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Decided to leave the premises today because it looked deceivingly nice outside and I had hopes for a falcon or similar exciting flying object. Went to the grain terminal where they are known to prey on pigeons but all that was there were masses of pigeons. Yes, I got hordes of them in flight but was not completely impressed with that visual. So back to Hawrelak Park it is for who knows what. The who knows what turns out to be a Pileated Woodpecker checking out a woodstand that had seen better days. I actually felt like nature boy because I had to leave the vehicle and expose my fingers to -1C/30F. What’s next? Joining the army corps of engineers and building pontoon bridges in some uncivilized locales? Hardly. He apologized to me for bypassing the yard and making me track him down in some out of the way place. I told him not to worry about it because it gave me a welcome excuse to get away from the noise of the vacuum which was going full blast when I left. Except for the date and the temperature, this could have even been a summertime shot. The sky was as Alberta blue as could be. And that got me to thinking. If the Griswolds had seen a Pileated on their way to cut down the tree would their Christmas vacation have been different? …
Christmas Vacation – National Lampoon
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The premises of the quality fish merchant D.R. Collin and Son on the quayside at Eyemouth on 7/7/2023. The freshest fish straight off the boat and the best shellfish in the area. I had some hot smoked mackerel and Mrs T had a dressed crab. Both enjoyed sat on a bench on the harbour side.
Inside a temple premises at Himāchal Pradesh in north India.
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Banking premises in Sligo showing different styles and approaches. On the left the Ulster (Belfast?) Bank and right on the corner the Hibernian Bank, but the differences in architecture are striking. In addition to the actual buildings, the presence of the fencing outside the Ulster Bank versus the open corner positioning of the Hibernian Bank, must have had a psychological effect.
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 1910ish-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_10753
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Flower Celosia cristata - inside Victorial Memorial Hall premises @ Calcutta - India.
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Celosia cristata - is a member of the genus Celosia, and is commonly known as cockscomb, since the flower looks like the head on a rooster (cock). They are annual plants of tropical origin, and their leaves and flowers can be used as vegetables. They are often grown as foods in India, Western Africa, and South America.
They grow well in both humid and arid conditions, and their flowers can last for up to 8 weeks. A high number of seeds can be produced by each flower, up to 43,000 per ounce. The plant often grows up to 1 foot in height, though many are smaller. The leaves are either green or bronze/maroon, depending upon the cultivar. The flowers are usually red, yellow, pink, or orange, though other colors can be present. In some instances, a variety of colors are present in hybrids.
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Former Cardiff Leyland Olympian/East Lancs seen at owners premises with its distinctive route branding.
View of the Tyne Bridge and Newcastle Quayside, taken from the Swing Bridge, Newacstle upon Tyne, November 1976 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/4/CN10368A).
Tyne & Wear Archives presents a series of images taken by the Newcastle-based photographers Turners Ltd.
The firm had an excellent reputation and was regularly commissioned by local businesses to take photographs of their products and their premises. Turners also sometimes took aerial and street views on their own account and many of those images have survived, giving us a fascinating glimpse of life in the North East of England in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
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A view of the inside of the premises of Golden Temple - Amritsar, Punjab, India. The Temple is not in the Frame.
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The Harmandir Sahib (Punjabi: ਹਰਿਮੰਦਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ), also Darbar Sahib (Punjabi: ਦਰਬਾਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ, Punjabi pronunciation: [dəɾbɑɾ sɑhɪb]) and informally referred to as the "Golden Temple", is a prominent Sikh Gurdwara located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. It was built by the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjun, in the 16th Century. In 1604, Guru Arjun completed the Adi Granth, the holy scripture of Sikhism, and installed it in the Gurudwara.
There are four doors to get into the Harmandir Sahib, which symbolize the openness of the Sikhs towards all people and religions. The present day Gurdwara was rebuilt in 1764 by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia with the help of other Sikh Misls. In the early nineteenth century, Maharaja Ranjit Singh secured the Punjab region from outside attack and covered the upper floors of the Gurdwara with gold, which gives it its distinctive appearance and its English name.
The Harimandir Sahib is considered holy by Sikhs. The holiest text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, is always present inside the Gurdwara. Its construction was mainly intended to build a place of worship for men and women from all walks of life and all religions to come and worship God equally. Over 100,000 people visit the holy shrine daily for worship.
The Harmandir Sahib literally means The Temple of God. The fourth guru of Sikhism, Guru Ram Das, excavated a tank in 1577 CE which subsequently became known as Amritsar (meaning "Pool of the Nectar of Immortality"), giving its name to the city that grew around it. In due course, a Sikh edifice, Sri Harmandir Sahib (meaning "the abode of God"), rose in the middle of this tank and became the supreme centre of Sikhism. Its sanctum came to house the Adi Granth comprising compositions of Sikh Gurus and other saints considered to have Sikh values and philosophies, e.g., Baba Farid, and Kabir. The compilation of The Adi Granth was started by the fifth guru of Sikhism, Guru Arjan Dev Ji.
Flower Celosia cristata - Inside Victorial Memorial Hall premises @ Calcutta - West Bengal, India.
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Celosia cristata - is a member of the genus Celosia, and is commonly known as cockscomb, since the flower looks like the head on a rooster (cock). They are annual plants of tropical origin, and their leaves and flowers can be used as vegetables. They are often grown as foods in India, Western Africa, and South America.
They grow well in both humid and arid conditions, and their flowers can last for up to 8 weeks. A high number of seeds can be produced by each flower, up to 43,000 per ounce. The plant often grows up to 1 foot in height, though many are smaller. The leaves are either green or bronze/maroon, depending upon the cultivar. The flowers are usually red, yellow, pink, or orange, though other colors can be present. In some instances, a variety of colors are present in hybrids.
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Bowral's Grand Hotel opened its doors as a licensed premises on 23 February 1888.
The two-storeyed building, with 35 rooms, was 5000 pounds - about $974,742 today.
It boasted having two parlours, bar parlour, billiard room, commercial room, five bedrooms, office and bathrooms on the ground floor.
Included in the upstairs there was two parlours, dining room, 13 bedrooms, billiard room and bathrooms.
Today it is a shadow of it's former self as it has been transformed into a small arcade.
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia.
This was an imposing premises with a very stylish canopy and a super example of Texaco petrol stations in this era. We see a Henlys van on the forecourt so imagine there was some kind of connection there. This is the "second attempt" affording us a full view of the forecourt. We see it is of course attended service and the young lady serving seems to be wearing a bright red colour coded Texaco branded top. There are a few small stands across the front of the building and one seems to be for Danone but the others are harder to work out what they are. I would have passed this garage several times each year in this era on our way down to Somerset - this was on the route my parents would take. I can't say I remember it but then there were so many great garages like this back then there's no particular reason why I should.
Sadly the premises were at some point demolished or at least radically overhauled and the canopy went - there is now a modern Kwik Fit here which looks rubbish compared to this! The houses beyond are unchanged and the lamp-post is still there too if now upgraded.
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Millmoor Stadium is hidden behind the industrial premises on the left, as forty four years less one day before the passing of 'The Statesman' (see Millmoor Stadium & The Statesman) a sole Class 47, No. 47303 restarts a rake of probably discharged oil tankers following a are change. Masborough Station South Junction signal box is on the left. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Premises of a former glass and china merchant
The blue faced man is reputed to be William Caxton the printing pioneer
High water mark from previous flooding. The premises are used for small businesses and storage for boats etc.
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Initially the State Bank operated from a private residence but, with the rapid growth of business it became necessary for the bank to build its own premises. The building was opened in 1929.
The branch operated until 1972, when there was a period of scaling down. The bank finally closed in the 1990s. In 1998 the Yacka History Group bought the building and set it up as an Archives and Community Centre.
