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Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
MIRAFLORES
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima.
Originally founded as San Miguel de Miraflores, it was established officially as a district on January 2, 1857. As a result of the Battle of Miraflores fought during the War of the Pacific, Miraflores got the designation of Ciudad Heroica ("Heroic City").
Entertainment
The district is full of cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores' central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.
The Calle de las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") in downtown Miraflores, a favourite among Lima's teenagers and young adults, has many pubs which every weekend are filled with people.
Miraflores is a major gathering spot for the gay community in Lima. Peru's largest gay nightclub, Downtown Valetodo, is located in the district. There has been a bitter dispute with area residents concerning the noise generated by this venue and it has been closed several times.
Miraflores has always been a major hub for tourists in Lima. There are a number of hotels in the area, including a couple of international hotel brands (Hilton and Ritz Carlton) which have projects planned for construction in 2009. Furthermore, there are several shops selling souvenirs and tourist products.
Costa Verde
The Costa Verde ("green coast") area has several beaches, which draw surfers and beachgoers alike in summertime. However, these rocky beaches are not as popular with bathers as the large, sandy beaches in the districts south of Lima, such as Santa María del Mar, Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra.
Larcomar Shopping Center is located in this area.
Paragliders launch from the coastal ridge, wind providing.
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The Masikryong Ski Resort (Korean: 마식령 스키 리조트) is a modern ski resort at the summit of the 1,360-metre Taehwa Peak (Korean: 대황산) some 20 kilometres (12 mi) outside Wonsan City in Kangwon Province, North Korea. According to the official project plan, the first stage of the 2,430-square-kilometre (940 sq mi) development cost USD 35,340,000 (£21 million; €25.5 million) and included construction of a luxury hotel, ice rink, swimming pool and restaurants. Official revenue forecasts suggest that 5,000 people will visit each day, generating an estimated annual income of USD 18,750,000 (£11.1 million/€13.5 million).[1] The Masikryong (literally, horse-resting pass) project was initiated by the North Korean government as part of a drive to "make people not only possess strong physiques and sound mentality, but also enjoy their sports and cultural lives in a world’s advanced condition.
Despite political tensions with neighbouring South Korea, leaders in the north hope to host some events at the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang.
Constructed in just ten months, North Korea's only ski resort is part of a drive by leader Kim Jong-un to increase foreign tourist numbers from 200,000 to 1 million per annum by 2016.
DPRK, Oct. 2015
Group Portrait of Elizabeth Eiler, Gender Adviser, United Nations Office to the African Union; Zonke Zanele Majodina, Advisor on Human Rights, Congolese Women in the Diaspora, South Africa; Dr. Nadia Bellal, Gender expert specialized in participatory approaches, strategic planning, and project planning, monitoring and evaluation; Hadizatou Yacouba Ousseini, a Gender expert and Deputy Director of Cabinet of Niger during Global Gender Summit 2019 - Monitoring Gender Peacebuilding and Governance Linkages with Early Systems on November 27, 2019, at Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda.
Tim Rose (Admiral Ackbar) and me as I'm giving him the first of what will eventually turn out to be a whole calendar taking you through 20th Century history of famous nude photography. It's a long story, but it got started when I found a nude 12" Admiral Ackbar figure at a comic convention last year and decided to do this crazy project.
Plans to commercially release this in limited quantities next year without stepping on Disney's "no pornographic content" clauses are being looked in to. Stay tuned as things develop.
On July 8, 2010, (from left) Rear Adm. Andy Brown, U.S. European Command cheif of logistics, Judith Garber, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, and Latvian officials ceremoniously break ground on the renovation of a small fire station in Limbazi in northen Latvia. As part of a EUCOM-funded civil-military operation, the project will upgrade lighting and electrical systems as well as install new overhead roll-up doors at the station. The renovation is the first in a series of 10 fire station refurbishment projects planned throughout Latvia over the next five years that will retrofit new overhead vehicle doors required to support new fire and rescue trucks received as part of the European Union-funded donation.The project is being managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Justin Ward)
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FECHA DE CONCURSO: 2002 {br}
PROMOTOR: AYUNTAMIENTO DEL DISTRITO NACIONAL
DE SANTO DOMINGO{br}
{ El Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Santo Domingo, en República Dominicana, dentro del marco de un seminario de trabajo, bajo el lema “Ideas Urbanas para Santo Domingo”, dirigido por el urbanista Eduardo Leira solicita, junto a otros 27 proyectos estratégicos, el anteproyecto de una estación intermodal y una ordenación paisajística de una gran parcela, que abarca más de 70 Ha. La premisa del encargo reclama, más allá de la resolución del programa funcional demandado, que el proyecto plantee la construcción de un lugar público que forme parte de la ciudad e interaccione con ella en todas sus dimensiones como contribución a la mejora de los sistemas generales, a la racionalidad de los trazados viarios, a la funcionalidad del transporte, la mejora del paisajismo y la articulación de la topografía. Se demanda, por tanto, una visión integral y estructural de la ciudad para fundamentar el Plan Urbanístico que dirija el desarrollo de la capital. {br} Desde la perspectiva urbana, a gran escala, la propuesta propone reformar los perfiles longitudinales de las vías de circulación de alta capacidad que bordean y delimitan el solar, como un ensayo que sugiere la posibilidad de enlazar, de forma continua, el mosaico fragmentado que dibujan las zonas verdes de la ciudad, incluyendo la posibilidad de asomarse al frente y paseo marítimos.{br} La idea propuesta para el ámbito de la parcela se concreta en la estación intermodal. La nueva actividad trae consigo los usos tradicionales asociados a las paradas de viajeros. Esta circunstancia refuerza la condición pública y ciudadana del nuevo espacio. Se produce, por tanto, una interesante secuencia de las actividades propias de la plaza, del parque y del intercambiador de transporte que el proyecto formaliza y resuelve mediante planos a diferentes niveles que emulan, a pequeña escala, la topografía característica de la ciudad. Naturaleza y artefacto se funden en líneas topográficas que producen espacios funcionales para la espera, el encuentro o la transferencia entre distintos modos de transporte, y superficies ajardinadas para el recreo.{br} Una serie de plataformas, escalonadas y ajardinadas, conforman la parte alta del solar y descienden suavemente hasta fundirse en la parte más baja del área. Las distintas láminas configuran las cubiertas de los estacionamientos de autobuses interurbanos, urbanos y vehículos particulares y forman una serie de umbrarios en cascada que protegen los espacios funcionales del transporte.{br} Los andenes de espera se convierten en pequeñas plazas públicas que ocupan las hendiduras formadas por los quiebros de las plataformas, entre las cuales emerge el arbolado.{br} El proyecto propone la construcción de una línea de tranvías como sistema óptimo de transporte público hacia el centro de la ciudad, la estación interurbana del oeste o, incluso, hacia el aeropuerto.{br} Una gran plaza longitudinal ocupa la parte alta de la parcela, espacio de encuentro entre las estaciones enfrentadas de tranvía y autobuses.{br} El resto del solar se plantea como un gran parque natural que extiende sus brazos hacia la ciudad circundante y hasta la línea de borde de la costa.} {br}
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COMPETITION DATE: 2002 {br}
CLIENT: SANTO DOMINGOKOCITY HALL {br}
