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A complicated ~ confusing ? ~ image. The Sagrada Famila is visible through a clear window, the former hospital is reflected around it...
The former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, catalonia, Spain
The police station complex was built in 1892 - 1893 and consisted of a Magistrate's Court Room, Courthouse, Strong Room, and Residence for the Officer in Charge, Charge Room, Single Men's Quarters, Cells, and Stables. It cost 1800 to construct and replaced the original Police Station and Cells that had been built in Bridges Street in 1881 - 1882.
The Police took charge of this building on the 16th of May 1893. A new Magistrates Room was built in 1902 and the Police Station was extended in 1926. The Court sat for the first time on Friday the 13th October 1893 and was noted as being the fourth one in the colony.
Sgt Wright was Peterborough's most famous police officer, known as the 'Swagman's Friend'. He built a shelter shed for men passing through town looking for work in the 1930s. In 12 months, he arranged comfort, food, and shelter to 3272 travellers.
The Police Station and Courthouse is still used by the South Australian Police Department but is not available for inspection.
Source: District Council of Peterborough.
Stock Shot || Forza Motorsport 7
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There is a chance a good portion of the 720S update will feature edited shots. Unless of course I can find a solution to my display profile.
I want to do more updates containing mostly stock shots. The reason is it's less time consuming.
Sure I am happy how some of my edited shots have turned out. But with it being summer I would prefer to release a few stock only updates.
Alnwick Garden is a complex of formal gardens adjacent to Alnwick Castle in the town of Alnwick, Northumberland, England. The gardens have a long history under the dukes of Northumberland, but fell into disrepair until revived at the turn of the 21st century. The garden now features various themed plantings designed around a central water cascade. The revival of the gardens led to several public disputes between the Duchess of Northumberland and various garden experts concerning preservation and the use of public funds. The garden now belongs to a charitable trust, which is separate from Northumberland Estates, although the 12th Duke of Northumberland donated the 42-acre (17 ha) site and contributed £9 million towards redevelopment costs.
History
The first garden was laid down in 1750 by the 1st Duke of Northumberland, who employed Capability Brown, the celebrated Northumberland gardener, to landscape the parkland adjoining Alnwick Museum.
The 3rd Duke was a plant collector, and led a century of development at Alnwick – he brought seeds from over the world, and pineapples were raised in hothouses. In the middle of the 19th century, the 4th Duke created an Italianate garden featuring a large conservatory, and at the end of the century, the gardens were at their grandest, with yew topiary, avenues of limes and acres of flowers.
During the Second World War's "Dig for Victory" campaign, the garden was turned over and provided food, and soon afterwards the austerity of the 20th century saw the garden fall into disrepair. It was closed as a working garden in 1950.
Redevelopment
Redevelopment of the garden was instigated by Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland in 1997, and has been led by Belgian landscape designers Jacques and Peter Wirtz. It is the most ambitious new garden created in the United Kingdom since the Second World War, with a reported total development cost of £42 million.
The first phase of redevelopment, opened in October 2001, involved the creation of the cascade and initial planting of the gardens. On 22 December 2004 a large 6,000 sq ft (560 m2) tree house complex, including a cafe, was opened. A pavilion and visitor centre designed by Sir Michael Hopkins and Buro Happold opened in May 2006, with capacity for 1,000 people. The pavilion and visitor centre feature a barrel-vaulted gridshell roof. The gardens include several water features as well as architectural landscaping, topiary and decorative gates.
Poison Garden
A garden featuring intoxicating and poisonous plants was added in February 2005. The garden was thought of by the duchess herself, who wanted the garden to have something that was different from other gardens. Species of the Poison Garden include Strychnos nux-vomica (source of strychnine), hemlock, Ricinus communis (source of harmless castor oil but also deadly ricin), foxglove, Atropa belladonna (commonly called Deadly Nightshade), Brugmansia and Laburnum. The mission of the Poison Garden also includes drug education, with featured plantings of cannabis, coca and the opium poppy Papaver somniferum. The Poison Garden is now one of the main reasons that people visit the gardens.
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The “Episcopal complex”, located in the center of the historic nucleus of the town of Zadar, is proposed ("tentative list") for inscription in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It comprises a Roman forum with the remains of a temple; the Episcopal complex with the cathedral of St. Anastasia, the archbishop’s palace, the church of St. Donatus and the Zmajevic seminary, the orthodox church of St. Elias, the Benedictine nunnery with the church of St. Mary and the Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art; and the Archaeological Museum. The buildings of the complex are connected in spatial and functional terms essential for the performance of the bishop’s religious and institutional function. They were built from the fourth to the nineteenth centuries.
