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The Kabelsteg is a 76.50 m long pedestrians bridge over a side arm of the Isar river, built in 1898.
The name derives from its former secondary use as a cable bridge (Kabel = cable, steg = small bridge). It is an early example of a reinforced concrete bridge in Art Nouveau style and a listed structure.
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A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres (13 feet) high and 8 metres (26 feet) in diameter.
Der große Brückenbogen vom Festland rechts auf die Insel KRK in Kroatien - The big arch of the bridge from the mainland to the island of KRK in Croatia
Links außerhalb des Bildes folgt der kleinere Bogen, der zur Insel KRK führt. Die Brücke wird von den Einheimischen auch Tito-Brücke genannt, weil der damalige Staatspräsident diese Brücke geweiht hat.
man among the heavy columns of reinforced concrete under the bridge. .The modern bridge over the Mokva River (Krasnogorsk).
La pérgola es el elemento que cose todo el frente marítimo, recibiendo a los viajeros que llegan por mar y ofreciendo su sombra a los paseantes. Está resuelta con una viga cajón metálica de 1,60 metros de altura y un ancho variable entre 0,55 y 1,15 metros, que recorre un trazado sinuoso de 400 m de largo con sólo 16 puntos de descarga situados en dos líneas paralelas. La viga discurre a 11 metros de altura y de ella penden 265 lamas de hormigón armado blanco. (fuente: Junquera Arquitectos)
The pergola is the element stitching around the waterfront, welcoming travelers arriving by sea and offering their shade to passersby. It is determined with a metal box beam of 1.60 meters and width varying between 0.55 and 1.15 meters, which runs through a winding route 400 m long with only 16 discharge points located in two parallel lines. The beam runs 11 meters high and 265 lamas hang her white reinforced concrete. (Source: Junquera Architects)
Culminant à 57 m, le Phare des Baleines offre un panorama à couper le souffle sur l’Île de Ré et les pertuis.
Construit dès 1849 pour renforcer l’action de la vieille tour édifiée sous Vauban classée au monument historique, il fut inauguré en 1854.
Culminating at 57 m, the Phare des Baleines (whale lighthouse) offers a breathtaking panorama of the Ile de Ré and the sluices.
Built in 1849 to reinforce the action of the old tower built under Vauban and listed as a historical monument, it was inaugurated in 1854.
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The Church of St. Jadwiga in Wilkowo Polskie was built around 1540 by Piotr Ossowski, the then owner of the village. The church is an oriented, hall and single-nave building, reinforced with buttresses in the Gothic style. The windows are located on the southern and eastern sides, closed with an pointed arch.
Inside, there is a stellar vault and figural polychrome from around the mid-16th century. A Gothic passion group from the mid-16th century is set on the rood beam. In addition, the temple is equipped with three baroque altars and late gothic sculptures.
The church area is surrounded by a wall from 1712. Next to the church there is a belfry rebuilt from a gothic defensive tower, most likely a remnant of the former seat of the owner.
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Kościół św. Jadwigi w Wilkowie Polskim był zbudowany około 1540 roku przez Piotra Ossowskiego ówczesnego właściciela wsi. Kościół jest budowlą orientowaną, halowa i jednonawową, wzmocniony szkarpami w stylu gotyckim. Okna znajdują się po południowej i wschodniej stronie, zamknięte ostrołukiem.
Wewnątrz znajduje się sklepienie gwiaździste i polichromia figuralna pochodząca z około połowy XVI wieku. Na belce tęczowej ustawiona jest gotycka grupa pasyjna z połowy XVI wieku. Oprócz tego na wyposażeniu świątyni są trzy barokowe ołtarze oraz późnogotyckie rzeźby.
Teren kościelny otacza mur z 1712 roku. Przy kościele stoi dzwonnica przebudowana z gotyckiej wieży obronnej, najprawdopodobniej pozostałość po dawnej siedzibie właściciela.
Melbourne's iconic Princes Pier in Port Melbourne. A little before sunset on a very windy day.
It was a day that reinforced the need for a decent tripod. Another photographer near me walked away from his gear and the tripod got blown over, smashing the graduated ND filter and lens, which took the brunt of the force. An expensive outing for that poor person.
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A harvest fresco entitled "Agriculture in California" by Maxine Albro in the Social Realism style is part of the 1934 mural project in the lobby of Coit Tower in San Francisco.
