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Ossington Lofts is a new condo development by NDS Properties Ltd. at 2 Ossington Ave, Toronto. The development was completed in 2012. 2 Ossington Lofts has a total of 5 units.
Die Zeche Consolidation, meist kurz Zeche Consol genannt, war der wirtschaftliche Motor der Stadt Gelsenkirchen. Bereits in den 1870er Jahren zählte die Zeche Consolidation zu den förderstärksten im Ruhrgebiet. In kurzer Folge wurde ein Schacht nach dem anderen abgeteuft. In 130 Jahren wurden über drei Millionen Tonnen Kohle gefördert.
Schacht 9 wurde 1915 begonnen, die Förderung begann aufgrund des Ersten Weltkriegs jedoch erst nach 1918. 1922 wurde das Fördergerüst als zweigeschossiges Doppelstrebegerüst noch in Fachwerkbauweise erbaut. Da sich zeitgleich die Vollwandbauweise durchsetzte war es das letzte seiner Art und ist heute eines der wenigen noch existierenden. Zeitgleich wurde das südliche Maschinenhaus vom Zechenbaumeister Heinrich von Bonin (1871-1927) erbaut. Die Besonderheit im Maschinenhaus ist die Zwillings-Dampffördermaschine von 1963, die letzte Dampfmaschine, die von der Gutenhoffnungshütte (GHH) in Oberhausen gefertigt wurde. Das nördliche Maschinenhaus wurde 1937 als kubisch gestalteter Ziegelbau von Dr. Ing. Hans Väth (1897–1950) erbaut. 1938 wurde dort eine Zwillings-Dampffördermaschine aus der Gutenhoffnungshütte installiert.
Auf der Zeche Consol wurden nach ihrer Stillegung und Renovierung vier Kulturprojekte gestartet. Eines ist die Kunstinstallation im nördlichen Maschinenhaus von Werner Thiel (1927-2003). Die anderen sind das Consol Theater, das Musikprobenzentrum Consol 4 sowie das südliche Maschinenhaus mit der Bergbausammlung des IBC.
Die Bergbausammlung des IBC besitzt als zentrales Ausstellungsstück die Zwillings-Dampffördermaschine. Sie hat eine Leistung von 4.100 PS und ein Gewicht von 285 Tonnen. Die Fördermaschine hob Nutzlasten von circa 12t mit 18m/s (65km/h) aus dem über 1.000 Meter tiefen Schacht. Jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat wird sie live vorgeführt.
The Conso colliery, usually called consol, was the economic engine of the city of Gelsenkirchen. As early as the 1870s, the Consolidation colliery was one of the strongest in the Ruhr area. In a short sequence, one shaft after another was demolished. Over three million tonnes of coal have been mined in 130 years.
Shaft 9 was started in 1915, but due to the First World War, production did not begin until after 1918. In 1922, the conveyor structure was still built in half-timbered construction as a two-storey double strut. Since the full-wall construction was prevailing at the same time, it was the last of its kind and is today one of the few still existing. At the same time, the southern machine house was built by the colliery builder Heinrich von Bonin (1871-1927). The special feature of the machine house is the twin steam conveyor from 1963, the last steam engine manufactured by the Gutenhoffnungshütte (GHH) in Oberhausen. The northern machine house was built in 1937 as a cubic brick building by Dr. Ing. Hans Väth (1897-1950). In 1938, a twin steam conveyor from the Gutenhoffnungshütte was installed there.
Four cultural projects were launched at the Consol colliery after its closure and renovation. One is the art installation in Werner Thiel's northern machine house (1927-2003). The others are the Consol Theater, the Music Rehearsal Centre Consol 4 and the Southern Machine House with the Mining Collection of the IBC.
The IBC mining collection has the twin steam conveyor as a central exhibit. It has an output of 4,100 hp and a weight of 285 tons. The conveyor lifted payloads of about 12t at 18m/s (65km/h) from the shaft, which is over 1,000 metres deep. Every first Sunday of the month it is performed live.
Both of those grain elevators are gone now.
(damaged by storm-winds, then demolished)
Dankin, Saskatchewan. 2010
Navajo Reservation remnant found near Bisti Badlands, New Mexico
I can only imagine the wind howling across this barren landscape.
