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The Basilica Minore de San Sebastian, better known as San Sebastian Church, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Manila, the Philippines. It is the seat of the Parish of San Sebastian and the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.
Completed in 1891, San Sebastian Church is noted for its architectural features. An example of the revival of Gothic architecture in the Philippines, it is the only all-steel church or basilica in Asia. It has also been implausibly reputed to be the first prefabricated building in the world, and more plausibly claimed as the only prefabricated steel church in the world. In 2006, San Sebastian Church was included in the Tentative List for possible designation as a World Heritage Site. It was designated as a National Historical Landmark by the Philippine government in 1973.
San Sebastian Church is under the care of The Order of the Augustinian Recollects, who also operate a college adjacent to the basilica. It is located at Plaza del Carmen, at the eastern end of Claro M. Recto Street, in Quiapo, Manila.
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The beautiful structure of the London Eye, London (UK).
The London Eye, also known as the Millennium Wheel, is a giant 135-metre tall Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames, in London, England. The London Eye is located at the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Lambeth, between Westminster Bridge and Hungerford Bridge.
The wheel carries 32 ovoidal passenger capsules, attached to its external circumference, each capsule representing one of the London Boroughs. Each 10 tonne capsule holds a maximum of 25 people. It rotates at 26 cm per second (about 0.9 km/h) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes. The wheel does not stop to take on passengers: the rotation rate is slow enough to allow passengers to walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level.
The panoramic view over the metropolis of London from the Eye is one of the most beautiful of the city.
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This is the world's tallest all-steel-structured emission tower in Zhengzhou, Henan province of China.
modernist cantilevered summer house.
An awesome piece of work.
Architect - scott tallon walker
Client - Sir Basil Goulding
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Mykola’s Krupavicius Gravesite. Saint Casimir Cemetery - Chicago Illinois.
This all welded steel structure marks the grave of Mykola’s Krupavicius - (1885-1970). All the letters that are inside the arc shaped structure are welded to hollow steel tubes which are welded in place between each piece of vertical square tube.
The stone carving up at the top is bolted to a steel plate that rests on either 6 or 8 horizontal square tubes. The base of the structure has more letters that may have threaded studs welded on the backside so they could be bolted down.
I am also not sure if the entire structure was ever painted. There is no evidence of any paint. The structure is rusty. The letters inside the arc show faded & worn paint as does part of the base under the individual letters.
Mykolas Krupavičius (October 1, 1885, Balbieriškis, Suwałki Governorate – December 4, 1970, Chicago) was a Lithuanian priest and politician. He is best remembered for his involvement with the land reform in the interwar Lithuania.
In 1900 Krupavičius enrolled into the Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary. He showed interest in politics from early days: during the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was arrested twice. After graduation in 1905, he worked as a teacher in the Łomża Governorate and in Papilė. In 1908 Krupavičius began his theological studies at the Sejny Priest Seminary and continued them at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy.
He was ordained into priesthood in June 1914. After graduation in 1917, he worked as a chaplain at a Lithuanian school in Voronezh. At the same time he got involved with the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and was sentenced to death by the Bolshevik revolutionary court. Krupavičius escaped the arrest and returned to Lithuania in May 1918. He joined activities of the Council of Lithuania struggling to establish independent Lithuania. From the very beginning he was heavily involved with the land reform.
Krupavičius was elected to all Seimas (parliament) and served as Minister of Agriculture from 1923 to 1926 in four different cabinets. After the 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état, the Lithuanian Nationalists Union usurped the political power and Krupavičius studied sociology, economics, and law at the Lille University and University of Toulouse for two years. Upon return in 1930 he resumed his duties as priest and served Catholic congregations in Garliava, Veiveriai, and Kalvarija. During the occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany, Krupavičius together with Kazys Grinius and Jonas Pranas Aleksa sent a letter to the German authorities protesting their attempts to colonize Lithuania.
Krupavičius was arrested and deported to Germany where he was held under house arrest in a carmelite monastery in Regensburg. In 1945 he was elected as chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania and served in such capacity for a decade. After the resignation he moved to the United States and largely retired from public life. Krupavičius published some 20 books on various topics in Lithuanian politics.
Fire protection is very important as far as buildings steelwork is concerned ,When the temperature of a fire (both ambient & direct) reaches the required temperature for the intumescent coating to react and become active, the coating swells and expands to a carbonaceous char. The expansion (swell) of the char can be 50 to 100 times its initial applied thickness. The carbonaceous char act as an insulative, protecting the steels from collapsing.
I took this photograph in May 9, 1998, while on vacation on Sanibel Island, Florida. The Boy in the photo is my son.
Sanibel Beach Lighthouse is located in Lighthouse Beach Park on Sanibel Island in Lee County, Florida. The Address is 112 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel, Florida. The Lighthouse is directly across San Carlos Bay from Fort Meyers Beach, Fort Meyers, FL.
Disclaimer: This photograph was taken in May 1998 with my Minolta Maxxim 5000 35 mm SLR with Color Print Film, when I was just learning photograph, so it is very soft & grainy. I scanned the Negative, and used Photoshop Elements™ to correct the Exposure and Saturation to generate the Digital Digital Image, presented here on flickr™.
The Zeche Zollern / Zollern coal mine was the first industrial complex in Germany to be officially protected and preserved as a historic monument. Since 1969 the site and the structures have been completely restored. Now they are operated as an industrial museum. The mine has been built between 1898 and 1904. It was designed as an exemplary complex of that time. The ground plan was conceived to resemble a castle-like pattern with three wings and an open space with trees in the center.
