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Mercer Corridor Project’s Substantial Completion
In August 2015, the West Phase of the Mercer Corridor Project reached substantial completion – meaning all major closures and improvements to the corridor are complete! All that remains is a localized closure on Roy St. and some low-key maintenance items with associated lane closures around the area, including landscaping, striping, and a few repairs.
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.
Built in 1896, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Daniel H. Burnham and Charles Atwood. The building was the world’s largest office building by floor area at the time of its completion, with 447,000 square feet (41,527.7 square meters) of interior floor space, and stands 10 stories tall, taking up the entire block bounded by Main Street, Division Street, Washington Street, and Swan Street. It was also built with the intention to add ten more floors to the top of the building if needed, which was never carried out, which would have nearly doubled the floor area. The building remained the largest office building in the world by floor area until 1908, when the old, now-demolished Hudson Terminal Complex opened at the site of the present World Trade Center in New York City. After opening, the building was home to the Edisonia Hall and the Vitascope Theater in the basement, which was is believed to have been the first purpose-built movie theater in the world. The basement also was the location of the first hospitality establishment run by Ellsworth Milton Statler, a restaurant that operated from 1896 until 1940, starting as a high-end restaurant before quickly being reoriented towards a more profitable quick lunch model. The site of the building also was the southern third of the estate of Joseph Ellicott, whom platted the village of New Amsterdam in 1797, which became the city of Buffalo, whose heirs still owned part of the block when land acquisition for the present building began in the mid-1890s. The building was among the largest commissions of Charles Atwood and Daniel Burnham’s careers, though Atwood died in 1895, prior to the building’s completion.
The building has a square footprint with a central light court that extends from the roof down to a hipped glass skylight over the central atrium on the first two floors. The exterior is clad in pearl gray brick with matching pearl gray terra cotta accents and trim, and has a facade stylized after an Italian Renaissance Palazzo, but on a much larger scale, with the facade being almost entirely intact and restored except for the large bracketed cornice at the top of the building, which was removed due to deterioration in 1971 and never replaced, with incongruous standing seam metal cladding in its place today. The exterior facades are tripartite, and are identical on the north and south sides, as well as the east and west sides, with the east and west facades having entrance doors with arched transoms featuring roman lattice motif and large decorative surrounds topped with decorative pediments with engaged doric columns, pilasters, and cornices with triglyphs, rosettes, and dentils, and sculptures of angels flanking the arched transom above, two arched windows on the second floor flanking the entrance, and decorative lampposts and hanging globe fixtures lighting the entryway at night. Elsewhere, the base features pilasters with doric capitals, and corners with quoins, with the first two floors being largely faced with two-story curtain walls featuring Chicago-style windows and Renaissance-style windows, narrow spandrels, and pilasters topped with brackets. On the third floor, the building has a band of windows with decorative trim and keystones, which are only interrupted by the ionic pilasters above the two main entryways to the building on the east and west facades. The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh floors feature recessed paired window bays topped with arched windows on the seventh floor, only interrupted on the fourth and fifth floors by the top of the decorative entrance surrounds on the east and west facades, which feature corinthian pilasters, broken pediments with statues in the middle, and urns atop the lower level of the entry surround. A band of horizontal trim runs around the base of the eighth floor windows, which feature narrower recessed bays only one window wide, with recessed spandrels between them and the arched ninth floor windows, which feature a band of decorative trim that runs along the top of each arch, interrupted by corbeled keystones. The tenth floor windows are flanked by two bands of horizontal trim, with the upper band featuring dentils and egg and dart motif, which was the base of the original cornice, with decorative trim between each window and cartouches flanked by statues at the corners. The top of the parapet features decorative trim with seashell motifs, heads, and acroteria angularium at each corner of the building. Most of the exterior windows are one-over-one replacements of the original double-hung one-over-one windows.
The interior of the building features large lobbies at the east and west entrances which connect directly to a large central two-story atrium, with a glass skylight as the roof with metal trusses underneath, a balcony running around the perimeter featuring a decorative cast iron railing, two grand staircases to the upper level, and ringed with windows and doors, and decorative chandeliers. The most notable feature of the ground floor is the large mosaic that runs from the east and west entrances and throughout the atrium, which was added in 1930-31 and designed by William Winthrop Kent and James Johnson, which helped to unify the three major interior common spaces within the building. Each lobby is clad in marble with staircases featuring decorative cast iron railings, with pilasters, triglyphs, and elevators with decorative brass doors and trim surrounds. The interior has been somewhat modernized for the needs of business tenants, but the common areas have had their historic character largely preserved.