I received a message from Cody last evening that two of the elevators in Warner are coming down, very few of these prairie giants remain......and this just happened to the last elevator row that was left in Alberta.
You can learn more about how you can help the plight of these prairie icons:
“Ancient Corinth was one of the largest and most important cities of Greece, with a population of 90,000 in 400 BC.[1] The Romans demolished Corinth in 146 BC, built a new city in its place in 44 BC, and later made it the provincial capital of Greece.” As a young child, I memorized all the books of the Bible. It was amazing to me to now stand in a place that the apostle Paul had written about.
The motorway crossing Regensburg will be widened from 4 to 6 lanes during the next years. This is why several bridges have to be demolished. For that, the Autobahn gets blocked from Saturday night to Sunday noon. This image was made early on Sunday morning. Eight dredges have already destroyed the bridge.
tt in turn was demolished and replaced by a new building in 2005. The only remaining original elements of the old de Young are the vases and sphinxes located near the Pool of Enchantment. The palm trees in front of the building are also original to the site. 124 131
This barn was a very recognizable landmark along busy SR 19 where it intersects with CR 36. It appeared to be in good shape but suddenly was demolished around 2007. The design of the painted arches on the doors was the most common way barns looked for many years here in Indiana.
Scanned from a film print taken in 1988
I spotted this derelict building and thought it would be a great grungy photo backdrop. But I didn’t get in quick enough and it’s fully fenced and mostly demolished now. Photo for posterity.
The Church of Edward the Confessor
Situated in the Market Place, Romford, RM1 3AB. The earliest known house of worship was built in 1177 and was known as St Andrew’s Chapel. This building was demolished in the 14th century after many years of neglect. A new church was erected towards the end of the 14th century and completed in 1410. This was dedicated to The Virgin Mary and Edward the Confessor. Originally built with a Nave, a Chancel and extended North Aisle. It also featured a brick tower for five bells. Later a gallery was built for a charity for orphaned children. In 1710 it was renamed St Edward’s School and was later moved to another part of Market Place in 1728.
The church building was still in use but again fell into disrepair then work on a new church on the same site was started in 1844 and in 1849 the last service was held in the old church, then it was demolished. Only Blore’s chapel remained and was used as a burial yard until 1953, when this was also demolished.
The new building was consecrated in 1850 by Bishop of Rochester, George Murray. He was resident of Danbury Palace, Danbury, Essex. Architect John Johnson designed the church (he also designed Alexandra Palace). The church was designed in ‘Gothic Style’ and built from Kentish ragstone, it also used materials from John Nash’s in Regent Street. There are many carved heads situated in the church and this is thought to be the explanation of their being there.
It did suffer some war damage, but only minor. The biggest loss was the bells were used in the war effort and in 1944 a set of chime bells and an electric clock were installed.
Since then, major renovation work was completed in1988 and again in 1992. A new organ was installed in 1979 and in 2001 a statue of Edward the confessor was installed in the main porch.
Legend
There is a legend that the name Havering, a district close by to Romford, was named after a connection to Edward the Confessor and St John the apostle in the form of a ring. This was commemorated in a stain glass window of 1407, in the old chapel. I believe that this window does not exist now but a more modern one was installed in 1850 the 600th anniversary of the church.
This is the first of three postings.
Gmunden, Oberösterreich
2023
Holga 120 WPC Pinhole 6x9
Fuji Acros 100 II, Rodinal 1+50
Print auf Agfa Brovira Speed 310 RC mit Moersch ECO 4812
The building that housed the historic "Alysida" factory in Thessaloniki, founded in 1935, is being demolished these days, having remained unused for decades. We were very saddened when we heard this news, we had lived in a house across from the old, abandoned factory for eleven years. It left and took a big part of us with it... I am very proud to be able to maintain a photographic archive and I would like to share it, I will also repost six photos that I have already shown in the past.
www.thestival.gr/eidiseis/koinonia/thessaloniki-i-alysida...
Baylor University in Waco, Texas is demolishing this great stadium. That is a shame. A lot of benches being destroyed here. Happy Bench Monday.
For five years, since the old de Young museum was shut down and demolished, Saul has lived humbly in a secret warehouse in South San Francisco.