Yacka, South Australia:
Yackamoorundie is the name also given to the small creek that starts near Caltowie in South Australia's mid north, winds its way southwest crossing the Heysen and Mawson Trails, before eventually emptying its contents into the Rocky River near Crystal Brook. Yackamoorundie is loosely translated in Ngadjuri language as the 'sister to the big river', a name which pays tribute to the River Broughton, a river which runs through the centre of town.
In fact it was the deceptively slow running River Broughton that was to cause much grief in the small town. The need for a bridge to ensure north-south access to the town has seen as many as five road and rail bridges built across the river, with many of the predecessors washed away through flash flooding. Today the road bridge forms part of Main North Road from Clare to Wilmington, while the 1927 rail bridge sitting alongside it is a memory from days when rail was popular throughout South Australia.
The rail line closed in 1989 and associated infrastructure was removed soon thereafter with the exception of the rail bridge and the old railway cutting. Next door are the silos and the weigh bridge, an item that is relatively new in that it took a bumper harvest in 1969 to create logjams at the old weigh bridge and a community action which finally resulted in something more modern being constructed.
This new weigh bridge came to be some 100 years after the town was first named, and 96 years after the Witcomb family constructed the town's first and only hotel, one that served the community and visitors until 1994. Soon after the Hotel, the Institute (1875), Tilbrook's Blacksmith Shop (1875), Samuel Pelton's Store (1878) and Sarah Witcomb's house (1880) followed and the proud life of the township of Yacka commenced.
The drought of 1914 brought an end to an era of farmland riches, but it was World War One that would ultimately cause more emotional damage to the town. In an effort to support the Australian war effort overseas, the young Yacka community sent 41 of their male community to the war, and were most distressed when only 28 of those returned. The 32% loss of life remains one of the highest contributions in an Australian township.
In keeping with the modestness of the town, which encouraged funds to be re-invested into farms, many buildings were built to size and to suit the structure of the community at the time. The Church of St James in Broughton Road and the Methodist Church were two such examples where grandeur was replaced by economics and priorities.
The latter part of the 20th Century saw economic rationalisation contribute a large part to the history of the town with not only the railways and hotel being closed, but also the school. It wasn't long thereafter that the GMH dealership would end its time in the town as well as Samuel Pelton's store. Klau's Butchers in the Main Street also closed, and the building is now occupied by the Yackamoorundie Craft Association and is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
In 1995 the township celebrated its 125th year, and it was appropriate that it be 'kept in the family'. Nan Witcomb, Adelaide writer and radio celebrity was invited along to the celebrations and to unveil a plaque outside of the Interstate Building. The Witcomb family had been a part of Yacka since its beginnings, and were also part of the community that lost a family member to the war effort.
Today the township of Yacka is a lot smaller with a population of around 90, the craft shop, the large picnic area within the Yackamoorundie Park and the small caravan and camping facility making it ideal for a pleasant break of journey. Further details on Yacka are available from the Yacka community website or their facebook page. Historic Walk brochures are available from the Craft Shop or any of the visitor information centres in the Southern Flinders Ranges.
Source: Yacka Historic Walk & Weekend Notes (www.weekendnotes.com/yacka-historic-walk/).
Seen at Kendal Police Station.
My thanks to the officers that allowed me onto the premises to take some photos.
You can either fish or just people watch while visiting the Dania Beach Pier. Snacks, drinks, tackle and bait are available for sale on the premises.
The Fishing Pier is operated by the City of Dania Beach.
Cash and Credit Cards accepted for The Pier and Parking.
The Dania Beach pier is open from 6 a.m. to Midnight 7 days a week.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
daniabeachfl.gov/124/Ocean-Park-Beach
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We arrived at the premises just after sunset on a late summer night in 2009. We have brought all our camping gear and are planning to stay overnight either in or near the great castle X. We drive around the woods in wich the castle lies hidden to find a good spot to enter. We set our entering point and decide to first go in and have a look around before taking our backpacks.
We climb the ridiculous small fence and walk into the forrest. After a short while we see the castle, we take a walk around and see if there has been any activity lately that we can notice. We see nothing, hardly any car tracks, no paths where the grass has been flattened by people walking, seems pretty good so far.
We are going back to the car and get our backpacks. We walk away from the castle and into the forrest again. It's dark now and we thought we're heading in the right direction. But after an hour of struggling through the branches and bushes there's a ditch. shit, we went wrong. Our flashlights scare the pigeons (or at least birds) and they all flew up in panic, leaving us standing in the middle of a forrest. Small twigs fall down on us because of the birds. This kinda creeps us out, but finally we find our way to the car.
We set up our tents after checking if there's a way into the castle, wich there isn't. The rest of the moonlit night we spent drinking on the porch of the castle.
Early in the morning the real quest starts, trying to find a way into this beautiful castle. After coffee and some exterior shots we try hard and after trying several options we give up. We have spend the last hour and a half climbed and crawling not to find the smallest hole or anything. Then Lulu looks again at one the the options we tried before and she manages to get in. Excitement all over!!
I insist that we first pack our tents and backpacks and leave them in the woods in case anyone shows up. I have never ever packed my tent and bag so quickly. We leave the bags in the near woods and head back.
Inside we feel excited and we're a little afraid and we all have the feeling that we don't know where to begin and take photographs. It's overwhelming, everything is still here, paintings, furniture, everything. We check out the ground floor quickly and find our way the second floor. Mrtnski and Lulu and walking around taking picture's and i'm amazed at what i've encountered here. Then when mrtnski and Lulu head for the next room and i'm still taking one last shot, i hear something outside. I walk to the window and take a peak. I see a guy on a scooter driving up to the castle. Ok, relax, just see what he's up to, maybe just a care taker who take s a drive around every morning. He's drives a circle around the castle, stops at our entrance point (wich was not clearly visible), looks up and drives away.
It felt not good and a go get M & L and tell them we need to get out before he gets back, and i'm convinced he's getting back. Lulu has left her bag somewhere with all her films in it. We look for that and rush out of the castle.
We decide to wait next to our backpacks to see if the guy gets back and if not we can get in again. After about 10 minutes there are at least 5 people strolling through the woods with a dog. They are not shouting, but they certainly want to be heard. They are right between us and our way out, and all we can do is hide, wait for the best moment and head for the exit. And so it happens. We get out unseen and not caught, but we didn't get to see all of this beautiful castle. Better luck next time...
with: Mrtnski & Lulu
when: september 2009
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue supported by Nottinghamshire fire and rescue at 7 pump 3 areal fire at former Nightclub premises Church gate Gravel Street Burleys way Leicester 4th October 2022
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New to First Capital in April 2000, Dennis Trident / Alexander W931 ULL later worked for First Bristol up until withdrawal in 2017. It has recently reappeared working for Chepstow Classic Buses and is seen here at their Bulwark premises on 21st June 2022.
‘Scene’ on a PSV Circle Organised Visit
At the Premises of ‘preston bus’ /3
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
The PSV Circle (of which I have been a member for some years) aims to hold an Annual General Meeting in a different location in the UK every year.
Usually held at a weekend, they also include visits to operators and other bus related venues for the attending members to visit and enjoy.
This year, the location being in the North West of England centred on the Holiday Inn Express, Preston.
Friend Peter Rose joined me for what turned out to be a sometimes wet, but very enjoyable weekend.
As we have done before, we have combined all the images we have gathered.
The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M.Rose.
‘Preston Bus’, which has a history going back to 1904, became part of the ‘ROTALA’ group in 2011.
New to ‘First Manchester’ where it carried the same fleet number.
The lack of any titling or branding could indicate that it has been withdrawn and awaiting diposal.
Leaving the premises of the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal we decided to have a cup tea on a roadside tea-stall. He came near to us and light the cigarette and gave me a tough look. So, here I have ended up the journey of my 100 face of stranger project. He is the centurion of this series and became the part of the journey.
