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As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking,
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
-Hermann Hesse, “Stages,” in The Glass Bead Game (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969), 444.
Les entrepôts de la Speicherstadt bordant le canal Kehrwiederfleet dans la cité-État d’Hambourg (Hamburg), en Allemagne.
Une vue vers l’est à partir de la Kehrwiedersteg, une passerelle de bois piétonnière surélevée qui offre de magnifiques vues sur la cité portuaire d’Hambourg et qui ici relie les différents bassins et canaux du port.
Le canal Kehrwiederfleet est entièrement bordé des fameux entrepôts de briques rouges de la Speicherstadt, une zone franche créée après que Hambourg, qui avait adhéré à la ligue hanséatique en 1321, eut rejoint la Fédération des douanes allemandes. Tout un quartier fut détruit autour du Zollkanal pour y édifier, à partir de 1885, les entrepôts de la Speicherstadt. L'ensemble abrite aujourd'hui encore 373 000 m2 de précieuses marchandises. Avec ses rangées de bâtiments néogothiques en brique à pignons (19e siècle), la Speicherstadt constitue un quartier original, d'une grande unité architecturale. Nombre de bâtiments ont été réhabilités et reconvertis en musées. Le secteur a récemment été inscrit au patrimoine historique de la ville. L'ensemble abrite aujourd'hui encore 373 000 m2 de précieuses marchandises.
Deuxième ville d’Allemagne après Berlin et dotée d'un statut de Land, Hambourg (Hamburg) est l’un des plus grands ports du monde. Elle a d'ailleurs été fondée au 9e siècle à l'embouchure de la rivière Alster qui lui servait de port. L'Alster fut endiguée dès 1190, à l'origine pour alimenter un moulin à eau. En 1235 un autre barrage a été construit pour une deuxième usine, ce qui transforma la rivière en lac. Elle doit son essor économique à l'autorisation de commercer sur l'Elbe accordée par l'empereur Frédéric Barberousse en 1189 et son adhésion à la ligue hanséatique en 1321. Cette cité-Etat fut détruite à plus de 80 % lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle fut par la suite reconstruite et représente aujourd’hui une métropole fort intéressante.
Ville très riche (avec un revenu par habitant le plus élevé d'Europe), capitale de l’édition et des médias en Allemagne, Hambourg se révèle surprenante. Parmi ses caractéristiques, on compte plus de 64 kilomètres de canaux (d'où son surnom de la Venise du Nord) et 2500 ponts, une réputation comme ville la plus verte du pays tout en étant un livre ouvert d'architecture contemporaine (dont on peut voir les déclinaisons à Neustadt et, plus encore, à Fleet Insel - îlot nouveau construit sur le canal) avec aussi un quartier de nuit très chaud…
Finally some snow. The red smokestack defines the old pump station of the Cincinnati Water Works. Big bend in the Ohio River at center right. Almost 30% of the city's snow plow operators off from work due to Covid.
Lézat-sur-Lèze, Ariège, France
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The Charter Oak Schoolhouse is a historic redbrick octagonal-shaped one-room schoolhouse in Schuline, Illinois, on the Evansville/Schuline Road between Schuline and Walsh. Built in 1873, it is one of 53 octagonal schoolhouses built in the United States, and is the only octagonal school built in Illinois. Only three of these octagonal schoolhouses are still standing.
The Charter Oak Schoolhouse was the third public school built at its location. The first school building was a simple log structure built in 1848. The second school building, a frame structure constructed in 1863, was destroyed by a tornado, necessitating the construction of a new building. Contractor William H. Holcomb constructed the third building at a cost of $1000. The school's teacher, Daniel Bishop Ling, proposed the construction of an octagonal building, which he believed would allow more light into the classroom and be more likely to survive severe winds. In addition to classes, the school building also hosted local meetings, competitions, and political events during its tenure as a school.
The building's foundation is made of locally quarried limestone, while the building's walls were built with red brick. A louvered belfry, which may not have been added until 1883, tops the building's low-sloping roof. Courses of corbelled brick along the roof line form the building's cornice. The vestibule at the school's entrance is sided with clapboard and rests on a concrete foundation.
Charter Oak schoolhouse closed in 1953, as did all other one-room schoolhouses in the area with the opening of a new and larger school. The Randolph County Historical Society purchased the building in 1960, and subsequently restored and converted it to an interpretive center of the history of the one-room schoolhouse. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Huis Bergh is a castle in 's-Heerenberg and is one of the largest castles in Gelderland, The Netherlands. It gives its name to the Land van den Bergh and was previously owned by the Counts Van den Bergh.