Maxine Albro (1896-1966)
She was one of America's leading female artists, and one of the few women commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, which also employed Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.
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NRA "We Do Our Part"
National Recovery Administration (1933-1935)
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Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco.
The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard. The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 25 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation offsite.
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They are four reinforced-concrete structures located above the dam, two on each side of the canyon. The diameter of these towers is 82 feet at the base, 63 feet 3 inches at the top, and 29 feet 8 inches inside. Each tower is 395 feet high and each controls one-fourth the supply of water for the powerplant turbines.
n the early Middle Ages, the reinforced castle of Poeke (Flanders - Belgium) served as a real bastion where knights from Flanders county assembled. The castle, which was the residence of the "Heren Van Poucke" ("Gentlemen of Poeke - mention the old-Dutch spelling of the word "Poeke") was at that time governed from Bruges. However, combative Ghent rebels repeatedly attacked the castle. Consequently, after the year 1453 Poeke castle felt into ruin for many years. One and a half century late, in 1597, the family Preud'homme d'Hailly from Rijsel (North of France) bought the castle from a family called "Delrye" and governed Poeke for more than 2 centuries. They made the castle the centre of their increasingly growing properties.
It was in the same year 1597 that heirs of this nobility introduced the title "Burggraven of Nieuwpoort" ("Viscounts of Nieuwpoort"). Although their cultural wealth was initially suppressed because of the 16th and 17th century wars, successive generations of viscounts led the Baronny of Poucques to a short, but uncontested peak in 1765. From 1762 up to 1774, Karel Florent Idesbald de Preudhomme was not onlyViscount of Nieuwpoort and Oombergen, Baron of Poeke, Sir of Axpoele, Neuville, Sint-Lievens-Esse, Velaines, etc., but also chamberlain of the Austrian king.
At that time, the kingdom of the Netherlands was governed by Austria and looked as a rigid and hierarchic society, where the aristocracy was able to maintain their privileges up to the French Revolution (1789). Even after the French-Napoleonic empire collapsed (1815) and after Belgium came into being (1830), the aristocracy could maintain its position as the high social class on the Flemish countryside.
The isolated location of Poeke, the steady decrease of the number of its inhabitants and the stable agricultural character of Poeke, which mainly consisted of farmsteads, all these reasons caused the aristocratic power system to continue to function until after the Second World War (1945).
In the second half of the 19th century, the family Preudhomme D'Hailly was once and for all past its peak and financial problems weakened its position inside as well as outside the village. As a consequence, they had to abandon the castle in 1872.
The family Pycke de Peteghem - which was raised to the peerage in 1730 - bought the castle and gradually dominated the small East-Flemish agricultural village. Its political representation mainly focused on the mayoralty, a position that was rarely assigned to someone who was not a member of the aristocratic family.
The castle largely survived both World Wars, but the aristocratic influence during the 20th century died out when the last Baroness of Poeke, Inès Pycke de Peteghem deceased (1955). The property structure of the castle changed for the last time in 1977, when Poeke fused with Aalter. From then on, the castle was owned by the community and became a public domain. Up to now, it is part of an extraordinary recreation facility.
With 11,961 burials Tyne Cot is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. 8,373 are unidentified.
The Memorial commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known. The 54,395 missing before that date are listed on the Menin Gate at Ypres.
Tyne Cot marks the farthest point in Belgium reached by Commonwealth forces in the Third Battle of Ypres (1917). It's located near the village of Passendale (or "Passchendaele" and "Passiondale") which came to summarize all the carnage and suffering on the Western Front in the First World War, just as much as Verdun and the Somme.
Tyne Cot is built on a slope overlooking the landscape towards Ypres. It helps to understand the strategic advantage of these ridges. The Germans reinforced them with strongpoints. It took the Commonwealth Forces 4 months and 250,000 casualties to gain five miles. The scheduled breakthrough was not achieved. The cross of sacrifice in the cemetery was erected on a German pillbox.
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The figure of Jesus Christ the King of the Universe is a reinforced concrete sculpture erected in 2010.
The total height of the monument is 36 m, of which 33 m falls on the figure of Jesus and 3 m on gilded crown. The statue was erected at artificial mound a height of 16.5 meters, (the total height of the monument and the mound is 52.5 m). The cost of the entire construction is estimated at about 6 million zlotys, which were covered by voluntary contributions from parishioners, American Poles, and local businessmen.
