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'Halo' by Venividi Multiplex, Cabot Square, Canary Wharf. Winter Lights Festival 2018, Canary Wharf.
Cette photo a été prise durant la sortie photo Multiplex #1 à Paris organisée par Phototrend
Compte rendu : phototrend.fr/2014/12/compte-rendu-de-la-premiere-sortie-...
This image draws on a fascinating slice of urban development in Melbourne, with multiple layers of motion and transformation unfolding simultaneously. At its heart is the under-construction Melbourne Square development, its skeletal framework wrapped in scaffolding, reaching upward against a moody, cloud-streaked sky. The "MULTIPLEX" signage crowns the structure like a herald of change.
In the foreground, there's an almost artistic arrangement of yellow and red traffic barriers, their rhythmic placement and damage, creating a sort of urban picket fence. The motion blur of the car and a motorcyclist adds dynamic energy to the scene, suggesting the ceaseless flow of city life continuing amid the construction.
The advertising hoarding for "Melbourne Square" promises "A NEW STORY EVERYDAY," which feels poetically appropriate given the metamorphosis captured in this image. Behind the construction site, sleek blue-glass skyscrapers pierce the sky, while construction cranes swing overhead like mechanical sentinels.
What makes this image particularly compelling is its juxtaposition of permanence and impermanence - the temporary barriers, the transient traffic, the in-between state of the building under construction, all set against the backdrop of the established city skyline. It's a visual meditation on how cities are never truly finished, but constantly evolving and reinventing themselves.
The image attempts to capture both the gritty reality of urban development and the aspirational promise of what's to come - a uniquely honest portrait of a city in transition.
Indeed. Shape shifting Melbourne at is finest.
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This was a six- then eight-theater multiplex that was in business for at least 40 years. I saw "Star Wars" here, and probably "Empire" too. As the neighborhood demographic aged in the 90s, it saw attendance dwindle. Also, the theater was slow to adopt stadium seating that was in newer theaters in the far west part of town. When it closed, I think only two of the eight theaters had it. I always liked the sign - and only recently have I realized how googie it really is. The neon was white. Shame this is closed now. Would love to see this sign lit up again on a summer night.
The Tropic Cinema opened its doors in 2004 to welcome the circus that is Key West. We had one simple idea: to bring quality movies to people who longed for something more than Hollywood blockbusters. Our artistically diverse island community deserved to see amazing independent films, international favorites and cinematic classics — film that appealed to folks who value going beyond the usual.
Our theater features a sparkling, one-of-a-kind aqua-blue Art Deco marquee, a unique sculpture by Seward Johnson depicting Marilyn Monroe in her signature white dress as she seductively leans over a grate and, last but not least, a Hollywood Walk of Fame with an island twist.
Inside, the Tropic boasts a three-screen multiplex with state-of-the-art digital projection, neon accents and plush seating. Each theater space is intimate and unique, providing the perfect setting for a rich and entertaining cinema experience. The Stanley and Judith Zabar Concession Bar features popular beers and wines, Zabar’s coffee—and the island’s favorite popcorn with real butter and our famous array of seasonings.
The Tropic has delivered the best of cinema on the island, along with concerts, lectures, and unforgettable parties for kids and adults. International celebrities have graced the Tropic’s doors including the zany John Waters, Doug Liman, Mariel Hemingway and famous authors Judy Blume and Meg Cabot.
As one of the leading nonprofit organizations in the Florida Keys, we understand that we couldn’t get here without the support of those generous people who call Key West home: our volunteer Board of Directors, our small management staff, our Donors who invest in our vision, our members who help make everything possible and the Volunteers who make everything happen.
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Using two 4051 multiplexer ICs I am able to simulate the electric typewriter's keyboard matrix and can control the entire functionality of this machine via the Arduino board.
This example shows the result of a tool that tries to recreate an image with the available letters on the daisy wheel. It types several layers of type over each other and also uses half-letter spacing and half-line feeds to cover more paper with carbon. The principle of this is demonstrated here: incubator.quasimondo.com/DarwinCss.html
Περιμένοντας στο σταθμό των τρένων αγγελικά πλασμένος ως επιβάτης μα λαθρεπιβάτης στο δρομολόγιο της ζωής, τον κόσμο τούτο να αφήσω να ξαναγυρίσω στον ουρανό μου.