A curved line of stainless steel capped posts at the back of business premises on Port Road, Hindmarsh.
Seen on Simmons' premises on the outskirts of Grantham, KBT 343S is a unique Volvo B58 with East Lancs double-deck coachwork. The chassis was new to Steve Stockdale, Selby. in 1978, fitted with Caetano Lisboa II coachwork. It subsequently passed through the hands of several Scottish coach operators before joining the fleet of Skill's, Nottingham in 1990. Following an accident in 1992, the chassis was sent to East Lancs where it received the body shown, and was returned to Skill's. Skill's decided not to accept it and it was eventually sold to Simmons for use on the Grantham - Nottingham service.
Remarkably, it remained registered KBT 343S throughout its existence.
A view of inside the Golden Temple Premises - Amritsar, Punjab, India. The Temple is not in the Frame.
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The Harmandir Sahib (Punjabi: ਹਰਿਮੰਦਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ), also Darbar Sahib (Punjabi: ਦਰਬਾਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ, Punjabi pronunciation: [dəɾbɑɾ sɑhɪb]) and informally referred to as the "Golden Temple", is a prominent Sikh Gurdwara located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. It was built by the fifth Sikh guru, Guru Arjun, in the 16th Century. In 1604, Guru Arjun completed the Adi Granth, the holy scripture of Sikhism, and installed it in the Gurudwara.
There are four doors to get into the Harmandir Sahib, which symbolize the openness of the Sikhs towards all people and religions. The present day Gurdwara was rebuilt in 1764 by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia with the help of other Sikh Misls. In the early nineteenth century, Maharaja Ranjit Singh secured the Punjab region from outside attack and covered the upper floors of the Gurdwara with gold, which gives it its distinctive appearance and its English name.
The Harimandir Sahib is considered holy by Sikhs. The holiest text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, is always present inside the Gurdwara. Its construction was mainly intended to build a place of worship for men and women from all walks of life and all religions to come and worship God equally. Over 100,000 people visit the holy shrine daily for worship.
The Harmandir Sahib literally means The Temple of God. The fourth guru of Sikhism, Guru Ram Das, excavated a tank in 1577 CE which subsequently became known as Amritsar (meaning "Pool of the Nectar of Immortality"), giving its name to the city that grew around it. In due course, a Sikh edifice, Sri Harmandir Sahib (meaning "the abode of God"), rose in the middle of this tank and became the supreme centre of Sikhism. Its sanctum came to house the Adi Granth comprising compositions of Sikh Gurus and other saints considered to have Sikh values and philosophies, e.g., Baba Farid, and Kabir. The compilation of The Adi Granth was started by the fifth guru of Sikhism, Guru Arjan Dev Ji.
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Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company with headquarters in Birsfelden, Switzerland. It is the manufacturer of the works of many internationally renowned furniture designers. Vitra is also known for the works of notable architects that make up its premises in Weil am Rhein, Germany, in particular the Vitra Design Museum.
Contents
1 History and corporate architecture
2 Awards and projects
3 Locations
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History and corporate architecture
Factory building, Nicholas Grimshaw
Factory building and passage cover, Álvaro Siza
Vitra Design Museum, Frank Gehry
Fire station, Zaha Hadid
Vitra – founded by Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, the owner of a shopfitting business – entered the furniture market in 1957 with the licensed production of furniture from the Herman Miller Collection for the European market - primarily designs by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson. In 1967 the company introduced the Panton Chair by Verner Panton – the first cantilever chair out of plastic. In 1977 Rolf Fehlbaum took over the management of Vitra. In 1984 the partnership that had been formed with Herman Miller was terminated by mutual consent. Subsequently, Vitra obtained the rights to designs by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson for Europe and the Middle East.
Today, Vitra's product line consists of designer furniture for use in offices, homes and public areas. In 2002, the company took in the realm of domestic living. Launched in 2004, the Home Collection includes classic furniture design pieces by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard and Jean Prouvé, as well as the works of designers such as Antonio Citterio, Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda, Maarten van Severen, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius and BarberOsgerby.
After a major fire destroyed a large part of the Vitra production facilities in Weil am Rhein in 1981, British architect Nicholas Grimshaw was commissioned to design new factory buildings and develop a master plan for the company premises. Inspired by his acquaintance with Frank Gehry in the mid-1980s, however, Vitra departed from Grimshaw’s plan for a unified corporate project. Since that time, buildings have been erected on the Vitra grounds in Weil am Rhein by a wide ranging group of architects, including Frank Gehry (Vitra Design Museum and Factory Building, 1989), Zaha Hadid (Fire Station, 1993), Tadao Ando (Conference Pavilion, 1993), Alvaro Siza (Factory Building, Passage Cover, Car Parking, 1994),[1] Herzog & de Meuron (VitraHaus, 2010), and SANAA (Factory Building, 2011).
Over the years, Vitra accumulated a growing collection of chairs and other furniture. With the aim of making the collection accessible to the public, a museum was established as an independent foundation dedicated to the research and popularization of design and architecture. The Vitra Design Museum from 1989 by Frank Gehry was the first public building on the campus as well as the architect's first building in Europe. Today the museum is partly based on the own broad collection of 20th century furniture as well as host of visiting exhibitions.
The fire station by Zaha Hadid was the first completed building by the Iraqi architect. The building consists of a garage for fire engines, showers and locker rooms for the fire fighters and a conference room with kitchen facilities. The Fire Station is a sculpture of cast in-situ concrete that contrasts with the orthogonal order of the adjacent factory buildings like the frozen image of an explosion in a photograph. Today the building functions as an exhibition space.
In the same year, a conference pavilion of Japanese architect Tadao Ando was also constructed on the Vitra grounds. It was Ando's first work outside Japan. The calm and restrained structure encompasses an assortment of conference rooms. It is characterized by a highly ordered spatial articulation with a large part of its volume concealed below grade. A striking feature is the footpath leading to the pavilion, which has a significant association with meditation paths in the gardens of Japanese monasteries.
In the year 2000, the Campus was augmented with the addition of the Dome: a lightweight geodesic structure after Richard Buckminster Fuller, which was developed by T.C. Howard at Charter Industries in 1975 and transplanted from its original location in Detroit, USA, to Weil am Rhein. It is currently used as a space for events. In 2003, a petrol station by the French designer Jean Prouvé - originally constructed in 1953 - was moved to the Vitra Campus.
The VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron, the latest addition to the Vitra Campus, opened in 2010 as the company's flagship store and home of the Vitra Home Collection. The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of the Basel-based architects: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes.
In June 2014 the Vitra Slide Tower was inaugurated.
Awards and projects
Vitra's products have received numerous design-related awards by international organizations. Vitra products have been used in numerous high-profile settings, including the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag, the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Novartis in Basel, Dubai International Airport or the Munich International Airport.
Locations
The company's website lists national subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. Vitra also has showrooms in numerous international cities. Production sites are located in Weil am Rhein (Germany), Neuenburg (Germany), Allentown (United States), Zhuhai (China) and Goka (Japan).
Vitra AG ist ein Schweizer Unternehmen für die Herstellung und den Handel mit Wohn- und Büromöbeln mit der Zentrale in Birsfelden, Basel-Landschaft, Schweiz. Eigenständige Filialen in 14 Ländern gehören zur Unternehmensgruppe. Am deutschen Standort in Weil am Rhein befindet sich seit 1989 das Vitra Design Museum und seit 2014 der knapp 31 Meter hohe Aussichts- und Rutschturm Vitra Slide Tower.