{The City of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic within the framework of a working seminar under the theme "Ideas for Urban Santo Domingo", directed by Eduardo Leira developer requests, along with 27 other strategic projects, the preliminary of an intermodal station and landscaping of a large plot, which covers over 70 hectares The premise of the claims commission, beyond solving the functional program claimed that the project poses the construction of a public place that is part of the city and interact with it in all its aspects as a contribution to improving overall systems, the rationality of the road routes, the transport functionality, improved landscaping and articulation of the topography. It is claimed, therefore, a comprehensive and structural support of the city to the Urban Plan to lead the development of the capital.{br} From the urban perspective, large scale, the proposal aims to reform the longitudinal profiles of roads bordering high capacity and surround the site, like an essay suggesting the possibility of linking, continuously, the fragmented mosaic that draw green areas of the city, including the ability to lean forward and walk at sea.{br} The proposed idea for the plot area of concrete in the train station. The new activity brings traditional uses associated with passenger stops. This reinforces the public sector, and citizens of the new space. There is therefore an interesting sequence of the activities of the square, park and transport interchange to the project plans formalized and solved by different levels that emulate a smaller scale, topography characteristic of the city. Nature and artifact merge into topographic lines that produce functional spaces for waiting, gathering or transferring between different modes of transport, and landscaped areas for recreation.{br} A series of platforms, tiered and landscaped, form the top of the site and descend gently to blend into the lower part of the area.{br} The various sheets set the parking decks intercity bus, urban and cars and form a series of cascading umbrarios protecting the transport functional spaces.{br} The platforms expected to become small public squares occupied by the grooves formed by the twists of platforms, from which emerges the trees. The project proposes the construction of a tramway an optimal system of public transport to the city center, the mainline station West or even the airport. {br} A large longitudinal space occupies the upper part of the plot, meeting place facing tram stations and buses. {br} The rest of the site is presented as a large natural park extending his arms toward the surrounding city and to the border line of the coast. }{br}
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{Santo Domingoko udalak, “Ideas Urbanas para Santo Domingo”, goiburu zuen eta Eduardo Leira urbanistak zuzendutako lan mintegi baten barnean, beste 27 proiektu estratejikoekin batera, geltoki eta paisai ordeanziorako anteproiektu eskaera egin zuten. Orubea 70ha ditu. Baldintza nagusietako bat, behar funtzionalez aparte, identitatea duen eta beste zirkulazio arazo paisajistikoei erantzuna eman lezakeen leku publiko bat eraikitzea zen. Beraz, arazoaren ikuspuntu orokor baten barnean murgiltzea eskatzen zuten, gero hiri-planaren garapena zuzentzeko.{br} Orokorrean proposamenak, abiadura handiko errepideen perfil lonjitudinalak mugatzen duten perfila aldatzen du. Aukera ezin hobea ezpazio hauek lotzeko proiektu jarrai batekin, kontuan hartuta, itsasalde eta hiriko parkeak elkartzeko aukera dagoenean.{br} Orubearen igururako autobus geltoki bat eraiki behar da, zehatzago esanda. Aktibitate berri honek, betiko ohiturak erakartzen ditu. Horrela, publiko kontzeptu hori indartu egiten da, non plazak, parke… garraio trukatzailea maila desberdinetan eratutzen da, hiriko topografia izango balitz bezala, baina eskala txikiago baten. Natura eta tresnaren (geltokia) arteko harremana bat egiten da, ezpazio funtzionalak eratzen eta tartean sortzen diren egon , topagueak paregabeak dira, egonaldi lasai eta zoriontsu edukitzeko.{br} Mailakatuta dauden plataformak eratzen dute goiko aldea. Beherantz dijoan einean proiektua lurrarekin bat egiten du.{br} Autobús, urbano eta auto pribatuak gordetzeko eratzen den teilatu xaflak, turrusta antzeko baten itxura du, non ezpzio funtzinalak eta egotekoak bereizten disuena. Itxoiteko nasak, plaza bihurtzen dira, eta teilatu eta hauen tartean zuhaiztiak azaleratzen dira.{br} Proiektak bere baitan hartzen du tranbiaren eraikitzea hiria beste geltokia eta aireportua elkartzeko. Plaza longitudinal batek goiko aldea hartzen du tranvía eta geltokiaren bidaiariek topaguen bat izan dezaten. {br} Beste orube guztia parke natural bezala planteatzen da kostaren mugaraino.} {br}
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Youth entrepreneurs in training listen to community leader, Sr.Batista, who has lived in the area for 30 years, talk about the social plight, past and present, of the inhabitants of Sítio Joaninha (video clip), which is the target for five different social development projects planned to be initiated in 2008 by these 25 young people from Hummingbird’s Youth Capacity Building Programme. The five projects will focus on health, nutrition, social communication, income generation and the environment.
Please visit and bookmark our latest Blog, ASAS do Beija-Flor (WINGS of Hummingbird), to follow developments with this important project.
Genero offers a comprehensive package of services to assist you in the delivery of your events programme. Our Event Delivery services can be tailored to meet your exacting requirements, from creative design to the supply of set and stage, lighting, sound, vision, communication and presentation support. Our Pre-production services include video production, event theming and brand awareness.
We specialise in the production and staging of live events, audio visual equipment hire and presentation creation. We provide fresh and creative end-to end solutions in the field of event delivery and multi-media communication.
Our success is based on the combination of three event management skills; creativity, production expertise and logistical experience. We can ensure consistent delivery across all media including:
• Conferences, seminars and AGM's
• Award Ceremonies
• Exhibitions
• Product Launches
• Road Shows and Touring Events
• Corporate Hospitality
• Fashion Shows
• Festivals and Outdoor shows
• Sporting Events
• Parties
• Concerts
We define our solutions as being offered in scalable tiers. Our resources can cater for your specific needs at any stage of your project process from initial concept to final completion. We can support your strategic marketing, creative and production solutions in preparation of your event:
• Project Planning
• Creative Consultancy
• Speaker Support & PowerPoint Production
• Display & Exhibition Services
• Multi-media & Video Production
• Stage Sets and Environments
• Event & Stage Management
• Design, Print & Merchandise
• Venue Services
• Graphic Design
• Post Event presentation production, duplication & distribution
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We provide creative audio visual solutions and complete technical support for live events of any size in any location. Our team of Producers, Project Managers, Lighting Designers, Sound Engineers, PowerPoint Designers, Camera Operators, Set Builders and Riggers ensure that Genero delivers a professional event time after time. Genero project managers are on hand to assist you with event & stage management, provide AV technical support and specialist skilled personnel.
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Breakout Session: What We Know Now: Applying Lessons Learned to Advance Haiti’s Future
In 2008, President Bill Clinton issued a call to action to the CGI community to address the pressing challenges that Haiti faced in the aftermath of four devastating hurricanes. The resulting Haiti Action Network, now in its eighth year, has galvanized more than 100 Commitments to Action focused on Haiti. To accomplish this, more than 300 companies, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and government entities have partnered with the Action Network—illustrating that addressing challenges in the country requires a comprehensive approach. For example, to provide quality education, it is also vital to consider public health, infrastructure, and job creation during project planning and implementation.
In this session, CGI members from diverse sectors will:
• Learn about the unique structure of the Haiti Action Network and the ways that members have worked together to tackle issues.
• Share commitment stories and key takeaways from Haiti—such as shared successes and difficulties with commitment implementation—that are applicable to member projects elsewhere around the world.
Panel Discussion:
MODERATOR:
Catherine Cheney, West Coast Correspondent, Devex
PANELISTS:
Maxime D. Charles, Country Manager / VP, Bnakers Association / EcoBio Haiti S. A.
Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Fédorah Pierre-Louis, External Affairs and Local Development Manager, Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP)
Panel Discussion:
PANELISTS:
Michael Carey, Co-Founder and Director, Soul of Haiti Foundation
PARTICIPANTS:
Robert Bank, President and CEO, American Jewish World Service
Dominique Boyer, Chief Operating Officer, Sevis Finansye Fonkoze
Duquesne Fednard, Founder and CEO, D&E Green Enterprises
Timote Georges, Executive Director, Smallholder Farmers Alliance Foundation
Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO, Build Change
Dominic MacSorley, Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Atlanta McIlwraith, Senior Manager Community Engagement and Communication, Timberland
This scan details some of the planned motorways in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s/early 1970s. East and south of Belfast, the M3, M7 and M4 are projected, an extension to the M1 at Dungannon is shown as under construction although it was actually built as A4, and finally the M2 to Ballymena is shown as under construction for the entire route. Taken from an A-Z Geographers' Road Map of Great Britain from 1975.
MIRAFLORES
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima.
Originally founded as San Miguel de Miraflores, it was established officially as a district on January 2, 1857. As a result of the Battle of Miraflores fought during the War of the Pacific, Miraflores got the designation of Ciudad Heroica ("Heroic City").
Entertainment
The district is full of cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores' central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.
The Calle de las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") in downtown Miraflores, a favourite among Lima's teenagers and young adults, has many pubs which every weekend are filled with people.
Miraflores is a major gathering spot for the gay community in Lima. Peru's largest gay nightclub, Downtown Valetodo, is located in the district. There has been a bitter dispute with area residents concerning the noise generated by this venue and it has been closed several times.