Ξυπόλητος ήμουν και παπούτσια βρήκα αλλουνού φορεμένα από καιρό και ταλαιπωρημένα επίσης, σαν τα πόδια μου γυμνά επί της γης και ως ένα με τον πλανήτη γη συνδεδεμένα.
Καμιά φορά εργάζομαι όπου βρω και τον χρόνο διαφορετικά περνώ συναρπάζοντας τους περαστικούς, μα κι αν σε εσωτερικό χώρο δουλεύω τους παιδεύω ακόμα περισσότερο χαμογελώντας τους.
Πάντως προς το τέλος αυτοί χαμογελούν περισσότερο μα και στο τέλος έρχεται η συμφορά τους, ως προς το ποιοι θα πληρώσουν το λογαριασμό στο τραπέζι με το κενό κουβέρ όμως πληρωμένο.
Οι καλεσμένοι καλώς εχόντων των πραγμάτων αποδέχτηκαν την πρόσκληση τους, και οι ακάλεστοι κακώς ήρθαν μιας και κανείς δεν τους κάλεσε και ως κολασμένοι θα απορριφθούν στο αέναο κενό.
Αν με ρωτάτε που βρίσκομαι σήμερα απλώς βοηθάω στο σιδερωτήριο της γειτονιάς, σιδερώνοντας κουστούμια που θα φορεθούν είτε από νεκρούς είτε από ζωντανούς εισπράκτορες.
Θα τα ποιούν το βράδι μαζί και εκεί θα λύσουν της διαφορές τους δείχνοντας το μπόι τους, και το κατά πόσο σωστά είναι σιδερωμένα τα ρούχα τους τα λεφτά τους και τα υπόλοιπα προικιά τους.
Στο τέλος κανείς δεν ρωτάει για τα περεταίρω και μάλλον μεθυσμένοι θα επιστρέψουν σπίτι τους, πίνοντας ίσως το τελευταίο ποτήρι κρασί με την γυναίκα τους απατημένη.
Ποιος να ξέρει άραγε τι όργια έκανα μεταξύ τους αφού όταν συνήρθαν κάμποσο αργότερα, δεν θυμόντουσαν από ποιον κόσμο τελικά προήλθαν και ο καθένας τους τον λάθος δρόμο τράβηξε.
Ο χρόνος καμιά φορά σαν μονοπάτι που είναι περνά από οπουδήποτε μπορείς να φανταστείς, και αν μπλεχτείς στα πόδια του μπορείς να ταξιδέψεις μέχρι και εκτός των συνόρων της λογικής.
Έτσι κι εγώ κάπως αφάνταστα βρέθηκα εδώ περιμένοντας το τρένο της επιστροφής, μα χωρίς να ξέρω το πότε το γιατί και τι θα κρατάω στα χέρια μου κατά την τελική επιστροφή.
Υ.Γ...Τυροπιτάκια..."Το Κενό Κουβέρ"
101 VanNess Avenue
Donlee Building - 1923
Former Cadillac Showroom
The Don Lee Building, designed by Weeks & Day, is the largest and one of the three most architecturally significant automobile showrooms on San Francisco's historic Auto Row. (The other two are the Packard Showroom and the Paige Motor Car Company.)
As the private automobile became a standard commodity of middle-class American life, hundreds of manufacturers rose to meet the demand. Within this increasingly competitive field, manufacturers quickly learned the value of the showroom in marketing their products to consumers. They understood that the architecture of the showroom was at least as important as its primary functional role: as a place to display, store and repair automobiles. In an era in which smaller automobile manufacturers were being weeded out, larger manufacturers aimed to reinforce customer confidence by designing automobile dealerships that, like banks, conveyed a sense of stability and permanency.
In San Francisco Don Lee was the first to commission such an elaborate showroom for his prominent corner lot on Van Ness Avenue. The completion of the Don Lee Building in 1921 led to increasing rivalries between local dealers, as each tried to outdo each other by commissioning prominent architectural firms to design increasingly elaborate showrooms.
