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Urbex Benelux -
Accessible from the street via a lane of young birch trees and wrought iron gates encased in brick pillars flanked by holly bushes. The slightly ascending path, the last part of which is lined with beech trees, forms the central axis along which the graves are arranged on the left and right. Halfway along the path is the neo-Gothic funerary monument of Guillaume Poll, the first director of the institution and who died in 1867.
"Arbeit Macht Frei" gates
(Work will set you free)
Auschwitz I
Oświencim
Poland.
The gate sign is a copy of the origin one stolen and recovered
in December 2009. The original is now in storage at the Auschwitz-Bikenau State Museum.
The sign was erected on the orders of Commadant Rudolf Höss
after being made by prisoner-labourers of the camp, and features an upside down letter "B" which has been interpreted as an act of defiance by the prisoners who made it.
Grand Central Class 43, 43467 is seen passing Gate Burton on the back of a diverted passenger service.
1N93 12:19 London Kings Cross - Sunderland.
Taken from Bridge SPD3/75 Willingham Road, Gate Burton, Gainsborough.
The Forbidden City in Beijing is a UNESCO World Heritage Site:
"Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang consists of 114 buildings constructed between 1625–26 and 1783. It contains an important library and testifies to the foundation of the last dynasty that ruled China, before it expanded its power to the centre of the country and moved the capital to Beijing. This palace then became auxiliary to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. This remarkable architectural edifice offers important historical testimony to the history of the Qing Dynasty and to the cultural traditions of the Manchu and other tribes in the north of China."
Source: whc.unesco.org/en/list/439/
The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. The bronze sculpture of the quadriga crowning the gate is a work by the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.
The Brandenburg Gate is located in the western part of the city centre within Mitte, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße. The gate dominates the Pariser Platz to the east, while to the immediate west it opens onto the Platz des 18. März beyond which the Straße des 17. Juni begins. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building, home to the German parliament (Bundestag), and further to the west is the Tiergarten inner-city park. The gate also forms the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, which leads directly to the former City Palace of the Prussian monarchs (now housing the Humboldt Forum museum), and the Berlin Cathedral.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events. After World War II and during the Cold War, until its fall in 1989, the gateway was obstructed by the Berlin Wall, and was for almost three decades a marker of the city's division. Since German reunification in 1990, it has been considered not only a symbol of the tumultuous histories of Germany and Europe, but also of European unity and peace.
Description
An early 19th-century engraving comparing the recently constructed Brandenburg Gate to (an imagined restoration of) its historical model: the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens
The central portion of the gate draws from the tradition of the Roman triumphal arch, although in style it is one of the first examples of Greek Revival architecture in Germany. The gate is supported by twelve fluted Doric columns, six to each side, forming five passageways. There are also walls between the pairs of columns at front and back, decorated with classicizing reliefs of the Labours of Hercules. Citizens were originally allowed to use only the outermost two passageways on each side. Its design is based on the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis of Athens, which also had a front with six Doric columns, though these were topped by a triangular pediment.
The central portion is flanked by L-shaped wings on either side, at a lower height, but using the same Doric order. Next to, and parallel with, the gate these are open "stoas", but the longer sides, stretching beyond the east side, have buildings set back from the columns. These are called "custom houses" for the Berlin Customs Wall, which was in force until 1860, or "gatehouses".
The Doric order of the gate mostly, but not entirely, follows Greek precedents, which had recently become much better understood by the publication of careful illustrated records. The Greek Doric does not have bases to the columns, and the fluting here follows the Greek style for Ionic and Corinthian columns, with flat fillets rather than sharp arrises between the flutes, and rounded ends to the top and bottom of flutes. The entablature up to the cornice follows Greek precedent, with triglyphs, guttae, metopes, and mutules, except that there are half-metopes at the corners, the Roman rather than Greek solution to the "Doric corner conflict". The 16 metopes along each of the long faces have scenes from Greek mythology in relief; many echo the Parthenon in showing centaurs fighting men. Statues in niches at the furthest side wall of Minerva and Mars were added in the 19th century.
