24 in Roman numerals, and a hand embellished with a depiction of the sun indicated the hour. The second dial depicts the twelve signs of the zodiac, picked out, like the inner dials, in gilt on an enamel blue background. The inner dials indicate the phases of the moon and sun.
The mechanism also moves a display above the clockface, where a niche with a depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus lies between two displays: the hour in Roman numerals and the minutes (in multiples of five) in Hindu-Arabic numerals. On Ascension Day, statues of the three kings pass in front of the displays.
Terraces were added to the tower by Giorgio Massari in 1755, but it has otherwise been little altered. Major renovations have obscured the structure behind scaffolding for several years. Now though, this extraordinarily elaborate timepiece is on public show again, in full working order, and delighting visitors and Venetians alike, as it has done for more than 500 years.
La Torre dell'Orologio è un edificio rinascimentale situato in piazza San Marco a Venezia.
L'edificio consta di una torre centrale, costruita tra il 1496 e il 1499 dall'architetto Mauro Codussi, e di due ali laterali, aggiunte successivamente. L'arco sottostante collega la piazza con le Mercerie.
Il quadrante dell'orologio è in oro e smalto blu; segna ora, giorno, fasi lunari e zodiaco. Un primo restauro fu eseguito nel 1757. Il restauro moderno, iniziato nel 1997, è stato terminato nel maggio del 2006 e inaugurato alla mezzanotte del 27 maggio.
L'Orologio è dotato anche di un meccanismo a carillon, attivato tradizionalmente solo nel giorno dell'Epifania. A ogni scoccare di ora, il pannello laterale delle ore si apre per lasciare passare un carosello di statue in legno rappresentanti i personaggi della Natività e i Re Magi. Le statue, trascinate da un meccanismo a binario lungo la piattaforma semicircolare posta sopra al quadrante, rientrano poi nella Torre attraverso il pannello laterale dei minuti situato dal lato opposto dell'Orologio.
Famosi sono i cosiddetti Mori di Venezia, soprannominati così per il loro colore bruno dai Veneziani, posti alla sommità su una terrazza, sono due statue di bronzo raffiguranti due pastori che battono con una mazza le ore su una grande campana.
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Commemorates the first coroner of the borough John Birt Davies, who held the office for 36 years.
The clocktower in Five Ways is Grade II listed, and is in front of 60 Calthorpe Road.
Late C19. Iron. Square box with Gothic-style blank tracery to each face. On it a column with a 'capital' sweeping out to carry the clocktower, each face of which is beneath a little pediment. Finial at the top.
The focus of Goole is the Clock Tower erected in 1926 to celebrate the centenary of the town. Unfortunately this sits in the middle of a roundabout and is virtually inaccessible. It also has a CCTV camera ignominiously planted on top.
The clock is telling the correct time but it is over sixty years since passengers went in these doors and climbed stairs to the platforms. Leith Central opened on 1st July 1903, the NBR only having responded to calls to improve its facilities in Leith, when the Caledonian Railway was pushing its equally expensive new lines through Leith. The over large station at the Foot of the Walk was at the end of a short branch from Abbeyhill. Passengers on the competing trams into Edinburgh had to change at Pilrig until 1922 but after that the trams definitely had the advantage - train passengers arriving at Waverley then had to climb the Waverley Steps. Traffic drifted away to the more frequent tram services throughout the LNER era and the expensive station was an early casualty post- nationalisation, closing on 7th April 1952, later being converted for use as a DMU depot. This closed in 1972 and the train shed was demolished c.1989. The street frontage round the Duke Street/Leith Walk corner survived.
This is the picture of the clocktower at Raipur, the capital city of central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. To be honest, there is very little that I did to take this picture. The idea, of the frame and composition is of my senior friend Mr. I L Patel and another senior friend of mine Mr. Rupesh Yadav taught me the technique to capture this image. So, i must say if anybody likes this image then the credit should go to these guys and not me! You can very well see their work on Flick.
The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel is a historic hotel structure at the corner of Oxford Street and Whitworth Street in Manchester, England. The building was originally constructed in segments from 1891 to 1932 as the Refuge Assurance Building.
History
Refuge Assurance Company
The first phase of this Grade II* listed red brick and terracotta building was designed for the Refuge Assurance Company by Alfred Waterhouse and built 1891–1895.[2] The inside was of Burmantofts faience and glazed brick. The ground floor was one enormous open business hall.[3] It was extended, with a striking 217-foot (66 m) tower, along Oxford Street by his son Paul Waterhouse in 1910–1912.[2] It was further extended along Whitworth Street by Stanley Birkett in 1932.[3]
What is now the ballroom was previously the dining hall for employees, with males and females being required to sit separately. Around 2,000 staff were employed. Women had to reapply for jobs if they married,[4] and some areas of the building were for men only.[5] The ballroom in the basment was used as a dance hall for workers in their lunch hour.[6]
After occupying the building as offices for nearly a century, the Refuge Assurance Company moved to the grounds of Fulshaw Hall, Cheshire on Friday 6 November 1987. The Refuge Assurance company had discussed converting the building into a new home for the Hallé Orchestra with one of Manchester's cultural patrons Sir Bob Scott for over a year. The £3 million funding required for the project did not materialise and the Halle subsequently moved from the Free Trade Hall to the new Bridgewater Hall upon opening in 1996.[7] Local architecture critic John Parkinson-Bailey noted that "one of the most prestigious and expensive buildings in Manchester lay forlorn and empty except for a caretaker and the ghost on its staircase".[7]
Conversion to hotel
The massive structure was converted to a hotel by Richard Newman in 1996 at a cost of £7 million, and was named the Palace Hotel, owned and operated by the Principal Hotel Company.[8] Principal Hotels was sold to Nomura International Plc in 2001,[9] and they rebranded the hotel as Le Méridien Palace Manchester. When Le Méridien Hotels faced financial difficulties,[10] the hotel was bought back by a reconstituted Principal Hotels in 2004[11] and again renamed the Palace Hotel. When Principal Hotels decided to brand all their hotels with their corporate name, the hotel was renamed The Principal Manchester, in November 2016.[12] The current glass dome in the reception area was taken from a Scottish railway station during the conversion to a hotel.[4]
In May 2018, the hotel was sold to the InterContinental Hotels Group.[13] It was announced in February 2020[14] that the hotel would be renamed the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in March; as part of InterContinental Hotels Group's Kimpton Hotels brand. However, the hotel was forced to close before the renaming, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] It reopened under the Kimpton name on October 1, 2020.[16]
The hotel is purported to be haunted.[6] One of the staircases is said to be haunted by a grieving war widow who committed suicide by throwing herself down it, throwing herself from the top floor.[4] The staircase in question was only accessible to men at the time.[5] Room 261 is allegedly haunted, with reports of the sound of children playing at night.[17]
The landscaping around this clock tower in the San Francisco Bay Area looks lush and green thanks to ForeverLawn.
Next floor up and you come to the barrels and religious figures.
Originally the religious figures, 3 kings and an angel, came outside every hour but that proved too much in terms of wear and tear. In 1858 they were replaced by two rotating barrels showing the hour in roman numerals and the minutes in 5 minute intervals.
The religious figures are still used but only make an appearance twice a year with a special mechanism being used to move the barrels out of the way.