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Out at the apartment complex's dog park with Opal & Rose.
Bark Park
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
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Our local Bollington landmark White Nancy has had a makeover this year to commemorate the 200 year anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Charles Mingus
This is a sister shot to one that I posted last month called Intense Simplicity.
In debating which one to post at the time, and I couldn’t decide which I liked better… Tonight I’m posting the less “electric” version, though its intensity is evident, nonetheless.
Have a wonderful week!!!
xoxoxox
Black bench on white snow seems like a simple enough subject; throw in the grid of the bench and the intersecting shadows and you've got complexity. Shot outside Downsview subway station.
“The medieval archaeological complex Perperikon is one of the most ancient monumental megalithic structures, entirely carved into the rocks. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Bulgaria.
“Religious activity at the top of the cliff began in the 5th century BC. It is associated with the beliefs of the Copper Age people, who started the cult of the sun god. Here they established the first sanctuary and started leaving food containers for the gods. These religious rites continued through the entire Bronze Age (III-II millennium BC). The sophistication of the metal tools made the hard rock cutting possible. At that time, the oval hall with a huge circular altar in its center was built. There, priests performed their sacred rituals with wine and fire. These religious practices were typical for the temple of Dionysius, which was long sought in the Rhodope mountain. The latest archaeological research shows clearly that the temple was located exactly in Perperikon. According to the legends, two crucial prophecies were made from the altar of this temple. The first one predicted great conquest and glory for Alexander the Macedonian, and the second, made several centuries later, predetermined the power and strength for the first Roman Emperor” – Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus.
“In the last millennium of the old era and the first centuries of the new one, the rock structures grew and became a town with fortified walls, palaces and suburbs. The town was probably a royal residence for the Thracian tribe Bessie. Subsequently, the Romans brought to Perperikon their luxury and refinement, and the Goths ruined and burned down Perperikon in 378 AD.
“At the beginning of the 5th century AD, the rock town became an Episcopal center after the people in the Rhodope mountain accepted Christianity. At the 7th-14th century AD, Perperikon flourished as a regional center. Many times Bulgarians and Byzantines fought for these lands. At the end of the 14th century, the Ottoman Turks conquered and destroyed the fortress, the ruins of which slowly sank into oblivion.
“Today, the ancient glory of Perperikon rises. The holy city is unique in terms of archaeological, historical, environmental and multi-religious aspects.” (bulgariatravel.org)
Le site de Deir el-Bahari est un complexe funéraire, composé de temples et de tombes, situé sur la rive gauche du Nil à l'ouest de la ville de Louxor et des temples de Karnak, légèrement au sud de la vallée des Rois, adossé à la paroi rocheuse de la montagne de Thèbes. Le nom arabe de ce site : "le couvent du Nord" rappelle l’existence du couvent copte élevé dans ce lieu, la falaise de la chaîne Libyque dessinant un vaste amphithéâtre qui marque le centre de la nécropole thébaine.
Le site de Deir el-Bahari comprend trois temples :
-Vers -2 133 av. JC, Montouhotep 1er (XIème dynastie) s'installe à Thèbes et se fait construire à Deir el-Bahari un grandiose temple funéraire, probablement un mastaba ou un tumulus. Les nombreuses innovations architecturales du temple marquent une rupture avec la tradition des complexes pyramidaux de l'Ancien empire et préfigurent les temples des millions d'années du Nouvel empire.
-Vers -1 455 av. JC, la reine Hatchepsout (XVIIIème dynastie du Nouvel empire) construit un temple funéraire, le Djeser-Djeseru ou "Saint des saints" auquel le nom de Deir el-Bahari fait le plus souvent allusion.Un peu inspiré du temple de Montouhotep, sa structure à colonnade a été conçue et mise en œuvre par Sénènmout, son intendant royal et son architecte. Au sommet d'une série de terrasses, son accès comprend de longues rampes entourées de jardins.
-Thoutmôsis III a construit un temple dédié à Amon, peut-être utilisé lors de la Belle fête de la vallée. Construit à la fois en grès et en calcaire, son érection a été supervisée par le haut fonctionnaire Rekhmirê, vizir de Thoutmôsis III, au cours de la dernière décennie du règne du roi. Le temple a probablement été achevé par son successeur Amenhotep II, dans les premières années de son règne (cf. wikipédia, merci Nowic pour la photo).
The newest apartment complex in Corvallis is called The Retreat. More than 1000 people live here, mostly students. They can walk to campus from here.