The building history dates back to the 13th century. The main parts of the castle are from the 14th, 15th and 17th century. In the beginning of the Dutch Revolt the house got damaged by war. In 1735 the castle burned down.
In 1912 Huis Bergh and all belongings became the property of Jan Herman van Heek, an industrialist from Enschede.
He restored the buildings. In 1939 there was another major fire. Thanks to the help of locals most of the furniture was rescued. Renovation began the same year and was completed in 1941.
© Mieneke Andeweg-van Rijn 2016
( the light/ weather was rather disappointing, however, I do hope you like the view of this castle )
Of course I do not exactly remember where this was taken. I am thinking Hamilton, but I could be wrong. I thought all these windows looked cool.
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Harrods, central London, one of the busiest places in the city, seen exuding luxury and class. The shot captures the lively mood of the amazing city of London!
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It's the second church in my hometown. It was built in 1898 as an evangelic church. In that times here were many members of evangelical church, mostly from Czech. During the next years number of catholics was growing, but evangelic people were less year by year. So, in 1976 ths church became catholic. For the members of the evangelic church is now only the small chapel, standing just behind this church.
In 1997 in this church I was married :)
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Kościół pw. Wniebowstąpienia Pańskiego - jednonawowa świątynia zbudowana w 1898r. według projektu Lessnera, w stylu neogotyckim. Początkowo był to kościół ewangelicki, z czasem jednakże ilość osób wyznania ewangelickiego w mieście się zmniejszała i w końcu, w 1976r. świątynię odkupiono na rzecz parafii rzymskokatolickiej. Obok znajduje się kaplica należąca do parafii ewangelicko-augsburskiej.
W 1997r. w tym kościele był mój ślub :)
[This photo really must be enlarged for full detail.]
The Grange is truly one of the greatest manor houses ever built in Australia. It was constructed in 1847 for the newly appointed doctor at Campbell Town, William Valentine (1808-1876). Built in a Rustic Gothic style it stands at the rear of the town square and reminds us what an extraordinary sight it must have been to the early Van Diemen's Land colonialists.
Dr Valentine was an outstanding surgeon and naturalist, and this house soon became a mecca for people who shared the same interests. His microscope from 1831 (regarded then as the finest in the colony) is now on display at the Tasmanian Museum in Hobart. This article tells you the story of the microscope and something about Dr Valentine's great influence on 19th century science in the colony. www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/01/25/3676888.htm
As you can see from the green oval plaque, this building is registered with the National Trust.
Once the hub of the British Empire’s lace industry, the City Centre’s Lace Market features Victorian redbrick warehouses reborn as fashion boutiques, gastropubs, and creative agencies. The National Justice Museum displays Oscar Wilde’s cell door, and visitors can explore a maze of sandstone caverns at the City of Caves. In a cool, minimalist space, Nottingham Contemporary has provocative art shows and a trendy cafe.
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A scene at the Jama Masjid of Old Delhi on a Fridays people gathered to await the call to mid-day prays. Delhi's thick smog gave a yellow hue to the redbrick mosque.
L'Isle-Jourdain, Gers, France
And yes, it's a face!
In this Happy Happy, Joy Joy street.
And if you are not happy, try this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVM1nUmDHHc
Maybe it helps...
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Barneveld, Gelderland, The Netherlands
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Usually I try to take shots of architecture without people, but this nice grandpa adds a good mood to this maybe a bit pathos palace
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This was another capture from last weeks Melbourne shoot taken from underneath one of our railway bridges.
I loved the repetition of the lights and the arches and then this red Vespa drove through!
After photographing the dome interior of Tokyo Station, we went up to the rooftop of Kitte building standing right next to the station to take a picture at the blue hour.
The red-brick building is a historic architecture which had received little damage from the Great Kanto Erthquake in 1923 and survived the Tokyo air raids during World War II, before reconstruction work on the building began in 2007.
The Passion of engineers restored the domes and brought the interior back to the way they looked when the station was originally built. Structural reinforcement was also completed, installing an innovative underground seismic isolation system for reducing the damage by possible earthquakes.
Surrounded by modern skyscrapers, this imposing building has regal dignity in the heart of Tokyo.
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The Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg—within the HafenCity quarter—and was built from 1883 to 1927.
The district was built as a free zone to transfer goods without paying customs. As of 2009 the district and the surrounding area is under redevelopment. As the first site in Hamburg, it has been awarded the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site on 5 July 2015.
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
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