Miraflores has always been a major hub for tourists in Lima. There are a number of hotels in the area, including a couple of international hotel brands (Hilton and Ritz Carlton) which have projects planned for construction in 2009. Furthermore, there are several shops selling souvenirs and tourist products.
Costa Verde
The Costa Verde ("green coast") area has several beaches, which draw surfers and beachgoers alike in summertime. However, these rocky beaches are not as popular with bathers as the large, sandy beaches in the districts south of Lima, such as Santa María del Mar, Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra.
Larcomar Shopping Center is located in this area.
Paragliders launch from the coastal ridge, wind providing.
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Plans for the spring - Devoran Gabion website has a range of plans for making stunning use of gabions in garden design pdf plans inc a gabion garden bench.
Whitney Hall is seen in the far distance as the construction process of the new physical science building on Monday, September 16, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
Jeff Fallin, maintenance engineer, receives his 2012 EAGLE diploma from Maj. Patrick Dagon, deputy commander for the Nashville District, during the Nashville District's 2012 EAGLE Class graduation held on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 at the Jack C. Massey Business Center at Belmont University. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)
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The tree came to the inventor’s Fort Myers winter home in 1925, a four-foot Ficus benghalenis producing white sap that Edison and his friends Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone hoped to use in making natural rubber.
The banyan was not the answer. But it remained, growing to an acre in diameter, and becoming one of more than 1,000 plants from around the world ornamenting 25 acres dedicated mostly to the man who invented the electric light bulb, the phonograph and the motion picture.
Fifteen historic buildings stand in graceful restorative pose, including the Edisons’ home and guest house, a botanic research laboratory, an artesian-fed swimming pool dating to 1911, and Ford’s winter home. The combined Edison and Ford estates, museum, laboratory, and shops are open 363 days a year, closed only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
The botanical specimens, many of them labeled for easy identification, offer shade for strollers - and sometimes a touch of the exotic. It is not every day one sees an African sausage tree bearing hot-dog shaped fruit.
Edison, of course, is more extensively associated with his inventions. He held more than 1,000 United States patents, and he submitted patent paperwork for a record 65 consecutive years. Among his lesser known creations: the talking doll, the electric train, alkaline batteries, a fruit preserver, and a stencil pen, the grandfather of today’s tattoo stylus.
“Really cool,” said Aaron Summers, a visitor from San Diego. “I didn’t realize how many patents Edison actually had.”
A 15,000-square-foot, air-conditioned museum details the world’s busiest inventor’s extraordinary career, which stretched from 1869 - when he was 22 years old - virtually to 1931, the year he died.
Among hundreds of items and documents in the museum is Edison’s original custom Model T, a gift from Ford. A more personal artifact is the frame Edison built for the phonograph he was devising. Hard of hearing, Edison rigged the phonograph to the frame, which he would bite to feel vibrations and “hear” the music. The wizard’s teeth marks are visible in the wood.
The museum’s newest exhibit chronicles the camping adventures of Edison, Ford, Firestone and turn-of-the-century naturalist and environmental writer John Burroughs. The “vagabonds,” as they referred to themselves, camped throughout Florida and the United States.
Also on display is “Edison After 40,” an exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It includes images from Edison’s middle and later years. In counterpoint, “The Child Wizard” shows early images of Edison as a youth, as captured in Michael Dooling’s award-winning book, Young Thomas Edison.
And not to be missed are the entertainment artifacts: phonographs, movie projectors, nickelodeons and films.
“I learned a lot of new things. So many inventions. I loved the phonographic demonstrations,” said Susan Wood, who is from England.
More than 200,000 visitors per year come to the property, where Edison and his family spent winter seasons starting in 1885. For $2,750, the inventor bought the property from the family of Jacob Summerlin, a legendary Florida cowman known as the King of the Crackers.
“This house is a dream . . . and we are living in Fairyland,” Edison’s wife Mina wrote of the Florida retreat, which was dubbed “Seminole Lodge.” At its edge, the broad Caloosahatchee River whispers against a restored limestone-and-coquina seawall.
Edison was perhaps “green” before the word became fashionable. Some of his words on the subject are posted in the museum: “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” Edison wrote that in 1931.
Ford bought property next door to his mentor in 1916. As a youth, the motor company founder worked at an Edison company in Detroit. The budding auto magnate used his spare time tinkering with gas-powered engines. The two entrepreneurs met at a convention in 1896, and Edison encouraged the younger man. The two proved to be kindred spirits. The automaker purchased property next to Edison in 1916, naming it “The Mangoes.”
The entrepreneurs spent hours sitting on their porches, discussing projects, planning trips to the Everglades, listening to Mina play the piano, and perhaps playing Parcheesi, Edison’s favorite game.
“It was interesting to learn how good of friends they actually were,” said Eric Rye, visiting from Sarasota.
Guests had to stay in line, though. The Edisons had seven rules, one in particular noting that discretion was important: “Don’t fail to retire to your room for part of each day - so that the family may squabble without embarrassment.”
— By Jon Wilson, VISIT FLORIDA
Genero offers a comprehensive package of services to assist you in the delivery of your events programme. Our Event Delivery services can be tailored to meet your exacting requirements, from creative design to the supply of set and stage, lighting, sound, vision, communication and presentation support. Our Pre-production services include video production, event theming and brand awareness.
We specialise in the production and staging of live events, audio visual equipment hire and presentation creation. We provide fresh and creative end-to end solutions in the field of event delivery and multi-media communication.
Our success is based on the combination of three event management skills; creativity, production expertise and logistical experience. We can ensure consistent delivery across all media including:
• Conferences, seminars and AGM's
• Award Ceremonies
• Exhibitions
• Product Launches
• Road Shows and Touring Events
• Corporate Hospitality
• Fashion Shows
• Festivals and Outdoor shows
• Sporting Events
• Parties
• Concerts
We define our solutions as being offered in scalable tiers. Our resources can cater for your specific needs at any stage of your project process from initial concept to final completion. We can support your strategic marketing, creative and production solutions in preparation of your event:
• Project Planning
• Creative Consultancy
• Speaker Support & PowerPoint Production
• Display & Exhibition Services
• Multi-media & Video Production
• Stage Sets and Environments
• Event & Stage Management
• Design, Print & Merchandise
• Venue Services
• Graphic Design
• Post Event presentation production, duplication & distribution
Project Management & Technical Support
We provide creative audio visual solutions and complete technical support for live events of any size in any location. Our team of Producers, Project Managers, Lighting Designers, Sound Engineers, PowerPoint Designers, Camera Operators, Set Builders and Riggers ensure that Genero delivers a professional event time after time. Genero project managers are on hand to assist you with event & stage management, provide AV technical support and specialist skilled personnel.
Additional Event Services
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The Orchard Beach Bathhouse and Promenade, which since 1936 has served as the major waterfront recreation complex for Bronx residents, is an outstanding example of the federally-funded public works projects executed during the Great Depression of the
1930s. Located in Pelham Bay Park and fronting on Long Island Sound, Orchard Beach was constructed in 1934-37 during the administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Park Department Commissioner Robert Moses with funds obtained largely from the Works Progress Administration. Planned on a massive scale, its construction required a major landfill and a mile-long seawall to connect Hunter Island to the mainland, creating an entirely new, artificial landscape. Designed by a talented staff supervised by the well- known architect Aymar Embury II and the noted landscape architects Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano, the facility contains a bathhouse in a Modern Classical style and a wide promenade, the plan of which was influenced by Beaux-Arts principles. The concrete, brick, and limestone bathhouse, embellished with tile and terrazzo finishes, features two monumental colonnades that radiate outward from a raised central terrace. The crescent-shaped promenade, which follows the curve of the beach, is paved with hexagonal blocks and edged by cast-iron railings evoking a nautical motif. Situated on the promenade are Moderne style concession and supply buildings, park benches, drinking fountains, and modernistic lamp posts. The original and creative use made of these materials and forms, and the careful siting of the facility, make it a distinguished, individual design. Orchard Beach, a major accomplishment of engineering and architecture, and New York City's most ambitious park project of the New Deal, is recognized as being among the most remarkable public recreational facilities ever constructed in the United States.
