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Thompson Center
Architect: Murphy Jahn
Date: 1985
Style: Postmodern
Address: 100 W. Randolph Street
Height: 308 ft. (17 Floors)
Exterior: Glass and Steel (curtain wall)
Structural
Material: Steel
Program: Restaurants, Shops, CTA Station, Museum, Commercial Offices, Offices of the State of Illinois
Four term Illinois governor James R. Thompson commissioned the building, which was originally named the State of Illinois Center. The building’s site takes up an entire large city block, with a courtyard in the front, housing a Jean Dubuffet sculpture entitled “Monument with Standing Beast.”
Originally, the building’s exterior was designed to be double paned insulated glass. This ended up being too expensive, so single paned, non-insulated glass was used. The adverse effects are higher cooling and heating costs. Cooling and heating such a large open space often proves to be ineffective, and the building is often subject to Chicago’s hot summers and cold winters.
April 26,2015 - Sylhet, Bangladesh –Portrait of a tea plucker in Sylhet. One lazy Sunday morning, holding a cup of vapor rising tea and day’s newspaper...do we need anything else to enjoy a perfect morning! Sylhet is a traditional tea growing area. People living here are the tea workers. They came from various parts of India in the British period and still are living under those circumstances. They are unaware of their right. And they are passing their lives as a slave of cultured people. The area of Sylhet has over 150 gardens including three of the largest tea gardens in the world both in area and production. Nearly 300,000 workers are employed on the tea estates of which over 75% are women. It seems they need an art to pluck two leaves one bud from every tea plant. The calculation of daily wage is 70tk(1$) for plucking at least 2 kg leaves per day for a worker. These tea workers are leading their life and completing their work through untold hardships. Being the bondservants of the civilized people, they are still sacrificing their generation after generation for working in such a condition and living in a dark world of opaqueness. Their hidden desire may be come to us through the bed tea with the morning newspaper and tell us that- “if we are not there may be you people won’t get a perfect morning everyday and that is why we work really hard, constantly, selflessly only to make your every morning as beautiful as life is”.
November 29,2014 – Varanasi, India - The ancient tradition of Indian wrestling, known as kushti, thrives in Varanasi, one of the world’s oldest cities. Wrestling gyms, or akhara, scattered around the city are of the few places where Hindu men from different casts are considered equals. Now in these days there are not that much mud akhara alive in Varanasi, People are much more interested to play in the mats instead of mud. Varanasi, India.
Homebound people crowd on the roof of a train as an attempt to travel to their villages, ahead of the Eid Al-Adha celebrations at the Airport Railway Station in Dhaka. Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate one of the biggest Muslim religious festival of Eid ul-Adha by slaughtering goats, sheep and cattle in commemoration of the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to Allah.
Vierassige stadsbijwagen B303 van de NZH. Dit rijtuig deed dienst in en om Haarlem, en vormt als museumtram een combinatie met motorwagen A327. Foto's Raymond Naber.
Erosion has caused extensive damages to crop fields and human habitation. Erosion by the Padma River last 15 days many people in Dohar area lost there own homeland outside Dhaka in Bangladesh.
June 17, 2015 Dhaka, Bangladesh- In the shipyard every worker is full of activity, no one have any time to talk. Constant work with flame, sound and dust may seem painful. But to the workers it’s their daily doze. These Ship-craft-masters never get tired often handle everything in spite of getting any structural design keep building ships on their own effort with their basic genetic talent without any break. Frequently without goggles, risking serious injury or blindness, they all climb tall rope ladders to the ships’ highest points to retrieve items, risking death if they slip but yet happily they keep working in the pleasure of building the ship. But this time Bangladesh has been ranked as one of the “worst countries” in the world in terms of workers’ rights. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) published the 2015 ITUC Global Rights Index, titled ‘the world's worst countries for workers’. It says countries with the rating of 5 are the worst countries in the world to work in. While the legislation may spell out certain rights, workers have effectively no access to these rights and are therefore exposed to autocratic regimes and unfair labour practices. The report notes that serious violations of trade union rights occur in EPZs throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Cambodia, and the Philippines.
Fork Mountain(NC) VFD engine x is a 2015 Int'l 4400/4 Guys pumper. It is equipped with a 1500 gpm pump and carries 700 gallons of water and 20 gallons of Class A foam. It is diesel-powered with an automatic transmission. It was specially built with a maximum length of 24.5 feet and height of 9 feet to fit into an existing bay. Photo taken by Doug Callan of Cove Creek Fire Trucks prior to graphics being applied.
November 29,2014 – Varanasi, India - The ancient tradition of Indian wrestling, known as kushti, thrives in Varanasi, one of the world’s oldest cities. Wrestling gyms, or akhara, scattered around the city are of the few places where Hindu men from different casts are considered equals. Now in these days there are not that much mud akhara alive in Varanasi, People are much more interested to play in the mats instead of mud. Varanasi, India.
August 01, 2015 Kurigram Bangladesh – After 68 years Enclaves Dashiachora people get identity first time their life in August 1, 2015. Before this time people don’t get any job or education without national ID card. Some 50,000 residents of these enclaves will finally gain a proper identity after having remained virtually stateless for six decades.