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1 Möbeldesign
2 Architekturpark Vitra Campus
2.1 Allgemeine Charakterisierung
2.2 Entwicklung
3 Literatur
4 Weblinks
5 Einzelnachweise
Möbeldesign
Im Alter von 20 Jahren übernahm Willi Fehlbaum (* 1914) ein Ladenbaugeschäft in Birsfelden bei Basel, das er mit seiner Frau Erika kontinuierlich zu einem Möbelbau-Unternehmen erweiterte. Nach Kriegsende verlagerte er 1950 die Produktionsstätten nach Weil am Rhein in Deutschland, ebenfalls nahe bei Basel gelegen, und nannte seine Firma Vitra. Auf einer USA-Reise 1953 entdeckte Fehlbaum die Ausstellungsstücke des Designer-Ehepaars Charles und Ray Eames. Er bemühte sich spontan um die Vertriebslizenzen und erhielt die Rechte von Herman Miller, dessen Mobiliar bereits damals ein hohes Ansehen in den USA hatte. Zu dem Vertrag zählten die Entwürfe der Eames sowie George Nelsons. Die Sitz- und Liegemöbel von Charles und Ray Eames gehören bis heute zu den erfolgreichsten Produkten des Unternehmens. Ein großer Teil des nichtschriftlichen Nachlasses der beiden Möbelentwerfer befindet sich seit 1988 im Besitz von Vitra.[2]
Designgeschichte schrieb der Panton Chair des dänischen Designers Verner Panton, der 1967 bei Vitra in Serie ging. 1976 kam Vitras erster selbst entwickelter Bürostuhl auf den Markt, der „Vitramat“.
1977 übernahm Rolf Fehlbaum die Leitung des Unternehmens, sein Bruder Raymond nahm ebenfalls eine Führungsposition ein und leitete weiterhin das Ladenbaugeschäft Vizona in Muttenz.
Entwürfe von bekannten Designern und Architekten wie Antonio Citterio, Alberto Meda, Mario Bellini, Maarten van Severen, Jasper Morrison, Ronan und Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius und Konstantin Grcic werden bei Vitra hergestellt. Bellinis samtblauer Drehstuhl-Entwurf „Figura“ wurde für den Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages ausgewählt.[3]
Um die Jahrtausendwende setzte Vitra auf die Idee des offenen, mobilen Großraumbüros. Die Globalisierung erhöhe die Mobilität der Mitarbeiter, so dass entsprechend flexible Büromodule die Abkehr vom festen Arbeitsplatz erleichtern sollten. Ein halbes Jahrzehnt später modifizierte und relativierte man die These einer allgemeinen Auflösung von Arbeitsstrukturen und brachte dies im Schlagwort „Net 'n' Nest“ auf den Begriff. Demnach ist das Büro ein Zentrum der Kommunikation („Net“), das aber auch die Möglichkeit eines Rückzugs anbieten sollte („Nest“).[4][5]
Charles Eames: Lounge Chair, 1956
Verner Panton: Panton, 1959-60
Joe Colombo: Tubo, 1969
Maarten van Severen: Vitra .03 Stuhl mit integrierten Blattfedern,
Flämisches Parlament in Brüssel, 2005
Mario Bellini: Figura (als Bestuhlung des Bundestags)
Architekturpark Vitra Campus
Der Begriff „Vitra Campus“ bezeichnet das Architektur-Ensemble auf dem Firmenareal des Möbelherstellers Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Deutschland. Seit September 2015 verbindet ein Skulpturenweg mit 12 Werken des Bildhauers Tobias Rehberger die Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Kanton Basel-Stadt, Schweiz) mit dem Architekturpark.[6] Weitere 12 Skulpturen kamen im Juni 2016 hinzu. Das Projekt heißt 24 Stops.[7][8][9][10]
Allgemeine Charakterisierung
Der Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein umfasst Fabrikations-, Logistik- und Verwaltungsbauten des Unternehmens ebenso wie das Vitra Design Museum, weitere vorwiegend kulturell genutzte Gebäude sowie das als Schauraum und Besuchercenter konzipierte VitraHaus. Auf kleinem Raum versammelt, findet sich hier eine Vielfalt von zeitgenössischen Architekturen, die, seit 1981 schrittweise, von Architektinnen und Architekten wie Nicholas Grimshaw, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Andō, Álvaro Siza,[11] Herzog & de Meuron und SANAA errichtet wurden.
Der Vitra Campus zählt seit den 1990er Jahren zu den touristischen Höhepunkten in der Region Basel und wird mittlerweile jährlich von rund dreihunderttausend Besuchern aus der ganzen Welt besucht. Einzelne Bauten des Campus, insbesondere das Vitra Design Museum (Frank O. Gehry, 1989) und das Feuerwehrhaus (Zaha Hadid, 1993), gelten als Marksteine der jüngeren Architekturgeschichte.
Die Bezeichnung Vitra Campus verweist auf das Mit- bzw. Nebeneinander verschiedener architektonischer Handschriften und Konzepte sowie auf die unterschiedliche Zweckbestimmung der einzelnen Bauten.
Entwicklung
Vitra unterhält seit Anfang der 1950er Jahre einen Produktionsstandort in Weil am Rhein. Die eigentliche Geschichte des Vitra Campus begann 1981, als ein Grossbrand wesentliche Bereiche der damals bestehenden Produktionsanlagen vernichtete und das Unternehmen zwang, in kürzester Zeit neue Fabrikhallen zu bauen. Rolf Fehlbaum, der vier Jahre zuvor die Leitung der Firma übernommen hatte, erkannte die Chance, mit den notwendigen Baumaßnahmen eine architektonische Neuausrichtung zu verbinden. Nachdem der Architekt Nicholas Grimshaw innerhalb von nur sechs Monaten eine Fabrikhalle realisiert hatte, wurde er gebeten, einen Masterplan für die weitere Entwicklung des Areals zu entwerfen. Die Vorstellung war, dass in Zukunft weitere Gebäude in der gleichen Art entstehen und damit eine technisch ausgerichtete Corporate Identity unterstützen sollten.
Anlässlich des 70.Geburtstags des Vitra-Gründers Willi Fehlbaum wurde 1984 auf dem Vitra Gelände eine Großskulptur von Claes Oldenburg und Coosje van Bruggen errichtet. Mit der „Balancing Tools“ genannten Skulptur kam ein neues, die Welt der industriellen Produktion erweiterndes Element ins Spiel. Im Zuge dieses Projekts kam es zu der Begegnung von Rolf Fehlbaum mit Frank Gehry. Als Ergebnis der mit ihm geführten Diskussionen rückte Rolf Fehlbaum in den späten 1980er Jahren von der Idee einer Bebauung nach einheitlichen, wiedererkennbaren Gestaltungsgrundsätzen ab. Stattdessen verfolgte er seither einen pluralistischen Ansatz, der die Weiterentwicklung des Areals im Sinn eines gleichberechtigten Nebeneinanders unterschiedlicher Architektursprachen und -auffassungen ermöglichte.
Mit Frank O. Gehry, der bis dahin in Europa noch nicht gebaut hatte, projektierte Fehlbaum zunächst eine Fabrikhalle. Ihr sollte ein kleines Gebäude für eine Möbelsammlung vorgelagert werden. Daraus wurde das 1989 eröffnete dekonstruktivistischen Vitra Design Museum. Daneben steht das Gebäude der Pforte, das die Grenze zwischen den öffentlich zugänglichen und dem vorwiegend betrieblich genutzten Teilen des Campus markiert. Nicht weniger auffällig als Gehrys Museumsbau fiel auch das nächste Projekt auf dem Vitra Campus aus: das von Zaha Hadid entworfene, zwischen 1989 und 1993 erbaute Feuerwehrhaus. Für Zaha Hadid, die es mit ihren kühnen Architekturvisionen in Fachkreisen zu einer gewissen Bekanntheit gebracht hatte, war es der erste nach ihren Vorstellungen realisierte Entwurf. Das Feuerwehrhaus, das entgegen manchen Aussagen funktionsfähig war, wurde aufgegeben, als Vitra von der eigenen Betriebsfeuerwehr zur öffentlichen Feuerwehr überging. Heute wird der Bau für Ausstellungen und Events genutzt.
