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This is Lariat Loop Road, which ascends several hundreds of feet above Golden, a western suburb of Denver. Constructed 98 years ago, motorists and cyclists alike have taken this road to reach the peak of Lookout Mountain along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
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At lower elevations on the drive down the mountain, aspens became more common; and they were just at their peak of color.
WMPTE 'D12' Fleetline 5996 traversing Birmingham City's concrete road elevation known as 'Mass House Circus'. ...This road structure with its car park below, is long since demolished.
Travelling in from Kingshurst on the 160 service, the Alexander bodied Fleeltine had been acquired from Midland Red by West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) in December of 1973. The bus was one of the many ex Midland Red buses that were part of the Birmingham and Black Country operations transferred to WMPTE. The transfer consolidated numerous former Midland Red services into the PTE fold, providing a more integrated transport network across the region.
Taken in early 1974, 5996 advertises 'Goodnight Vienna', a studio album released by former Beatle Ringo Starr in the opening months of that year. The album's cover (seen here), was a direct lift from the 1951 sci-fi movie 'The day the earth stood still'. The film featured the humanoid alien, Klaatu and his all powerful robot 'Gort', who came to earth with a message of peace. The sci-fi film is a must-see classic, but Ringo's album on the other hand left me cold.
5996 had been a Digbeth-based bus, but when transferred to WMPTE, it was allocated to Sheepcote Street Garage. Digbeth garage and coach station remained under Midland Red's control, so 5996 couldn't stop there. However, 'Sheepcote Street' was an ex-Midland Red garage situated close by, and had been an satellite garage to Digbeth under the 'Red'.
On acquisition by the PTE, 5996 was wearing an all-over advert for 'Matojetaway' a Birmingham based travel agency. Not contracted with WMPTE the ad needed to go, and the bus was quickly repainted; receiving WMPTE's standard blue & cream livery in February 1974.
5996 would later see service from Birmingham's Acocks Green bus garage (1975 - 1977), then was moved to Oldbury bus garage from 1977 to 1978. At just 12-years old, the bus was withdrawn from use in April 1978 and sold for scrap in the December of that year. Happily, sister D12 Fleetline 6015 (GHA415D) can be seen at the Transport Museum Wythall, and is now the only survivor of the type.
As for Sheepcote Street garage, that was closed in 1975, but was retained by WMPTE for storage use. It was eventually demolished in the mid 1990s when the Broad Street area of the city was heavily redeveloped.
Previous set of Pripyat here www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643944616235/
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
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Added the terrain elevations to the Mall so it's not completely flat. As close to the real elevation change as this scale allows. Also added the trees that line the Mall along Madison and Jefferson Avenues.
BTW, a quick calculation shows the scale to be in the vacinity of 1:2500. That's 5 time smaller than the "big" microscale version I'm building.
As the sun settles behind the mountains, herds of deer follow the shadow down from the foothills onto the lower elevations. Daylight still lingers on the the far eastern horizon.
MNNR 48 and 44 pull the Hugo Job through Little Canada. Not many shots for elevation, so sometimes some daring moves are need to GTS, such as shooting from the shoulder of a freeway. Loving this snow.
"Mediante l'elevazione interiore e la padronanza di sé, il saggio edifichi un'isola che l'alluvione non possa sommergere.
Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha, Versi della Legge, III sec. a.e.c."
The Columbia Center, formerly named the Bank of America Tower and Columbia Seafirst Center, is a skyscraper in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The 76-story structure is the tallest building in Seattle and the state of Washington, reaching a height of 933 ft (284 m). At the time of its completion, the Columbia Center was the tallest structure on the West Coast; as of 2017 it is the fourth-tallest, behind buildings in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Columbia Center, developed by Martin Selig and designed by Chester L. Lindsey Architects, began construction in 1982 and was completed in 1985. The building is primarily leased for class-A office spaces by various companies, with the lower floors including retail space and the upper floors featuring a public observatory and private club lounge. The tower has the highest public viewing area west of the Mississippi River. It occupies most of the block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Cherry and Columbia Streets.
Columbia Center was designed by Washington architect Chester L. Lindsey. The base of the building is clad in Rosa Purino Carnelian granite. The building's structure is composed of three geometric concave facades with two setbacks, causing the building to appear like three towers standing side by side.
