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New York's iconic Grand Central Concourse is one of the city's most photographed sites. I love this mid-morning scene of people on the move.
The so-called 'Moscow Concourse' at Gants Hill station, designed by Charles Holden and inspired by the original station designs of the Moscow Metro, which the London Underground had recommended for the Soviet system in the 1930s. Gants Hill opened to passengers on 14 December 1947 as part of the Central Line extension programme.
Photos at the London Transport Museum show that the uplighters and seats running down the centre of the concourse were not present originally.
The Black Diamond is an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was drawn by the Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in 1993 and stood completed in 1999. For more information, visit The Black Diamond.
Incredibly, although I have lived in Copenhagen all my life, I have never visited this architectural gem, which I think is a fitting term for its name. The shots were taken handheld from the bridge at the top level of the building's concourse. I wanted to freeze all motion as much as possible but also get as much as possible in focus so I went for a higher ISO. In hindsight I think I went overboard with the ISO setting and hence the shutter speed but still, the shots did come out ok I think. I have experimented with a few versions of the two different shots. I can't quite decide which ones i like the most, but I am leaning towards the B&W ones.
What do you think?
One more thing: I tried to use a polarizer to reduce the glare from the glass but when I did so I got a weird blue-ish effect on the windows to the outside. Could this be because they have some sort of coating to keep out heat / keep in heat?
The Concourse is a post-modern high-rise commercial and residential building. It took me some time to fully appreciate the building and to grab some descent shots of it. At first I thought it looked like a prison.
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Closer look at the Highway Concourse & Retaining Wall (now affectionately known as the "Castle") at Gooseberry Falls State Park.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built this, and other major and minor park features in the 1930's as part of the New Deal that was designed to get men back to work during the Great Depression.
Gooseberry Falls State Park is located in Castle Danger, north of Two Harbors, Minnesota on Scenic Highway 61.
100 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1928, Architects: Baldwin and Greene
Artists: J.E.H. MacDonald, T. MacDonald
Baldwin and Greene commissioned the Concourse decorations from J.E.H. MacDonald and his son Thoreau. MacDonald senior was a painter with the Group of Seven, an accomplished commercial artist and a teacher at the Ontario College of Art. The Group of Seven depicted the city on canvas and brought their touch to many built projects.
The mosaics are loaded with thrills, vivid polychromatic depictions of machine and nature. Above the main door is a benevolent, beaming expression of natural and cosmic order -Plato cut generously with a Tarot deck, finessed into a highly visible niche.
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Seven fill colours plus two levels of edge and shape detection, one green one red. Own software for fill colours and Adobe Capture for edge and shape detection.
I love car shows, but I need to slow down and find out more about each cars. It’s not like they are going anywhere.
In the early 1960s, Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson designed an open space, partly covered, as a place to mingle and debate, including a podium for anyone to speak to whoever cared to listen. Graduations are also held in this space. To the right is SFU’s Library—originally only as high as the roof above the concourse. In the 1970s, as the university grew, 2 more storeys were added, though not in a totally complimentary way, but offered great views of the sprawling Fraser Valley and Washington state, the ocean and Vancouver below Burnaby Mountain. To the left of the concourse are the theatre, bookstore, and pub at the SUB (student union building). Through the open space, in the background, is the Rotunda under which students originally proceeded up the stairs from bussing up the mountain to emerge onto this plaza. While the university has added bright red patio furniture to the open air spaces, I chose to edit this photo in monochrome to emphasize the grey concrete that dominates the university’s architecture.
A view out of one of the windows on Concourse D at the Atlanta airport. This one is just a straightforward composition study. Oh, and did I mention the layer masks? ;-)
Structure #2
This time it’s a man-made structure – the concourse at King’s Cross station.
This photo was the silver lining to the clouds of a cancelled train and closed ticket office (due to yet another rail strike).
The almost empty concourse is a very unusual sight. But, we are living in unusual times.
P104-4902 Taken at: King's Cross Station, London
You know I can't go through O'Hare without taking a shot (or 3 for an HDR). The TSA guy was walking too fast in this one... #386 on Explore.
Roof of King's Cross Station western concourse extension. Designed by architect John McAslan and opened in 2012.
Welcome to the Atomic Age! The snack dome at the abandoned Burlingame Drive In.
Shot September 2001. Torn down 2002. About 8-minutes under the full moon, lit with red-gelled strobe.
On the left foreground is the new CityGate Residences. There are several prime offices, malls and Residences in Beach Road area.
The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a convention center located in Long Beach, California. Built on the former site of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium; the venue is composed of the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach Arena and the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.
Long Beach Arena was the first building to be completed in the complex. Capacities are as follows: 11,200 for hockey, 13,609 for basketball and either 4,550, 9,200 or 13,500 for concerts, depending on the seating arrangement.
The arena has hosted various entertainment and professional and college sporting events, most notably the volleyball events of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games.
For trade shows, the arena features 46,000 square feet (4300 m2) of space, with an additional 19,000 square feet (1800 m2) of space in the lobby and 29,000 square feet (2700 m2) in the concourse. Hanging from the arena's 77 foot (23 m) high ceiling is a center-hung scoreboard with four White Way "Mega Color" Animation Screens. There is an 11 by 15 foot SACO Smartvision LED Wall located on the south end of the arena.
The arena was the site of the first NHL game involving a 1967 expansion team, as the Los Angeles Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, both expansion teams, played on October 14, 1967, the Kings won 4–2. The Kings played in Long Beach for the first half of their expansion season while The Forum was being completed.
