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All the ground level, cast iron Pilasters with foliate capitals serve both decorative and structural purposes.
Cream brick facade built in 1866-8. 18 used as a saloon, grocery store. 20 as a hardware store, plumbing business, shooting gallery, saloon. 22-24 I.O.O.F Lodge #14
Water gates to Uglich. Cruise ship in the lock chamber.
Structurally, the Uglich hydroelectric station is a low-pressure channel hydroelectric station. The waterworks facilities include a channel earth dam, a concrete spillway dam, a hydroelectric power station building and a shipping lock.
The shipping gateway of the Uglich hydroelectric complex is located on the left bank, adjacent to the earth dam. Single-chamber single-chamber gateway, chamber length - 290 m, width - 30 m. The design time for filling the gateway is 9.5 minutes, emptying - 7 minutes. Filling and drainage of the lock chamber is carried out with the help of two water galleries. In the upper head of the sluice (from the Uglich reservoir) there is a main valve and repair flat wheel lock, in the lower head there are main and repair double gate. In addition to the heads and the sluice chamber, the sluice’s structures include a 800-meter long canal and a 1,200-meter downstream canal, mooring walls, two dams protecting vessels when approaching the gateway, a left-bank dam with a loamy antifiltration core, and a road bridge above head. The gateway is on the balance of FSUE "Moscow Canal"
At a recent visit to the New York Botanical Garden, I was very fortunate to spot this colorful dragonfly landing on a sacred lotus bud. These gracious lotuses are just some of the aquatic garden plants found at the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
Adult dragonflies are characterized by large, multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong, transparent wings, sometimes with coloured patches, and an elongated body. Many dragonflies have brilliant iridescent or metallic colours produced by structural colouration, making them conspicuous in flight.
This is a landscape version of my square photo called 'Simple Abstract 75'.
This image is looking up at balconies of Wardian London, one of two similar towers in Canary Wharf, East London, using intentional camera movement. The architects are Glenn Howells.
I like to think this photo has the feel of a scientific abstract image taken by the great photographer Berenice Abbott (1898 to 1991).
UK architecture in the twenty first century. This is 'Canopy Hotel by Hilton' in Aldgate, London, which opened in November 2021. Architects: ACME.
See a square version of this photograph at flic.kr/p/2mYsQMj.
Siam Discovery reopened in May 2016 to a new concept with a mixture of art and shopping and lets not foget an amazing food court
A magnificently curved building in Manchester, England.
This is Gateway House, completed in 1969. Architect: Richard Seifert.
Looking up at a recently built structure, St James's Market, Central London. Architects: Make Architects. This development was RIBA London Award winner in 2018.
Sometimes you think nothing is a coincidence. Moments after finishing this GIMPed abstract of "The Wave", I saw a photograph that had many similarities. So I copied the very suitable title of that photo.
The Wave, Almere, Flevoland, The Netherlands.
Design: René van Zuuk (2004)
Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
Juvenile
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) iDs a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
This photo was taken in Toronto back in October 2017. I've posted square photos of this building on here, but not this one, until now.
The building is 'Exhibit Residences'. Architect: Rosario “Roy” Varacalli
One of the things I most love about traveling to see the railroad in different parts of the country are all the unique geographic and structural components. In Kingman Canyon, the the lines split into two with the "high line" mostly for eastbound trains, and the "low-line" seeing primarily westbound moves. On the lower track, a westbound hotshot crosses over a wash on this low bridge running the trains over the desert floor. Later in the afternoon, I would get a firsthand look at how quickly monsoons can close in on an area, giving my eastern self an education on one of the many things to be cautious of when photographing the desert. Mother nature is always in charge.
The new Design Museum in Kensington opened in November 2016. The building was formerly the home of the Commonwealth Institute and it was opened in 1962. The architects were RMJM (Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall). This photo shows a section of the original roof structure.
A view up into the canopy on a misty morning in Little Wittenham Wood, South Oxfordshire. I was taken by the snaking structure of the branches as the reach up into the sky.