Fast als Antithese zu den expressiven Architekturskulpturen von Gehry und Hadid ist der von dem japanischen Architekten Tadao Andō geplante, ebenfalls 1993 fertiggestellte Konferenzpavillon lesbar. Dieses betont ruhige, auf klaren geometrischen Formen basierende Gebäude, das Andō in eine dem Vitra Design Museum direkt benachbarte Kirschbaumwiese integrierte, war Andōs erster außerhalb Japans realisierter Entwurf.
Den Schlusspunkt der Bauaktivitäten auf dem Vitra Campus in den 1990er Jahren setzte der portugiesische Architekt und Pritzker-Preisträger Álvaro Siza Vieira, mit einer von ihm entworfenen, 1994 vollendeten Fabrikationshalle. Der nüchterne Bau, der mit seinem roten Klinkerkleid Bezug nimmt auf die alten Fabrikgebäude des Areals, bildet einen neutralen Hintergrund, vor dem sich die Dynamik des benachbarten Feuerwehrhauses entfaltet. Imposant erscheint dagegen die ebenfalls von Siza entworfene brückenartige Dachkonstruktion, die den Weg zwischen seiner und der gegenüber liegenden Produktionshalle überspannt. An ihren Stahlträgern ist ein absenkbares Dach befestigt, das bei Regen tief liegt und damit Schutz für den Werksverkehr bietet. Bei schönem Wetter fährt es automatisch nach oben, um eine freie Sicht auf Hadids Feuerwehrhaus zu ermöglichen.
Nach der Fertigstellung von Sizas Projekten kam es für annähernd eineinhalb Jahrzehnte zu keinen weiteren Neubauten auf dem Vitra Campus, sieht man von den beiden kleinen Bushaltestellen einmal ab, die Jasper Morrison 2006 an der Charles-Eames-Strasse vor dem Vitra Areal realisierte.
Auf dem Vitra Campus befinden sich auch zwei Strukturen, die ursprünglich nicht von Vitra beauftragt wurden, hier aber eine dauerhafte Bleibe gefunden haben. Das ist zum einen ein „Dome“, der nach den Prinzipien des amerikanischen Erfinders Richard Buckminster Fuller entwickelt wurde. Diese kuppelförmige Leichtbau-Konstruktion, die 1975 von Thomas C. Howard bei Charter Industries realisiert wurde, steht seit 2000 in Weil und wird seither für Präsentationen und Veranstaltungen genutzt. Das ist zum anderen ein 1953 entstandenes modulares Fertigbau-Tankstellenhäuschen des französischen Konstrukteurs und Designers Jean Prouvé, das nach einer grundlegenden Sanierung 2003 auf dem Campus installiert wurde.
Anfang 2010 wurde das VitraHaus eröffnet, das als Besucherzentrum für den Campus dient. Das von den Basler Architekten Herzog & de Meuron entworfene Gebäude – aus scheinbar spielerisch aufeinander gestapelten, langgezogenen Giebelhäusern komponiert – ist das höchste und entsprechend schon von weitem sichtbare Bauwerk auf dem Vitra Campus. Vor dem Werksgelände von Vitra türmt sich ein zufällig angeordneter Komplex aus zwölf schwarzgrauen Satteldachhäusern auf fünf Etagen.[12][13] Das VitraHaus beherbergt einen öffentlichen Schauraum des Unternehmens, sowie einen Store, ein Café, ein „Lounge Chair Atelier“, wo Besucher der handwerklichen Entstehung des „Lounge Chair“ von Charles und Ray Eames zuschauen können, und eine für Events nutzbare Business Lounge.
Im Laufe des Jahres 2012 wurde eine von dem japanischen Architekturbüro SANAA entworfene Fabrikationshalle fertiggestellt.
Am 18./19. Juni 2014 wurde der knapp 31 Meter hohe Aussichts- und Rutschturm Vitra Rutschturm des belgischen Künstlers Carsten Höller eröffnet.
Im Juni 2016 wurde das Schaudepot des Basler Architekturbüro Herzog & de Meuron eröffnet. Es bietet Platz für rund 7000 Möbel, 1300 Leuchten und Nachlässe von Ray und Charles Eames, Verner Panton oder Alexander Girard.[14]
Das Schaudepot ist der puristische Archetyp eines Hauses, das nur aus leuchtendroten fensterlosen Ziegelwänden und einem flachen Satteldach besteht. Es erhebt sich auf einer ebenfalls aus Ziegeln bestehenden Plattform. Dieser erhöhte Vorplatz wird durch den niedrigen Seitentrakt für die Gastronomie zu einer Piazza, die das gegenüber liegende Feuerwehrhaus von Zaha Hadid einbezieht. Das eigentliche Museum besteht nur aus einem einzigen Raum mit offenen Dachstuhl. Die Wände sind weiß, der Boden hellgrau, von der Decke spenden Leuchtstoffröhren gleichförmiges Licht. In hohen Regalen werden auf drei Ebenen rund 400 Stühle aus zwei Jahrhunderten präsentiert. Dass der Neubau Lager und Museum gleichzeitig ist, verdeutlicht der Wandaufbruch an der rechten Seite, der einen Blick ins Untergeschoss des Schaudepots erlaubt. Dort lagern in Magazinräumen hinter Glastüren tausende weitere Designklassiker. [15]
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Familiar to local enthusiasts and visitors alike is the railway vantage from B3000 New Pond Road near Peasmarsh.
Compared to topically discussed somewhat marred views of today is one reaching back to 1975 seeing Class47 47135 on a down excursion passing the established tree management premises and large government storage facility. Marley's concrete batching plant is discernible above the coaches.
ID
3257
Listing Date
8 October 1981
History
Formerly 2 premises, both the of mid C19 and shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 3-storey public house of cream-painted pebble-dashed walls, slate roof, roughcast stack to the L and brick over roughcast stack to the R. Openings are grouped 2 3, indicating that it was formerly 2 premises. They have smooth-rendered architraves and in the ground and 1st-floor windows have segmental heads, with keystones to the ground floor. On the L side (No 19) is a double-panelled door with side and overlights, under a modern deep flat canopy. Further L is a 16-pane horned sash window. It has a similar single 1st-floor window with keystone (the wall is blank above the entrance with painted sign), and in the 2nd floor are replacement 2-light and 1-light windows. On the R side (No 21) a through passage occupies the L-hand bay, R of which are 2 reinstated 16-pane sash windows (in place of a plate-glass shop window recorded in the previous survey of 1975). In the 1st floor are 16-pane hornless sash windows and in the 2nd floor 2-light casements, of which the upper section of each has small panes, below the eaves.
The passage has replacement doors and window. The rear is rubble stone, with a vertical joint on the R side of the passage, indicating that the passage is integral with the former No 21. The R side (No 19) has a 2-window rear with replacement windows in C19 openings with brick heads, except for an enlarged window to the R in the 1st floor. Against the ground floor is a 1-storey gabled projection of cream-painted render. On the L side (No 21) is also a 1-storey projection. The 3-window rear of No 21 has mostly enlarged windows.
Reasons for Listing
Listed as a former pair of houses retaining definite C19 character, and for its group value within the historical townscape.
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Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company with headquarters in Birsfelden, Switzerland. It is the manufacturer of the works of many internationally renowned furniture designers. Vitra is also known for the works of notable architects that make up its premises in Weil am Rhein, Germany, in particular the Vitra Design Museum.
Contents
1 History and corporate architecture
2 Awards and projects
3 Locations
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History and corporate architecture
Factory building, Nicholas Grimshaw
Factory building and passage cover, Álvaro Siza
Vitra Design Museum, Frank Gehry
Fire station, Zaha Hadid
Vitra – founded by Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, the owner of a shopfitting business – entered the furniture market in 1957 with the licensed production of furniture from the Herman Miller Collection for the European market - primarily designs by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson. In 1967 the company introduced the Panton Chair by Verner Panton – the first cantilever chair out of plastic. In 1977 Rolf Fehlbaum took over the management of Vitra. In 1984 the partnership that had been formed with Herman Miller was terminated by mutual consent. Subsequently, Vitra obtained the rights to designs by Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson for Europe and the Middle East.