Although the Don Lee Building is a utilitarian concrete loft structure, the architecture of the building embodied popular historicist imagery derived from a multitude of sources including Renaissance Italy and idealized Spanish Colonial architecture
The Don Lee building has been remodeled to house a movie multiplex and residential lofts. 431
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Wheelus Air Base
IATA: MJIICAO: HLLM
Summary
Airport typeMilitary
OperatorUnited States Air Force
LocationTripoli
Elevation AMSL36 ft / 11 m
Coordinates32°53′42″N 13°16′49″ECoordinates: 32°53′42″N 13°16′49″E
Map
Wheelus Air Base is located in Libya
Wheelus Air Base
Wheelus Air Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
03/21 6,000 1,829 Asphalt
11/29 11,076 3,376 Asphalt
Wheelus Air Base was a United States Air Force base located in British-occupied Libya and the Kingdom of Libya from 1943 to 1970. At one time it was the largest US military facility outside the US. It had an area of 20 sq miles on the coast of Tripoli. The base had a beach club, the largest military hospital outside the US, a multiplex cinema, a bowling alley and a high school for 500 students. The base had a radio and TV station, and a shopping mall and fast food outlets. At its height it had over 15,000 military personnel and their dependents. Wheelus Air Base was originally built by the Italian Royal Air Force in 1923 and was known as Mellaha Air Base. Today the facility is known as Mitiga International Airport.
World War II
The airfield was constructed in 1923 and used by the Italian Air Force. In 1933 the roads around the airfield and the neighbouring Mellaha Lake became the home for the Tripoli Grand Prix motor race.[1]
Mellaha was used by the German Luftwaffe during the North African Campaign. The Germans using it for short range reconnaissance units, and coastal and naval reconnaissance units. Special weather reconnaissance units also existed at Mehalla. The main Luftwaffe unit stationed at the base was the 2nd Staffel of the Aufklärungsgruppe (H) 14 or 2.(H)/14.
The squadron was equipped with 12 single-engined Henschel Hs 126, an aircraft with 2-man crews, which could cover approx 710 km, with a maximum speed of 360 km/h, as well as three Fieseler Fi 156 Storch liaison aircraft, and a Junkers Ju 52 for transport of men and materiel.
The airfield was captured by the British Eighth Army in January 1943.
The United States Army Air Forces began using Mellaha in January 1943. It was used by the 376th Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the 12th Air Force to launch Consolidated B-24 Liberators to bomb Italy and southern parts of Germany.
In addition, Mellaha Field was used by Air Transport Command. It functioned as a stopover en route to Benina Airport near Benghazi or to Tunis Airport, Tunisia on the North African Cairo-Dakar transport route for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel.[2]
On 15 April 1945 Mellaha AAF was taken over by USAAF’s Air Training Command. It was renamed Wheelus Army Air Field (AAF) on 17 May 1945 in honor of USAAF Lieutenant Richard Wheelus who had died earlier that year in a plane crash in Iran.
Cold War usage by the USAF
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Wheelus AAF was closed on 15 May 1947, then reopened as Wheelus Air Base (Wheelus AB) on 1 June 1948 and transferred to the USAF Military Air Transportation Service (MATS). Its host unit under MATS was the 1603rd Air Transport Wing.
With the crowning of Idris I in 1951, United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE)-based fighter-bomber units also began using Wheelus AB and its nearby El Uotia Gunnery Range for gunnery and bombing training. A further agreement between the United States and Libya, signed in 1954, granted the US the use of Wheelus and its gunnery range until December 1971.
With its 4,600 Americans, the US Ambassador to Libya once called it "a Little America...on the sparkling shores of the Mediterranean," although temperatures at the base frequently reached 110 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit (43 to 50 degrees Celsius).
Military Air Transport Service use
MATS activated the 1603rd Air Transport Wing at Wheelus on 1 June 1948.[3] The wing flew Douglas C-47 Skytrain and C-54s to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Cyprus, and operated the base transport control center until 1952.
Headquarters, 7th Air Rescue Group, was assigned to Wheelus along with the 58th Air Rescue Squadron at about this time. They flew SA-16s and H-19s. The 56th Air Rescue Squadron, stationed at Sidi Slimane, Morocco, the 57th Air Rescue Squadron stationed at Lajes Field, Azores, and the 59th Air Rescue Squadron, stationed at Dhahran Air Base, Saudi Arabia, were also part of the group.[4]
The 58th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron operated out of Wheelus until 1970 when they were relocated to the 67th ARRSQ in the UK. The 58 ARRS flew three HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopters, and three HC-130 refueling tankers.