The Qutb complex (Hindi: कुत्ब , Urdu: قطب), also spelled Qutab (Hindi: क़ुतब, Urdu: قطب) or Qutub (Hindi: क़ुतुब, Urdu: قطب), is an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India.
Above the foundations of Lal Kot, the “first city of Delhi” founded in the eleventh century by the Tomar Rajputs, stand the first monuments of Muslim India, known as the Qutb Minar Complex. One of Delhi’s most famous landmarks, the fluted red-sandstone tower of the Qutb Minar tapers upwards from the ruins, covered with intricate carvings and deeply inscribed verses from the Koran, to a height of just over 72m. In times past it was considered one of the “Wonders of the East”, second only to the Taj Mahal; but historian John Keay was perhaps more representative of the modern eye when he claimed that the tower had “an unfortunate hint of the factory chimney and the brick kiln; a wisp of white smoke trailing from its summit would not seem out of place”.
Work on the Qutb Minar started in 1202; it was Qutb-ud-Din Aibak’s victory tower, celebrating the advent of the Muslim dominance of Delhi (and much of the Subcontinent) that was to endure until 1857. For Qutb-ud-Din, who died four years after gaining power, it marked the eastern extremity of the Islamic faith, casting the shadow of God over east and west. It was also a minaret, from which the muezzin called the faithful to prayer. Only the first storey has been ascribed to Qutb-ud-din’s own short reign; the other four were built under his successor Iltutmish, and the top was restored in 1369 under Firoz Shah, using marble to face the red sandstone.
The Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque
Adjacent to the tower lie the ruins of India’s first mosque, Quwwat-ul-Islam (“the Might of Islam”), commissioned by Qutb-ud-Din and built using the remains of 27 Hindu and Jain temples with the help of Hindu artisans whose influence can be seen in the detail of the masonry and the indigenous corbelled arches. Steps lead to an impressive courtyard flanked by cloisters and supported by pillars unmistakeably taken from a Hindu temple and adapted to accord with strict Islamic law forbidding iconic worship – all the faces of the decorative figures carved into the columns have been removed. Especially fine ornamental arches, rising as high as 16m, remain of what was once the prayer hall. Beautifully carved sandstone screens, combining Koranic calligraphy with the Indian lotus, form a facade immediately to the west of the mosque, facing Mecca. The thirteenth-century Delhi sultan Iltutmish and his successors had the building extended, enlarging the prayer hall and the cloisters and introducing geometric designs, calligraphy, glazed tiles set in brick, and squinches (arches set diagonally to a square to support a dome).
Alai Minar
The Khalji sultan Ala-ud-Din had the mosque extended to the north, and aimed to build a tower even taller than the Qutb Minar, but his Alai Minar never made it beyond the first storey, which still stands, and is regarded as a monument to the folly of vain ambition. Ala-ud-Din also commissioned the Alai Darwaza, an elegant mausoleum-like gateway with stone lattice screens, to the south of the Qutb Minar.
The Iron Pillar
In complete contrast to the mainly Islamic surroundings, an Iron Pillar (7.2m) stands in the precincts of Qutb-ud-Din’s original mosque, bearing fourth-century Sanskrit inscriptions of the Gupta period attributing it to the memory of King Chandragupta II (375–415 AD). Once topped with an image of the Hindu bird god, Garuda, the extraordinarily pure but rust-free pillar has puzzled metallurgists. Its rust resistance is apparently due to its containing as much as one percent phosphorous, which has acted as a chemical catalyst to create a protective layer of an unusual compound called misawite around the metal. The pillar was evidently transplanted here by the Tomars, but it’s not known from where.
Read more: www.roughguides.com/destinations/asia/india/delhi/south-d...
Spa Complex, Scarborough with a high tide on Xmas Eve.
Grade 2* listed.
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Spa
December 2015
Henryton State Hospital is a now-closed hospital complex in Marriottsville, in southern Carroll County, Maryland, just across the Howard County line. The complex is located within Patapsco Valley State Park and along its southern end runs CSX's Old Main Line Subdivision and is very close to the Henryton Tunnel. The Henryton State Hospital center, or the Henryton Tuberculosis Sanatorium as it was called, was erected in 1922 by the Maryland Board of Mental Hygiene. It was established as a facility to treat African Americans suffering from tuberculosis.[1] This was one of the first such facilities in Maryland erected to provide African Americans with the same level of treatment as whites.
