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Centre Point was built as speculative office space by property tycoon Harry Hyams, who had leased the site at £18,500 a year for 150 years. Hyams and Seifert engaged in negotiations with the London County Council over the height of the building, which was much taller than would normally be allowed and was highly controversial; eventually he was allowed to build 32 floors in return for providing a new road junction between St Giles Circus, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, which the LCC could not afford to build on its own. Hyams intended that the whole building be occupied by a single tenant.
On completion, the building remained empty for many years. With property prices rising and most business tenancies taken for set periods of 10 or 15 years, Hyams could afford to keep it empty and wait for his single tenant at the asking price of £1,250,000; he was challenged to allow tenants to rent single floors but consistently refused. The prominent nature of the building led to it becoming a symbol of greed in the property industry. Some campaigners demanded that the government of Edward Heath should intervene and take over the building, and at one point in June 1972 Peter Walker (then Secretary of State for the Environment) offered £5 million for the building. Eventually Hyams agreed to let the building by floors but the arrangements were stalled.
A more intriguing speculation was that the government was paying Hyams "a heavy but secret subsidy to keep it empty" for its own purposes. Various conspiracy theories circulated about what those purposes might be. One common theme was that since the building was 100% air-conditioned (a rarity in London at that time), and sited over Tottenham Court Road tube station and its deep tube lines, this would somehow make it useful to the government in the event of nuclear war.
Since July 1980, the building has been the headquarters of the Confederation of British Industry. In 1995 Centre Point became a Grade II listed building. Noted architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner described Centre Point as "coarse in the extreme". In 2009, the building won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.
Point of Ayr lighthouse at Talacre beach ...
Point of Ayr gives its name to a lighthouse, built in 1776, though inactive since 1844. It stands on Talacre beach at the entrance to the River Dee estuary.
The lighthouse once displayed two lights. The main beam at 63 feet shone seaward towards Llandudno. A secondary beam shone up the River Dee towards the hamlet of Dawpool in Cheshire on the English side of the estuary.
Whilst in service the lighthouse was painted with red and white stripes and had a red lantern housing.
Beer cans stacked in the warehouse at the Stevens Point Brewery, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_Point_Brewery
From Wikipedia:
Stevens Point Brewery is a regional American brewery located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The company claims that its Point Special beer was one of the first lager beers to be produced in America.[citation needed] The brewery is also known as the fifth-oldest privately-owned brewery in the nation.[1]
Sales volume for the company's Point beer brands was about 40,000 barrels in 2007 which is the third-largest craft brewer in the state behind Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, a subsidiary of MillerCoors LLC, with sales of 465,000 barrels, and New Glarus Brewing Company, with sales of 65,000 barrels.[2]
Crown Point, New York; also known as Champlain Memorial Light, the lighthouse/monument commemorates the explorations of Samuel de Champlain. A stone lighthouse was built here in 1858 and in 1912 the memorial was constructed around the old light tower.
From Cow Horn Point there is a view of the Jackson Creek and South Umpqua drainages. You can also see Pickett Butte.
Cougar Butte Trail. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon.
Another shot of the Point Betsie Lighthouse near Frankfort MI. This was a 10 minute exposure taken pretty close to midnight. The red light on the inside of the building was very faint, but over time made a great menacing glow.
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Point Pinole was the site of the Giant Powder Company, the first US company to purchase Alfred Nobel's invention-dynamite. After disastrous explosions in San Francisco and Albany, the company relocated here in 1892, where it continued manufacturing in heavily protected earthen bunkers as seen here. Giant Powder was purchased by Atlas Powder Company in 1915, which continued operations until 1961. All that remains are a few foundations and the earthen bunkers scattered around the park.
View of Richmond (right), Point San Pablo (middle) and Point San Pedro in the North Bay (left).
Point Pinole Regional Park, Richmond California
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, battle site for Lord Dunmore's War, 1774; digital copy of slide. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Early Vessel 1979. This piece was created right out of Graduate School (MA Ball State U.) I was living on Lafayette Street in Columbus and working in a small studio in our basement. This piece would have been before I built my gas kiln at Bill Melvin’s on Hwy. 46 west. I took a load of new work to Bethel Pike in Muncie and fired it in their 100 cu. ft. kiln. This would have been fired there.
This piece features colored clay on the top and sides. I started using colored clay in graduate school, but gave it up after a few years. It was hard to know what to do with the scraps and I became concerned that some of the colorants (esp. chrome) would be toxic to breath and to be absorbed. But the affect is nice.
At this point I was still staining the clay with iron oxide before I glazed it. This worked pretty well under some kiln atmospheres, but if left reduced, it turned to black iron and made the surface dull and grey. Dennis Kirchman suggested I use copper carbonate instead as it appears warmer in reduction. I soon switched to copper.
(1 in a multiple picture set)
Looking east from Panorama Point (see part of the rock wall in the lower right corner), you can see I-10 heading into Redlands. This connect with I-15S about 10 miles west, and that road takes you up and over Cajon Pass into the high desert (see the depression between the two mountain ranges. You can see Mt. Baldy at the top of the picture.
Point Richmond, also known as the Point, is a small neighborhood of Richmond, California, snug up along the coastline between several oil refineries and factories and divided by rail lines that rattle by 24 hours a day. This was the original site of Richmond's establishment, known as East Yards, and acted as Richmond's center until the 1950s. It retains a quiet small-town feel and has a very active neighborhood activism.
Point Richmond, Richmond, California
Check out Rocky Point Crossfit in Coquitlam, BC. It is not your regular gym. You won't find a machine in the place.
"Other gyms use machines, Crossfit builds them..."
5Dm2 + 24L, off camera 580 bounced into reflector cam left.
Out for a post Christmas walk on Boxing Day down at Formby Point, I was amazed at how busy it was. You can visit this place in the summer and the beach can be empty.
Along Artist Ridge Trail
Artist Point is located in northwest Washington State, at the end of the Mount Baker Scenic Highway. At an elevation of 5,000 feet, Artist Point is an area of exceptional beauty.
Thunder Gulch x Turkos Turn (Turkoman)
Winnings: 13 Starts: 9 - 3 - 0, $3,968,500
2000: 1st Hollywood Futurity (G1,8.5F), Kentucky Cup Juvenile (G3,8.5F), 2nd Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1,8.5F) Champagne S. (G1,8.5F)
2001: 1st Haskell Invitational (G1,9F), Preakness S. (G1,9.5F), Belmont S. (G1,12F), Travers S.(G1,10F), Santa Anita Derby (G1,9F), San Felipe S. (G2,8.5F)
2001 Eclipse Champion 3 YO Colt & Horse of the Year.Only horse in history to have won four $1m races in a row: the Preakness, the Belmont, the Haskell Invitational and the Travers.