MATS aircraft and personnel from Wheelus participated in Operation Hajji Baba in 1952. Also in 1952 the MATS 580th Air Resupply and Communications Wing was reassigned to Wheelus from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The Wing (later Group) flew special operations in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Southwest Asia until being inactivated in 1956.
The MATS presence was withdrawn and relocated to Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany in January 1953. MATS and later Military Airlift Command aircraft were frequent visitors at Wheelus and maintained a small detachment there until the base's closure in 1970.[3]
Strategic Air Command use
As the Cold War overtook post-Second World War international politics, on 16 November 1950 USAF's Strategic Air Command began deploying B-50s, B-36s, B-47s and support aircraft (KB-29, KB-50, and KC-97 tankers) from US air bases to Wheelus. The base became one of several SAC forward operating locations in North Africa, becoming a vital link in SAC war plans for use as a bomber, tanker refueling and reconnaissance-fighter base.
Wheelus hosted SAC bomber deployments in 45-day rotational deployments, using Wheelus as a staging area for planned strikes against the Soviet Union.
SAC's use of Wheelus continued until 1970, when as part of the USAF withdrawal from the base, its rotational deployments ended.
Wheelus AB was reassigned from MATS to United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) on 16 October 1951, under USAFE's 7272nd Air Base Wing. The 7272nd was later designated the 7272nd Fighter Training Wing and became the host unit at Wheelus AB until the base's closure on 11 June 1970.
The 431st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron was activated when the 107th Fighter Squadron of the Michigan Air National Guard was ordered to active duty in June 1953. The squadron was reassigned from Selfridge Air Force Base and deployed to Wheelus, where it was equipped with 25 F-86Fs, two T-33s, and one Douglas C-47. The squadron insignia adorned each side of the center fuselage, over the wing. The tail markings consisted of a red-and-white comet design on the vertical tail. A white lightning flash decorated the red portion of the comet's tail.
In January 1955 the F-86D began to replace the F-86Fs, which were sent to smaller NATO air forces. The squadron's tail markings changed with the F-86Ds having two or three horizontal red chevrons starting at the base of the rudder, with the chevron point touching the vertical fin's leading edge and angling towards the upper trailing edge of the rudder. Inside the rearmost chevron was a solid blue triangle. In September 1958, the 431st FIS moved to Zaragoza Air Base, Spain, and was transferred from USAFE to SAC's 16th Air Force.
On 1 August 1956, the Headquarters of 17th Air Force moved to Wheelus Air Base, Libya, from Rabat, Morocco, where it remained until relocating to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on 15 November 1959.
Annual Missile Launch Operation (AMLO)
The expanse of Libyan desert was used first by the 701st TMW, then later its successor, the 38th Tactical Missile Wing, United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), beginning in October 1954, with three separate live launch operations for all of the operational squadrons using the TM-61 Matador. Operations Suntan (October 1954), Sunburst (June 1955), and Sunflash (March 1956) became annual qualification firings for all Matador squadrons based in Europe. There were 36 Matador launches from Wheelus in 1957, while there were only 13 launches at Cape Canaveral and only 25 from Holloman AFB in Alamogordo, New Mexico during the same time.
The 1958 exercise from 6 October through 19 November, called "Operation Marblehead," took 19 C-130 Hercules and seven C-124 Globemasters just to move the 339 personnel and equipment of the 71st TMS from Bitburg to Wheelus and back. C-47 twin engined transports carried personnel back and forth as well. Not only did the 71st take 13 missiles and the required launchers and checkout vans, but also two complete MSQ units, plus personnel to back up the two Shanicle base units that were permanently installed at Wheelus. The exercise was followed by similar deployments from Hahn Air Base, and later Sembach Air Base, all units of the newly formed 38th TMW. The exercises were moved to Patrick AFB, FL, in 1959 for launches at Cape Canaveral.
The missile launch area was located 15 miles east of Tripoli, the remote southern section of the base, away from flight operations.
Detachment 1, 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing
The 20th Fighter Bomber Wing, based at RAF Wethersfield UK, established an operational detachment at Wheelus AB, in February 1958. This detachment managed the USAFE Weapons Training Center for month-long squadron rotations by the Europe-based USAFE tactical fighter wings.
