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prototyping window farm to learn about hydroponic systems. still some final additions to complete and then i will add plants.
learn more about the window farms project here: www.windowfarms.org/
Built in 1905-1907, the Beaux Arts-style Cleveland Trust Company Building was designed by George B. Post as one of his last commissions prior to his death in 1913, stands at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street in Downtown Cleveland. At the time of its completion, the building was the third-largest Bank Building in the United States, and was the largest bank building in Cleveland, and the first building built in the city for sole occupancy by a bank. The building was constructed for the Cleveland Trust Company, founded in 1894, which merged with the Western Reserve Trust Company in 1903, and subsequently outgrew its original offices. The bank continued to grow throughout the early-to-mid-20th Century, merging with various other banks around Cleveland, and being one of the first banks in Northeast Ohio to have branch locations. The historic Cleveland Trust Building is clad in white granite with a rusticated base featuring large arched bays with keystones and bronze doors and window frames, with corinthian porticoes at the central bays of the west and north facades along the two street frontages, which are topped by pediments featuring decorative friezes, with ornate sculptural reliefs, a small two-column portico at the building’s chamfered corner facing the intersection of the two streets, windows on the second and third floors featuring recessed metal spandrel panels, a cornice with modillions and dentils, a balustrade on the parapet, and a drum and dome atop the roof over the interior rotunda. The nearly excessive ornateness and quantity of the decorative sculptural reliefs, ornament, and friezes on the exterior facade, when compounded with George B. Post’s Beaux Arts background and design philosophy, places the building into the Beaux Arts style of architecture, despite having many similarities to the Renaissance Revival and Classical Revival styles, which have been attributed to the building by architects and architectural historians in the past. Inside, the building features a four-story rotunda below a large stained glass dome, crafted by the famous Nicola D'Ascenzo, with several murals, known collectively as "The Development of Civilization in America,” which ring the top of the third floor balcony. The murals, dome, columns, arches, cornice, and stone floor of the four-story banking hall remain intact, gracing one of the most impressive rotundas in the state of Ohio, and one of the most impressive rotundas of any building designed by Post, comparable to the scale and details to another late Post design, the Wisconsin State Capitol, with the Cleveland Trust Company Building being one of his best-preserved commissions. The rest of the interior was altered in the 1970s, but has been partially restored, including original staircases, elevator screens, and balcony railings, though other areas of the interior, including ceilings and offices in areas outside the rotunda, were heavily altered during the renovation, and were not restored during the most recent round of renovations.
In 1908-1910, the 13-story Swetland Building was built to the east along Euclid Avenue, and was designed by Searles, Hirsh & Gavin in the Classical Revival and Chicago School style. Complimenting its earlier neighbor, the taller structure is simpler in appearance, with a buff brick and terra cotta facade, three-over-three and one-over-one double-hung windows, a similar cornice featuring modillions and dentils, a terra cotta-clad base with Chicago windows and large street-level openings, and light wells on the east and west facades. In 1919, a tower was proposed to be built atop the structure, but was never constructed, which helped to preserve the building's original appearance and configuration until the 1970s, and prevented the loss of the grand stained glass dome and rotunda, which would have been heavily altered or removed to accommodate the structure for the additional floors. In 1968-1971, the Marcel Breuer-designed 29-story Brutalist building, known as the Cleveland Trust Tower, was constructed immediately to the south of the original building along East 9th Street. When it was completed, it towered over the original structure, dwarfing it with its massive scale, and featured a facade clad in dark concrete panels, with a grid of concrete-framed punched window openings on the upper floors, and relatively simple, unadorned facades at the top and bottom of the structure, with wide and tall openings on the ground floor. During the next two years, the original building was renovated and heavily altered on the interior in response to the addition of the new office tower, leaving only its most significant features intact. A second wing of the tower was planned at one point to mirror the constructed tower, but wrapping the east side of the original Cleveland Trust building, which would have led to the demolition of the Swetland Building. However, these plans were never carried out, in large part due to the economic and demographic decline of Northeast Ohio that began during the 1970s.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building remained in use by the Cleveland Trust Company until 1991, when the Cleveland Trust Company merged with Society National Bank. This was followed by an acquisition by Key Bank in 1993, which no longer needed the structure for banking purposes, and the final offices moved out in 1996, with all operations moved to the Key Tower. The building was largely empty and closed to the public until 2005, when it was purchased by Cuyahoga County, which intended to convert the complex into a new government center, a plan which was never realized. The county government then sold the complex in 2012, and the developer has transformed the Cleveland Trust Company Building into a Heinen's Supermarket, a local chain, with offices on the upper floors. The adjacent Swetland Building also became home to part of the supermarket, with market-rate apartments on the upper floors, while the Breuer-designed Cleveland Trust Tower was converted into a hotel and apartments. Now a thriving center of activity, the complex, now known as The 9 Cleveland, is one of the many bright spots of the revitalized and vibrant Downtown Cleveland.