The original complex opened in 1922 and consisted of 6 main buildings and one utility plant. These buildings were erected between the years of 1921 and 1923. The establishment of the Henryton Sanatorium was one of the final steps in Maryland’s program to treat all of the state's tubercular patients. In the late twenties and early thirties the tuberculosis rate among African Americans in Maryland was quadruple what the rate was among whites.[1] This placed a heavy burden on the hospital to deal with the increasing number of patients. In 1938 the hospital was budgeted $270,000 for the construction of new buildings to house 200 more patients.[1] The new buildings roughly doubled the size of the overall facility, and several more municipal buildings added even more space to the complex. However, by the time the new buildings were completed in 1946, the tuberculosis rates had dropped, leaving much more room than was necessary.
In the decades since the facility’s closure, the Henryton State Hospital complex has become a haven for vandals, drifters, and drug addicts. The façade of most of the buildings have been extensively damaged and are covered in graffiti. Most of the windows have been broken out, making the grounds around the hospital very dangerous. The doors to all of the buildings have been broken in, allowing access to the inside. Although the furnishings and equipment were removed before the facility closed, there is still remarkable damage from people going through. Henryton has been the site of many suspicious fires since its closure, the most well-known of them taking place in the early morning of December 19, 2007.[citation needed] Henryton caught fire on April 28, 2011.[2] Initial speculation of this fire was believed to be suspicious in nature, but after fire marshalls conducted their investigation, it was believed to have been sparked by a lightning strike in the roof area.[citation needed] Firefighters arrived on the scene with heavy fire throughout the roof. Severe storms had passed through the area during the time that the fire was reported.
Henryton has suffered from extensive damage over the years
In this incident, the auditorium and cafeteria sections of the complex were engulfed with flames. The blaze took 80 firefighters from 3 counties to extinguish. The burned areas have since been demolished and removed. The 2011 fire affected the Physician and Nurses Cottage, destroying the roof. Visiting the Henryton State Hospital complex without the expressed written consent of the Maryland DHMH is trespassing, but the possible charges and fines seem not to deter most vandals. However, the decades of wear on the buildings without maintenance and the presence of large quantities of asbestos make Henryton a dangerous place to explore.
Since its closing, many attempts to purchase the land have been made, but most potential buyers, after having been approved to buy, have had their proposal for usage vetoed by local government and the like.[citation needed] The land on which the old Henryton Center rests goes on the market occasionally (every 5–6 years or so) and then is removed from the market. The state of Maryland spends a large amount of money to maintain the property minimally and occasionally patrol, and it is an expense that the state seems eager to be rid of.
Stuff I folded there:
My XO Stars
Awareness ribbon (intermediate ver) Fung
Bumble Bee (flat)
Bettens Twist container
Fish (taguro)
HJ Rex (Ku)
Pegasus (Kamiya)
Skull (matt green)
Sheep 2015 (Taro)
and Robin (Lee)
Hummingbird (vietnam)
Panda (peyton) not yet
Heres a good one, this is the 'Beauty of Origami' joas table of ousa2015, another exhibit quicky.
Complex of the Basilica Patriarcale of Aquileia.
Il mosaico pavimentale fu scoperto nel 1909-1912 estendendosi dalla navata centrale a quella destra. E' del Iv secolo, realizzato dopo l'editto di Milano di Costantino (313 d.C.) ed è il più vasto tra i mosaici pavimentali cristiani dell'Occidente.
by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquileia
Cathedral
The Cathedral of Aquileia is one of the most important edifices of Christianity. It is a flat-roofed basilica erected by Patriarch Poppo in 1031 on the site of an earlier church, and rebuilt about 1379 in the Gothic style by Patriarch Marquad.
The façade, in Romanesque-Gothic style, is connected by a portico to the Church of the Pagans, and the remains of the 5th century Baptistry. The interior has a nave and two aisles, with a noteworthy mosaic pavement from the 4th century. The wooden ceiling is from 1526, while the fresco decoration belongs to various ages: from the 4th century in the St. Peter's chapel of the apse area; from the 11th century in the apse itself; from the 12th century in the so-called "Crypt of the Frescoes", under the presbytery, with a cycle depicting the origins of Christianity in Aquileia and the history of St. Hermagoras, first bishop of the city.
Next to the 11th century Romanesque Holy Sepulchre, at the beginning of the left aisle, is this of different ages can be seen: the lowest is from a Roman villa of the age of Augustus; the middle one has a typical cocciopesto pavemente; the upper one, bearing blackening from the Attila's fire, has geometrical decorations.
Externally, behind the 9th century campanile and the apse, is the Cemetery of the Fallen, where ten unnamed soldiers of World War I are buried. Saint Hermangoras is also buried there.