Ground level elevation on the Fifth Avenue side of the building is higher than on the Fourth Avenue side; the part of Cherry Street it faces was identified as one of the steepest streets in the Central Business District with a slope of 17.1%. The tower was originally designed to be about 306.5 m (1,006 ft), but federal regulations by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would not allow it to be that tall so close to the nearby Sea-Tac Airport. Although city land use regulations at the time were intended to limit skyscrapers to about 50 stories, the developer, Martin Selig, obtained the necessary permits for a 76-story skyscraper due to a part of the law that allowed bonus height for providing retail space with street access. Because three separate stories could access the street on the sloped site, the developers were allowed a bonus for each of the three stories they set aside for retail, which was reportedly an unintended loophole in the law. There is an observation deck on the 73rd floor which offers views of Seattle and environs. The top two floors of the building (75th and 76th) are occupied by the private Columbia Tower Club, which houses a restaurant, bar, library, and meeting rooms. The 40th floor is accessible to the public and features a Starbucks cafe. An underground concourse connects the building to the nearby Seattle Municipal Tower and Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.
The tower, originally proposed as Columbia Center, opened under the name Columbia Seafirst Center after its largest tenant and financier, Seafirst Bank, and then changed to the Bank of America Tower, when Seafirst, which had been owned by Bank of America since 1983, was fully integrated into Bank of America. That name gave it the nickname "BOAT" (Bank of America Tower). In November 2005, the building's name was changed back to Columbia Center after the bank reduced its presence in the building. Bank of America still maintains office space within the building, but has since closed the bank branch at the base of the tower.
Development and construction
Martin Selig, a local real estate developer who had recently opened the Fourth and Blanchard Building, announced plans for a 75-story office building at 4th Avenue and Columbia Street in October 1980. The $120 million project, named the "Columbia Center", would be funded by the Seafirst Mortgage Company and constructed by Howard S. Wright. Selig borrowed $205 million in 1981 to develop the property. The Columbia Seafirst Center, as it came to be known, was constructed by Howard S. Wright starting in 1982 with a 120-foot (37 m) deep excavation hole that required 225,000-cubic-yards of dirt and soil to be removed. This was one of the largest foundations for a building in Seattle along with concrete footings extending 134 feet (41 m) below street level. While the structural steel of the building was built at a rate of 2 floors per week, the building itself was completed on January 12, 1985,[10] and opened on March 2 of that same year. U.S. Steel Corporation was contracted to provide 16,000 short tons (15,000 t) of steel for construction. It was approximately 50% taller than the previous tallest skyscraper in Seattle, the 630-foot (190 m) Seattle First National Bank Building (now Safeco Plaza) that opened in 1969.
Financial issues and height controversy
Selig continued to own and manage the building until 1989, when financial problems forced him to sell it to Seafirst Corporation for $354 million. Management was taken over by the Tishman West Company of Los Angeles.
Controversy regarding the skyscraper's size contributed to the passage of a 1989 law called the Citizen's Alternative Plan (CAP) that enforced more stringent restrictions on the size of buildings in Downtown Seattle. In 1990, after rejecting earlier plans for 300-foot (91 m) antennas, Seattle and the FAA granted permission to erect two 192-foot (59 m) antennas on top of Columbia Center, which were expected to be used for broadcasting radio and television throughout the region. Though the FAA was originally worried about the tower's height encroaching the airspace, they deemed the addition of the antennas not problematic. The antennas were not built before the permits expired in 1994, however.
Ownership changes
EQ Office bought Columbia Center from Seafirst in 1998 for $404 million. The New York State Common Retirement Fund bought a 49.9% stake in the building and then several years later sold its share back to EQ Office. In 2007, Columbia Center was sold by EQ Office to Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners for $621 million; Beacon later defaulted on a loan in 2010, the height of the Great Recession, at a time when vacancies reached 40%. On August 7, 2015, Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners purchased the building for $711 million.
Renovations
On July 1, 2013, the Columbia Center's observation deck, known as the Sky View, was remodeled from 270 degrees to a 360 degree viewing area. The observation deck underwent further renovations in 2018, adding two express elevators and a new lounge. The 4th Avenue entrance was also renovated.
(Wikipedia)
Das Columbia Center ist das höchste Gebäude in Seattle und im US-Bundesstaat Washington. Mit einer Gesamthöhe von 285 Metern war es bei der Fertigstellung 1985 der höchste Wolkenkratzer westlich des Mississippi, wurde allerdings 1989 durch den U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles mit 310 Metern übertroffen. Die Höhe des Columbia Centers beträgt einschließlich einer Antennenkonstruktion auf dem Dach 295 Meter. Diese wird jedoch nicht als Teil des Gebäudearchitektur angesehen, und somit nicht zur formalen Höhe gewertet.