Built in 1912, this Beaux Arts-style 14-story skyscraper was designed by Esenwein and Johnson and Edward B. Green. Inspired by the landmark centerpiece of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition and the Pharos Lighthouse that was a wonder of the ancient world in Alexandria, Egypt, the tower became the tallest building in Buffalo upon its completion, surpassing the earlier St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, which had been Buffalo’s tallest building since 1851, and remained the tallest building until the Liberty Building was built in 1925. The building originally was home to the Buffalo General Electric Company after which it was named, and was expanded with seven-story additions to the east and northeast of the original building in 1924-1927, designed by Edward B. Green and Sons, and a three-story addition to the roof of the building’s original east wing. The building was renovated in the 1930s, adding several Art Deco elements to the building’s interior. The building utilized electric lighting to help it stand out on the city’s skyline, and housed a series of local electrical utility companies, with Buffalo General Electric being absorbed into Niagara Hudson, and eventually becoming Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, remaining in the building until they sold it in 2003. The building’s lobby and office spaces were altered between the 1970s and 1990s in a series of renovations attempting to modernize the space, covering up and removing several decorative elements, while the exterior terra cotta was treated with care and repaired or replaced in a long-term maintenance program.
The building features two seven-story wings forming a “podium” to the east of the tower, which feature large banks o windows, pilasters, white terra cotta cladding, simple cornices, and storefronts along Genesee Street and part of Huron Street, with a light well capped by a skylight sitting in the middle of this section of the building. The most iconic part of the structure, however, is the octagonal white terra cotta-clad tower that rises from the corner of Washington Street and Huron Street, which features a tripartite composition to the main section, and a spire on top. The base features large arched bays with storefronts surrounded by decorative trim and featuring metal mullions and spandrels, with the most decorative trim being at the bay on the Genesee Street side of the tower, which projects from the building and features a rooftop terra above flanked by decorative margents, with all of the openings at the base featuring decorative keystones with wreaths. Additionally, decorative multi-globe metal lampposts flank the main entrance. Above this, the building features four window bays per side flanked by common pilasters an featuring terra cotta spandrels with triglyphs and roman lattice motif, with larger pilasters at the corners, terminating at massive oversized headers at the top of the thirteenth floor windows, with large decorative keystones featuring wreaths. Above this are five smaller recessed windows on each side of the fourteenth floor, flanked by large margents, with the capitals of the pilasters featuring decorative trim including smaller margents, and half-sphere caps atop the pilasters, with the parapets on each side featuring rounded middle sections and terra cotta caps. Above the fourteenth floor is the building’s two-story spire, which features doric columns at the corners with margents and egg and dart motif at the capitals on the first level, ionic columns with margents at the corners of the second level, large roman lattice screens on each side of the levels, decorative terra cotta cladding, keystones with argents, cornices with dentils, parapets with square sections above the columns and arched sections over the windows with margents, and low-slope roofs around the base of each level of the spire, with each level getting smaller and having a setback as the building gets taller. At the top, the building is crowned with a domed terra cotta open lantern with corinthian columns and pilasters, a cornice with dentils, ribbed dome with festoons, and a copper finial with a cylindrical lower section and a spherical upper section.
