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Fisht Olympic Stadium was designed by Global Design Practice Populous and British design consultancy BuroHappold Engineering. The stadium's roof was built from approximately 36,500 square metres (393,000 sq ft) of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) and was designed to give the roof the appearance of snowy peaks. The bowl opens to the north, allowing a direct view of the Krasnaya Polyana Mountains, and the upper deck is open to the south, allowing a view of the Black Sea.
Now Fisht is the home stadium of FC Sochi.
Namtso was born in the Paleogene age, as a result of Himalayan tectonic plate movements. The lake lies at an elevation of 4,718 m (15,479 ft), and has a surface area of 1,920 km2 (740 sq mi). This salt lake is the largest lake in the Tibet Autonomous Region (U-Tsang). However, it is not the largest lake on the Tibet Plateau. That title belongs to Lake KokoNor (Qinghai Lake) (more than twice the size of Namtso); which lies more than 1,000 km (620 mi) to the north-east in Amdo.
Namtso has five uninhabited islands of reasonable size, in addition to one or two rocky outcrops. The islands have been used for spiritual retreat by pilgrims who walk over the lake's frozen surface at the end of winter, carrying their food with them. They spend the summer there, unable to return to shore again until the water freezes the following winter. This practice is no longer permitted by Chinese authorities.
The largest of the islands is in the northwest corner of the lake, and is about 2,100 m (6,900 ft) long and 800 m (2,600 ft) wide, rising to just over 100 m (330 ft) in the middle. At its closest point it is about 3.1 km (1.9 mi) from the shore.
The new Tridel SQ Condos completed this year, designed by Teeple Architects. Part of the Alexandra Park revitalization plan.
On a walk around the city to catch up on events and the rebuild since we were away, May 3, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
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A photo of the facetted facade of the Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects / Swanke Hayden Connell Architects designed 62 Buckingham Gate ofice building in central London.
In case you were wondering, it looks like Swanke Hayden Connell Architects went bust partway through the project and then Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects took it over and completed it.
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From the Agents website, "The standout building has been designed with great sensitivity to its impact at street level, producing a superior retail environment and entrance.
62 Buckingham Gate is a new 11 storey landmark mixed use development in the heart of London’s Victoria. With unrivalled transport links, renowned Royal Parks and cultural amenities, plus some of the world’s favourite brands. 62 Buckingham Gate is one of the most compelling business addresses in the West End.
62 Buckingham Gate is located on the north side of Victoria Street. This landmark building offers stunning office space over 11 floors and retail on the ground and upper basement floors."
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A reworking of one of my oldest shots on flickr, this is a 'flip' of a scaffolded building reflected in an Oxford Street shop facade I took about twenty five years ago.......
The original version of this shot is featured in this months American 'Popular Photography' magazine along with a short interview about tkaing this kind of shot.
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Matö རྨ་སྟོད། county
This county ,also known as Machukha མ་ ཆུ་ཁ་ , contains the source of the Ma chu རྨ་ཆུ་ ( Yellow River),and lies north of the Bayankala watershed. There are a few small Nyingma shrines and monasteries, of which the largest and most influential is Horkor Gon. Area: 25.263 sq km. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
We spent a weekend at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls XXX, the biggest experimental rocket launch event in the world. The camp is in the middle of a dry lakebed, also called playa, the same place where Burning Man takes place. The playa is big, about 200 sq mi (520 km2). The night sky is very clear, you can see the Milky Way and millions of stars with your bare eyes because there is no light pollution. We arrived on Friday night, and I took this shot at around midnight when most people already went to sleep. Look at this shot fullscreen to enjoy.
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Inspired by M.C.Escher I've flipped one of my previous uploads of the Tower of the Winds stair and upped the contrast and textures to give a nod towards his iconic artworks. Whereas his works featured endless Mobius loops mine feature stairs that go nowhere.......
I'd always wanted to get inside the Green Templeton College Tower of the Winds and luckily during last years Oxford Open Doors event I was able too. Oxford doesn't have that many spiral stairs surprisingly so it's always good to shoot a new one. I think particularly like shooting them with my 8mm Samyang fisheye.
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From Wikipedia, "The Tower of the Winds is the prominent octagonal tower on top of the old Radcliffe Observatory building in Oxford, England. The building now forms a centrepiece for Green Templeton College, one of the colleges of Oxford University.
The tower is based on the ancient and smaller Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, built c.100–50BC by Andronicus of Cyrrhus for the purpose of measuring time. It is of octagonal stone construction, with eight relief images of Greek mythological wind gods at the top of each side of the tower, carved by John Bacon the Elder in 1792–4. The tower was completed by James Wyatt in 1794. On the top are Atlas and Hercules supporting a globe in white, also by John Bacon. The reliefs of the signs of the zodiac above the windows on the first floor are made of Coade stone by J. C. F. Rossi. Inside the tower, there are three main rooms on top of each other.
The Tower of the Winds is situated in prominent view just to the north of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ), an area for Oxford University departments including the Blavatnik School of Government, and south of Observatory Street, named after its former use as an observatory. To the south is the Mathematical Institute building and Somerville College, juxtaposing the new 21st-century architecture of the buildings with the old 17th-century style of the observatory. To the west is the Jericho Health Centre and beyond that Walton Street, with a view of the tower in the distance from the southern end looking north along the street. To the east are the Woodstock Road and the front entrance of Green Templeton College, with St Anne's College opposite."
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I had expected the Luchtsingel in Rotterdam to be one of the photographic highlights having seen quite a few photos whilst doing my research. As it was it was in quite a bad state and as a result I hardly took any photos with this detail shot probably being the only one worth uploading.
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From ArchDaily : "The Luchtsingel is open. Decades after their separation, the 400-meter-long pedestrian bridge has reconnected three districts in the heart of Rotterdam. The Luchtsingel was initiated and designed by the Rotterdam-based architects ZUS and is the world's first piece of public infrastructure to be accomplished mostly through crowdfunding. Together with the new public spaces, including the Delftsehof, Dakakker, Pompenburg Park, and the Hofplein Station Roof Park, a 'three-dimensional cityscape' has arisen.
'Based on the idea of Permanent Temporality, the Luchtsingel introduces a new way of making city. This means using the city's evolutionary character and existing forms as a starting point. Therefore, we have developed new instruments for design, financing, and planning',says Elma van Boxel, partner at ZUS.
When, in 2011, it was announced that a planned office development in Rotterdam Central District had been cancelled, leaving many existing office spaces vacant as a result, ZUS decided to take matters into their own hands. They used a former office building, the Schieblock, to develop a city laboratory, which currently acts as an important incubator for young entrepreneurs. With its ground-floor store, bar, culinary workshop, information centre, and its rooftop field called the Dakakker, Europe’s first urban farming roof, it has become a prototype for sustainable development."
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Two little ‘erberts insisted on accompanying me on my nocturnal photographic mission tonight.
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Ilford HP5+ rated at ISO 3200
I know I said there was only a couple more Erasmus Bridge photos to come but these shots lit by early evening light were just too good to ignore.
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From Wikipedia : "Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus, a prominent Christian renaissance humanist also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.
The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon with a prominent horizontal base, earning the bridge its nickname "The Swan".
The southernmost span of the bridge has an 89-metre-long (292 ft) bascule bridge for ships that cannot pass under the bridge. The bascule bridge is the largest and heaviest in Western Europe and has the largest panel of its type in the world."
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