I took these images with a Nikon F3 camera, PC-Nikkor 2.8/35mm lens, and Ilford XP2 super.
modernist cantilevered summer house.
An awesome piece of work.
Architect - scott tallon walker
Client - Sir Basil Goulding
II abbozzo
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In the far distance, LMS Black Five No. 45407 leads the "Great Britain VI" on to the south viaduct of the Forth Bridge, on 25th April 2013. (Please view F11 in lightbox for intended best.)
Sunburst beyond the the historic semaphore signals at Stirling Station, which are of Caledonian Railway origin and are doomed, to be replaced shortly with a new colourlight system. The present signals are controlled from Stirling Middle signalbox, near the southern end of the station. The box shall become redundant, in respect of its present use. (Please view F11 in lightbox for intended best.)
The towers of Gardens by the Bay in Singapore are example of architectural wonders where steel molds with nature. The steel Architecture of these towers complements the atmosphere of the Garden
A few days earlier, my brother, a resident of Tarrytown, came down to Manhattan to drive us to his home to see his new daughter. When we drove on the Queensboro Bridge to get to his home, I said to myself that I want to take some photos of the bridge when I come back to Manhattan. So one morning I took the bus and subway from our hotel at West 96th Street and Broadway down to East 63rd Street and York Avenue to admire the bridge.
The aerial tramway (overhead cable car) connects 2nd Avenue at East 59th Street to Roosevelt Island, an urban oasis just off Upper East Side. And did I visit Roosevelt Island? No, I didn't have time : ( Next time I visit NYC I must take the aerial tram to Roosevelt Island!
Watch the YouTube video here: youtu.be/U2kCLcRONiI
The Red Line was closed from Belmont to Addison today for the continuing construction of the flyover.
And there were some truly confused people, who couldn't quite grasp the concept of taking the provided shuttle buses from Belmont to Addison. Instead of making sure that employees help the confused, and taking care of all the other problems with CTA train "passengers" that have been exacerbated by covid, CTA management seemed to be much more concerned about making sure that railfans take NOOOOO pictures or video of the construction from the north end of either platform at Belmont.
A detail image of the cross bracing and lattice work of the International Railroad Swing Bridge. The bridge allows trains to cross the Sault Canal (a Parks Canada National Historic Site). The Swing Bridge was built in 1895 by the Dominion Bridge Company based upon a Baltimore truss design. The bridge features extensive v-lacing and lattice for support. The bridge was originally a pin connected structure; however, the bridge has been altered in the past with additional steel bolted on to increase rigidity. The bridge was originally built by the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company and is now owned by the Canadian National Railway Company. Black and white processing alchemy by Nik Color Efex- -black and white solarization.
The Millennium Bridge, already acclaimed worldwide for its physical and aesthetic beauty, it has fast become a significant tourist attraction in its own right. The bridge was the focus of a Spencer Tunick installation on 17 July 2005.
Six 450mm diameter Hydraulic rams (three on each side, each powered by a 55kW electric motor) rotate the bridge back on large bearings to allow small ships and boats (up to 25m tall) to pass underneath. The bridge takes as little as 4.5 minutes to rotate through the full 40° from closed to open, depending on wind speed. Its appearance during this manoeuvre has led to it being nicknamed the "Blinking Eye Bridge".
Manhattan Bridge. New York City, USA. April 2014.
Another impressive steel structure, also combined with a red traffic light, just like the steel structure of the high line station on 125th Street in Harlem.
Did I mention I am a total sucker for urban steel structures?
Not HDR...just tweaked the tones and curves to highlight those magnificent details and murals on the ceiling....
Staff discussion at Perth Station, Scotland on 20th April 2011 during a water stop for the locomotives hauling "The Great Britain IV" national railtour.
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Richard J. Daley Center
Architect: C.F. Murphy Associates
Date: 1965
Style: International
Address: 50 West Washington Street
Height: 648 ft. (32 Floors)
Exterior: Exposed Corten Steel
Structural
Material: Steel
Program: Court House and Government Office
The structural columns of the Richard J. Daley Center are 87 feet apart, which is a relatively large span. Towards the top of the columns, the width diminishes as the floors require less support.
For four years, from 1965 to 1969, the Daley Center was the tallest building in Chicago. In 2001, it received historical status, only 36 years after its completion. The building has a small height to floor ratio, due to the large floor to floor distance of 18 feet.
An industrial monster but a rather impressive monster at that.
A view of one of the seven wonders of the waterways, the Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire.
A design dating back to 1785 by Edwin Clark, this feat of engineering allowed boats to be lifted or lowered 50 feet from the River Weaver at the lower level up to the Trent and Mersey canal above. It is affectionately known as the Catherdral of the canals.
It operated until closure in 1983 due to corrosion but has been restored and reopened in 2002.
It has a pair of caissons, which are watertight, that act to counterbalance each other. It originally operated by an hydraulic method but following problems with this system it was converted to an electrical method using counterwieghts in 1908.
This piece of engineering is one of only two in the country and has been designated a Scheduled Monument.
Beschrijving: De verkeersbrug bij Vreeswijk-Vianen in aanbouw
Datum: Circa 1935
Vervaardiger: Fotograaf onbekend
Formaat: 9 x 11,5 cm
Bestanddeelnummer: 2.24.03_458
Fotocollectie: Arbeidsinspectie
Auteursrechten: Nationaal Archief
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