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Shanghai South Railway Station, short just called Shanghai South Station (上海南站 Shànghǎi Nánzhàn) serves most trains to cities of Zhejiang and the Southern provinces of China, excluding the Shanghai-Hong Kong Route (no immigration/customs at Shanghai South Station).
The station is located in Shanghai's Xuhui District. An older station at this place (built in 1908) was the terminus of the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway line.
An extensive redesign has been carried out until 2006 by AREP (Paris), ECADI (Shanghai) and MaP3 (structural engineer - Paris), making the new station the world's first circular railway station. With the reopening of Shanghai South Station two minor Shanghai railway stations have been closed: Shanghai West Railway Station in Putuo District and Meilong Station near Jinjiang Park. All railway connections of these stations have been moved to Shanghai South Railway Station.
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Ta Prohm is the undisputed capital of the kingdom of the Trees. It has been left untouched by archaeologists except for the clearing of a path for visitors and structural strengthening to stave off further deterioration. It is possible to experience at this temple the wonder of the early explorers when they came upon these monuments in the middle of the nineteenth century. Fig, banyan and kapok trees spread their gigantic roots over stones, probing walls and terraces apart, as their branches and leaves intertwine to form a roof over the structures. Trunks of trees twist amongst stone pillars. (www.tourismcambodia.com/attractions/angkor/ta-prohm.htm)
Ta Prohm is the modern name of the temple at Angkor area in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia. This temple was built starting in 1186 ad in Khmer Empire architectural style founded by King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university.
The temple of Ta Prohm was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider. Its scenes of Ta Prohm were quite faithful to the temple's actual appearance and made use of its eerie qualities.
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Walking around the campus of Utah State University, sunlight streamed into a building, illuminating its internal structure and creating a interesting abstract composition..
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The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the main church of Florence, Italy. The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style and completed structurally in 1436. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence and are a major attraction to tourists visiting the region of Tuscany. The Italian term Campanile deriving from the word campana meaning bell, is synonymous with bell tower. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches. The cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence. Visitors like to joke that the cathedral was designed inside-out: its exterior boasts intricate designs and breathtaking features while the interior is surprisingly plain. For many, the main reason to visit is to climb to the top of the dome where you'll find spectacular views of the city
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore known simply as the Duomo is not only Florence's religious center, it's also the city's most recognizable attraction. Kanitha, BieJee and Samantha walking to the entrance of this beautiful Duomo.
De Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore of kortweg de Duomo is de kathedrale basiliek en het dominerende symbool van de Italiaanse stad Florence. Het is de op drie na grootste kathedraal van Europa. De Santa Maria del Fiore staat midden in het historische centrum van Florence tegenover het Baptisterium. Naast de kerk staat de campanile. Een campanile is een klokkentoren die naast een kerkgebouw staat. Het woord komt uit het Italiaans en is afgeleid van campana klok. Hij is vervaardigd van 1334 tot 1359 en is 85 meter hoog en daarmee 6 meter lager dan de dom, die 91 meter hoog is. De campanile is te beklimmen via een 414 treden tellende trap. Gedurende de middeleeuwen was Florence een van de belangrijkste steden van het Italiaanse schiereiland geworden. Bij een stad met die positie hoorde een grote kathedraal en eind 13e eeuw besloot het stadsbestuur dan ook dat de oude kathedraal van Santa Reparata moest worden vervangen door een kerkgebouw dat de macht van Florence uitstraalde. De nieuwe kathedraal werd aan Maria gewijd, maar de naam Santa Maria del Fiore verwees ook naar destijds gebruikelijke naam van de stad, Fiorenza.
Could be called Brutalist or the New Brutalism..
Brutalist architecture, also called New Brutalism, is an architectural style which emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era.[1][2][3] Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and structural elements over decorative design.[4][5] The style commonly makes use of exposed concrete or brick, angular geometric shapes and a predominantly monochrome colour palette;[6][5] other materials, such as steel, timber, and glass, are also featured.[7]
An abandoned chapel with some nice details - lots of serious structural damage inside but still photogenic.
The man down Italian toll tour. Taking in some Italian delights on a 4 day explore.
