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After an amazing 41 years and over 5.3 million cars, the Rover Mini finally ended production on the 4th of October 2000. The story does not end here however - A new "MINI" arrived to much fanfare and a new generation of fans - and the "Classic" Mini retains a HUGE following from its fans around the world. Long live the Mini! Mini World and Mini Resources are two links I can suggest to you guys to start your reading.
Wonder why all this fuss about Mini? Well, I practically grew up in one. And please look as what it might have looked like before the restoration, a parody by a good friend CS Wong
Gears: Nikon D50, Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI
Location: Kampung Cina (Chinatown), Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
The article below originated from:
Traditional Building Magazine
Updated: Jan 6, 2020
Original: Feb 2, 2016
Originally built in 1916, the Palm Beach courthouse was a tour de force of Neoclassical architecture. The architect Wilber Burt Talley designed a granite base, brick and stone façades, soaring Indiana limestone columns and Corinthian capitals that held up triangle pediments, and a dentil molding below the cornice. The four-story, 40,000-sq.ft. the building housed the county government offices and records, as well as the jail.
Almost immediately the courthouse ran out of space, and 11 years later an addition was constructed 25 feet to the east. Talley again served as the courthouse architect, and the 1927 addition was similar in appearance and used many of the same materials as the original building. In 1955, the two buildings were connected with usable rooms to accommodate the growing county.
Yet another addition was required in the late ’60s; it was completed in 1969. The architecture firm Edge & Powell delivered a brick building that nearly doubled the square footage to 180,000 sq. ft. This time, the addition was less than sympathetic. In fact, the 1916 and 1927 buildings were lost in the center of the new construction, which wrapped around them completely.
The building was utilized for 36 years in this configuration, until 1995, when a new courthouse opened across the street. Expansions had plagued the 1916 courthouse almost as soon as it was built, and this was no exception. “After the new courthouse opened, the old one was slated for demolition,” says Rick Gonzales, Jr., AIA, CEO and principal at REG Architects. “Since I knew about the 1916 courthouse, I recognized the potential of the site and got in touch with preservation specialists in the area. It took some time, but a group of us eventually convinced the county to fund a feasibility study, which we conducted in 2002.”
Gonzales talks about stimulating interest in the project: “We would go to the new courthouse to sell our idea and walk people up to the windows to look at the old site,” he says.
“‘Believe it or not, there’s a building inside that building,’ I’d say. That really piqued people’s interest.”
The county agreed to fund the project, and demolition of the additions began in January 2004 and was completed two years later. “It took a long time because it was a selective demolition,” says Gonzales. “We needed to be careful to salvage many of the materials from the 1927 building to use in the restoration of the 1916 structure. It resembled the original, so we took everything we could for reuse.” A number of materials were recovered, including limestone, granite, wood windows, doors, marble wainscot, mosaic floor tiles, wood flooring, trim, and hardware.
While a majority of the materials were the same from building to building, the detailing was not identical. “We were working from the drawings of the 1927 building because we couldn’t find drawings for the earlier structure,” says Gonzales. “We had thought the detailing was the same, but when we put our studies together we saw that the rhythm, proportion, and cornices were different.”
When REG Architects couldn’t apply the 1927 documentation to the restoration, the firm examined what was remaining of the building and the few images that had survived. “For a while, we had no cornice pieces, because all of the exterior ornamentations had been destroyed when the façades were smoothed for the addition,” says Gonzales. “Then a contractor found a 16-in. piece, which we used to re-create the cornice line.”
Other elements that needed to be re-created, such as the granite and limestone porticos on the north, south, and west façades, were designed using historic photographs. “We found limestone with the same vein from the same Indiana quarry that was originally used,” says Gonzales. “We were extremely lucky in that the quarry ran out of that vein right after our order.” REG Architects was also able to match the granite.
Many components of the building were salvaged and restored. The cornerstones were restored and placed in their original locations at the northwest corner. The 12 Corinthian capitals and the load-bearing limestone columns – each of which weighs 30,600 lbs. – were pieced back together and repaired. “Placement of the capitals was especially tedious,” says Gonzales, “because it needed to be precise. They were then secured with pegs and glue.”
On the north, south, and west elevations, the brick was restored and, when necessary, replaced. “We couldn’t locate replacement brick with the same hues as the existing brick hues,” says Gonzales, “so we hired artists to stain it so that it blended with the original brick.” On the east elevation, REG Architects specified new brick so the new façade clearly stood out from the old ones.
To the same point, new hurricane-proof wood windows were chosen for the east elevation, while REG Architects was careful to preserve as many old windows as possible on the other elevations. Hedrick Brothers repaired 76 original wood windows as well as the window hardware. “We found a local manufacturer, Coastal Millwork of Riviera Beach, FL, to get the original windows tested for hurricane-preparedness,” says Gonzales. “The company reinforced and laminated the windows, so we were able to reinstall them.”