The building’s interior was partially restored after it was purchased by developers in 2004, and features Art Deco elements in the lobby, including aluminum trim and doors, plaster medallions on the ceilings, geometric motifs, stone cladding on the walls, decorative plaster trim at the transition between the ceilings and walls, an aluminum letterbox, chrome grilles, terrazzo floors, and a restored second-story balcony ringed by an Art Deco railing, creating an octagonal two-story space in the middle of the lobby with chrome wall sconces and light fixtures, art deco ceiling ornament, and a staircase with an art deco railing being present in this space as well. The lobby was partially modernized as part of the renovation, but any remaining historic material was maintained and reproduced to create a more cohesive visual character in the space. Additionally, the building features an intact original staircase with a Beaux Arts-style railing, Beaux Arts-style board rooms with intact original wooden paneling and trim on the walls, plaster ceilings with decorative plasterwork trim, plaster grilles, wall sconces, and a Classical Revival-style board room in one of the wings added in the 1920s, which features corinthian pilasters, wooden paneling, a decorative fireplace surround, and an arcade made up of wooden arches supported by wooden doric columns. The remnants of a photo room can be found on the fourteenth floor, which was originally the men’s lounge and steam room, with the space now being occupied by mechanical equipment. The remnants of a small lecture hall remain in the form of a concrete stage and concrete risers within the fifteenth floor, one of the spaces within the lantern, though structural elements added in 1995 during building renovations now cut through the space. This room now functions as utility space for the building. The interior was further modified in the conversion of the building to apartments in the 2000s.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008, and is presently owned by the Iskalo Development Company, and today is home to a variety of commercial office tenants. The building today is regularly lit up with various colored lights to commemorate special events, and is where the Buffalo Ball Drop is held on New Years Eve each year. The building remains the 7th tallest building in Buffalo, today succeeded by several towers built in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as those built later in the 1960s and 1970s. The building anchors the east side of Roosevelt Square.
As the light at Goodman turned green, I was somehow lucky enough to get a clear shot of the front of the Chick-fil-A. The poles all appear bent in this photo: it must be due to taking the shot through a closed window.
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Chick-fil-A, 1998-built, Goodman Rd. at Southcrest Pkwy., Southaven MS
Wiring completion & early testing.
We have the wiring completed, and the circuit is working. I don't have time to test it to temperature tonight, and want to be able to monitor things pretty closely so I am going to wait until tomorrow to bring the unit up to cooking temperatures.
I will be writing up an at length description of this project when it is completed and tested (which should be in the next several days for those who are interested enough to follow up).
Find the article on www.theroguegourmet.com
Nevasa
Built for British India Steam Navigation by Barclay Curle (Yard No. 498)
Launched 26 Dec 1912 and completed 5 March 1913
9070 GRT
On completion she joined her sister ship Neuralia in the Calcutta service until the First World War when she was taken up in August 1914 as a troopship to carry Territorial army soldiers out to India to relieve the regular garrison.
In January 1915 she was converted to a hospital ship with accommodation for 60 wounded and was employed as such until March 1918 with most of her service in this guise being from India to Basra, Suez and East Africa.
March 1918 saw revert to trooping under the Liner Requisition Scheme involving some trans-Atlantic trips
During this period she had two encounters with German submarines being attacked by U151 in June 1918which was on the surface and attacked with gunfire; she drove the submarine off with her stern gun and used her speed to flee the enemy. She was attacked again, this time the submarine being U155 when approaching the USA coast and again escaped using her speed.
She was returned to BI in 1920 and traded between London and Bombay.
She was employed for schools cruises between 1935 and 1937 and took part in the Coronation Review in 1937.
Called up again for the Second World War where she was again used for trooping that was to take her to most theatres of the war being used after the war in repatriation duties until released back to BI in Jan 1948.
Due to her age and hard usage in the war she was sold for scrap to BISCO in March 1948 and was taken to Bo’ness to be broken up.
Foundations have all been completed at the 140 megawatt Loeriesfontein wind plant site in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
Coming together are the future lanes of I-485 meeting the I-85/I-485 interchange in northeast Mecklenburg County.
29/03/2023, Autovía GC-3, Tenoya, Gran Canaria, Spain.
The construction & completion of this motorway and viaduct over the huge Barranco de Tenoya, on the Las Palmas ring road system, has been long delayed for multiple reasons.
Work commenced on the supporting piers back in 2010, and this section of road opened in 2022.
In addition to the technical difficulties inherent to a linear project running between ravines and mountains, there are also those inherent to a semi-urban environment. All this, together with the economic crises experienced in recent years, has delayed the construction of this highway and has also meant an arduous technical task owing to several changes in the types of the interchanges and the construction of pedestrian walkways requested by local residents. These changes, which were not planned in the original project drawn up in the 1990s, made it possible to adapt the project to the demands of the island residents over the years, with the total budget for the works exceeding 125 million euros.
However, not to underestimate the task of linking in this new road to another major road project nearby at Arucas, the terrain is harsh, volcanic and unforgiving. A massive amount of spoil had to be removed from the other project before this section (pictured) of road could be opened and linked in.
It is the tallest viaduct in the Canary Islands.
The deck is a post-tensioned box girder, built by cantilever system.
It is 371' high / 113m high and has a 420' / 128 m span.