The building today is owned and operated by the Ellicott Development Company, which rents the interior out to various commercial office and retail tenants. The central atrium is sometimes used for public events, such as weddings and social functions, and was featured in the 1984 film The Natural. The building, despite its impressive stature, and historical and architectural significance, is not listed on the National Register, but is a contributing structure in the local Joseph Ellicott Historic District.
Vietnam.
Sa Pa countryside.
Ta Van village.
Our hostess completed a workshop for the prevention of child sexual abuse in tourist destinations.
Completion of the top half of Kristoff, rest is on a separate sheet of the design
Rest of progress here www.flickr.com/photos/90129870@N03/albums/72157649862719040
Spouse of USAWC international fellows receive their certificates of course completion from Dickinson College, June 8, Carlisle Barracks.
Year 7 Completion Ceremony | 2013-14
22 members of the seventh year cohort of the Aboriginal Youth Internship Program (AYIP) celebrated the completion of their 12-month program at a ceremony in Victoria, B.C.
The Honourable John Rustad, Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, presented each of the interns with a completion certificate. Speakers included Chief Ron Sam, Songhees Nation, Chief Andy Thomas, Esquimalt Nation, Kate Elliot, Métis Nation B.C., Howard Grant, First Nations Summit, Hjalmer Wenstob, BC Assembly of First Nations, Priscilla Sabbas Watts, and intern Joshua Gottfriedson.
INTERSECTION OF SOUTH KAIBAB & RIVER TRAILS SHORTLY AFTER COMPLETION BY CCC. 21 DEC 1935. NPS.
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Grand Canyon National Park Museum Collection, P.O. Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023
Hikers seeking panoramic views unparalleled on any other trail at Grand Canyon will want to consider a hike down the South Kaibab Trail. It is the only trail at Grand Canyon National Park that so dramatically holds true to a ridgeline descent. But this exhilarating sense of exposure to the vastness of the canyon comes at a cost: there is little shade and no water for the length of this trail. During winter months, the constant sun exposure is likely to keep most of the trail relatively free of ice and snow. For those who insist on hiking during summer months, which is not recommended in general, this trail is the quickest way to the bottom (it has been described as "a trail in a hurry to get to the river"), but due to lack of any water sources, ascending the trail can be a dangerous proposition.
Read more by downloading the complete trail description here: www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/South_Kaibab_Trail.pdf
Completion of cross-arms’ installation with insulators and the start of cable stringing along the line.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the U.S. Government funded Power Africa initiative, has been working to increase the number of people in Liberia with access to affordable power. Never in its history has Bong County, located in central Liberia, had access to reliable and affordable energy services, which has limited the ability of businesses to thrive and hampered education and healthcare services in the region.
In January 2018, USAID/Liberia partnered with the Liberia Electricity Cooperation (LEC) to construct 77‐ kilometers of 33kv distribution power lines to Gbarnga in Bong County, Central Liberia. Photo: Jusu Wendell Holmes / USAID
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The Shard, nearing completion. Guy's Hospital tower beyond.
High-reaching angles.
Click diagonal arrows upper right and then press F11 Fullscreen.
In May the Shard had reached its full height --- the highest in Europe.
Renzo Piano workshop architects.
Above London Bridge station, Southwark.
In the cloud today, but apparently on a clear day it's possible to see 60 miles from the top.
London Bridge Tower, also known as the Shard, is a 72-storey mixed-use tower located beside London Bridge Station, one of the busiest in London with 200,000 users per day. Being completed, the project is in response to the Mayor's policy of promoting high-density development at key transport hubs. The slender pyramidal form is suited to the variety of uses intended; large floor plates for offices at the bottom, public areas and a hotel in the middle, apartments at the top. The final public floors, levels 68-72, accommodate a viewing gallery 240m above street level. Above, eight glass shards continue to 305m and define the shape and visual quality of the tower. That top is much more subtle than the simplistic high pyramid the building first appears.
Ground-level surround interaction wasn't visible on this visit.