The crowning achievement of the exterior work was the re-creation of an eagle crest on the west pediment.
Based on a small postcard and images of other eagle crests, Ontario, Canada-based Traditional Cut Stone designed the crest for Palm Beach. “They created a small scale model and then a full-scale model in clay,” says Gonzales. “The final piece, which took five months to produce, was hand-carved from five pieces of Indiana limestone.” Traditional Cut Stone was also responsible for all of the limestone work on the building. REG Architects based much of its interior design on the Desoto County Courthouse in Arcadia, FL, which was built by Talley in 1913.
“The dilemma about the interiors was that there was little archival material and few original photographs to give a precise vision for the interiors,” says Gonzales. “Emphasis was placed on trying to restore the character of the main courtroom and the main interior public spaces.” The main courtroom on the third and fourth floors was especially aided by the Desoto research. The millwork was re-created and the plaster ceiling and moldings, maple flooring, doors, and door hardware were restored. Replica lighting was fabricated.
Architectural elements in the corridors and staircases received similar treatment. Hendrick Brothers uncovered the original mosaic flooring and had it repaired. Only five percent of the tile needed to be replaced; in these cases, matching tile from the 1927 building was used. About 80 percent of the marble wainscoting was salvaged, while the other 20 percent was replaced with matching marble from the original quarry. Wood doors and door hardware were salvaged and reused.
All of the building code upgrades – including efficient HVAC, fire protection, and hurricane protection – were hidden as much as possible with historic finishes. The alley elevation provided an ADA-accessible entrance and space for elevators.
The newly restored Palm Beach County Court House now accommodates a museum for the historical society, as well as offices for the County’s Public Affairs Department and County Attorney. “People say this project was an alignment of the stars,” says Gonzales. “It was. We were lucky to have the opportunity to save this building, we worked with a lot of great people, and it turned out well. It was a great labor of love.” TB
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.traditionalbuilding.com/projects/courthouse-unwrapped
downtownwpb.com/things-to-do/history-museum-and-restored-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Pat_Johnson_Palm_Beach_...
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A couple of quick scenes for an ongoing storyline in Brethren of the Brick Seas on Eurobricks. Both scenes recycle older builds of mine and are for the purpose of illustrating the story only.
In Museum Mauritshuis The Hague, The Lamentation of Christ (c.1460-1464) by Rogier van der Weyden is being restored in a specially built studio in the exhibition space of the Museum.
The restoration project in public includes a very special loan: Rogier van der Weyden’s Entombment of Christ (1460-1464). This painting comes from the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
More of the restoration and the paintings at:
johanphoto.blogspot.com/2018/08/rogier-van-der-weyden-ont...
A section of the recently restored 2nd-century Roman theatre, which is a famous landmark in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
On the Zijkanaal, Amsterdam North. Last time I walked passed here which was probably 5 years ago this crane was in pieces behind some fencing.
Looks good what has been done to it.
Also a new bridge just along from it.
the historic water wheel and on a small island at the corner of Oxford Terrance and Hereford Street in the city centre has now been restored and the Cherry Blossoms just bursting into gear
Scruffy ex-LNER Thompson pacific 60512 ''Steady Aim'' at York (North) shed, on a bright sunny day in around 1963.
The loco was withdrawn from Dundee Tay Bridge shed in June 1965, but was moved to Perth for two months, before being towed to the scrapyards.
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There is an unconfirmed report that this loco may have been selected for an - unsuccessful - preservation attempt, but it was later scrapped, and none of the class were preserved.
York (North) shed closed to steam in 1967, and the main roundhouse building eventually became the National Railway Museum. The smaller diesel depot finally closed in 1984, and there is now a signalling/maintenance depot on that site.
Restored from an under-exposed grainy cyan/magenta-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
Wakehurst Place. The house is completely wrapped in fireproof cladding so that work can be undertaken in repairing the roof. The public were able to access a viewing platform to see the work and to have a view over the gardens.
81/123 pictures in 2023: Preservation of a building
This is the town where George Washington crossed the Delaware River on his March to his victory over the Hessian troops Christmas Eve 1776.
1970 Ford Lotus Cortina 4-door.
One of two 4-door Lotus Cortinas built to special order for Mid-Anglia Constabulary. This car was based in Huntingdon and patrolled the Cambridgeshire stretch of the A1 and was also used to carry hearts for transplant operations at Papworth Hospital. Both cars survive - this car has only been lightly restored and OEB 579H is currently undergoing a full restoration.
Making a brief visit to Beamish Museum town is this restored 1950 Bedford O-Series dropside truck, registered UXS 864, in the livery of it's present owner, D Moody (Haulage Contractors) of Bedlington, Northumberland (UK).