The marble man, carved by William Story in 1882 and a beloved icon of the old museum, is worth about $1 million. With all that going for the king, the curators still found it necessary to tie a white tag to the royal finger with "Saul, the Israelite King" printed on it
The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum by Herzog & de Meuron is a remarkable revival of a building that no longer exists. The original museum, which opened in 1895, was an outgrowth of a fair modeled on the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition the previous year known as the California Midwinter Internation Exposition of 1894. Located in the sunny San Francisco, California, the museum was formerly named for one of the city’s newspapermen M.H. de Young. The old museum was a bulky structure decorated with concrete ornaments, which began falling off the building and became hazardous, leading to their removal in 1949. The building was completely destroyed, however, in 1989 by the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Les Halles, was Paris' central fresh food market. It was demolished in 1971 and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern shopping mall built largely underground and directly connected to the massive RER and métro transit hub of Châtelet–Les Halles. The shopping mall welcomes 150,000 visitors daily.
A major reconstruction of the mall was undertaken in 2010, and the new version of the Forum des Halles was inaugurated in 2018. The 2.5 hectare Canopy was opened on 5 April 2016. In 2017, the Forum des Halles was the second most visited shopping mall in the Paris region with 42 million yearly visitors.
History
In the eleventh century, a market grew up by a cemetery to the north-west of Paris in an area called the Little Fields (Champeaux). This was mainly a dry goods and money changing market. A bishop briefly took control of the market before sharing control with Louis VI in 1137. In 1183, Philip Augustus took full control of the market and built two market halls - halles - to protect the textiles. He also built walls around the market, including land which had recently been confiscated from exiled Jews. When he then built walls around the city, these embraced the market, which quickly became the city's largest (and, over time, went from being at the edge of the city to at its centre). Officially, it would remain a dry goods market for centuries, but food stalls soon grew up around the main buildings and by the fifteenth century food prices at les Halles were being cited as significant for the whole city.
The market would have ups and downs over the coming centuries and was rebuilt more than once. Over time, an increasing number of halls were built explicitly for food, but the dry goods market remained central to the (increasingly cramped) space.
Unable to compete in the new market economy and in need of massive repairs, the colourful ambience once associated with the bustling area of merchant stalls disappeared in 1971, when Les Halles was dismantled; the wholesale market was relocated to the suburb of Rungis.
The Forum des Halles, a partially underground multiple story commercial and shopping centre, designed by Claude Vasconi and Georges Pencreac'h, opened at the east end of the site on September 4, 1979 in presence of the Mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac, and remains there today. A public garden covering four hectares opened in 1986. Many of the surrounding streets were pedestrianized.
TD : Kodak Tri-X Pan 400 ISO 35mm film, developed in D-76 1+1 for 9,45 minutes. Exposure ISO 100 @35mm lens, ambient light. Scanned with Alpha 6000 edited in ACR, inverted in CS6.
On what was possibly the last occasion I visited this spot before the access bridge was closed off & later demolished, sees DRS 47841 & 47802 passing Wetmore on 27/09/11 working 1Z71 0550 Edinburgh-Southampton docks, when DRS had a short term contract to operate boat trains for cruises emanating from Southampton for "Cruise Save Express".
Nord Mills Lantmännen grain silo, Malmö, Sweden.
The plant began to be built in the 1880s and many parts have been demolished and rebuilt.
Architects: Wright & Hamlyn, of Warrington.
Opened 1922.
1,200 seats.
A GTC/GB house from 1928.
Closed 1956.
Discount Foods/Lo Cost (supermarket).
Demolished 1993.
The scene is dominated by the derelict Five Ways Tower. This notorious monstrosity has been abandoned for 18 years (due to "sick building" syndrome apparently) and is a seriously ugly blot on Brum's skyline - it needs demolishing!
Over to the left of the image is the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower (sometimes known as Old Joe), situated on the campus of the University of Birmingham. Old Joe is the tallest free standing clock tower in the world, and stands about 100m tall. It was built between 1900 and 1908, is Grade II listed, and is one of the most recognisable features of the Birmingham skyline.
Night photo taken in the since demolished Alderley Plaza / BiLo complex in it's last few days of operation. Most of the other businesses had moved out over the last few weeks and months. I love the mix of colours in this photo (red from traffic light, yellow from street lamp, and green from fluoro light).