MARSYAS (Detail)
Wood mâché, modelling paste, wood, sculpture stand
app. 60"
Subsequent to the completion of STUDIO SECTION 2002-2005, Marsyas/Myself, the artist created another studio section, STUDIO SECTION 2005-2007, The Seven Deadly Sins and Three Diptychs from The Winter Notebooks. On Pages 7 and 8 of The Winter Notebooks he reprised MARSYAS/MYSELF in retrospect visual and verbal consideration and wrote the following excerpt about it:
"Marsyas/Myself was completed in 2005 and entered into the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum in November of that same year. My three year involvement with this studio section was epiphanic and liberating, the separation nearly complete. However, the song of the artist, the skin of Marsyas, hangs heavy and will not be silenced. It lingers still, as Myself lingers still, and will not be silenced. As long as artists create artifacts and as long as viewers persist in creating Art from these artifacts, the myth of Marsyas is the truth of the artist; his life, his pain, his ecstasy, and his fate. By subjection of myself as a particular artist in equation with the corpus of Marsyas, an attempt was made to recast the drama of art into an anti-fascisttic and non-authoritarian process; a complete reassignment of roles wherein the viewer becomes the sole creator of Art and all else is cultural rhetoric. It was also an attempt by this artist at total honesty. As we know virtually nothing about Marsyas, it was my intention to reveal everything about Myself even to the extent of confessional boredom. All information has been made available to the viewer. Setting the plight of Marsyas in his challenge of Apollo within the context of a contemporary sculptor’s studio establishes the parallel of the cautionary myth with all artists who would gamble their lives on a rigged contest. There is no drama greater than the artist’s struggle with his own mortality. The transmutation of mortal desire into material artifact into immortal response is the distinguishing principal of humanity and it is the artist who personifies this principal in its sublime purity. No challenge is greater, no reality more intense. Marsyas is the artist’s myth and it is to this myth all artists conform…."
STUDIO SECTION 2002-2005, Marsyas/Myself is a multi-part installation work that requires a space approximately 40' x 40' for exhibition in its entirety. It consists of free-standing sculptures, and large panels hanging on the walls and a combination of these and evenly divided into two metaphorical dimensions: "Marsyas" and "Myself."
Collection:
Crocker Art Museum
Sacramento, California
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/
May 10, 2015-North Hudson, NY- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the completion of the state’s largest Adirondack land acquisition in more than 100 years, with the purchase of the 20,758-acre Boreas Ponds Tract. This is the final acquisition in a series of land purchases the state has completed under a 2012 agreement with The Nature Conservancy to conserve 69,000 acres of land previously owned primarily by the former Finch, Pruyn & Company paper company. The Tract is located primarily in the town of North Hudson in Essex County, south of the High Peaks Wilderness Area.
Built on the former site of a shopping centre next door to its former store (which traded as Lloyds until September 1993), there has been some sort of delay a few years ago as it sparked some backlash.
Traffic on North East Rd, especially during peak hours would be slowed to a 'snail's pace' due to frequent truck movement and a number of small businesses would be heavily impacted.
However, despite the debates, the project went ahead.
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
Pinning ceremony for the Austin Community College students who completed the Nursing Associate Degree program on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at the ACC Eastview Campus.
Year 7 Completion Ceremony | 2013-14
22 members of the seventh year cohort of the Aboriginal Youth Internship Program (AYIP) celebrated the completion of their 12-month program at a ceremony in Victoria, B.C.
The Honourable John Rustad, Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, presented each of the interns with a completion certificate. Speakers included Chief Ron Sam, Songhees Nation, Chief Andy Thomas, Esquimalt Nation, Kate Elliot, Métis Nation B.C., Howard Grant, First Nations Summit, Hjalmer Wenstob, BC Assembly of First Nations, Priscilla Sabbas Watts, and intern Joshua Gottfriedson.
Built on the former site of a shopping centre next door to its former store (which traded as Lloyds until September 1993), there has been some sort of delay a few years ago as it sparked some backlash.
Traffic on North East Rd, especially during peak hours would be slowed to a 'snail's pace' due to frequent truck movement and a number of small businesses would be heavily impacted.
However, despite the debates, the project went ahead.
Blythe Construction is working to create mainline lanes for the final leg of I-485 in Mecklenburg County. Traffic on the right is on Mallard Creek Road, which will have its own interchange, one of the first diverging diamonds in North Carolina.
Improving Degree Completion for 21st Century Students
A Federal Role in Credit Transfer and Metro Region Policy
October 28, 2010, 9:00am – 11:00am
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/10/metroed.html
The Obama administration has set an aggressive goal for the United States to retake global leadership in postsecondary degree attainment by 2020. The president's goals will require the highly decentralized system of 4,600 colleges and universities to increase productivity dramatically. Productivity, as measured by the number of degrees produced, can be improved by ensuring that students who transfer, an increasingly common phenomenon, retain as much college credit as possible as well as better aligning postsecondary policy with key cross-state metropolitan areas that drive regional and national economic growth.
The concentration of population and economic resources in metropolitan regions makes them engines of America's competitiveness, but many metros cross state boundaries, creating inefficiencies in terms of increased tuition costs, difficulty of transfer and even duplication of fixed costs as states compete for higher education supremacy. Policies that help ease the college-going of metro residents can also help reduce the costs and increase effectiveness of postsecondary education.