The journey from where I live to the north coast, used to take a leisurely 35+ minutes via Arucas, and descended through many banana plantations.
With the new route opened, the same journey now takes soem 15 minutes.
After the completion of the Dooen freight terminal aprox 10km east of Horsham, the old freight terminal shed has been torn down and most of the site cleaned up. However QUBE are still running a freight service out of the old site, Much to the locals disgust......
Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) celebrated the substantial completion of the H-1 Freeway Rehabilitation Project at a dedication ceremony at Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, overlooking the freeway. The project reconstructed and resurfaced one of the most heavily traveled corridors in the state and added an extra travel lane in both directions in less than 11 months. New LED street lighting, added drainage, and glare screens were also installed to improve highway safety.
As the Old Donation School nears its completion, it is receiving great reviews. It will be home to students in grades second through eighth who are gifted intellectually, in visual arts or dance. It has a capacity of 1,375.
The school, which will open about four months ahead of schedule, has features common in 21st century education, such as small-group learning spaces and seats that easily slide around, flexible walls, and using hallways as educational spaces. It also has an 800-seat theater and an outdoor stage.
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Prep Work: Sherwin Williams Multi-Purpose Oil Base Primer was used after Homeowner removed wallpaper
Ceilings:
Company - Sherwin Williams
Product & Color Name - Pro Mar 200 - Ultra White
Finish - Flat
Main Walls:
Company - Sherwin Williams
Product & Color Name - Duration - Basket Beige
Finish - Matte
Kitchen (gray):
Company - Sherwin Williams
Product & Color Name - Duration - Silver Plate
Finish - Matte
Built in 1902-03, this Venetian Gothic Revival-style building caught fire shortly after its completion, with it being rebuilt in 1904. Known as the Union Block, the building has housed various businesses and organizations, including the International Order of Odd Fellows Hall, the Crystal Ballroom, and the Stewart Bros. Furniture Co., which operated in the building between 1906 and 1992. The building features a buff brick facade, ornate stone trim, a loggia at the buildings three central bays with Venetian Gothic arches above octagonal brick columns with corinthian capitals, wrought iron railings, stone medallions, and a course of brick framing this section of the facade. To either side, the loggia is flanked by windows with gothic arched transoms and stone trim, with a stone sill at the second floor, quoins framing the central portion of the building’s facade, and a raised parapet and cornice above. The other parts of the building feature retail shopfronts on the first floor, single and paired arched double-hung windows with brick and stone trim surrounds, quoins, a cornice with a trefoil motif, dentils, and brackets, a fire escape on the front facade, with the facade being divided into five sections. The fourth street facade of the building features two additional retail shopfronts and similar detailing to the rest of the facade, though the cornice on this facade has been lost and was replaced by standing seam metal roofing. The building is presently home to several popular businesses, and is a contributing structure in the Newark Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Originally dating to around 1320, the building's importance lies in the fact that successive owners effected relatively few changes to the main structure, after the completion of the quadrangle with a new chapel in the 16th century. Nikolaus Pevsner called it "the most complete small medieval manor house in the country", and it remains an example that shows how such houses would have looked in the Middle Ages. Unlike most courtyard houses of its type, which have had a range demolished, so that the house looks outward, Nicholas Cooper observes that Ightham wholly surrounds its courtyard and looks inward, into it, offering little information externally.[2]
The moat of Ightham Mote
There are over seventy rooms in the house, all arranged around a central courtyard. The house is surrounded on all sides by a square moat, crossed by three bridges. The earliest surviving evidence is for a house of the early 14th century, with the Great Hall, to which were attached, at the high, or dais end, the Chapel, Crypt and two Solars. The courtyard was completely enclosed by increments on its restricted moated site and the battlemented tower constructed in the 15th century. Very little of the 14th century survives on the exterior behind rebuilding and refacing of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The courtyard, gatehouse at left
The structures include unusual and distinctive elements, such as the porter's squint, a narrow slit in the wall designed to enable a gatekeeper to examine a visitor's credentials before opening the gate. An open loccia with a fifteenth-century gallery above, connects the main accommodations with the gatehouse range. A large kennel built in the late 19th century for a St. Bernard named Dido is the only Grade I listed dog house.
Historic Finlay Bridge over the South Saskatchewan River in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The bridge was constructed in 1908 by the Canadian Bridge Company. It is a five span Parker through truss. At the time of its completion, Finlay Bridge was the longest steel bridge in Alberta.
The Finlay Bridge was named a Municipal Historic Resource by the City of Medicine Hat in 2011.