USAFE units from Germany, such as the 36th and 49th TFWs with their F-84 "Thunderjets" and the 50th TFW with F-100 Super Sabres practiced weapons delivery and use at Wheelus. In addition, the United Kingdom based 20th and 48th TFWs with F-100Ds, and the 81st TFW trained in air-to-air and air-to-ground gunnery and delivery of conventional ordnance and nuclear "shapes" at the weapons range about 10 nautical miles (19 km) further east of the air base.
As the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II replaced most USAFE fighters in the 1960s, Phantom detachments became the predominant activity at Wheelus. USAFE's use of Wheelus continued until 1970, when as part of the USAF withdrawal from the base, desert weapons range training ended.
United States withdrawal
Oil was discovered in Libya in 1959, and what had been one of the world's poorest countries became comparatively wealthy. The US continued a generally warm relationship with Libya and pursued policies centered on interests in operations at Wheelus Air Base and the considerable US oil interests. During the early 1960s, many children of US oil personnel sent to develop the oil field installations and pipelines were allowed to attend the high school at Wheelus, typically riding buses from residential areas in or near Tripoli. Classes often had to pause briefly while large aircraft were taking off.
The value of the installation had declined with the development of long-range nuclear missiles that had effectively replaced many bombers. Thus Wheelus served primarily as a tactical fighter training facility through the 1960s.
Inside the new Hoyts multiplex on a walk around the city to catch up on what's happening while I wait for my car to have its WOF. March 2019 Christchurch New Zealand.
With over 900 cinema seats, seven movie screens and 13 food outlets, central Christchurch's $50 million new Hoyts EntX multiplex.
The three-level complex has been under construction for a year and a half between Colombo, Lichfield and Tuam Sts, opened on September 28, 2019.
EntX will replace the eight-screen Moorhouse Ave facility which cinema chain Hoyts lost in the earthquakes. It will be the company's third multiplex in Christchurch and 11th in New Zealand, and the second in the country with large "xtremescreens", recliner seats and in-cinema dining.
For More Info: i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/106988919/new-hoyts-multiple...
The Point, Milton Keynes. Opened in November 1985, the first UK purpose-built multiplex cinema, and designed by Neal Tibbatts, the AMC The Point had 10 screens with a total capacity of over 2,000. The entrance was through the pyramid, with the auditoria contained in a very plain block behind. Renamed UCI, then Easy Cinema and finally Odeon, the cinema side of the complex closed in February 2015 and the building is threatened with demolition.
City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Home Counties, England - The Point Cinema, Midsummer Boulevard
September 2021
Volvo B8, Rear Low Entrance MCV C123 equipped with Volvo Low Emissions Euro 6 D8K engine, ZF 6 speed Ecolife Gearbox, Comfortable E-Leather Seats and next stop annoucements as part of a 5.4 million pound investment in Orkney's New Buses "eVoRa"s 21378 SJ71 HHZ (displaying it's school sign) 21385 SJ71 HMD, 21383 SJ71 HMA, 21376 SJ71 HHX 21373 SJ71 HHU 21374 SJ71 HHV and 39503 SJ71 HHL surround Alexander Dennis Euro 5 Cummins ISBE 185hp Voith DIWA.5, fitted with Lazzerini Pratico 3840 High Back Seats in a B37F configuration, equipped with Actia Multi-MUX Multiplex System built on Dennis Dart 4 chassis in Alexander Dennis' Falkirk Plant based at 91 Glasgow Rd, Camelon, Falkirk FK1 4JB at Latitudinal 56.006039 and Longitudinal -3.827607 (or 56°00'21.7"N 3°49'39.4"W) and phone number of 01324 621672 registered on the 2nd of December 2014. recently passing it's MOT on January 28th 2021 with a Test Certificute Number of W22X07985 with an advisory notice item of "Exhaust Emissions", with a engine size of 4461cc, laden weight of 12580KG, Chassis Number SFD7H9ER6EGY14673 and Body Number of E224/4 originally delivered to Inverness in late 2014 for Town and City work, eventually making its way up to the Orkney Islands in early 2021, Enviro 200 (The Alexander Dennis Enviro200 (previously known as the TransBus Enviro200) is a midibus that was manufactured by TransBus International and later Alexander Dennis between 2003 and 2018. The original TransBus Enviro200 design was innovative but ultimately unsuccessful, with few being sold before the introduction of the second generation Enviro200 (originally referred to as the Enviro200 Dart) revived sales for the product from 2006. It was supposed to be positioned in between a minibus and a rigid single-decker bus. The Enviro200 was originally designed to be the replacement for the Dennis Dart SLF chassis and Alexander ALX200 and Plaxton Pointer 2 bodies. The Enviro200 MMC was launched in 2014, eventually replacing the original Enviro200 and Enviro300, which went out of production in 2018 and 2016 respectively. Over 6,000 Enviro200s had been built as of July 2017. While most have been for British operators, examples have been exported to Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain. From 2017, the Enviro200 was also marketed in North America. Previously, a licence-built version of the model was built by New Flyer Industries and branded the MiDi) 37256 SL64 HWN.