The truck is powered by a 3500cc petrol engine and was originally registered (in 1950) as MUR 910. Unfortunately this original registration is no longer available.
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Preserved ex LMS Class 502 has just arrived into the Wall siding at Southport prior to working five out and back Specials to Formby in June 1986.
* From 1978 new Class 507 units began to arrive on the network and the 1938 ex LMS Class 502's which by now were considered life-expired, were gradually withdrawn.
The final regular passenger service was on 1 September 1980, with a farewell tour five days later. The last set was withdrawn in November 1980.
Two DMBS cars were reinstated in 1981 for departmental duties, and allocated to Hall Road. The departmental units were renumbered from M28354 and M28357 to ADB977017 and ADB977018 respectively and kept at Kirkdale until 1986.
All cars, except for one two-car set, were scrapped.
A two-car set, driving motor 29896 & 28361 was claimed for preservation by the National Railway Museum.
For many years the unit was kept at the Steamport Centre in Southport, where it was restored to original LMS condition, complete with maroon livery. It operated occasional special services on the Merseyrail network for several years in the 1980's.
When Steamport closed, the NRM were unable to find an alternative location to display it and relocated the unit to remote storage at MoD Kineton.
In early 2007, it was suggested that the NRM was considering disposing of this unit as it no longer featured as part of its long-term plans. In response, a new preservation group 'Friends of the 502' was formed, with the aim of taking over responsibility for the units upkeep.
In May 2009 the unit was moved by road to a private site in Tebay, Cumbria. In March 2012, following re-development of the site, the unit was moved to it's current base of the Merseyside Transport Trust in Burscough, Lancashire.
This move means that the unit is under cover for the first time in 15 years.
VIA 6309 was cosmetically restored last year and entered the Angus Pavillion (Exporail's main building) last fall.
A beautiful house begging to be restored.
Getsemani Neighborhood, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Back in the 2000s, Getsemani was considered a dangerous area, but its historic streets have transformed over time into the city’s official backpacker quarter. Hip hostels and artsy cafés have popped up to serve those who are not traveling on the luxury budget that the Old City demands. Getsemani also now has its own raging nightlife scene, much of it fuelled by its homegrown but African-rooted Champeta music, and houses some of the city’s top restaurants.
theculturetrip.com/south-america/colombia/articles/street...
high on top is the restored old Partiarchal Cathedral is overlooking the hill of Tzarevets and all other hills ho Veliko Tarnovo.
Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgarian: "Велико Търново", romanized: Veliko Tǎrnovo, pronounced [vɛˈliko ˈtɤrnovo]; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
Often referred as the "City of the Tsars", Veliko Tarnovo is located on the Yantra River and is famously known as the historical capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, attracting many tourists with its unique architecture. The old part of the town is situated on three hills, Tsarevets, Trapezitsa, and Sveta Gora, rising amidst the meanders of the Yantra. On Tsarevets are the palaces of the Bulgarian emperors and the Patriarchate, the Patriarchal Cathedral, and also a number of administrative and residential edifices surrounded by thick walls.
Trapezitsa is known for its many churches and as the former main residence of the nobility. During the Middle Ages, the town was among the main European centres of culture and gave its name to the architecture of the Tarnovo Artistic School, painting of the Tarnovo Artistic School, and to literature. Veliko Tarnovo is an important administrative, economic, educational, and cultural centre of Northern Bulgaria.
Veliko Tarnovo is one of the oldest settlements in Bulgaria, with a history of more than five millennia. The first traces of human presence, dating from the 3rd millennium BC, were discovered on Trapezitsa Hill.[6]
First Bulgarian state
Tarnovo was a stronghold of the First Bulgarian Empire. A number of coins, specimens and ceramics from the First Bulgarian State were found on the hills on which the capital city of Tarnovgrad stretched. [7] The city was important for the first Bulgarian state. There was an important military garrison in it. In the church of St. Forty Martyrs were found specimens that historians believe are the work of Bulgarians from Volga Bulgaria[requires source].
The Uprising of Asen and Peter began on 26 October 1185, the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and ended with the restoration of Bulgaria with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire, ruled by the Asen dynasty.
Veliko Tarnovo, originally Tarnovgrad (Търновград), grew quickly to become the strongest Bulgarian fortification and most prosperous city during the second half of the High and the Late Middle Ages and also most important political, economic, cultural and religious centre of the empire. In the 14th century, the city was described by Bulgarian cleric Gregory Tsamblak as "a very large city, handsome and surrounded by walls, with 12,000 to 15,000 inhabitants".,[7] the fortress of Tsarevets being the primary fortress and strongest bulwark from 1185 to 1393, housing the royal and the patriarchal palaces.