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Dealey Plaza is included in the block of Elm Street in Downtown Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The area of the Dealey Plaza Historic District (NRHP #93001607), along with the West End Historic District (NRHP #78002918), are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and both include the building in the photograph above. Dealey Plaza is also considered a National Historic Landmark (NHL).
This 7-story 80,000-square-foot red brick structure was built in 1901 by an unknown architect as a warehouse and showroom for the Rock Island Plow Company of Illinois; it replaced an 1898 structure that burned earlier the same year. The free-standing warehouse, about 100 feet square, stands on the northwest corner of Elm and Houston Streets. Its main facade is on Elm Street extended (the pre-1936 Elm Street) with the eastern side on Houston Street. The west side faces the rail and switching yards. The north side faces spurs of the rail yards connecting with Pacific Avenue, the primary east-west rail transit way through Downtown Dallas.
The warehouse, though it possesses certain characteristics of early Chicago skyscraper construction, was built with Classical details, including arched windows on all floors except seven, with those on six being round arched on the central five of the seven bays of each facade; multi-story pilasters (running floors two to six) with limestone capitals, and other stylized features characteristic of early 20th-century warehouses. It has masonry load-bearing walls with interior heavy pine square milled beams supporting the flooring. The brick used was a formed common style. A dropped metal ceiling, offices, and show windows were built on the first floor. The seventh-floor corporate offices included a dropped metal ceiling, with interior brick walls stained maroon, and interior window trim painted dark green. The windows were wood, double hung, set in structural masonry arches with the exterior cornice of metal. A painted exterior sign, above the seventh-floor ceiling, read "Southern Rock Island Plow Co." The "O's" in the sign concealed louvers, which ventilated the attic spaces. (This sign was removed at an unknown date.) The building was set back on the northwest first-floor corner to accommodate the loading and unloading of heavy equipment from the adjacent rail track. The upper floors cantilevered out over the track on that side.
The Rock Island Plow Company and its successor, the Southern Rock Island Plow Company, retained ownership until 1937. In 1939, D.H. Byrd of Dallas purchased it and afterward leased it to a variety of tenants. At the time of the assassination in 1963, it was leased to the Texas School Book Depository Company, a private textbook brokerage firm not affiliated with the State of Texas, which, nevertheless, warehoused and supplied textbooks to Texas schools. The firm maintained corporate offices in the building, and used the upper floors for storing textbooks.
The storage areas in the building on floors four, five, and six, typically filled with stacks of boxes of schoolbooks, were free of interior partitions, with wooden whitewashed ceilings, and whitewashed millwork beams set at 14-foot intervals supporting the floors. The interior brick walls were also whitewashed. The hardwood floors were rough. Access to these floors was by freight elevator or by the enclosed wooden staircase in the far northwest corner. Lighting was supplied by metal domed hanging fixtures with bare electrical bulbs. An exposed metal water pipe fire sprinkler system ran along the ceilings. All the electrical wiring was exposed conduit mounted on the horizontal and vertical wooden beams. (*Note: On November 22, 1963, workmen were laying a new flooring of rectangular plywood sheets over the existing flooring on the sixth floor of the warehouse. When the assassination occurred, at 12:30 p.m. local time, the workmen were at lunch.)
In 1970 the Depository Company moved out and Byrd sold the building to Aubrey Mayhew of Nashville, Tennessee, who planned to turn it into a commercial attraction centering on the association with the Kennedy assassination. Mayhew defaulted on his payments two years later. The building reverted to Byrd in 1972 shortly after an employee of Mayhew's set fire to the interior, which suffered only small damage. Between 1970 and 1977 the warehouse deteriorated; there was some discussion during the early1970's of demolishing it, but the city refused to issue a demolition permit. In late 1977, Dallas County purchased the old warehouse from Byrd, using funds voted in a public bond election. Between 1978 and 1988, the County renovated five floors and the basement for use as administrative offices and as the seat of County government. The fate of the sixth floor, which was sealed off and not exhibited to the public, remained an unsettled issue. A 1979 study funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities recommended that the floor be used for a major exhibition on the legacy and assassination of President Kennedy. The results were accepted and acted upon by the Dallas County Commissioners Court.