After an attic storey that is plain apart from wide steps at the sides receding in both directions, leading, on the east side only, to a large allegorical relief of the Triumph of Peace, the figures mostly women and children. Above this there is a second cornice, with a projecting central section. On top of this is a "bronze" sculptural group by Johann Gottfried Schadow of a quadriga—a chariot drawn by four horses—driven by a goddess figure. This was initially intended to represent Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, but after the Napoleonic Wars was rebranded as Victoria, the Roman goddess of victory, and given an Iron Cross standard with a crowned Imperial eagle perched on top, rather than a wreath. This faces into the city centre. It is the first quadriga group to be made since antiquity, made from copper sheets hammered in moulds; fortunately these moulds were kept, as they would be used more than once to renew the sculpture.
The side wings have plain metopes, and simple angled roofs, ending in gable pediments with a small circular relief in the tympanum
Taken and originally posted in 2015.
A girl gets off her feet and takes a cigarette break amid the columns of the Brandenburg Gate.
At Chris and Fida Ward's farmhouse, which they are busy renovating in Bernadets-Debat, Hautes-Pyrénées, France.
This cobblestone driveway has a single leaf swing gate that automatically moves out of the way when the homeowner approaches. The trees keep the whole driveway nice and private.
Cl.40 40150 (KD) heads south along the Up Goods line, having just passed under the M1 Motorway, with a mixed freight.
The site of Stanton Gate Station, closed on 2nd January 1967, is on the left [1982]
The Golden Gate bridge, arguably the most photographed object on earth. So here is another one.
Marin County, NoCal June 27, 2007
Nikone Coolpix L1
A large gated community in Plano, Texas near Dallas. And this is about as close as you can get to it.
Still image from the documentary film "Subdivided" by Dean Terry. www.subdivided.net
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco - Mid 1950's
This "found photo" is one of 1000's that I stumbled across at an estate sale. This is a great collection of travel photos from the 1950's and 1960's from across the globe.
We got this old field gate from a farm down the road but it was too nice to chop up for fire wood so I have used it as a plant display feature on my patio. The urn in the middle is slightly broken at the back but fitted the space where the cross bar makes the ledge narrow, so I tied it on with some vintage lace. Most of the plants were only just got yesterday so are still quite small. Lots of trailing lobelia and petunias. Can't wait for it all to grow! My daughter painted the pot and the wee drift wood house.
Delhi, India Gate
See also www.flickr.com/photos/azwegers/6255043174
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi, is the capital territory of India. It has a population of about 11 million and a metropolitan population of about 16.3 million, making it the second most populous city and second most populous urban agglomeration in India. Such is the nature of urban expansion in Delhi that its growth has expanded beyond the NCT to incorporate towns in neighbouring states and at its largest extent can count a population of about 25 million residents as of 2014.
The NCT and its urban region have been given the special status of National Capital Region (NCR). The NCR includes the several neighbouring cities. A union territory, the political administration of the NCT of Delhi today more closely resembles that of a state of India, with its own legislature, high court and an executive council of ministers headed by a Chief Minister. New Delhi is jointly administered by the federal government of India and the local government of Delhi, and is the capital of the NCT of Delhi.
Delhi has been continuously inhabited since the 6th century BC. Through most of its history, Delhi has served as a capital of various kingdoms and empires. It has been captured, ransacked and rebuilt several times, particularly during the medieval period, and modern Delhi is a cluster of a number of cities spread across the metropolitan region.
The India Gate, originally called the All India War Memorial, is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the ‘ceremonial axis’ of New Delhi, formerly called Kingsway. India gate is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the undivided British Indian Army who died in the period 1914–21 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate. The India Gate, even though a war memorial, evokes the architectural style of the triumphal arch like the Arch of Constantine, outside the Colosseum in Rome, and is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Bombay. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
In 1971, following the Bangladesh Liberation war, a small simple structure, consisting of a black marble plinth, with reversed rifle, capped by war helmet, bounded by four eternal flames, was built beneath the soaring Memorial Archway. This structure, called Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the Flame of the Immortal Soldier, since 1971 has served as India’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Gate)
A capture during the winter of 2009. This was taken in Broek in Waterland which is slightly North East of Amsterdam.
Plots of land across the Netherlands, but especially in this area are surrounded by small drainage ditches and canals. These act as a natural barrier for livestock. All the owner has to do is to install farm gates between parcels of land to ensure his livestock do not stray. It's quite a pretty site as you drive past huge swathes of countryside only partitioned by gates with no fences to be seen.
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The garden of MOA Museum of Art,
Atami-shi(city) Shizuoka-ken(Prefecture), Japan
静岡県熱海市(しずおかけん あたみし) MOA美術館庭園(ていえん)