In the 1970s, the arena hosted several games of the Los Angeles Sharks, of the WHA and regular appearances of the Los Angeles Thunderbirds roller derby team. The Grateful Dead played the arena on December 15th, 1972; the first of 13 concerts there through 1988.
In 1980–81 the arena was also home to the California Surf of the North American Soccer League for one season of indoor soccer.
The arena was home to the former Long Beach Ice Dogs team, which played professional ice hockey in the IHL, WCHL and ECHL. The Ice Dogs ceased operations of the team in 2007.
The Eagles performed during a benefit concert for California Senator Alan Cranston on July 31, 1980, on what has been described as "Long Night at Wrong Beach".Tempers boiled over as Glenn Frey and Don Felder spent the entire show telling each other about the beating each planned to administer backstage. "Only three more songs until I kick your ass, pal," Frey recalls Felder telling him near the end of the band's set.Felder recalls Frey making a similar threat to him during "Best of My Love"."We're out there singing ‘Best of My Love', but inside both of us are thinking, 'As soon as this is over, I'm gonna kill him,' " recalled Frey. The animosity purportedly developed as a result of Felder's response of "You're welcome – I guess" to Senator Cranston as he was thanking the band for doing the benefit for his reelection. A live recording of their song "Life in the Fast Lane" from this show was included on their live album, entitled Eagles Live. This marked their final live performance, as The Eagles, for 14 years, until April 25, 1994.
Iron Maiden performed four consecutive shows during their World Slavery Tour on March 14–17, 1985. The show on the 15th was recorded and released as a double live-album, entitled Live After Death.
The arena was also one of the sites of the 1986 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Rounds of 64 and 32. The teams, which played at the arena, included Maryland, Pepperdine & UNLV. Maryland's Len Bias played his final collegiate game at the arena on March 14, 1986, in a loss to UNLV in the Round of 32. The arena was also the site of the Big West Conference men's basketball tournament from 1989 to 1993. It was the home court for Long Beach State's men's basketball team for several seasons in the 1970s and 1980s.
Run–D.M.C. performed during their Raising Hell Tour on August 17, 1986, with Whodini, LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys and The Timex Social Club as their opening act. The show made news worldwide when gang fights broke out between the Long Beach-based Insane Crips and the Los Angeles based Rollin 60's Crips within the audience, with 42 reported injuries during the incident.
From 2009 to 2016, the FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional was held at the Long Beach Arena.
On July 1 and 2, 2017, the arena hosted New Japan Pro-Wrestling's G1 Special in USA shows, which marked the company's first independently promoted shows in the United States.
The arena will host handball during the 2028 Summer Olympics.
The evenings second arrival........
IRENE (MMSI: 235085663) is a Sailing Vessel and is sailing under the flag of United Kingdom. Her length overall (LOA) is 34 meters and her width is 6 meters.
On 29 May 1907 Irene was launched at the Bridgwater yard of F J Carver & Sons, who had started building her on their own account. Whilst on the stocks she was sold to Colthurst Symons, a local brick and tile manufacturer, and was named after his daughter, Irene. Her hull was framed in oak and planked with pitch pine; the keel and garboard strake were of elm and the keelson of greenheart. Galvanised black iron was used to fasten her throughout. The top strakes and the covering board (the wide timber at the edge of the deck) were of greenheart and chestnut, to help withstand rough handling at the quayside.
Irene loaded her first cargo on 17 June 1907, less than three weeks after her launch, and carried it from Bridgwater to Penzance. Regular cargoes of bricks and tiles from her owners’ works provided her main trade. Return cargoes were always sought, and included corn, flour, cattle feed, stone, coal, scrap iron, and even live pigs. Sometimes she was away from her home port for several months, taking in a number of ports of call. Cargo could be taken aboard and discharged using a loading gaff which was rigged to the mainmast. Although her main work was around the West Country, Irene often ventured along the south coast to London, across to Rotterdam, north to the Clyde, or across the Irish Sea to Ireland.
In 1965 she was found abandoned in the Hamble and was bought by the current owner, Leslie Morrish who took her to the Thames. Dr Morrish restored her ketch rig and lived aboard with his family. In 1980 they sailed her to Bristol for a major refit, which included major re-planking, new keel, decks, masts and bowsprit, and a new whaleback constructed behind her wheel. Twin second-hand Gardner diesels were installed, which proved much more reliable than the previous and troublesome Elwe engine. The refit was completed at Gloucester and she left there in June 1982.
Irene embarked on a new phase, as a preservation society was formed to conserve and sail her. In 1998 she sailed to the Caribbean and was based there as a charter vessel, winning the Concourse d’Elegance at Antigua Classics 2003. Two weeks later, on 23 May 2003, she was gutted by a fire, of unknown cause, which blazed for eight hours before she sank. She became an insurance write-off, but her undaunted owners decided that they would rebuild her, in what became an epic process spanning seven years. Irene was raised and a temporary covering deck was built over the charred remains of the hull. She left St Maartens in late July 2003 in tow of the sailing schooner Avontuur, to be rebuilt in Cornwall. The bottom part of the hull was largely undamaged and work commenced on rebuilding the upper structure of the hull, deck, interior and rig. Twin reconditioned Gardner engines were installed.
On 22nd April 2009 Irene sailed again for the first time in six years, with new sails made by James Lawrence, of Brightlingsea. She attended festivals in Bristol and Whitehaven in summer 2009. Further work continued in 2010 to complete the accommodation to the standard required for chartering. In April 2011 she embarked on a full sailing season from her Bristol base.