In 1988-89, the County, in cooperation with the non-profit Dallas County Historical Foundation, restored the sixth floor, installed the permanent Sixth Floor exhibit, and constructed and opened a new Visitors' Center to the north of the warehouse. The character of the exhibit and its non-intrusive use of historic space have won critical acclaim as well as a 98% approval rating from its approximately 300,000 annual visitors. Six films, graphics, over 300 historic photographs, and radio & tape recordings, including oral history recordings by witnesses & newsmen, are featured. Restoration and adaptation of the sixth floor was done under the general supervision of architects Eugene George and James Hendricks. The exhibit content was largely the work of Conover Hunt, with design by the Washington, D.C. firm of Robert Staples and Barbara Charles. The films were the work of Allen and Cynthia Salzman Mondell; Martin Jurow was the executive producer. The Texas Historical Commission and the National Park Service were advisors.
The two evidential areas--the sniper's perch (seen in the 6th window from the bottom of the far right row of windows) in the far southeast corner and the area where the rifle was found, with a nearby stairwell and freight elevator--are kept from public access by clear glass walls. No evidence is on display in those areas; nearby exhibit copy discusses them. They are furnished with duplicates of cardboard boxes placed as they were arranged on November 22, 1963 (based on examination of some dozen photographs of this corner taken on the day of the assassination). A clear plexiglass pane has been installed in the space on the far southeast partially raised corner window to indicate its position at the time of the assassination. As a safety measure, metal and glass barriers were installed in the concrete flooring in front of all windows accessible for public viewing. (The bottoms of the windows are only 18" from the floor and all exposed window frames are also sealed shut with small brass screws.)
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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This building was constructed by English China Clays in the 1960s, as part of their large dryers at Burngullow. It originally housed a pair of large circular Buell drum dryers, later replaced by a slurry plant. The site closed in the mid 2000s, and the buildings have unfortunately been stripped of machinery and partly demolished.
A deceased flower of a Phalaenopsis or moth orchid.
With highlights, shadows and blacks about -80 and texture +100 together with some extra tweaks in CameraRaw and Photoshop.
Made with Sony A99m2 with Minolta AF 100mm f/2.8 Macro and Lit with two LED Lights.
Looking up into the entrance display at the Philadelphia Flower Show 2018
Another picture in comments shows the floral arrangements in the bamboo pillars that hold the structure up.
LOL.....since this is the 1st thing you see when you walk in the door, this was the spot with the biggest backlog of people!
You sort of walk in, look up, go "WOW", and forget to keep moving!
Definitely the most colorful spot in the show, I kept returning to this area to take more pictures!
Le ciel bleu sur nous peut s'effondrer
Et la Terre peut bien s'écrouler
Peu m'importe si tu m'aimes
Je me fous du monde entier
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I'm honestly not sure why I built this, seeing as spaceships aren't something I usually do, but I enjoyed playing Jedi Fallen Order a few months ago and on a whim started working on this thing. The end result was better than I could have hoped!
Features rotating wings, opening hatches, and a full interior. I originally wanted to have working landing gear as well but that core drum section that the wings are attached to is a nightmare of engineering in-game and I don't think I can pull it off at this scale without seriously compromising its structural integrity.
Got another build coming up for you guys shortly, and I'll probably be more active for a bit thanks to quarantine. Hope everyone is doing well out there!
I really dig the "up the tree" motive. The tree belongs to this "color gradient" forest: www.flickr.com/photos/musicaloris/46243899934/
A pivotal milestone in railship development, the Storm was among the first series of double-gauge rail vessels designed specifically to form a train.
Previous double-gauge vessels were less structurally complex and operated individually. Since these retronymically-termed “rigid” shoulder-less railships were more constrained in their length, (and therefore their volume) by track geometry, the capacity taken up by their internal engines and fuel storage was particularly burdensome.
The improved efficiency of dedicated locomotives within a double-gauge train permitted any non-motive vessel to allocate more of its capacity to weaponry, often resulting in an immense turret spanning nearly its entire beam. The addition of swiveling shoulders between the trucks and body allowed these vessels to grow to sizes far beyond those of rigids.