X-Ray of the display section and part of the keypad of a Rockwell 18R pocket electronic calculator from about 1974.
The digits were on the small squares and formed of a surprisingly complex arrangement of tiny LEDs, all connected to the support circuit board via hair-thin bond wires.
The multiplex chain of bridges between Honshu and Shikoku. I thought the bridges would be illuminated but it turns out the light show is only on Saturdays, I was there on a Sunday evening :-(.
From Wiki:
The Great Seto Bridge (瀬戸大橋 Seto Ōhashi) is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Built over the period 1978–88, it is one of the three routes of the Honshū-Shikoku Bridge Project connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands, and the only one with railroad connections included. At 13.1 kilometers (8.1 mi), it ranks as the world's longest two-tiered bridge system.
Crossing the bridge takes about 20 minutes by car or train. The ferry crossing before the bridge was built took about an hour. The non-discounted toll from Kojima, Kurashiki (Okayama Prefecture on the Honshu side) to Sakaide (Kagawa Prefecture on the Shikoku side) is ¥3,500, and vice-versa.
The inside entrance to Regal Cinemas, which I'm sure hasn't been touched since it originally opened in 1999. Gotta love that neon!
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The Port Charlotte Town Center originally opened in August 1989, as the first (and currently only) major enclosed shopping mall in Charlotte County. Built and opened by the DeBartolo Corporation, the mall opened with Sears, JCPenney, and Belk-Lindsey as original anchors, with space available for three more. Maas Brothers was originally planned to open as a fourth anchor in 1990, but these plans later fell through, due to the financial troubles that parent company Federated was going through at the time.
Dillard's and Montgomery Ward were added as fourth and fifth anchors in 1992. Around the same time, Belk-Lindsey closed at the mall and was replaced by Burdines in 1994. A 16-screen Regal Cinemas multiplex was added on to the mall in 1999 as its final newly-built anchor, replacing an older 8-screen cinema at the corner of US-41 and Cochran Boulevard (now occupied by a post office and Edgewater Church). Montgomery Ward closed in 2000-01 with the bankruptcy of the chain, and was replaced by Bealls in 2002. Burdines was renamed to Burdines-Macy’s in 2003, before becoming Macy’s in 2005.
Junior anchors of the mall include Old Navy (opened in 1999) and DSW Shoe Warehouse.
48 Martin Place,
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Architect: H.E Ross H. Ruskin Rowe, Ross & Rowe
Refurbishment: Johnson Pilton Walker Architects (2014 Refurbishment), Norman Disney Young
Construction: Brookfield Multiplex (refurbishment)
Architectural Style: Beaux-Arts
Built: 1925-1928
When the head office for the Government Savings Bank of Australia was built in 1928, it was Sydney’s tallest building at twelve stories in height.
It was also the most expensive building built in the city, and housed the world’s largest banking chamber.
50 Martin Place is regarded as one of the finest 20th century bank buildings in the world.
Outside was a facade with a solid red granite base, topped with four towering Ionic columns, with pilasters clad in pink-glazed ceramic tiles.
The building was crowned with a two-storey attic, and bizarrely a rooftop rifle range.
Inside on the ground level, the Grand Hall and banking chamber feature marble and scagliola on massive columns.
As part of the refurbishment, a two-storey steel dome straddles the atrium.
Designed as a fifth facade, it can be seen from higher surrounding buildings as a lantern at night.
The atrium provides for much of the lighting requirements of the renovated workplaces.
Inside the atrium are two futuristic circular glass lifts, that were awarded Elevator Project of the Year.
During the lift journey, an eight-storey high installation by artist Nick Savvas, called Colours are the Country, can be viewed.
The atrium features event spaces, conference centres, and areas for collaboration
The building is now the global headquarters of the Macquarie Bank.