The sculpture refers to the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, but is 3 meters higher. Today the statue of the monument in Świebodzin is the highest sculpture depicting Jesus Christ in the world.
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Figura Jezusa Chrystusa Króla Wszechświata to żelbetowa rzeźba wzniesiona w 2010.
Całkowita wysokość pomnika wynosi 36 m, z czego 33 m przypada na figurę Jezusa a 3 m na wieńczącą pomnik pozłacaną koronę. Pomnik wzniesiony został na liczącym 16,5 m wysokości sztucznie usypanym kopcu (łączna wysokość pomnika i kopca wynosi 52,5 m). Koszty całej budowy szacuje się na ok 6 milionów złotych, które zostały pokryte z dobrowolnych datków parafian, Polonii amerykańskiej, a także lokalnych przedsiębiorców.
Forma rzeźby nawiązuje do pomnika Chrystusa Odkupiciela w Rio de Janeiro, od którego jest o 3 metry wyższa. Obecnie statua pomnika w Świebodzinie jest najwyższą rzeźbą przedstawiającą Jezusa Chrystusa na świecie.
For Macro Mondays for 1/23 for tape. This is a fabric case for some reading glasses and to reinforce the edges, it is sewn with bias binding tape. Btb, this was not the picture I thought I’d take but it’s sort of dramatic— yes?… The size verification shot should be next in the photostream— this portion is about an inch and 5/8ths.
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ANSH scavenger2 tradition…. My Sunday tradition is to stage and to photograph a macro picture for whatever the Macro Mondays theme is for the week! I don’t think I’ve missed one in years!!
But the more powerful point of the contrapasso that attaches appropriate schemes of punishment to different species of sin is that your condition in Hell conforms exactly to the shape and form of your own desires,14 of those desires of yours acting upon which got you there in the first place. In that sense you make your own Hell for yourself.
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Linguella Tower, Portoferraio, Elba Island
The fortified structure of the tower was built in the early 16th century on the spot where stood the remains of an ancient Roman Villa. It owes its creation to Medici, who would in the Tower, one more defensive structure to protect the port of Portoferraio. The coastal Tower has an octagonal plan, with a crease articulated in the lower part bordering the below base, which on six of the eight sides rests directly on the rocky strand of the sea.
The top of the Linguella Tower has a greater overhang than the bottom, where on the summit ends with some mighty brackets that surround the terrace originally used for sighting. The walls of the tower is entirely covered with red bricks with some finishing touches of white marble and with traces of stone curtain walls that are at the north-western corner of the tower, going to delimit externally a bastion structure with shoe base, which previously gave it an additional element of security to the entire complex.
The Navy installed a lighthouse on the western corner of walls of the tower for the night lighting of the port area of Portoferraio.
This supreme example of military architecture to defend the port of Portoferraio was designed by Giovanni Camerini in 1548. In the past the Linguella Tower, was linked to the Gallo Tower from a big chain, which prevented for defensive purposes the entrance into the dock of Portoferraio.
In the 17th century, Grand Duke Ferdinando II, did reinforce the ramparts overlooking the sea. The bastion of St. Francis and the sentry box on which stands the cross of Lorena was rebuilt after the war devastation.
Dragon's teeth (German: Drachenzähne) are square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete first used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry. The idea was to slow down and channel tanks into killing zones where they could easily be disposed of by anti-tank weapons.
Only after the invention of fire arms, Katz Castle had to be substantially reinforced. It was also upgraded as bastion against Maus Castle in the Electorate of Trier. At the same time the donjon of Katz Castle was raised to approx. 197 feet to ensure eye contact with Reichenstein Castle which is approx 1.9 miles away.
In 1479 the family line of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen died out. In succession of long-lasting disputes on heritage, Katz Castle and Rheinfels Castle were besieged, demolished, rebuilt and extended several times. Even though repairs had been made in 1800, Napoleon blew up Katz Castle in 1806.
In 1896 District Administrator Berg acquired Katz Castle, to reconstruct it as close as possible to the original design. From 1946 till 1951 Katz Castle served as local High School "Institut Hofmann" including board
Since 1989 Katz Castle is private property of a Japanese and accommodates the hotel Katz Castle.
