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More views of The Italian Village of Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales.
Portmeirion is a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975 in the style of an Italian village, and is now owned by a charitable trust.
Situated on a private peninsula overlooking stunning coastal scenery, the Italian Riviera meets rural Wales with a riot of colour and architectural styles at Portmeirion Village. Built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, Portmeirion is now one of Wales’ most popular tourist destinations.
Portmeirion Village is well known as the location for the 1960s cult TV series The Prisoner. It comprises a cluster of colour-washed buildings around a central piazza, scenic surroundings and extensive woodlands, two hotels, historic cottages, gift shops, spa & award winning restaurants.
The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had been envisaged by Clough Williams-Ellis years before he found the site, close to his own home in North Wales, on which he managed to realise his dream. Portmeirion has become known as one of the most successful British architectural projects of the twentieth century.
Using an eco-friendly approach, he designed his architectural vision around a Mediterranean piazza. Endangered buildings and unwanted artefacts from all over the globe were transported and rebuilt to create a nest of loggias, grand porticoes and tiny terracotta-roofed houses, painted in bright colours.
The village was built over two phases, 1926 - 1939 and 1954 - 1976 by which time Clough was well into his 90s. Most buildings were designed and built by Clough but a few were transported from elsewhere such as the Town Hall, the Bristol Colonnade, and the facade of the Dome, originally the upper part of a Norman Shaw fireplace.
It's a fine, but chilly late autumn morning at Reeseville, as Canadian Pacific's westbound train 2-287 muscles freight towards Portage and beyond, with a decent pair of iron horses built for lower emissions output leading the freight away from the morning sun.
CP Train 2-287
CP 5037, 8559
Reeseville, WI.
Autumn 2020
Australia has approximately 11,500 km2 of mangroves, primarily on the northern and eastern coasts of the continent. Areas where mangroves occur include the intertidal zone of tropical, subtropical and protected temperate coastal rivers, estuaries, bays and marine shorelines. Less than 1% of Australia's total forest area is mangrove forest. Although mangroves are typically found in tropical and subtropical tidal areas,there are occurrences as far south as Millers Landing in Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Barker Inlet in Adelaide, South Australia and Leschenault Inlet (Koombana Park), near Bunbury, Western Australia. Nearly half of Australia's mangrove forests are found in Queensland (44% of Australia's total), followed by the Northern Territory (37%) and Western Australia (17%). In Western Australia, populations of mangroves are scattered down the coast; the population of the Abrolhos Islands is 300 kilometres south of the nearest population of Shark Bay, and the population at Bunbury is even further south than this (500 km). The Bunbury colonisation may have occurred relatively recently, perhaps only several thousand years ago, with propagules transferred by the Leeuwin Current. The most inland occurrence of mangroves in Australia is a stand of grey mangroves in the Mandora Marsh, some 60 km from the coast. Mangroves protect coastal areas from erosion, storm surge, and tsunamis. The massive root systems of mangroves are efficient at dissipating wave energy. Mangroves retard the tidal movement of water, allowing sediment to be deposited as the tide comes in, and leaving all except fine particles when the tide ebbs. Mangroves therefore build their own environment. The commercial and recreational fishing industries are prime beneficiaries of mangrove forests, which provide breeding and feeding grounds for fish and prawns. About 75% of the fish and prawns caught for commercial and recreational purposes in Queensland spend at least part of their lifecycles in mangroves. In some coastal communities, boardwalks and bird-viewing areas in mangrove forests provide attractions for the eco-tourism industry, for example, at Boondall Wetlands. 23321
Eso Železničnej spoločnosti prepravuje "vodíkový vlak" Alstom Coradia iLint po odklonovej trati z Holíča nad Moravou do Hodonína. Odklon bol nutný kvôli kompletnej uzávere trate Kúty - Lanžhot od večera 20.5.2022 do skorého rána 23.5.2022 z dôvodu rekonštrukčných prác. Jednotka bola prepravovaná z Devínskej Novej Vsi do Jihlavy.
362.002 ZSSK + 654.101/601, Holíč nad Moravou - Holíč nad Moravou št.hr. (OsSv 10097), 21.05.2022
281 was also unsual this day as it had a GP20C-ECO duo leading a trio of GE. Here they are roaring out of Milwaukee running 10 minutes behind 287 as the ecos put up a bit of a smokeshow.
I spotted this bench in Parham Manor and Garden in England. The ferns growing through the bench made for a delightful photo opportunity.