History of the Site1
DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS
The drive to acquire new parkland for the citizens of the City of New York began with FrederickLaw Olmsted, who was the chief of the Park Department's Bureau of Design and Superintendence in the 1870s. His vision for the developing the Bronx included a system of parks and parkways, with roads following the existing topography rather than a rigid grid system as in Manhattan. City officials rejected his recommendations and dismissed him in 1877. However, his ideas were not forgotten. John Mullaly, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, rallied public enthusiasm for the plan. In 1881, New York Park Association was formed. It was made up of many of the City's leading businessmen and professionals, such as Charles L. Tiffany, Gustav Schwab, Jordan L. Mott, Egbert L. Viele, and H.B. Claflin. They proposed creating new public parkland by preserving large tracts of open land in rural areas that were newly annexed or soon-to-be-annexed to the City. The Association was unsuccessful, however, in persuading the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen to authorize a commission to oversee the selection of new parkland, so they took their case to the New York State Legislature. Despite much political opposition, the Legislature created the Park Commission in 1883. It proposed three large parks: Pelham Bay, Bronx, and Van Cortlandt, and three smaller parks: Crotona, Claremont, and Saint Mary's.
New York City government officials opposed the purchase of these lands because of the cost of acquisition; they were especially hostile toward Pelham Bay Park because the land was still located beyond city limits. After much debate and a series of court cases, all of the parks, including the embattled Pelham Bay Park, were secured for the City by 1887. Not only would there be thousands of acres of new parkland, but also a system of parkways - the Pelham, Mosholu, Claremont and Crotona Parkways - which would serve as green linkages between the great parks. Pelham Bay Park, the largest tract of land purchased under the bill, officially became the City's first public seaside park, as well as its largest park,on December 12, 1888. The City consolidated several estates to create Pelham Bay Park, including lands belonging to the Hunter, Furman, Edgar, Lorillard, Morris, Stinard, Marshall, LeRoy, and Delancey families. The park's largely natural acreage was virtually ready-made parkland, requiring only the construction of roads and walks.
During the late nineteenth century, the Bronx Park Department leased some former estate buildings to various organizations, such as the Jacob Riis Settlement. One of these, the Bartow-Pell Mansion is a designated New York City Landmark. Several others were either demolished or converted into hotels and restaurants. By the 1930s, virtually all of them had been demolished. The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, however, remains and is a designated New York City Landmark. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the City began to lease land in the park to campers, who constructed tents and small bungalows on Hunters Island. When it became overcrowded, another camp was opened on Rodman's Neck in 1905. Orchard Beach was named for the numerous orchards behind it. Orchard Beach eventually grew into a summer colony of more than 300 tents and bungalows, with wooden locker rooms and bathhouses. In 1912, about 2,000 people occupied the beach on summer weekdays and 5,000 a day on weekends. Boating and fishing were also popular activities within the park, and the renowned film maker, D.W. Griffith used the park's islands as the setting for several early silent movies. By the late 1920s, urbanization had reached the areas bordering the park and the facilities were becoming overcrowded and run-down. Vandalism was rampant and sanitation was poor. The press began to decry the monopolization of the park by the leaseholders, who were mainly Tammany Hall insiders who paid nominal sums for their leases, and then sub-leased the sites at much higher rates. In 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, the City obtained funds to construct improvements at Orchard Beach from the Civil Works Administration (CWA), one of the pre-New Deal Federal relief programs set up to combat unemployment. The hastily prepared changes to Orchard Beach were ill- conceived and poorly built.
An improperly designed breakwater and retaining wall, intended to expand the beach area, instead eroded the beach and caused flooding at high tide. The old unsanitary wooden bathhouses were replaced with poorly-ventilated and unattractive bathhouses built of paving blocks, and the beach was blanketed with uninviting, gray New England sand. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States in 1932 in the middle of the Great Depression that followed the stock market crash in 1929. Roosevelt promised to rebuild confidence in American capitalism and to improve the nation's standard of living by creating an economic program of unprecedented public spending on social programs and construction projects, known as the New Deal. New York City had been especially hard hit by the economic downturn,4 and its citizens, also hoping for change, elected Fiorello LaGuardia to the mayoralty of New York City in 1933 under a reform-minded "fusion" ticket. He chose New York State Park Commissioner, Robert Moses, a champion of reform politics, as New York City’s new Park Commissioner. The new mayor's success in securing a lion's share of monies made available by the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), and Moses' superb management skills and his ability to attract talented designers and engineers to his staff, resulted in profound physical changes in the environment of New York City. The recreation of Orchard Beach, beginning in 1934, was one of the most ambitious and successful projects undertaken by Moses with funds largely provided by the WPA.
Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses and the New Deal5
Fiorello H. La Guardia became the ninety-ninth mayor of the City of New York in January 1934, as an anti-Tammany Hall reform candidate. A maverick Republican and a five-term congressman from East Harlem, LaGuardia won the 1933 mayoral election on a "fusion" ticket, after losing the 1929 mayoral race on the Republican line. The Fusion Conference Committee at first considered Robert Moses, another Republican, who was appointed Chairman of the New York State Council of Parks in 1924 by his political mentor, Governor Alfred E. Smith, a Tammany Hall Democrat from New York City. However, the committee decided against Moses because of his association with Smith, and chose LaGuardia instead. At the time, Moses was a popular public figure with a reputation as a progressive and as the builder of great parks and parkways, such as Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway on Long Island. His endorsement of LaGuardia during the campaign was considered instrumental in securing a victory for LaGuardia. As a reward, the mayor-elect invited Moses to join his future administration within a week of the election. Moses accepted the position of Commissioner of Parks on the condition that the existing five independent Park Departments, one for each borough, be consolidated into one with himself as the sole Commissioner, and that the Park Commissioner's authority include control of the City's parkways.
He also demanded that he be appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Triborough Bridge Authority, which was then building the bridge of that name, and that a new agency, the Marine Parkway Authority, which would build a bridge to the Rockaways, be created with himself at the helm. Already in charge of the Long Island State Park Commission, the New York State Council of Parks, the Jones Beach State Park Authority, and the Bethpage State Park Authority, Moses would then be in control of all existing and proposed parks and parkways in the New York metropolitan region, with the exception of areas outside of New York State. Moses began to assess the state of the City's parks and to plan for the future as soon as LaGuardia announced his intention to appoint him as Commissioner of Parks. According to one source: "Immediately after the election he wrote out, on a single piece of paper, a plan for putting 80,000 men to work on 1,700 relief projects."
Moses hired a consulting engineer and three assistant engineers to survey every park and parkway in the City. It was completed by the time he took office in mid-January 1934. When Moses took over the Park Department, it was already employing 69,000 relief workers with a total monthly payroll of eight million dollars provided by the federal Civil Works Administration and the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA). However, Moses found the men to be ill- equipped and inadequately supervised, and thought that many of the construction projects had been poorly designed. Included among these was the earlier Orchard Beach reconstruction, which Moses considered to be an unacceptable design for such a grand site. He immediately began to revamp the entire operation of the Park Department and established a Division of Design at the Arsenal in Central Park. The staff was to be headed up by experienced professionals drawn mainly from his State agencies. They were a talented staff of young architects, landscape architects and engineers. Some of them had worked on the designs for Long Island's highly acclaimed parks, including Jones Beach, which is considered one of Moses' greatest accomplishments. His staff also included a number of well-known designers, among them architect Aymar Embury II and Gilmore D. Clarke, a landscape architect and civil engineer.
The Department needed to immediately begin producing plans and blueprints, so that the growing force of relief workers could be assigned to worthwhile projects. Within a week, Moses managed to persuade CWA officials to drop some of the regulations governing the hiring of staff and to relax its spending limits on project planning, allowing him to hire 600 architects, engineers and draftsmen at salaries above CWA wage guidelines. By the first of February, they were busily producing designs and blueprints. The Division of Design was organized in the following manner: a topographical unit of about 400 surveyors and draftsmen, a landscape architecture unit of about sixty people, an architecture unit made up of sixty architects and draftsmen, and an engineering unit of about fifty. Smaller units included an Arboricultural Department and an Inspection Department. All the work in the Division of Design was under the direct supervision of the Park Engineer, who was aided and advised by a Consulting Architect, a Consulting Landscape Architect, and a Consulting Engineer.7 All new projects began in the topographical unit, where a complete survey of the land was prepared. It then moved on to the landscaping unit, where the basic concept for the design was developed. Next, the three units: landscape, architecture, and engineering, collaborated to produce the final design and all the necessary construction documents.