The middle floors of the building provides for a workspace for around 2,000 people.
There is an iconic and colourful interior stairway that connects the different levels.
50 Martin Place has received a 6-star Green Star energy rating.
The 2014 refurbishment by JPW Architects won a National Trust Award for adaptive re-use.
An in 2015, they received Australia’s major commercial architecture award - the Sir Arthur G. Stephenson Award.
Easter Rising 1916-2016 Centenary Anniversary
A spectator records a live TV broadcast feed of events at Dublin's GPO.
Dame Street - Dublin - Ireland
Outside the local multiplex cinema building, the formal elements all came together
One of several projects, that explore photography as evidence amongst other ideas.
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Forest Cinema, Walthamstow. Opened as the Empire in November 2014, this was the first purpose built complex for the circuit, previous sites having been take-overs. It was designed by Pollard, Thomas, Edwards Architects, who also designed the rest of 'The Scene' building. It has 9 screens, including an Impact Screen, and a large 309 seat auditorium (Screen 9) with a vast curved screen. The Empire circuit went into administration in 2023, and the multiplex was closed and became badly vandalised before a new operator (PD Management Ltd) was found. It reopened as the Forest Cinema in September 2024 and has proved very successful. Two screens are current closed awaiting repair, fittings having had to be reused to repair damage in other areas before opening.
London Borough of Waltham Forest, Walthamstow, North London, England - Forest (Empire) Cinemas, High Street / Hoe Street
July 2025
Blue Chanterelle, Polyozellus multiplex
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Another traffic jam, causing me to walk back after work along the boulevard, rewarded me with this shot.
I went over to the Americana this afternoon, a long overdue trip. There were a lot of people about, most of them doing the sensible thing and wearing masks. But some people were in groups, mostly young people, and they weren't wearing masks, Nevertheless, I kept my distance and wore my mask the entire time I was outdoors. I stopped by the Pacific theaters, the multiplex, to get this photo. Unfortunately, I had to tilt the phone to get the framing I wanted, and the reflection of the outdoors stood out. I was using the ultra-wide angle lens on my new Moto g fast phone. Hopefully you get the idea just how wide I can shoot with this lens.
2021.01.01 - I'm always drwn to photgraph this wall of multiplexes along Langelier Sud.. it's the literal Balconville of Quebec.
Once a bustling 19th-century railway warehouse, this long neoclassical building on the Right Bank of Bordeaux has found a new life as the Mégarama Bordeaux Bastide – a state-of-the-art multiplex cinema boasting one of the city’s only IMAX screens. The stone arcade, with its tall arched windows and carved balustrades, retains echoes of its industrial past, while the modern roofline and sleek signage boldly signal its current role as a temple of popcorn-fuelled escapism.
Part of a broader urban regeneration of the Bastide district, Mégarama stands just across the Garonne from the historic city centre, offering panoramic views of the Place de la Bourse and a lively post-screening café scene. Whether you’re after Oscar contenders, French indies, or full-throttle blockbusters, this cinematic grand dame delivers—in widescreen.
🇫🇷 Autrefois entrepôt ferroviaire au XIXe siècle, ce bâtiment longiligne de la rive droite bordelaise a été superbement reconverti en Mégarama Bordeaux Bastide – un multiplexe dernier cri, doté notamment d’une salle IMAX, rare dans la région. Son architecture néoclassique, avec ses grandes arcades et balustrades sculptées, évoque encore l’activité industrielle d’antan, tandis que sa toiture contemporaine annonce clairement sa vocation actuelle : celle d’un temple du grand écran.
Intégré dans le renouveau urbain du quartier de la Bastide, le Mégarama profite d’une vue imprenable sur la Garonne et la place de la Bourse. Après le film, place aux terrasses ensoleillées ! Un lieu idéal pour savourer blockbusters, pépites du cinéma français ou thrillers en VO – en grand format.
This is the sort of electronics gear that I maintained during my U.S. Army duty in Vietnam in 1967. Multiplexer sets had the ability to combine up to 600 voice frequency circuits into a single signal for transmission to the receiving end, where the signal was broken back down to the individual circuits.
AN/FCC stood for "Army Navy/Fixed Carrier Communications".
Here in America, systems such as this were used by the telephone companies. Though high-end electronics at the time, this equipment would now be considered antique.
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