Europe, The Netherlands, Nood Brabant, Eindhoven, Evoluon, Roof (uncut)
Inside the Evoluon museum, shot towards the structuralist reinforced concrete skeleton of the roof. The building, which looks like a UFO or flying saucer, was built as a showcase for technological progress, particularly those in which the originally Eindhoven-based company Philips was involved. It was designed by Louis Kalff and Leo de Bever and transferred to the municipality of Eindhoven in 1966 on Philips' 75th anniversary.
The building was an educational technology museum from 1966 to 1989 and attracted many visitors until the 1970s. This was partly because they were allowed to experiment and operate the showcased models themselves. This was new then and particularly attractive to schoolchildren and other young people. Many schools traditionally organised an 'Evoluon trip' once a year.
In 2022, the Evoluon reopened as a museum under the leadership of the Next Nature Foundation. This organisation focuses on researching the impact of technology on our lives and the planet. Next Nature makes future scenarios tangible for a wide audience in the Evoluon through exhibitions and educational programmes for schools and companies.
This is number 16 of the Eindhoven abum.
The mating ritual of Magellanic penguins involves a series of braying calls, dance-like moves, and some preening. The larger male will follow behind the female, patting her on both sides with his flippers as they walk. In this case, I don't believe they actually mated. It was quite late in the breeding season, so maybe the behaviour was just reinforcing their bond. Or, perhaps they lost their first batch of eggs/chicks and were trying again.
It is reported that this species is monogamous and sometimes mate for life.
It was quite bright when I took this image, so it is a bit more contrasty and 'crunchy' than I like, but it shows the dancing quite well.
1937 Railton with Hudson Deluxe 8 engine/chassis and Limo body by the English Coachbuilder Rippon Bros made for the Works Manager Colonel Rippon as a personal estate car. Rippon Bros, Coachmakers began in 1555, and served the original Queen Mary (yes that one) and Queen Elizabeth 1 as official coachbuilders. They made their first auto body in 1905 for an early Rolls Royce.
This Railton boasts many luxurious features such as aluminum coachwork, dual sliding roof panels, and fitted 3-piece luggage just to name a few. One particularly luxurious amenity is the an inlaid walnut cabinet in the passenger compartment which transforms into a table and contains a matchbox, cigarette and cigar boxes, a silver plated cognac flask, a corkscrew, and a chocolate box. In addition to its refined finishings and due to its intend use as an estate car, this Railton boasts many unusual features, such as a waterproof compartment concealed under the luggage for carrying sport rifles and a reinforced trunk lid that doubles as a shooting platform capable of supporting two men.
The Hudson powered Railton was named for British automotive engineer Reid A. Railton, who designed both a land speed record setting automobile and a water speed record setting boat. The Railton was built in England from 1933 until the beginning of World War II with less than 1,500 being produced. The company was started by the innovative car and boat builder, Noel Macklin who was looking for a new car-making venture after he sold his Invicta car company in 1933. He hoped that combining American engine power and reliability, with a Rolls Royce like luxurious body would sell........and a few Brits found the car a practical marriage of both. Rare and desirable
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Dragons’ bridge was built in the beginning of the 20th century, when Ljubljana was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It is one of the best examples of reinforced concrete bridges and of the Vienna Secession style.
This is a double exposure of two shots I took in the Thar desert in India. In the vicinity of our desert camp, where we were staying in a full, albeit luxurious, tent, I found a concrete block with reinforcing irons peeking out of it. Since the sun was just setting behind it, I took a picture of it. One day later we had the pleasure of riding camels through sand dunes, which always gives spectacular shots anyway. I created this image from both shots.
After the Battle of Mohács (1526) a sorrowful period began in the history of Eger. During the dual kingship the town changed hands almost every year and the Ottoman army came closer as well. This circumstance provided the reason for reinforcing the fortress. In the autumn of 1552, Captain István Dobó and his handful of soldiers were successful in defending the fortress and northern Hungary from the expanding Turkish Empire. The first writer of note to draw on the story was the Hungarian renaissance poet and musician Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (c. 1510–1556), whose account may have come partly from eyewitnesses. Géza Gárdonyi wrote his novel, "Eclipse of the Crescent Moon" in remembrance of this battle, and his work has been translated into numerous languages.
