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Historic McDonough Street Bridge over the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Will County, Illinois. The bridge is a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge and was built in 1933 by the Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company.
1. "Needless to say, structures in structuralism are not neither concrete nor physical. Structures refer to mental models built after concrete realty." -Mark Glazer
2. Structuralism is a confusing term that begs for interpretation. One can assume that it deals with the physical structure of things, but in fact it deals with the mental conditioning produced by reality.
3. The image represents a popular reading that discusses and argues Structuralism against Post-Structuralism
Although Tiviot Dale station closed in 1967, the line remained until disaster happened in 1982. During work to the nearby M60 (then the M63) part of the tunnel roof was damaged. By 1986 the track had been lifted. It had been built in 1965, and is 225 yards long. Above the supported section in the middle is St Mary's church. The straight supports are constructed out of railway tracks. Underneath them there are the remains of a few wooden sleepers. Both ends of the tunnel are back filled with rubble to about four feet of the roof.
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Two cranes will lift the girder slowly, eventually lifting it up above the knuckle girders already in place.
St Edith's at Monk's Kirby is one of the grandest churches in Warwickshire; having formerly been monastic it was built on a huge scale; the aisled nave and chancel form one vessel with no structural division, all built of rich red sandstone except for the later upper part of the tower giving it a distinctive two-toned red and white look.
The interior is a huge, dark, cavernous space, and with all three aisles virtually the same height feels like a German hall church. The arcades have no capitals, giving them an Arts & Crafts feel. The windows are large but high up (there was formerly a cloister to the north) and admit only so much light, having much rich glass by Hardman's at the west end and a fine Lavers & Barraud to the east. The furnishings are not old and the main items of interest are the monuments, with two Tudor-period tombs with effigies in the Fielding chapel in the north east corner. There are ghostly white marble 19th century memorials further west in the north aisle with members of the Earl of Denbigh's family in high relief, and a badly worn medieval knight's head poking out the wall at the north west corner (fragment of a large tomb effigy).
This is a very familiar church for me as I've been here several times over the years, in fact it was one of the first old churches I ever saw as a child (my mother wanted to see the monuments here when I was about 5 years old, but I ruined her visit by finding the tombs way too spooky and had to be taken out in a state of distress!). It is a church I can return to again and again with more appreciative adult eyes, and though I still feel the atmosphere that sparked my childhood trauma in here I welcome it as a special memory that first got me really thinking about and looking at such places. Happily the church is normally open and welcoming to visitors.
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GRAFFITI, WEEDS, AND VACANT LOTS
That's what Athens was hoping the Faliro complex would be – a revitalizing influence. But the two main stadiums are shuttered, the public spaces around them deserted and covered in graffiti. A nearby vast field that was supposed to be an ecological park is strewn with old furniture and weeds. Trees planted before the Olympics have since died.
London 2012 i reckon will be much the same once everyones gone home at least it will be good for photographers !
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Dortechs glass and steel bolt assembly system can be suspended or stacked. It can be fixed back to structural steelwork, Glass fins, tension trusses & cable nets.
The product is ideal for Facades, Glass Bridges, Internal Partitions, Shopfronts, Balustrading, Glass Canopies & Roofs.
The final product has a Completely Flush external appearance, Clean lines with no intersecting mullions or transoms.
The system Maximises light transmission and has a range of mechanical fixings to suit aesthetic objectives.
Monolithic (Single Glazed) or IGU (double glazed)options are available.
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Dortechs Structural Silicone Glazed Curtain Wall systems can be used to create almost perfectly flush-fitted glass facades. The appearance of structural glazing is achieved by using profiles that are only visible on the room side. From the outside, only the glazing and the slender shadow joints are visible. The gap between each piece of glass is approximately 25mm (this can vary) in comparison to the 50 – 60mm site line prevalent with traditional, visible grid curtain wall systems.There are two main types of SSG system Dortech offers;
The first is based upon specialist double glazed units which are manufactured to include an SSG spacer bar which incorporates a ‘U’ channel. Typically the spacer bar will have a bronze anodised finish. Structural silicone is used to bond each piece of glass to the spacerbar. Once the curtain wall grid has been erected on site, these specialist glass units are delivered to site and locked into the grid using metal toggles which are designed specifically for each respective aluminium suppliers curtain wall system. Finally a compatible silicone is applied over the top of the vertical and horizontal joints to create a flush finish.
The second utilises traditional double glazed units manufactured with structural silicone. Aluminium carrier frames are then bonded around the perimeter of each piece of glass with structural silicone. On site, the perimeter frame is locked into the curtain wall grid and then silicone is applied over the gap between each piece of glass.
Please note, the SSG Curtain wall sysems cannot accomodate significant structural movements.
Dortech has carried out a number of projects utilising the following SSG Curtain wall systems:
Schuco FW50+SG
Schuco FW60+SG
Technal MX+SG
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After dropping off two lenses for repair/cleaning at Strauss in NE DC I caught sight of some creative metalwork on the side of a building near the north side of the 8th St and H St NE intersection.
More heavily processed than I usually lean towards but I was trying to evoke the flag with the heavy vignette, what do you think?
Green Houseboat built with Premier Building Systems' Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). Premier SIPs' versatility allows even water houses to utilize advanced building technology, help lower energy cost and minimize impact on the environment.