The Park Engineer and his aides had to approve all the designs. Moses himself sometimes stepped in to revise or overrule a design, especially on the larger, more visible projects. Moses' superior management ability and political savvy allowed him to move projects along very quickly and to produce concrete results, gaining for him much public admiration. However, his personal demeanor, described as stubborn and arrogant, offended many and made him many enemies. He was known to sometimes fire people on the spot, and for no apparent reason. At times, he disregarded the legitimate authority of other governmental agencies. Once, when the Department of Plant and Structures refused to suspend a ferry service that used a terminal in the path of constructing the Triborough Bridge approach road, Moses had his men demolish the terminal while the boat was on the other side of the river. He feuded with President Franklin D. Roosevelt for years, even while Washington was pouring millions of dollars into Moses' own Park Department. His later battles with and subsequent triumphs over community groups opposed to the routing of the Gowanus and the Cross-Bronx Expressways through their neighborhoods are now legendary. To many he was a master builder; to others he was a spoiled bully; and he seemingly always had his way. In the summer of 1934, however, Robert Moses was a hero. Hundreds of projects, covering virtually every City neighborhood, had been completed. Structures were repainted, tennis courts resurfaced, and lawns reseeded. Hundreds of new construction projects were either underway or being designed.8 Among the projects being drawn up at the time was the new Orchard Beach.
The Design and Construction of Orchard Beach11
Orchard Beach and the entirety of Pelham Bay Park, geologically the southernmost extension of the jagged New England coastline and the most complex natural environment within New York City, sit on a foundation of Hartland bedrock. This bedrock underlies Long Island Sound, which had been a river until it was flooded at the end of the last ice age, 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. As the glaciers retreated, they left behind large boulders and a mixture of rocks, gouging out small coves in the bedrock, thus forming an irregular coastline. Glacial boulders in the Pelham Bay Park area include the Gray Mare Rock on Hunter Island and Mishow Rock at the north end of Orchard Beach. Left behind by the floodwaters were a series of salt and fresh water marshes, estuaries, coves, bays, inlets, islands, peninsulas, forests, uplands and meadows. At the time when Pelham Bay Park was acquired by the City, large urban parks were generally thought of as being pleasure grounds mainly for passive recreation and for the quiet contemplation of nature. Most parks, Pelham Bay Park among them, were preserved in their natural states or, like Central Park, landscaped to take advantage of the natural topography.
By 1930, all that had changed and, led by the thinking of Robert Moses, such parks came to be seen as vast recreational facilities for the urban masses. The value of the landscape was no longer just in the appreciation of nature, but rather in their potential for the placement within them of recreational facilities. Thus, the natural landscape could be manipulated and altered at will, as was the situation in Pelham Bay Park for the construction of Orchard Beach. The natural beauty of its shallow bays and rocky islands, gave way to a grandiose reshaping into an artificial landscape created with seawalls and landfills, a method of environmental manipulation known as land reclamation. Robert Moses was known to have been an avid swimmer who resided near the ocean in Babylon, Long Island. Thus, he took a special interest in the design and construction of the bathing and swimming facilities, such as Jones Beach, Orchard Beach and Riis Park, as well as the neighborhood swimming pools. Moses was said to have spent a lot of time at the Orchard Beach site, imagining about how best to remake the facility. After thinking of the concept for the new beach, he took his designers on a tour of the area, relaying his ideas to them.
The setting for Moses' vision of a new Orchard Beach was the easternmost area of the park fronting on Pelham Bay, a protected basin on Long Island Sound. Surrounding the bay are parts of Rodman Neck, a wooded peninsula on the Bronx mainland extending southward into Eastchester Bay; two large islands, Hunters and City Islands; and three smaller islands, the Twin Islands and High Island. Separating Rodman Neck from Hunters Island was a shallow inlet called LeRoy Bay. Moses' scheme consisted of creating a gigantic recreation area with a mile-long beach, a wide promenade, a large bathhouse including viewing terraces and concessions, picnic groves, game areas, playgrounds, and a parking field for several thousand cars. He instructed his designers to be imaginative, as they had been at Jones Beach, to make the new facility fit visually into the Pelham Bay Park environment. According to one account, it was Moses who first suggested the use of a colonnade at the site, citing the verticality of the site's wooded, hilly backdrop. To accomplish these plans, all the existing buildings on the site, including the private bungalow colony and the newly completed beach improvements, had to be demolished and Hunters Island had to be connected to Rodman Neck by filling in LeRoy Bay. On February 27, 1934, Moses publicly announced his plans for Orchard Beach, envisioning the proposed improvements to be similar to those made earlier at Jones Beach.
He described Orchard Beach in its current state as a "monstrosity," criticizing the poor design of the recently constructed seawall and bathhouses and accusing the Tammany-connected campers of "monopolizing" the beach. He vowed to open the beach to all the public. During the next couple of months, while the Division of Design was preparing the preliminary plans, Moses was engaged in a legal battle to evict the campers from the beach. By mid-May 1934, the courts decided that the City had the right to break the campers' leases, clearing the way for the project. The very next day, the Division of Design released the chart of development for Orchard Beach, showing a configuration of two smaller curving beaches, rather than the one large crescent-shaped beach that was eventually built.12 Soon thereafter, the bungalow colony was demolished. Over the course of the next year, the design for the facility was revised and fine-tuned, with the final design officially being released to the public in July of 1935. The published rendering showed a layout and design that was very close to what was eventually to be built: a curving beach and promenade with a concave plaza framed by two curving colonnades, joined at the center by a large terrace. Spreading out beside each colonnade were large, open-air locker rooms that were more expansive than what was actually built. Behind the bathhouse stretched a long tree-lined mall with a parking lot on one side and groves on the other.
Robert A. Caro credits Moses with the idea to use a colonnade in the design of the bath house, but not specifically for suggesting its concave plan.13 It is known, however, that the plan of the bath house was revised from convex to concave between Spring 1934 and Summer 1935. At about the same time, a competition was conducted to redesign the Palais du Trocadero, an art museum and theater across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The winning scheme by the architects J. Carlu, L. Boileau and L. Azema was a classically-influenced design consisting of a concave plan facing the river, featuring two wings joined by a raised central terrace in an arrangement very similar to the bath house at Orchard Beach. Furthermore, the curving wings were constructed of white stone and have vertically arranged windows flanked by tall pilasters. The curving colonnades at Orchard Beach produce a similar effect. The design for the Trocadero was widely published at the time. Embury and his design team may have been influenced by its design in their scheme for Orchard Beach. Landfill operations at the site began in early 1935, and problems immediately arose concerning the quality of the fill. Commissioner Moses planned to use sand only, but was pressured by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to use municipal waste provided by the Department of Sanitation in an apparent cost saving measure.14
Since the seawalls needed to hold back the fill were only partially built, refuse began washing out into Pelham Bay and Long Island Sound, polluting the coastline for miles around.15 The work was stopped, and Moses demanded that the Department of Sanitation clean up the mess. It had become clear that municipal waste was not a suitable fill material for the site, so Moses appealed to the Board to immediately appropriate $500,000 for 1,700,000 cubic yards of sand needed to complete the fill operation, so that the beach could open for the 1936 season.16 The main seawall, on the east side of the site facing Long Island Sound, was built by placing boulders and large rocks in a mile- long, crescent-shaped pile to created the curve of the beach. The wall is twenty-five feet wide at the floor of the bay and rises twenty-one feet, tapering to a point above high tide. A somewhat smaller seawall was constructed on the west side of the beach, creating a lagoon on the back bay behind Hunter Island. A total of 4,000,000 cubic yards of landfill was deposited, most of it dredged from Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Barges carried the sand to the site, discharging it into hydraulic pumps, which then deposited it a rate of 4,000 cubic yards per day.