Today, Vitra's product line consists of designer furniture for use in offices, homes and public areas. In 2002, the company took in the realm of domestic living. Launched in 2004, the Home Collection includes classic furniture design pieces by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard and Jean Prouvé, as well as the works of designers such as Antonio Citterio, Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda, Maarten van Severen, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius and BarberOsgerby.
After a major fire destroyed a large part of the Vitra production facilities in Weil am Rhein in 1981, British architect Nicholas Grimshaw was commissioned to design new factory buildings and develop a master plan for the company premises. Inspired by his acquaintance with Frank Gehry in the mid-1980s, however, Vitra departed from Grimshaw’s plan for a unified corporate project. Since that time, buildings have been erected on the Vitra grounds in Weil am Rhein by a wide ranging group of architects, including Frank Gehry (Vitra Design Museum and Factory Building, 1989), Zaha Hadid (Fire Station, 1993), Tadao Ando (Conference Pavilion, 1993), Alvaro Siza (Factory Building, Passage Cover, Car Parking, 1994),[1] Herzog & de Meuron (VitraHaus, 2010), and SANAA (Factory Building, 2011).
Over the years, Vitra accumulated a growing collection of chairs and other furniture. With the aim of making the collection accessible to the public, a museum was established as an independent foundation dedicated to the research and popularization of design and architecture. The Vitra Design Museum from 1989 by Frank Gehry was the first public building on the campus as well as the architect's first building in Europe. Today the museum is partly based on the own broad collection of 20th century furniture as well as host of visiting exhibitions.
The fire station by Zaha Hadid was the first completed building by the Iraqi architect. The building consists of a garage for fire engines, showers and locker rooms for the fire fighters and a conference room with kitchen facilities. The Fire Station is a sculpture of cast in-situ concrete that contrasts with the orthogonal order of the adjacent factory buildings like the frozen image of an explosion in a photograph. Today the building functions as an exhibition space.
In the same year, a conference pavilion of Japanese architect Tadao Ando was also constructed on the Vitra grounds. It was Ando's first work outside Japan. The calm and restrained structure encompasses an assortment of conference rooms. It is characterized by a highly ordered spatial articulation with a large part of its volume concealed below grade. A striking feature is the footpath leading to the pavilion, which has a significant association with meditation paths in the gardens of Japanese monasteries.
In the year 2000, the Campus was augmented with the addition of the Dome: a lightweight geodesic structure after Richard Buckminster Fuller, which was developed by T.C. Howard at Charter Industries in 1975 and transplanted from its original location in Detroit, USA, to Weil am Rhein. It is currently used as a space for events. In 2003, a petrol station by the French designer Jean Prouvé - originally constructed in 1953 - was moved to the Vitra Campus.
The VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron, the latest addition to the Vitra Campus, opened in 2010 as the company's flagship store and home of the Vitra Home Collection. The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of the Basel-based architects: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes.
In June 2014 the Vitra Slide Tower was inaugurated.
Awards and projects
Vitra's products have received numerous design-related awards by international organizations. Vitra products have been used in numerous high-profile settings, including the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag, the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Novartis in Basel, Dubai International Airport or the Munich International Airport.
Locations
The company's website lists national subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. Vitra also has showrooms in numerous international cities. Production sites are located in Weil am Rhein (Germany), Neuenburg (Germany), Allentown (United States), Zhuhai (China) and Goka (Japan).
Vitra AG ist ein Schweizer Unternehmen für die Herstellung und den Handel mit Wohn- und Büromöbeln mit der Zentrale in Birsfelden, Basel-Landschaft, Schweiz. Eigenständige Filialen in 14 Ländern gehören zur Unternehmensgruppe. Am deutschen Standort in Weil am Rhein befindet sich seit 1989 das Vitra Design Museum und seit 2014 der knapp 31 Meter hohe Aussichts- und Rutschturm Vitra Slide Tower.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Möbeldesign
2 Architekturpark Vitra Campus
2.1 Allgemeine Charakterisierung
2.2 Entwicklung
3 Literatur
4 Weblinks
5 Einzelnachweise
Möbeldesign
Im Alter von 20 Jahren übernahm Willi Fehlbaum (* 1914) ein Ladenbaugeschäft in Birsfelden bei Basel, das er mit seiner Frau Erika kontinuierlich zu einem Möbelbau-Unternehmen erweiterte. Nach Kriegsende verlagerte er 1950 die Produktionsstätten nach Weil am Rhein in Deutschland, ebenfalls nahe bei Basel gelegen, und nannte seine Firma Vitra. Auf einer USA-Reise 1953 entdeckte Fehlbaum die Ausstellungsstücke des Designer-Ehepaars Charles und Ray Eames. Er bemühte sich spontan um die Vertriebslizenzen und erhielt die Rechte von Herman Miller, dessen Mobiliar bereits damals ein hohes Ansehen in den USA hatte. Zu dem Vertrag zählten die Entwürfe der Eames sowie George Nelsons. Die Sitz- und Liegemöbel von Charles und Ray Eames gehören bis heute zu den erfolgreichsten Produkten des Unternehmens. Ein großer Teil des nichtschriftlichen Nachlasses der beiden Möbelentwerfer befindet sich seit 1988 im Besitz von Vitra.[2]
Designgeschichte schrieb der Panton Chair des dänischen Designers Verner Panton, der 1967 bei Vitra in Serie ging. 1976 kam Vitras erster selbst entwickelter Bürostuhl auf den Markt, der „Vitramat“.
1977 übernahm Rolf Fehlbaum die Leitung des Unternehmens, sein Bruder Raymond nahm ebenfalls eine Führungsposition ein und leitete weiterhin das Ladenbaugeschäft Vizona in Muttenz.
Entwürfe von bekannten Designern und Architekten wie Antonio Citterio, Alberto Meda, Mario Bellini, Maarten van Severen, Jasper Morrison, Ronan und Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius und Konstantin Grcic werden bei Vitra hergestellt. Bellinis samtblauer Drehstuhl-Entwurf „Figura“ wurde für den Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages ausgewählt.[3]
Um die Jahrtausendwende setzte Vitra auf die Idee des offenen, mobilen Großraumbüros. Die Globalisierung erhöhe die Mobilität der Mitarbeiter, so dass entsprechend flexible Büromodule die Abkehr vom festen Arbeitsplatz erleichtern sollten. Ein halbes Jahrzehnt später modifizierte und relativierte man die These einer allgemeinen Auflösung von Arbeitsstrukturen und brachte dies im Schlagwort „Net 'n' Nest“ auf den Begriff. Demnach ist das Büro ein Zentrum der Kommunikation („Net“), das aber auch die Möglichkeit eines Rückzugs anbieten sollte („Nest“).[4][5]
Charles Eames: Lounge Chair, 1956
Verner Panton: Panton, 1959-60
Joe Colombo: Tubo, 1969
Maarten van Severen: Vitra .03 Stuhl mit integrierten Blattfedern,
Flämisches Parlament in Brüssel, 2005
Mario Bellini: Figura (als Bestuhlung des Bundestags)
Architekturpark Vitra Campus
Der Begriff „Vitra Campus“ bezeichnet das Architektur-Ensemble auf dem Firmenareal des Möbelherstellers Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Deutschland. Seit September 2015 verbindet ein Skulpturenweg mit 12 Werken des Bildhauers Tobias Rehberger die Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Kanton Basel-Stadt, Schweiz) mit dem Architekturpark.[6] Weitere 12 Skulpturen kamen im Juni 2016 hinzu. Das Projekt heißt 24 Stops.[7][8][9][10]
Allgemeine Charakterisierung
Der Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein umfasst Fabrikations-, Logistik- und Verwaltungsbauten des Unternehmens ebenso wie das Vitra Design Museum, weitere vorwiegend kulturell genutzte Gebäude sowie das als Schauraum und Besuchercenter konzipierte VitraHaus. Auf kleinem Raum versammelt, findet sich hier eine Vielfalt von zeitgenössischen Architekturen, die, seit 1981 schrittweise, von Architektinnen und Architekten wie Nicholas Grimshaw, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Andō, Álvaro Siza,[11] Herzog & de Meuron und SANAA errichtet wurden.