Despite the fact that István Dobó and his soldiers successfully defended the fortress, it was destroyed during the siege, so it was essential to wholly rebuild it. The reconstruction process of the fortress took place between 1553 and 1596 and Italian artificer officers planned the renovations. The famous Hungarian poet, Bálint Balassi also served here for a few years beginning in April 1578.
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The Illinois State Fairgrounds Coliseum was a huge hit when it first opened to fairgoers in 1901. But not huge enough, because the building had to be substantially expanded only two years later.
The Coliseum was designed in 1901 by W.H. Reeves of the then-prominent Peoria architectural firm of Reeves and Baillie. The main purpose was to accommodate horse shows and livestock competitions. Plans originally called for a 200-by-225-foot building, but finances forced the size to be reduced to 125 feet by 175 feet. It wasn’t large enough.
“Although the state fair is drawing toward its close, the coliseum building is still a place where crowds congregate daily,” the Illinois State Register reported on Oct. 4, 1901 (fairs were held in the fall then). “During yesterday afternoon it was almost impossible to gain an entrance, so dense was the crowd.”
As a result, state officials decided in spring 1903 to extend the Coliseum 100 feet east at a cost of $15,000. The building’s footprint today is 60,000 square feet, nearly half of that the show ring. The Coliseum has seating for 2,700 people.
Besides livestock events, other early uses of the Coliseum included vaudeville performances, often sponsored by George Chatterton, owner of the fabled Chatterton Opera House in downtown Springfield. Presumably, shows like “Barnes & Sarcho’s Great Water Circus,” a April 1902 extravaganza that featured a team of diving elk and a singing donkey, wouldn’t have worked in a conventional theater.
The Coliseum got a second major facelift in 1958. The $600,000 project closed the previously open-air arches, created a glass entrance/ticket booth and replaced the building’s wooden seats with metal ones.
In 2016, however, an engineering study found corrosion in support beams, roof leaks and missing bolts and screws in support elements, among other problems. The building was shut down for the 2017 and 2018 fairs, and state officials set aside $12.7 million to make the repairs.
Illinois Agri-News reported Aug. 1 that the Coliseum’s steel columns were reinforced and sealed to stop rusting and rotted beams replaced and reinforced. Energy-efficient fixtures, including LED lighting and 250 energy-efficient windows were installed. Ceiling fans also have been added, the newsletter said, although the next round of improvements are to include a heating and cooling system, which would let the building be used year-round.
The Coliseum reopened for the 2019 Fair.
Source: Illinois State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Sangamon County Historical Society
Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida fashioned the face. The statue is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, excluding its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.[1][2]
The statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long, 700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.[3] It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone, and was constructed between 1922 and 1931.
The Metekhi church is a cross-cupola church. While this style was the most common throughout the Middle Ages, the Metekhi church is somewhat anachronistic with its three projecting apses in the east facade and the four freestanding pillars supporting the cupola within. The church is made of brick and dressed stone. The restoration of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries mostly employed brick. The facade is for the most part smooth, with decorative elements concentrated around the windows of the eastern apses. Horizontal bands below the gables run around all four sides and serve as a unifying element. The north portico of the main entrance is not a later addition but was built at the same time as the rest of the church.
Legend has it also that the Metekhi cliff was a site of the martyrdom of Habo (8th century), Tbilisi’s patron saint. A small church in his honor is now under construction at the foot of the cliff.
The cliff is connected to the opposite, right embankment of the Mtkvari river, via a reinforced concrete bridge, which was constructed in 1951 at the place of the two older bridges. Unfortunately, a unique complex of various structures and buildings dating from the 17th to 19th centuries were destroyed during the construction of the bridge. Recently, the city’s government announced its intention to restore this part of historic Old Tbilisi as it was in the first half of the 20th century.
WW2/Cold War defensive anti-submarine barrier.
Steel reinforced concrete pilings.
This surviving 2km section on the Essex side of the Thames estuary marks the border of the MoD Shoeburyness firing range.
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A striking example of 1970s architecture located close to St Paul's Cathedral. This building was refurbished a few years ago.
It occupies the former site of a church destroyed in WWII.
Ganter Bridge is a reinforced concrete road bridge which is the longest spanning bridge in Switzerland, located along the Simplon Pass road in the canton of Valais about 10 km (6 mi) south of Brig.
The overall length is 678 m (2,224 ft) with a main span of 174 m (571 ft), and a maximum tower height of 150 m (492 ft).