76 oberirdische Etagen dienen als Büroraum, die sieben Kellergeschosse werden vielseitig genutzt. Der Wolkenkratzer sollte ursprünglich etwa 306,5 Meter hoch werden. Die FAA erlaubte die Höhe nicht, da sich das Gebäude dafür zu nah am Flughafen Seattle/Tacoma befände, wodurch ein höheres Sicherheitsrisiko entstünde. Es wurde in das Projekt Raum für die Öffentlichkeit und Einzelhandel einbezogen, damit die zulässige Höhe nicht zu sehr eingeschränkt werden kann. Das 73. Stockwerk dient nun teilweise als Aussichtspunkt, von dem sich Seattle und seine Umgebung überblicken lässt. Der Columbia Tower Club verteilt sich auf die beiden obersten Stockwerke (75 und 76) und besteht aus einem Restaurant, einer Bar, einer Bibliothek und einigen Tagungsräumen. Ein unterirdischer Gang verbindet das Columbia Center mit dem nahegelegenen Seattle Municipal Tower und dem Bank of America Fifth Avenue Plaza.
Mehrere größere Unternehmen mieten Büros im Columbia Center. Dazu zählen vor allem die Bank of America, Heller Ehrman LLP und Amazon.com.
Ursprünglich trug der Wolkenkratzer seinen heutigen Namen. Später wurde er nach der dort ansässigen Seafirst Bank als Columbia Seafirst Center bezeichnet. Diese gehörte seit 1983 zur Bank of America, wurde im Laufe der 1980er Jahre jedoch vollständig integriert. Daher bekam das Gebäude den Namen Bank of America Tower mit dem Spitznamen BOAT. Im November 2005 wurde es wieder in The Columbia Center (TCC) umbenannt.
Am 16. Juni 2004, noch vor Herausgabe ihres 9/11 Commission Report, machte die Untersuchungskommission zum 11. September 2001 nicht in die Tat umgesetzte Pläne der Terroristen bekannt, die vorsahen mit zehn entführten Passagierflugzeugen die höchsten Gebäude in Kalifornien und im Staate Washington zu beschädigen bzw. zu zerstören. Neben dem Columbia Center in Seattle habe auch der U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles zu den Zielen gehört.
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emergere è una condanna alla quale troppo spesso si è condannati da un tribunale mentale e della fine della pena non ci è dato conoscere...
To emerge it is a conviction to which too much often has condemned from a mental tribunal and of the end of the trouble there is not given to know... (sorry for my bad english!)
Kosñipata Valley (mid-elevation cloud-forest), Peruvian Andes
Shield-backed katydid, (subfamily Tettigoniinae), any of a group of insects (family Tettigoniidae, order Orthoptera) that are cricketlike in appearance and are named for the enlarged pronotum (dorsal surface of the prothorax), which typically extends to the abdomen. Most shield-backed katydids are from about 18 to 50 mm in length and are brown or black in colour; a few species are green. Most species have short wings, although in some species wings are significantly reduced or are absent in at least one sex; some species are flightless as a result. {per Encyclopaedia Britannica]
What originally started for us looking for a decent view of Mad River Mountain, resulted in this amazing view over the farmland of Ohio. All the lighting is natural, because for once, light pollution worked in our favor.
Simply Chicago. Many years ago we had building after building of warehouse and factory. Most of which become vacant and sit dormant until they are reused and reinvented. Leaded steel windows are removed and replaced with modern aluminum ones. The original brick remains. Interior partitions are put up to divide the building into offices or residential units. The next layer of growth of Chicago is underway and ongoing.
I am off into the opposite direction today - away from the city and off into the woods.
Sensational Saturday to you.
While conducting the first survey of Franklin County, surveyors made note of areas where waterways had a measurable drop in elevation. These areas were designated as “mill seats”, where the power of the falling water could be harnessed.
Belvidere, Tennessee, was one of the first industrial sites in the county, and is a popular destination for visitors today.
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A staircase in the Tomi Ungerer Museum.
TOMI UNGERER MUSEUM - INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATION CENTRE
2 avenue de la Marseillaise - Villa Greiner
67000 - Strasbourg (France)
Escalier du musée Tomi Ungerer.
MUSÉE TOMI UNGERER - CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE L'ILLUSTRATION
2 avenue de la Marseillaise - Villa Greiner
67000 - Strasbourg
CP G62X works down the elevation toward Jones Island over South KK Ave. on a frigid New Year's Day.
CP 2201
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Evolution detached from god. Evolution as a reality beyond our own, beyond physics and chemistry, language and expression. Evolution in the subconscious. Inside and outside. Consciousness of time is not within our reach. The perfect fit on an indivisible, invisible, "impossible" scale. Just sensitive. The logic of logic. The logic of the imperceptible. godless -Infinity-, perfectly organic; perfect, symmetric. The art of nature in its infinite patterns. The conjunction of everything.
Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Revisited my local college at the weekend to get this shot. Seems to be endless compositions at this building.