Growing trees and going green can be just a lure to hook you in :-)
Spider web soft focus diffraction using 3 extension tubes and Nikon 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Color tweaks courtesy of Photoshop CC
#274/365 his is a Cadillac Fleetwood..one of the biggest cars I've seen. It is eco friendly because it uses the same amount of gas as 20 toyota prius. So now you don't need to ruin the environment with 20 cars when you can have just one.
I'm on Twitter: @isayx3.
After looking at it carefully I concluded that this vehicle runs on a mixture of 25% gasoline and 75% will-power...
Found on campus!
This cart drawn by a horse contains almost any basic needs in a Filipino home such as a bilao (food tray), walis (broom), basket, table, chair, duyan (cradle), shelves, hats, kulambo (mosquito net), salakot (farmer's hat), food stariner, sandok, ropero (hamper), salacab (fish trap), etc,,, all made from natural materials and eco friendly too.
For people who asked.
It's AI. If you want it for wallpaper feel free, download it. Technically Adobe owns it. Not sure how the law shakes out on that. But I know they don't care if you don't use it as a base or image to try to sell it commercially.
No need to email me. Thanks, Mick
Canadian Pacific train H36, with a pair of Eco friendly locomotives, rolls under the CB&Q vintage signal bridge at Hoffman Ave, while their counterpart waits to the left for permission into Pigs Eye Yard.
May 2021
St. Paul MN.
Delaware-Lackawanna MLW M420W 3560 is on loan to the NYS&W while their leased Norfolk Southern units aren't in use for the time being. This is the first time in a long time that an ALCO was in service on NYSW jobs, let alone in North Jersey.
A CP GP20C-ECO, 2269, leads an eastbound freight through Chesterton, IN in the early hours of morning.
Great to see this family all enjoying a cycle along the seafront in the sunshine and with the kids in the cycle buggy.
After a week on cement tanks and the Ashton aggregate turns, 66779 ‘Evening Star’ was tacked onto the front of 6E17 1230 Liverpool Biomass Tml Gbf to Drax Aes (Gbrf) on Saturday 10th July 2102, with 60002 ‘Graham Farish 50th Anniversary 1970-2020’ Dead in Tow behind, seen passing the Up Starting Signal for Plumley West Signal Box on the Mid-Cheshire Line. The shed was working hard at this point, with the extra weight of the Tug in the consist as well as a full set of loaded BioMass wagons.
Reuploaded because I accidentally deleted it... oops.
286 leaves Muskego Yard with CP 5041 leading a couple CSX GEs, one of which is in YN2 paint. Whats unique about shooting on “The Wash” (or anywhere in Milwaukee, to be honest) is the settings merging together. Once a very heavy industrial city, most of these buildings are abandoned from their original use and were either converted to something else or just plain vacant.
In between the old buildings is nature, as evidently shown with the tree framing the old Sprecher smokestack (which is currently being demolished from what it looks like). I certainly doubt this was common in the days when this would’ve been an SD40-2; when environmental standards were certainly not as strict as they are today, but times a changin. It’s now an SD30C-ECO, further proof that being friendly to the environment is the way of the future, and will never slow down.
PUNE's 'Eco-friendly locomotive' WDP-4D 40595 fitted with a camera notches up to maintain its speed on the up gradient as it heads towards Tumkur pulling the Yesvantapur bound LHB express from Bikaner.
Found Venus and Robecca yesterday! Loving them! So much details on both! Photos of Robecca tomorrow. n_n Oh! Both girls have the same hair as Ghoulia and Spectra, in case if anyone was wondering!
Robecca: www.flickr.com/photos/rainbowdoll489/7548360314/in/photos...
Hope you guys like! :3
Meg having loads of fun at the beach fetching this bit of seakelp in and out of the waves.Very eco friendly no ball or stick required.
WildSpring is a small, eco-friendly resort in Port Orford, 60 miles north of California. Private and secluded, on five acres of a lovely residential forest, with a zero carbon footprint, it offers comfortable luxury in a naturally beautiful environment. A perfect getaway. Think of it as nature with four stars.
I made this for my University Architecture portfolio. It is a concept design for an environmentally friendly home.
The main concept being played with here is the invention of solar panel windows, which is the idea of having a transparent solar panel which can double as a window letting light in an producing energy.
The solar panel windows can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/hawksflickr/11938840884/
The garden on the roof concept is supposed to improve the insulation of a home, the extra soil and plants help hold heat in in the winter and keep it out in the summer, and of course the plants would contribute to the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere.
As a lego build i came up with a window design (not sure if anyone else has done it yet). I took a bunch of glass panes and attached them using joystick bases (which isn't new) but then I wedged Technic axles in-between the gaps which gives a great effect.
This Window technique can be seen better here:
www.flickr.com/photos/hawksflickr/11938696053/in/photostr...
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