Approximately 115 acres of dry land were created in this manner. Schematic drawings of the bathhouse facility and related buildings were made by the Division of Design during 1935 and the working drawings were produced and revised over the course of several months beginning in late 1935 through early 1937, with production peaking in Spring 1936. The construction of the facility would be phased over the course of two years to permit the reopening of the beach for the 1936 season. The plan was to first complete a part of the southern section of the beach, a piece of the south bath house, and a small parking area in 1936, while work continued on the rest of the site. The pace of construction accelerated greatly in Spring 1936 in anticipation of opening the facility that summer. Some 4,000 relief workers funded through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were being bused to the site every day from the I.R.T. Pelham Bay station.17 The crews were able to complete a remarkable amount of work in the three months prior to the opening of the beach in late July. Roads were laid, the temporary parking lot built, 250,000 cubic yards of sand were deposited on the beach, and one of the six bath house units was completed. To accomplish all this, crews worked for twenty-four hours a day in three shifts. Nevertheless, the opening was delayed for one week due to a shortage of available heavy equipment needed to deliver sand from Rockaway Inlet in Queens. On July 25, 1936, the partially built facility was opened with much fanfare.
As planned, the temporary facility included part of the south section of the permanent bathhouse containing shower and locker space for about 2,300 people, a beach with a capacity for 35,000 bathers, and parking for 2,000 cars. The festivities were attended by 10,000 people. Several dignitaries were present, including Mayor LaGuardia, Commissioner Moses, Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons, and federal Public Works Administrator Victor L. Ridder. Also in attendance was George Mand of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, who was cheered by the crowd when he labeled the beach "The Riviera of New York City." The celebration culminated in a fireworks show with a ninety foot display in which the words "Orchard Beach" were spelled out in fiery letters.18 On opening day, the larger part of the bath house, including the colonnade consisted only of its steel frame, and the facility, including much of the promenade and most of the beach and parking lot, was more than a year away from completion. Construction took place all summer long while the temporary beach and bath house remained open to the public. Work at Orchard Beach continued at a frenzied pace during the following winter, and when the beach reopened to little fanfare for the 1937 summer season, bathers were treated to a modern shorefront facility, which included a classically-inspired bath house building with an 180-degree panorama of Long Island Sound. Crews were, however, still on hand putting the finishing touches on the bathhouse, and the seawall, promenade, parking area and mall were not completely done until the next summer.
The completed facility boasted a mile-long beach, 200 feet wide at high tide, with a capacity of 100,000 bathers, bath house facilities for 7,000 people, a forty -five acre parking lot for 8,000 cars, and a mile-long, fifty-foot wide promenade. In addition to having showers, lockers and lavatories, the one- thousand by two-hundred foot bath house building included spacious waiting rooms, flower-lined ramps, administrative offices, reception areas, first aid stations, concessions spaces, a large cafeteria, an upstairs restaurant, storage areas, a boiler room, and a laboratory for testing water quality. The upper terrace of the bath house featured a large decorative fountain (removed in 1941), while the lower terrace had a dance floor and a bandstand (also now removed). Four utility and storage buildings, one story in height and constructed of brick, were built in pairs along the promenade, about a thousand feet to the north and to the south of the bath house. Eighteen lifeguard stations on the beach protected the bathers. The facility also included a large park area with picnic groves, baseball diamonds, football fields, tennis courts and children's play areas. Nearby a sewerage disposal plant and a large incinerator were constructed. There were also a water treatment plant, an incinerator, and a bus terminal large enough to hold twenty buses at a time. The natural vegetation of Rodman Neck and Hunter's Island was preserved, consisting mainly of chestnut, oak, hickory, black locust and black cherry trees. The newly created land was landscaped with flower beds, shrubbery and sod, along with a variety of trees, including poplars, oaks and elms.
Planters for flowers, shrubs and small trees were installed on the upper terrace, while the lower terrace was planted with trees. The facility, which was open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. during the summer season, was expected to generate nearly $175,000 per year in gross revenue, with an operating cost of approximately $134,000. While no charge was imposed for admission to the beach itself, it cost fifty cents to enter the dressing rooms and the fee for renting a locker was fifteen cents for children and a quarter for adults. Other fees included bathing suit rentals for one dollar including a fifty cent deposit, thirty-five cents for towel rentals including a fifteen cent deposit, and parking fees of a quarter for cars and motorcycles, and fifty cents for buses. A large staff was necessary to operate the facility, including a general supervisor of operations with two assistants, a stenographer and typist, nurses, watchmen, gardeners, laborers, ticket agents, engineers, mechanics, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and numerous attendants, lifeguards and clerks. Although the new Orchard Beach was generally considered a great success by the public and the press, several problems arose during it first year of operation. Rowdy behavior at the facility became a major concern, resulting in the opening of a special Orchard Beach Court at the nearby 45th Precinct Station House. A hurricane in 1938 caused $50,000 in damage to the facility, including $10,000 worth to the bath house. The cost of operating and maintaining the vast facility was higher than the original estimates, and Robert Moses complained to Mayor LaGuardia that the current operating fund for Orchard Beach and Riis Park did not allow for the proper maintenance of these facilities.19 He threatened to not open the beaches that summer without the necessary personnel. Water pollution caused by sewage discharges from City Island was another problem. Only after Moses threatened to close the beach permanently did the Board of Estimate approved $250,000 for the construction of a treatment plant on City Island. Traffic jams caused by the crowds on weekends affected nearby neighborhoods, especially the residents and businesses of City Island.
Subsequent History20
In 1938, just one year after completing it, the city began planning a substantial expansion of the popular Orchard Beach facility. The proposal called for expanding the locker rooms and for extending the beach and promenade northward to the Twin Islands. The first phase to be carried out was a 150 foot extension to the south locker room in 1939, which was built using materials and detailing that matched the original design. The stone fountain, removed from the upper terrace in 1941, was replaced by the present pavement featuring a compass motif. The rest of the work was delayed by material and manpower shortages during the Second World War. 21 Construction resumed in 1945 with the enlargement of the north locker room in a more simplified design than the original. In 1946-47, work on the beach and promenade extension got underway. The seawall and landfill were extended northward connecting Hunter and the Twin Islands, permitting the promenade to be lengthened by 1,200 feet and creating seven new acres of beach. Prior to this, the bathing area ended at the inlet that separated Twin Island from Hunter Island. The new section of promenade was paved with hexagonal blocks to match the existing, and the original fencing, lamp posts and benches were replicated for the new section. Two new jetties at either end of the beach were constructed to break the strong tides and to prevent the beach's sand from being washed away.
Also, the brick utility buildings on the promenade were altered for the installation of concessions. A number of alterations occurred in the 1950s. In 1952, new concession windows were added under the stairs leading from the upper to the lower terraces. Following a series of severe storms that damaged the beach, the north jetty was enlarged in 1955, and new beach sand was deposited. In 1962, a brick comfort station and concession building was constructed on the promenade, 2,800 feet north of the bath house. During the middle and late 1960s, the windows and doors were restored and new lockers were installed. Following that, however, came an extended period of neglect lasting through the 1970s. A proposal to replace the north locker room with a theater was rejected in 1974. By 1980, Orchard Beach had become a rundown facility with a reputation for being unsanitary and unsafe. Beginning in 1980, the Parks Department began planning for the rehabilitation of Orchard Beach to coincide with its fiftieth anniversary in 1986. Over $1,000,000 was spent on a variety of work, the most noticeable of which is the replacement of the original steel doors to the cafeteria with new aluminum units. However, the rehabilitation was not complete. Many parts of the bath house, including the north locker room, remain closed to the public.
The Architecture and Site of the Orchard Beach Bathhouse and Promenade
The New Deal construction projects within New York City, such as Orchard Beach, were a part of a national trend which included similar projects undertaken by various governmental agencies, ranging from the vast Tennessee Valley Authority to small cities and towns. Urban projects built with WPA funding often possessed similar qualities from region to region, partly because the difficult economic climate dictated the use of inexpensive building materials, but also because the programs provided employment opportunities for a generation of young architects and engineers who were committed to modernism. For example, the bathhouse and waterfront facilities at Aquatic Park in San Francisco are similar in plan and appearance to the public pool and beachfront projects being built at about the same time in New York City. The California facility, with its streamlined, concrete facade and steel-framed windows, bears a striking resemblance to the facade added in 1936 with WPA funds to the bathhouse at Jacob Riis Park in Queens. Influenced by Beaux-Arts planning principles, the architecture of the Orchard Beach bathhouse is a simple and restrained interpretation of classical styles, while the promenade features streamlined Moderne characteristics employing nautical motifs. Like the public pools and other waterfront projects built in New York City by Robert Moses during the New Deal, Orchard Beach used inexpensive materials, particularly concrete, red brick, and asphalt paving, in its construction. However, the original and creative use made of these modest materials by Moses' talented design teams and the careful siting of each project makes every one of them a distinguished, individual design, as much related to their specific environment and needs as to one another
In the summer of 2013, William & Mary and Colonial Williamsburg collaborated to search for archaeological evidence of the Bray School, the 18th-century institution established for the education of free and enslaved black children.