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Project: Penn State Altoona Adler Athletic Complex Addition
Structural Team: Benjamin Harvey, Zachary Spaulding
Construction Team: Chris Spittle, Derek Stauffer, Chuck Stodter
The Penn State Altoona Campus has elected to expand and renovate its athletic complex. 53,000 square feet of new space will be added to the existing complex, and another 23,000 square feet will be renovated. The estimated cost for this project is $24.5 million and includes the addition of a new 2,000 square foot gymnasium, a two story fitness center, and additional office, classroom, and locker room space. Students in the SDCET Capstone class were asked to design an additional one story 20,000 square foot multi-purpose space building that will attach to the expanded and renovated athletic complex. Students worked in small teams that focused on either the construction or structural design of the proposed building. The design teams created a structural layout/design for the project, while the construction teams recommended an exterior wall system (exterior/interior) and construction schedule that met the project demands. The students will present their final design and construction systems for the proposed building.
Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909, São Paulo – June 4, 1994, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer.
Roberto Burle Marx's father was an emigrant from the city Trier in Germany. His mother was raised from an upper class family in Brazil. Burle Marx's first landscaping inspirations came while studying painting in Germany, where he often visited the Dahlem Botanical Gardens and first learned about Brazil's native flora. Upon returning to Brazil in 1930, he began collecting plants in and around his home. He went to school at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio in 1930 where he focused on visual arts under Leo Putz and Candido Portinari. While in school he associated with several of Brazil’s future leaders in architecture and botanists who continued to be of significant influence in his personal and professional life. One of these was his professor, Brazilian Modernism’s Lucio Costa, the architect and planner who lived down the street from Burle. In 1932, Burle Marx designed his first landscape for a private residence by the architects Lucio Costa and Gregori Warchavchik. This project, the Schwartz house was the beginning of a collaboration with Costa which was enriched later by Oscar Niemeyer who designed the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Niemeyer also designed the Pampulha complex in 1942 which Marx designed gardens for.
In 1949 he acquired the 365,000m² estate Barra de Guaratiba (just outside of Rio de Janeiro). Burle Marx began taking expeditions into the Brazilian rain forest with botanists, landscape architects, architects and other researchers to gather plant specimens. He learned to practice studying plants in situ from the botanist Henrique Lahmeyer de Mello Barreto and established his garden, nursery and tropical plant collection at Guaratiba. This property was donated to the Brazilian government in 1985 and became a national monument. Now called Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, under the direction of IPHAN-Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional / Ministério da Cultura, it houses over 3,500 species of plants. The house was rebuilt in a valley on the site of a garden house belonging to the original plantation estate.
Roberto Burle Marx founded a landscape studio in 1955 and in the same year he founded a landscape company, called Burle Marx & Cia. Ltda.
Much of his work has a sense of timelessnes and perfection. His aesthetics were often nature based, for example, never mixing flower colours, utilisation of big groups of the same specimen, using native plants and making a rocky field into a relaxing garden. He was very interested in each plant's character and what effect that has on the whole garden. He opened an office in Caracas, Venezuela in 1956 and started working with architects Jose Tabacow and Haruyoshi Ono in 1968. Marx worked on commissions thorough out Brazil, Argentina, in Chile and many other South American countries, France, South Africa, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Additionally his artwork can be found displayed throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro “it is an open-air museum of works displaying his unmistakable style, one wholly his own” (Montero 2001 p. 29). Roberto Burle Marx’s 62 year career ended when he died June 4, 1994 two months before his 85th birthday.
He spent a lot of time in the Brazilian forests where he was able to study and explore. This enabled him to add significantly to the botanical sciences, by discovering new rocks and plants for example. At least 30 plants bear his name. Marx was also involved in efforts to protect and conserve the rain forest from the destructive commercial activities of deforestation for bananas and other crops and clear cutting of timber.
Marx’s work “can be summarized in four general design concepts—the use of native tropical vegetation as a structural element of design, the rupture of symmetrical patterns in the conception of open spaces, the colorful treatment of pavements, and the use of free forms in water features” (Vaccarino 2000, p. 17). This approach is exemplified by the Copacabana Beach promenade, where native sea breeze resistant trees and palms appear in groupings along Avenida Atlantica. These groupings punctuate Portugese stone mosaics which form a giant abstract painting where no section along the promenade is the same. This “painting” is viewed from the balconies of hotels, and offers an ever changing view for those driving along the beach. The mosaics continue the entire two and a half mile distance of the beach. The water feature, in this case, is of course the ocean and beach, which is bordered by a 30 foot wide continuous scallop patterned mosaic walk (Eliovson 1991; Montero 2001). Copacabana Beach is “the most famous in Brazil” (Eliovson 1991 p. 103).
Crews worked around-the-clock during a temporary GCRTA track-outage in order to set steel over the rapid transit tracks - hence the need for lighting!
A closer look at the connections between structural glass members. I like the resemblance to a spider holding all pieces together.
There were quite a few of these around the temple. Rather than hinder the tree's direction, the growth is actively supported.
INDIAN OCEAN (April 4, 2012) Aviation Structural Mechanic Airman Robert Thacker, assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40, carries an oil serving unit on the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are currently deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Andrew K. Haller/Released)