Der Vitra Campus zählt seit den 1990er Jahren zu den touristischen Höhepunkten in der Region Basel und wird mittlerweile jährlich von rund dreihunderttausend Besuchern aus der ganzen Welt besucht. Einzelne Bauten des Campus, insbesondere das Vitra Design Museum (Frank O. Gehry, 1989) und das Feuerwehrhaus (Zaha Hadid, 1993), gelten als Marksteine der jüngeren Architekturgeschichte.
Die Bezeichnung Vitra Campus verweist auf das Mit- bzw. Nebeneinander verschiedener architektonischer Handschriften und Konzepte sowie auf die unterschiedliche Zweckbestimmung der einzelnen Bauten.
Entwicklung
Vitra unterhält seit Anfang der 1950er Jahre einen Produktionsstandort in Weil am Rhein. Die eigentliche Geschichte des Vitra Campus begann 1981, als ein Grossbrand wesentliche Bereiche der damals bestehenden Produktionsanlagen vernichtete und das Unternehmen zwang, in kürzester Zeit neue Fabrikhallen zu bauen. Rolf Fehlbaum, der vier Jahre zuvor die Leitung der Firma übernommen hatte, erkannte die Chance, mit den notwendigen Baumaßnahmen eine architektonische Neuausrichtung zu verbinden. Nachdem der Architekt Nicholas Grimshaw innerhalb von nur sechs Monaten eine Fabrikhalle realisiert hatte, wurde er gebeten, einen Masterplan für die weitere Entwicklung des Areals zu entwerfen. Die Vorstellung war, dass in Zukunft weitere Gebäude in der gleichen Art entstehen und damit eine technisch ausgerichtete Corporate Identity unterstützen sollten.
Anlässlich des 70.Geburtstags des Vitra-Gründers Willi Fehlbaum wurde 1984 auf dem Vitra Gelände eine Großskulptur von Claes Oldenburg und Coosje van Bruggen errichtet. Mit der „Balancing Tools“ genannten Skulptur kam ein neues, die Welt der industriellen Produktion erweiterndes Element ins Spiel. Im Zuge dieses Projekts kam es zu der Begegnung von Rolf Fehlbaum mit Frank Gehry. Als Ergebnis der mit ihm geführten Diskussionen rückte Rolf Fehlbaum in den späten 1980er Jahren von der Idee einer Bebauung nach einheitlichen, wiedererkennbaren Gestaltungsgrundsätzen ab. Stattdessen verfolgte er seither einen pluralistischen Ansatz, der die Weiterentwicklung des Areals im Sinn eines gleichberechtigten Nebeneinanders unterschiedlicher Architektursprachen und -auffassungen ermöglichte.
Mit Frank O. Gehry, der bis dahin in Europa noch nicht gebaut hatte, projektierte Fehlbaum zunächst eine Fabrikhalle. Ihr sollte ein kleines Gebäude für eine Möbelsammlung vorgelagert werden. Daraus wurde das 1989 eröffnete dekonstruktivistischen Vitra Design Museum. Daneben steht das Gebäude der Pforte, das die Grenze zwischen den öffentlich zugänglichen und dem vorwiegend betrieblich genutzten Teilen des Campus markiert. Nicht weniger auffällig als Gehrys Museumsbau fiel auch das nächste Projekt auf dem Vitra Campus aus: das von Zaha Hadid entworfene, zwischen 1989 und 1993 erbaute Feuerwehrhaus. Für Zaha Hadid, die es mit ihren kühnen Architekturvisionen in Fachkreisen zu einer gewissen Bekanntheit gebracht hatte, war es der erste nach ihren Vorstellungen realisierte Entwurf. Das Feuerwehrhaus, das entgegen manchen Aussagen funktionsfähig war, wurde aufgegeben, als Vitra von der eigenen Betriebsfeuerwehr zur öffentlichen Feuerwehr überging. Heute wird der Bau für Ausstellungen und Events genutzt.
Fast als Antithese zu den expressiven Architekturskulpturen von Gehry und Hadid ist der von dem japanischen Architekten Tadao Andō geplante, ebenfalls 1993 fertiggestellte Konferenzpavillon lesbar. Dieses betont ruhige, auf klaren geometrischen Formen basierende Gebäude, das Andō in eine dem Vitra Design Museum direkt benachbarte Kirschbaumwiese integrierte, war Andōs erster außerhalb Japans realisierter Entwurf.
Den Schlusspunkt der Bauaktivitäten auf dem Vitra Campus in den 1990er Jahren setzte der portugiesische Architekt und Pritzker-Preisträger Álvaro Siza Vieira, mit einer von ihm entworfenen, 1994 vollendeten Fabrikationshalle. Der nüchterne Bau, der mit seinem roten Klinkerkleid Bezug nimmt auf die alten Fabrikgebäude des Areals, bildet einen neutralen Hintergrund, vor dem sich die Dynamik des benachbarten Feuerwehrhauses entfaltet. Imposant erscheint dagegen die ebenfalls von Siza entworfene brückenartige Dachkonstruktion, die den Weg zwischen seiner und der gegenüber liegenden Produktionshalle überspannt. An ihren Stahlträgern ist ein absenkbares Dach befestigt, das bei Regen tief liegt und damit Schutz für den Werksverkehr bietet. Bei schönem Wetter fährt es automatisch nach oben, um eine freie Sicht auf Hadids Feuerwehrhaus zu ermöglichen.
Nach der Fertigstellung von Sizas Projekten kam es für annähernd eineinhalb Jahrzehnte zu keinen weiteren Neubauten auf dem Vitra Campus, sieht man von den beiden kleinen Bushaltestellen einmal ab, die Jasper Morrison 2006 an der Charles-Eames-Strasse vor dem Vitra Areal realisierte.
Auf dem Vitra Campus befinden sich auch zwei Strukturen, die ursprünglich nicht von Vitra beauftragt wurden, hier aber eine dauerhafte Bleibe gefunden haben. Das ist zum einen ein „Dome“, der nach den Prinzipien des amerikanischen Erfinders Richard Buckminster Fuller entwickelt wurde. Diese kuppelförmige Leichtbau-Konstruktion, die 1975 von Thomas C. Howard bei Charter Industries realisiert wurde, steht seit 2000 in Weil und wird seither für Präsentationen und Veranstaltungen genutzt. Das ist zum anderen ein 1953 entstandenes modulares Fertigbau-Tankstellenhäuschen des französischen Konstrukteurs und Designers Jean Prouvé, das nach einer grundlegenden Sanierung 2003 auf dem Campus installiert wurde.
Anfang 2010 wurde das VitraHaus eröffnet, das als Besucherzentrum für den Campus dient. Das von den Basler Architekten Herzog & de Meuron entworfene Gebäude – aus scheinbar spielerisch aufeinander gestapelten, langgezogenen Giebelhäusern komponiert – ist das höchste und entsprechend schon von weitem sichtbare Bauwerk auf dem Vitra Campus. Vor dem Werksgelände von Vitra türmt sich ein zufällig angeordneter Komplex aus zwölf schwarzgrauen Satteldachhäusern auf fünf Etagen.[12][13] Das VitraHaus beherbergt einen öffentlichen Schauraum des Unternehmens, sowie einen Store, ein Café, ein „Lounge Chair Atelier“, wo Besucher der handwerklichen Entstehung des „Lounge Chair“ von Charles und Ray Eames zuschauen können, und eine für Events nutzbare Business Lounge.