In the 14th century, as the Byzantine Empire weakened, Tarnovo claimed to be the Third Rome, based on its preeminent cultural influence in Southeastern Europe.
As the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, Tarnovo was a quasi-cosmopolitan city, with many foreign merchants and envoys. Tarnovo is known to have had Armenian, Jewish and Roman Catholic ("Frankish") merchant quarters, besides a dominant Bulgarian population. The discovery of three Gothic heads of statuettes indicates there may have also been a Catholic church.
thx to Wikipedia. For more Information on the further history under the Ottoman rule also please see Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliko_Tarnovo
Restored as working unit in 2011
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A soas, entre pedras vellas, a soas agás polas lembranzas, o teu sorriso aínda fai eco na miña cabeza, a soas e así ha ser.
Porque todo o non sucedido é peor que esquecido. Non chames, o teléfono estará en silencio coma este corazón. Toda a cobertura que precisaba era a dos teus brazos e non dan sinal.
These seven photos continue my documentation of our camping trip.
We took a side trip to the airport in Dubois, Idaho to see the recently restored 1920's airmail beacon, arrow, and control shack. It turned out beautiful. You can see pre-restoration photos in my Giant Concrete Arrows album.
The newly restored aquaduct at Marple which carries the canal over the river Goyt.
The 200 year old structure has had lots of work done to it and the trees cleared from around it. Also a new path gives better access.
The other arches belong to a later bridge which carries the railway.
Semi-finished state. The policromía was literally falling off the image. The restorer has taken almost 7 months of filling in the mising parts and stabilizing them. This Cristo belongs to the Calvario tableau.
*Manual Restore*
Have you ever accidentally deleted a memory card before getting the photos off? I have…once. It was about two years ago. I was out camping and headed out one evening for some shots. I took some long exposures of a nearby river, stream, and forest. I was all over the place. A couple days later I was heading out for another shoot and I popped the same memory card in from my camping trip. I thought for sure I had downloaded them so I deleted them. Well, I hadn’t downloaded them. I guess I could have run a retrieval program but by the time I had realized it it was too late. I had already filled up the memory card with some new shots. Fast forward two years and I was back at the same campground last weekend. I remembered most of the shots I took so I was able to retake them. I guess it was a manual restore.
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago” – Acts 3:19-21
The Hymn of God's Word "God Will Restore the Former State of Creation"
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With His words going deep, God watches the universe.
All creations are made new based on the words of God.
Heaven’s changing, earth is too, man is showing what he really is.
When God created the world, all things were after their kind,
so was everything with a visible form.
When God’s management is close to the end,
God will restore things to what they were at the creation.
Little by little, step by step, men are sorted to their kind,
return to “families” they belong to.
God’s delighted because of this.
There’s nothing that can disturb Him.
God’s great work ends before it’s known.
Before all things are aware, they have all been changed.
Little by little, step by step, men are sorted to their kind.
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God will restore the former state of all things at the creation.
He causes everything fully changed, brings everything back into His plan.
Now, the time has come! The end of God’s last plan is at hand.
You unclean, filthy old world, shall fall under God’s word,
shall be reduced to nothingness because of the plan of God!
All things created by God, shall gain a new life in His word, have a “sovereign Lord”!
You sanctified new world, shall come to life in the glory of God.
Mount of Zion, stop your silence. God has returned in victory!
He is watching over all lands, among all creations.
Mankind has begun a new life on earth, having a brand new hope.
Little by little, step by step, men are sorted to their kind.
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People of God! Will you not revive in God’s light?
Will you not jump and laugh for joy under the leading and guiding of God?
The lands and waters cheer and laugh. Israel, that’s come back to life!
Will you not feel proud for being preordained by God?
Who’s once wept? Who’s once wailed?
Israel of old has ceased to exist. Israel of today has risen in the world.
It’s stood up in all people’s hearts. It gets the source of life through people of God.
Hateful Egypt! Will you still be against God?
How can you escape His chastisement because of mercy of God?
He who’s loved by God shall live forever.
He who goes against God shall be punished forever.
For God is a jealous God, He never lets go of people’s deeds easily.
God searches all lands.
With righteousness and majesty, with wrath and chastising,
He appears in the East of the world, to reveal Himself to all people on earth!
Little by little, step by step, men are sorted to their kind,
return to “families” they belong to.
God’s delighted because of this.
There’s nothing that can disturb Him.
God’s great work ends before it’s known.
Before all things are aware, they have all been changed.
Little by little, step by step, men are sorted to their kind.
from “The Twenty-sixth Utterance” of God’s Utterances to the Entire Universe in The Word Appears in the Flesh
Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God
2 ... return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the LORD your God lwill restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will mgather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Dt 30:2–3.