Le origini dell'attuale Teatro Regio risalgono agli anni Venti del XVIII secolo quando Vittorio Amedeo II, da poco acquisito il titolo di Re di Sardegna, decise di commissionare all'architetto Filippo Juvarra la progettazione di un nuovo grande Teatro in sostituzione dell'antico Teatro di Corte, allora ubicato nel vecchio Palazzo Ducale detto di San Giovanni, nell'ambito di un più generale riassetto funzionale e urbanistico di quella parte della cosiddetta "zona di comando" prospiciente il lato nord orientale della Piazza del Castello.
Nella notte tra l'8 e il 9 febbraio 1936, il Teatro Regio venne completamente distrutto da un violento incendio le cui cause non furono mai completamente chiarite. Della vecchia e gloriosa struttura teatrale, che per duecento anni (a differenza di tantissimi altri teatri, italiani e stranieri) mai aveva subito l'onta devastatrice delle fiamme, si salvarono appena i muri esterni e pochissimi cimeli: tra questi un antico caminetto in marmo ricollocato in una sala dell'attuale Teatro oltre a lacerti decorativi di stucchi e affreschi conservati in sale oggi facenti parte dell'attiguo Archivio di Stato. Complici la Seconda Guerra mondiale e le priorità della ricostruzione post-bellica saranno necessari quasi quarant'anni per la rinascita del distrutto Teatro in una veste strutturale e formale totalmente moderna.
Dopo l'incendio del 1936, Il bando di concorso, pubblicato nel 1937, viene vinto dagli architetti Aldo Morbelli e Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca.
Il nuovo Teatro Regio viene inaugurato dal presidente della Repubblica dell'epoca, Giovanni Leone, il 10 aprile 1973 con l'opera di Giuseppe Verdi I vespri siciliani, per la regia di Maria Callas e Giuseppe Di Stefano.
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Turin - Teatro Regio
The origins of the current Teatro Regio date back to the 1920s when Vittorio Amedeo II, who had recently acquired the title of King of Sardinia, decided to commission the architect Filippo Juvarra to design a new large theater to replace the ancient theater. di Corte, then located in the old Palazzo Ducale known as San Giovanni, as part of a more general functional and urban reorganization of that part of the so-called "command area" facing the north-eastern side of Piazza del Castello.
On the night between 8 and 9 February 1936, the Teatro Regio was completely destroyed by a violent fire, the causes of which were never fully clarified. Of the old and glorious theatrical structure, which for two hundred years (unlike many other Italian and foreign theaters) had never suffered the devastating shame of the flames, the external walls and very few relics were barely saved: among these an ancient marble fireplace relocated in a room of the current Theater as well as decorative fragments of stuccos and frescoes preserved in rooms that are now part of the adjacent State Archives. Thanks to the Second World War and the priorities of post-war reconstruction, almost forty years will be needed for the rebirth of the destroyed theater in a totally modern structural and formal guise.
After the fire of 1936, the competition notice, published in 1937, was won by the architects Aldo Morbelli and Robaldo Morozzo della Rocca.
The new Teatro Regio was inaugurated by the President of the Republic of the time, Giovanni Leone, on 10 April 1973 with the opera of Giuseppe Verdi I Vespri Siciliani, directed by Maria Callas and Giuseppe Di Stefano.
Another photo of the Hexagon Tower, Manchester.
This building was completed in 1973 for ICI.
For 50 years this Brutalist building’s facade was of concrete. The facade was over-clad with insulated aluminium rainscreen in 2023/2024, retaining the hexagonal shape of the original structure’s windows.
The 14-storey tower was named after the hexagon shaped windows based on the chemical compound Benzene, which is widely used in the creation of synthetic dyes.
Original architect was Richard Seifert.
Photo taken in April 2025.
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A section of the Walbrook Building roofline, photo taken from the inner courtyard behind Cannon Street in the City of London. Architect: Foster & Partners - Built 2010.
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