Photo by Stephen Salpukas
William & Mary
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(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
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Note: The following is from a 2012 Statement by US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell concerning Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Healthier National Forests, located here: www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/legacy_files/media/type...
"Another tool that has been helpful in building relationships and improving agency decision making is use of the objections process prior to a decision, rather than using an appeals process after a decision is made. Our experience with the objections process for hazardous fuel reduction projects authorized under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act indicates that the process tends to increase direct dialogue between the agency and stakeholders and often results in resolution of concerns before a decision is made, and thus
better, and more informed decisions result. One example is the Sportsman’s Paradise Fuels Reduction Project on the Mt. Hood National Forest. This project was initiated by local homeowners, who along with the Oregon Department of Forestry and an environmental group worked collaboratively to develop recommendations for the District Ranger. The most positive aspect of this effort is that the Sportsman's Paradise homeowner's group, which previously had not engaged with the Forest Service became an active participant in the project planning process resulting in new relationships. The Mt. Hood National Forest received an objection from a participating environmental group. After discussions with the group, the District Ranger made some minor revisions to the project which resulted in the group withdrawing their objection. Upon implementation, the authorized work will reduce the risk of potential catastrophic fire loss for approximately 900 acres surrounding the Sportsman's Paradise community of approximately 170 lots. The 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act includes a provision for the Secretary to expand and establish a pre-decisional objection process in lieu of the appeal requirements of the Appeal Reform Act. This provision allows the Agency to apply the positive experience gained from use of the pre-decisional objections process for Herger Feinstein Restoration Act authorized fuel reduction projects. We have begun work on drafting the regulations."
Photo by: Beth Willhite
Date: June 20, 2018
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Westside Forest Insect and Disease Service Center
Source: Beth Willhite collection; Sandy, Oregon.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
The final route of Ringway 3 around the south of London is of particular mystery, here two portions of it can be seen as projected, heading south from the Dartford Crossing, around to the south of Orpington in the east, and then to the north of M3 junction 1 in the west. The section in between these two is largely unknown, but it would have headed south of Croydon and through some wealthy suburbs! Also in this image is the projected route of Ringway 2, from Wandsworth, to the planned northern part of the M23, and around to the A2 near Shooter's Hill. This would have been the new South Circular. Taken from a Geographia Atlas from the early 1970s.
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
Leading the last two loads down into Whitchurch. As with all the previous loads, the residents of Whitchurch turned out to see the loads. The UK transport project planning, permits & escorts was by Teahan Convoi Service. This load was escorted by Teahan, Convoi Assist, RVT & Hampshire Police.
Refurbishment of this venue is nearing completion in this November 2014 shot.
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The Barclaycard Arena is one of the busiest, large scale indoor sporting and entertainment venues in Europe. Since opening as the National Indoor Arena in 1991, it has welcomed visitors to over 30 different sports and an extensive variety of entertainment and music. Everything from Sir Cliff Richard, Eurovision Song Contest to Disney on Ice and Strictly Come Dancing.
The Arena, which is owned by parent company, the NEC Group, is situated in central Birmingham, England. When it was opened in 1991, it was the largest indoor arena in the UK.[2] The multi-purpose arena is as flexible as possible; it can stage concerts, entertainment spectaculars, business conferences and exhibitions. The adaptable format of the NIA Academy creates a more intimate theatre-style auditorium to accommodate smaller concerts, ballet as well as comedy and theatre. The Arena has a capacity of up to 12,700 using both permanent seating and temporary seating configurations.[3] The NIA was officially opened on 4 October 1991 by the athlete Linford Christie.[4]
The NIA is located alongside the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line's Old Turn Junction and opposite the National Sea Life Centre in Brindleyplace. Close to the NIA, is The ICC which is also owned by the NEC Group.
In 2012 plans to refurbish and renovate the NIA were approved by Birmingham City Council. The plans will include creating a showpiece entrance from the canal-side, three sky needle light sculptures, a new glazed facade fronting the canal and new pre-show hospitality elements. The design is by the architecture firm Broadway Malyan and the building contract was awarded to Royal BAM Group in 2013 with an projected finishing date of Winter 2014.[5]
The £26 million redevelopment began work in June 2013 and the project plans to be completed by December 2014 and will be officially opened by singer Michael Bublé.[6] The arena will be called the Barclaycard Arena after Barclaycard won the naming rights for five years.
Marina Bay Sands view with Singapore Flyer on the left and the Helix Bridge visible between the Flyer and the ArtScience museum.
The Singapore Flyer is a giant Ferris wheel located in Singapore, constructed in 2005–2008. Described by its operators as an observation wheel, it reaches 42 stories high, with a total height of 165 m (541 ft), making it the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, 5 m (16 ft) taller than the Star of Nanchang and 30 m (98 ft) taller than the London Eye. [Wikipedia]
The Helix Bridge , previously known as the Double Helix Bridge , is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. The bridge complements other major development projects planned in the area, including the Integrated Resort Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Flyer, Gardens by the Bay and the 438,000 m² business and financial centre. [Wikipedia]
MIRAFLORES
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima.
Originally founded as San Miguel de Miraflores, it was established officially as a district on January 2, 1857. As a result of the Battle of Miraflores fought during the War of the Pacific, Miraflores got the designation of Ciudad Heroica ("Heroic City").
Entertainment
The district is full of cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores' central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.
The Calle de las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") in downtown Miraflores, a favourite among Lima's teenagers and young adults, has many pubs which every weekend are filled with people.
Miraflores is a major gathering spot for the gay community in Lima. Peru's largest gay nightclub, Downtown Valetodo, is located in the district. There has been a bitter dispute with area residents concerning the noise generated by this venue and it has been closed several times.
Miraflores has always been a major hub for tourists in Lima. There are a number of hotels in the area, including a couple of international hotel brands (Hilton and Ritz Carlton) which have projects planned for construction in 2009. Furthermore, there are several shops selling souvenirs and tourist products.
Costa Verde
The Costa Verde ("green coast") area has several beaches, which draw surfers and beachgoers alike in summertime. However, these rocky beaches are not as popular with bathers as the large, sandy beaches in the districts south of Lima, such as Santa María del Mar, Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra.
Larcomar Shopping Center is located in this area.
Paragliders launch from the coastal ridge, wind providing.
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U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
VE Bau- und Montagekombinat Schwedt, Betriebsteil Industrieprojektierung Leipzig
/ abandoned office for industrial project planning
The Masikryong Ski Resort (Korean: 마식령 스키 리조트) is a modern ski resort at the summit of the 1,360-metre Taehwa Peak (Korean: 대황산) some 20 kilometres (12 mi) outside Wonsan City in Kangwon Province, North Korea. According to the official project plan, the first stage of the 2,430-square-kilometre (940 sq mi) development cost USD 35,340,000 (£21 million; €25.5 million) and included construction of a luxury hotel, ice rink, swimming pool and restaurants. Official revenue forecasts suggest that 5,000 people will visit each day, generating an estimated annual income of USD 18,750,000 (£11.1 million/€13.5 million). The Masikryong (literally, horse-resting pass) project was initiated by the North Korean government as part of a drive to "make people not only possess strong physiques and sound mentality, but also enjoy their sports and cultural lives in a world’s advanced condition.
Despite political tensions with neighbouring South Korea, leaders in the north hope to host some events at the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang.
Constructed in just ten months, North Korea's only ski resort is part of a drive by leader Kim Jong-un to increase foreign tourist numbers from 200,000 to 1 million per annum by 2016.
DPRK, Oct. 2015
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
From a mini-workshop I led for Boston area higher education technologist. "Harnesssing Visual Thinking for Project Planning." Great group with folks from Brandeis, Wellesley, Harvard, Brandeis, Tufts, Wheaton College, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. Thanks to David G. Wedaman of Brandeis for being the point man in coordinating the event!
Using design thinking to think about how we might plan for project-based learning to achieve Curriculum for Excellence goals.