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The Simplon Pass (French: Col du Simplon; German: Simplonpass; Italian: Passo del Sempione) (2,005 m or 6,578 ft) is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland. It connects Brig in the canton of Valais with Domodossola in Piedmont (Italy).
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C-FFAL, a Boeing 737-2R8C, on approach to runway 23 at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving as RAG100 (Glencore Canada Corporation) from Montreal, Quebec. This aircraft supports the Raglan nickel mine near Kattiniq, Quebec - 1,270 statute miles north northeast of her base at Mississauga.
She began her career as 5H-MRK with Air Tanzania way back in May 1979. The 40-year-old still looked great.
C-FFAL has been worn on this airframe since it arrived in Canada back in January 2005, when it was registered to Falconbridge Limited in Toronto. That mining company was later acquired by Glencore.
The winter solstice now grips the northern hemisphere in darkness. I refer to November and December as the dark part of winter even though most of this period falls in autumn. It's not just the darkness, but the constant ebbing away of daylight that depletes me. Each day brings less daylight than the one before. It's like a grim countdown that reinforces the notion that these final months of the year are something to be endured rather than appreciated. That's not a constant for me, however it is the general overtone. My psyche often rises and falls based on the cloud cover. Some days the overcast is so thick that it seems as if the streetlights will pop on during the midday. Skies so dark that it's impossible to detect even a glimmer indicating the position of the sun. And the landscape rendered into a shadowless, low contrast, and desaturated muddle. Optimism seems to surge when the sun manages to break free from the clouds. Still not much color in the world; quite bleak in fact. And the shadows cast all seem absurdly long and distorted. But everything is relative, so we take what we get and adapt to the circumstances. Three full months of astronomical winter lie ahead (and probably even more in terms of actual weather). But being on the gaining side of daylight is like hitting a mental reset button for me. A glimmer of optimism amid the shroud of fog, not unlike the sun, rising dimly in this scene.
The Brussels International Exposition of 1935 was a World Fair held between 27 April and 6 November on the Heysel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium.
The construction of the Brussels Exhibition Centre began in 1931, when five halls were built to celebrate the centenary of Belgian Independence.
The Palais 5, (informally known as the Centenary Palace), was the most ornamental of these first five halls and is still in use today. In 1935, the building was the largest reinforced concrete frame in the world and the largest covered space in Belgium.
This beautiful Deco building is of the colossal style, yet has simplicity and geometric elegance to my eyes.
Designed by architects Joseph van Neck and engineer Louis Baes in the Art Deco style.
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Stadtbahnstation Rathaus Süd in Bochum is one of three Stadtbahn facilities that form the Bochum Rathaus station. Since the original plan to connect all three stations underground by a huge concourse had been discarded, there was a drastic simplification of the traffic links and thus of the leeway given for the station’s construction.
The underground station is a large-volume, column-free space with a supporting tiled reinforced concrete slab ceiling. 13 prismatic glass bodies penetrate the ceiling and the road surface so that daylight can flood the station. The glass bodies consist of three layers; the middle one made of pre-crushed glass to make for a crystalline appearance. The 110m long, column-free space is penetrated by two structures: the inclined glazed lift from the platform to the surface and the glazed bridge on which the No. 306 crosses the station.
The station’s walls are made of exposed concrete, with the concrete faced with layered glass along the platform. The glass walls are partially crushed and backlit so that the crystalline impression can be seen through the glass. Through a special arrangement of slits between the glass packs, the glass also makes for noise control.
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A Pelican's reinforcing glare to us that sea level are indeed rising. Taken on our Eyre Peninsula road trip.
Climate change poses a major threat to the whole planet, but there are certain geographical areas which are more exposed to the dangers of global warming.
These countries are part of the so-called SIDS (Small Island Developing States), which by its nature will be the first to suffer the consequences of climate change and are in danger of disappearing.
These territories, 52 according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs mostly share the fragility of a subsistence economy based on tourism, the difficulty in communications and infrastructure development, lack of protection against natural disasters and dependence on international trade.
Here are nine of these islands at risk of disappearing due to global warming.
Republic of Kiribati
Republic of Maldives
Republic of Vanuatu
Tuvalu
Solomon Islands
Samoa
Nauru
Fiji Islands
Marshall Islands
FYI, in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, it has already begun..tracts of land usually in sight have been swallowed by the sea.
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