Im Laufe des Jahres 2012 wurde eine von dem japanischen Architekturbüro SANAA entworfene Fabrikationshalle fertiggestellt.
Am 18./19. Juni 2014 wurde der knapp 31 Meter hohe Aussichts- und Rutschturm Vitra Rutschturm des belgischen Künstlers Carsten Höller eröffnet.
Im Juni 2016 wurde das Schaudepot des Basler Architekturbüro Herzog & de Meuron eröffnet. Es bietet Platz für rund 7000 Möbel, 1300 Leuchten und Nachlässe von Ray und Charles Eames, Verner Panton oder Alexander Girard.[14]
Das Schaudepot ist der puristische Archetyp eines Hauses, das nur aus leuchtendroten fensterlosen Ziegelwänden und einem flachen Satteldach besteht. Es erhebt sich auf einer ebenfalls aus Ziegeln bestehenden Plattform. Dieser erhöhte Vorplatz wird durch den niedrigen Seitentrakt für die Gastronomie zu einer Piazza, die das gegenüber liegende Feuerwehrhaus von Zaha Hadid einbezieht. Das eigentliche Museum besteht nur aus einem einzigen Raum mit offenen Dachstuhl. Die Wände sind weiß, der Boden hellgrau, von der Decke spenden Leuchtstoffröhren gleichförmiges Licht. In hohen Regalen werden auf drei Ebenen rund 400 Stühle aus zwei Jahrhunderten präsentiert. Dass der Neubau Lager und Museum gleichzeitig ist, verdeutlicht der Wandaufbruch an der rechten Seite, der einen Blick ins Untergeschoss des Schaudepots erlaubt. Dort lagern in Magazinräumen hinter Glastüren tausende weitere Designklassiker. [15]
Workmen laying concrete paving, Hunter Street, Newcastle near the Hotel Rawson and premises of Dick Bath, ca. 1921, Sam Hood, from nitrate negative, State Library of New South Wales, archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110327741
Mr. Kelly and staff provide a display of motor cars outside the premises on Catherine Street, Waterford. Can we take it that Mr. Kelly is the distinguished gentleman in the centre with bowler hat and top coat? The man second from the right looks like the doppelganger of Simon Harris, Irish Minister for Health! I wonder if the dealership is still around?
With thanks to input from several Flickroonies today (including Niall McAuley, sharon.corbet, B-59, BeachcomberAustralia and others) we were reminded that we've visited Kelly's dealership before, that it is the "purpose-built motor garage in Ireland", is still a motor dealers, though the Kelly's themselves (still in the trade) operate from a premesis outside the city proper....
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: Catalogue date c. 16 December 1929 (12:58 per clock)
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3659
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The Co-Op Store:
The Petersburg Co-Operative Society Ltd was formed in 1906 and intially opened from the Diamond Jubilee Buidling until 1932 when it relocated to this large premises. The Co-Op Store continued operating here until it closed on the 15th of September 1965.
The Co-Op Store was a general store and stocked just about anything. Their motto printed in the member's book was "Let each man find his own in all men's good and work together in noble brotherhood." At one stage, the Co-Op had more than 650 members and traditionally held a social and dance every year for them.
The corner section was built in 1897 and originally had a verandah on the front and ide. The section alongside the Capitol Theatre was built in 1906 and was taken over by the Co-Op because of the need for more room. The original timber mullioned windows are still extant.
The mural on the side of the building depicts a scene from the Store in about 1935.
The Capitol Theatre:
The Capitol Theatre was built in 1926 by Messrs Silver and Ollrich.
Prior to this, pictures were shown in the old town hall but with only 350 seats it became inadequate for a prosperous town.
Messrs H. W. and Thos Rees, tiring of waiting for a new town hall, decided to build their own theatre. It was officially opened on the 15th of May 1926 by Mr A. R. G. Hawke, local Member of Parliament and later Premier of Western Australia.
It had seating for 1020 people and included a very large stage. The two round leadlight windows near the top of the building incorporate the letters "CT" (Capitol Theatre).
Silent movies were shown, and live shows were also featured. The "Talkies" were introduced in 1930. The latest film releases came by train from Broken Hill, so Peterborough was the first town in South Australia to see them.
Following massive restoration efforts, the building was re-opened as a cafe in 2011.
Peterborough, South Australia:
Peterborough was part of the Eldoratrilla Run from 1851 until the Hundred of Yongala was broken up for selection in 1871. Farm land was taken up in 1875 by a group of German settlers; Peter Doecke (after whom the town was named), Johann Koch, and Herman Rohde.
In 1880, while the railway was under construction from Port Pirie, Koch surveyed his land into town allotments and named it Petersburgh. The coast railway arrived from Port Pirie through Jamestown in February 1881, and the inland line from Burra through Terowie connected with it in May 1881, so within months of its foundation Petersburg - as the Post Office and South Australian Railways insisted on spelling it - became a major railway junction.
The town rose to prominence very quickly, and has remained the major population centre in the eastern half of the region. From its early development, Petersburg became a classic railway town in layout - like Gladstone and Quorn - with its main street parallel to the railway, and its principal hotels, banks, and commercial buildings clustered opposite the railway station. Petersburg's growth was assisted by the extension of the railway to Broken Hill in 1887, and by the construction of the Transcontinental Railway to Perth and the
Ghan line to Alice Springs in the early twentieth century, making it a strategic hub of the national railway network.
Under Railways Commissioner William Webb, a large railway maintenance workshop was built at Petersburg, and a suburb of railway workers housing went up at the western end of town, using innovative cast concrete construction techniques developed by Adelaide builder Walter Torode.
In 1918 the Nomenclature Committee renamed the town Peterborough, oblivious to the irony that its German founder had originally given it an English name, and it had only been
made to look German by a bureaucratic mis-spelling. During the 1930s depression, a gold crushing battery was built at Peterborough to encourage local mining. The town has lost most of its railway function since the 1970s, but remains an important regional centre.
Source: District Council of Peterborough, Heritage Of the Upper North, Volume 6 - District Council of Peterborough, page 115.
Former premises of Denton Brothers in Smithfield General Market building.
Denton Bros still trade from a different part of the wider Smithfield Market site, but the whole General Market building (and other adjacent disused buildings) are in the process of being transformed into the new home for the Museum of London.
Pictured here in 1995 was, at the time, the premises of Roy's Motor Company in Norwich. They were Toyota dealers. The building still exists, looks kind of empty in the present day but there may still be some car servicing offered within. Roy's had left here by the time the first Streetview was taken in 2009, by then it was occupied by Richard Nash through to about 2021.
Roy's Motor Company can now be found at 242 Sprowston Road, a site previously featured on my stream as a rare urban Team Spirit branded forecourt, see below. They are still Toyota dealers.
A photo of an ageing, Cumbria Fire Service liveried, Volvo FL6 14 Tender, reg no. M249 RRM, parked up at the Technical Services and Stores premises, at Dalston, in Cumbria.
Not sure why the purple lighting, but it does look interesting this way. It was a pleasant and fairly warm day, so I decided to walk over to the Americana (and later the Galleria), even though I can't use my Canon EOS on the premises. (A year ago I got away with a few stills and video, but security caught me and told me to put it away. So it's been a year since I did anything here with my Canon.)
Resting up at its home premises in Chadderton is Yelloway Coaches Enviro 400 'MMC' M90 YEL, previously YX 66 WLJ in the Go-Goodwins fleet - thanks to the staff on duty for allowing the shot to be taken (and opening the gates to let the photographer in !).
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