This is a picture of a pilot Steve Wilson, left, and David Beckman who does aerial sketch mapping surveys for insect and disease damage. The purpose of these flights is to detect new outbreaks or identify previously undetected outbreaks of forests pests, monitor existing outbreaks, provide timely information for managing planning, and provide information for forest health assessments and project plans. You can see the plane that they fly in right behind them, a Cessna 182.
What I feel sticks out the most in this picture is the bundle of maps David is carrying along with an abundance of other equipment. I like the way the pilot Steve has his hands over his eyes so he can get a better view, which is somewhat symbolic of the work that they do when they are flying. U.S. Forest Service photo by Randall Thomas.
International Dance Expo.
Artsfest Friday 10th September 2010
The Bhangra Dance Academy will be hosting an international dance expo, which will include between 8 to 12 countries folk dances represented.
Our aim is...
Promote the mixture of cultures in Birmingham
Activities available for people to participate in, in their very own city.
To promote dance as an international language that everyone can engage in.
Show the true colours of Birmingham internationally.
Promote our city as the true capital of culture of the UK and Europe.
Promote a healthier life style in our City leading up London 2012
The Fun Element...
Collaborate and Infuse different dance forms.
Allow and encouraging Audience Participation with every dance form.
Your Team......
Will have 15 minutes on stage in which they will perform for 5 minutes and run a workshop for 10 minutes. (Timing can be discussed to suit your needs)
Your team will be required to be in full costume together with props and the country your dance represents national flag.
What we want to achieve...
Bhangra Dance Academy will be working with all of the teams in the lead up to and on the day. We aim to have as many people as possible from all walks of life, cultures, ages... dancing to each dance together, “International Dance collaboration where all dance forms are performed together”.
The Bhangra Dance Academy is currently doing work shops in schools and other organisations and will be starting evening classes for Adults and kids to lead up to artsfest, with the aim of recruiting as many people of all different Ages, Cultures, and Social Groups to participate on the day.
What we aim to provide you with:
1. The Platform to promote you dance class
2. A Mention on all marketing material including all outdoor media.
3. The Opportunity to work with other dance teams..
I hope you see this as a fantastic opportunity to promote our Arts and we hope to repeat the success of our event with in Artsfest last year and a great build up to projects planned for 2011.
Last year’s event (The World’s Biggest Bhangra Dance) Artsfest 2009
I look forward to meeting with you and your team and discussing this in more detail.
Manny Hothi
Bhangra Dance Academy
07855 641 609
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
Facilitated by: Svenja Ruger (President, The Value Web ApS) With: Pratik Kunwar (Advisory Council, Kathmandu Hub) speaking in the Impact Skills Workshop: Design Thinking and Project Planning session at the Global Shapers Annual Summit 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland, 18 June 2023. World Economic Forum Headquarters, Villa Mundi – Oak Copyright: World Economic Forum/ Marc Bader
FMS Project Manager Kris Sanders (left) works with Katie Tetreault (right) as people take a tour the construction process of the new physical science building on Thursday, August 15, 2019 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer/CSU Chico)
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
A monumental, aerial sculpture is suspended over Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway from May through October 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.
The sculpture for Boston spans the void where an elevated highway once split downtown from its waterfront. Knitting together the urban fabric, it soars 600 feet through the air above street traffic and pedestrian park.
The form of “As If It Were Already Here” echoes the history of its location. The three voids recall the “Tri-Mountain” which was razed in the 18th-century to create land from the harbor. The colored banding is a nod to the six traffic lanes that once overwhelmed the neighborhood, before the Big Dig buried them and enabled the space to be reclaimed for urban pedestrian life.
The sculpture is made by hand-splicing rope and knotting twine into an interconnected mesh of more than a half-million nodes. When any one of its elements moves, every other element is affected. Monumental in scale and strength yet delicate as lace, it fluidly responds to ever-changing wind and weather. Its fibers are 15 times stronger than steel yet incredibly lightweight, making the sculpture able to lace directly into three skyscrapers as a soft counterpoint to hard-edged architecture. It is a physical manifestation of interconnectedness and strength through resiliency.
In daylight the porous form blends with sky when looking up, and casts shadow-drawings onto the ground below. At night it becomes an illuminated beacon. The artwork incorporates dynamic light elements which reflect the changing effects of wind. Sensors around the site register fiber movement and tension and this data directs the color of light projected onto the sculpture’s surface.
“Here in Boston, I’m excited to visually knit together the fabric of the city with art,” said Echelman. “The creation of the Greenway was a seminal event in the unfolding of our city, so I’m delighted and humbled to be a part of its transformation into a vibrant cultural destination.”
The work invites you to linger, whether seen amidst the skyline from afar, or lying down on the grassy knoll beneath. It embraces Boston as a city on foot, where past and present are interwoven, and takes our gaze skyward to feel the vibrant pulse of now. It invites you to pause, and contemplate a physical manifestation of interconnectedness – soft with hard, earth with sky, things we control with the forces beyond us.
By the Numbers:
– The sculpture includes over 100 miles of twine
– Longest span is 600 ft
- Highest point of attachment is 365 ft
– There are over half a million knots (~542,500)
– The sculpture weighs approximately 1 ton
– The sculpture can exert over 100 tons of force
– Projected plan area of the sculpture is 20,250 sq ft, or almost half an acre
On July 8, 2010, Judith Garber, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, Rear Adm. Andy Brown, U.S. European Command cheif of logistics, and Latvian officials ceremoniously break ground on the renovation of a small fire station in Limbazi in northen Latvia. As part of a EUCOM-funded civil-military operation, the project will upgrade lighting and electrical systems as well as install new overhead roll-up doors at the station. The renovation is the first in a series of 10 fire station refurbishment projects planned throughout Latvia over the next five years that will retrofit new ovehead vehicle doors required to support new fire and rescue trucks received as part of the European Union-funded donation.The project is being managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Justin Ward)
U.S. and Senegalese stakeholders meet to discuss construction of the Infantry Squad Battle Course Range and shoot house project Aug. 19 at the Special Forces facility in Thies, Senegal. The project, funded by U.S. Africa Command, includes work associated with the construction of an ammunition holding pad, observation tower, village prop, briefing area, portable bullet traps and door openings with ballistics protection. The pre-construction meeting, attended by U.S. and Senegalese Special Forces; Army Corps of Engineers Europe District; Vermont National Guard; embassy and contractor representatives, covered the project plan of operation, quality control and safety requirements, and other administrative matters. The anticipated project completion date is summer 2014. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jennifer Aldridge)
MIRAFLORES
Miraflores is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. Known for its shopping areas, gardens, flower-filled parks and beaches, it is one of the upscale districts that make up the city of Lima.
Originally founded as San Miguel de Miraflores, it was established officially as a district on January 2, 1857. As a result of the Battle of Miraflores fought during the War of the Pacific, Miraflores got the designation of Ciudad Heroica ("Heroic City").
Entertainment
The district is full of cafés, pubs, restaurants and shops, which is a draw for a large part of the Lima population on Sundays. Parque Kennedy, Miraflores' central plaza, regularly has flea markets and art exhibitions. Larcomar, a shopping mall overlooking the Pacific coast, is located in Miraflores, and is very popular among tourists, young people, and the middle and upper classes. They have restaurants, stores, a food court, ice cream shops, arcades, bowling alleys, nightclubs, bars, and the most modern cinema in all of Lima.
The Calle de las Pizzas ("Pizza Street") in downtown Miraflores, a favourite among Lima's teenagers and young adults, has many pubs which every weekend are filled with people.
Miraflores is a major gathering spot for the gay community in Lima. Peru's largest gay nightclub, Downtown Valetodo, is located in the district. There has been a bitter dispute with area residents concerning the noise generated by this venue and it has been closed several times.
Miraflores has always been a major hub for tourists in Lima. There are a number of hotels in the area, including a couple of international hotel brands (Hilton and Ritz Carlton) which have projects planned for construction in 2009. Furthermore, there are several shops selling souvenirs and tourist products.
Costa Verde
The Costa Verde ("green coast") area has several beaches, which draw surfers and beachgoers alike in summertime. However, these rocky beaches are not as popular with bathers as the large, sandy beaches in the districts south of Lima, such as Santa María del Mar, Punta Hermosa and Punta Negra.
Larcomar Shopping Center is located in this area.
Paragliders launch from the coastal ridge, wind providing.
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