The first non-rigid double-gauge vessels saw action in the latter stage of the Great Steam War, but remained effective long into the era of internal combustion.
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-L-Gauge compatibility (concentric curves and narrowing offsets up to 22.5º)
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Carbon Pack as standard
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Close to original weight & weight distribution
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Brand-new 62Kwh battery pack with advanced battery management and temperature control
Brand-new custom differential
Regenerative braking
Full navigation, DAB+, Bluetooth®, Apple Car Play™
Brand new and uprated heating and air conditioning system
Custom Porsche inspired 5-gauge cluster dials, showing vital information whilst maintaining ‘original’ appearance
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When you see a modern–day locomotive from that angle, it comes as no surprise that trains can be derailed: such an enormous mass on such thin, narrow wheels...
Perrache railway station, Lyon, circa 2010.
The above selection of corniforms seem to be free-form - verging on doodles, and tethering them may not seem at first to be viable. The images are from C Bicknell's originally published 1913 drawings of petroglyphs from around Mont Bégo (archive.org/details/GE0036GenB212/page/n187).
For the montage I took individual shots using Jupiter 8 50mm f2 converted for an M39 adapted Pentax K3 (helicoidal removed), and then processed and colourised. The texture is therefore from half-tone dot and not rock, and the imperfections originate from Bicknell's pencil sketches and not geological fissures. One aim was to re-perceive the images and, for the fun, to take the Bronze age towards contemporary references such as Basquiat and Haring.
The corniform symbol is well known from the neolithic and bronze age and is recognisable as a schematic image of cow horns on either a scull or a reduced schematic cow's body. The majority of symbols around the Mont Bégo mega site are corniforms. Whilst many are simple in form, there are regular examples that have horns that are horn in name only. They originate either side of the cow's head before sending off like lines of free-form jazz. Some of these are presented in the above image. Giant steps.
I will argue that many of these concertinaed undulations may have been inspired by the landscapes of the crofter's 'home' - in effect linking the corniform to a local geography. The mark of a permanent address before solicitors deed, mortgage or rental agreement. Therefore, for a cow-form hut, the deciding shape of courtyard fencing can be one that links the hut to the main lines of its surrounding landscape. Some might be shared land, other fields might be from deep within a clan's past.
Here, the descriptive 'horns' are from waves in the hut's entrance fencing, a simple structural addition that remains perfectly adapted to the Alpes-Maritimes, where temperatures can be hot for long periods, winds can be strong and storm and snow a challenge. Shade, wind break and a space free from drift snow - a working court yard for a fire, general out door work, and a descriptive and idiosyncratic home 'profile' that is hard to miss if fog or mist descend and you are returning from afar.
In other posts from the Mont Bégo Flickr album, I argue that the bronze age evolution of the corniform symbol expanded its meaning to also describe cow-form huts. Here the schematic top right image may be two huts in a conglomerate with two wheel like animal pens and two storage points outside of the lower hut. The turquoise symbol, top left would be a hut backing onto an oblong of 13 field spaces - possible a series of crop gardens or allotments. The lower turquoise symbol would be a ring fence crossing a hut. Here there would have been little need for extended 'horn/valley-style' 'farmyard' fencing, and so this architectural 'convention' may have been logically atrophied. Bottom left - a six legged cow or a cow-form hut with six guide-ropes from a flat valley with steep sides. The white image in the centre may have very large entrance fences that in the end provided a perfect space for an interior hut. No need for fencing, so no 'horns' for the entrance of this building addition. Here the valley would have been a classic glacial 'U' shape.
One must expect that sometimes the horns describe a valley for its cross section and at others a valley for the buttresses of meandering rock.
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The historic Fine Arts Building, a wood-framed structure designed by Louis Kamper in 1905 is mostly demolished at time of writing. This 7-story structure at 44 W. Adams is being demolished except for its facade, which is being preserved for future use. Ilitch Holdings Inc., the owner of the building has received a state grant to demolish the building after acquiring it as a working building in 1988. 21 years of water filtering in from rooftop skylights due to demolition by neglect is the reason for the interior's sad state.
Presented is one last look at the building.
1994 Mitsubishi Pajero LWB Intercooler Turbo 2800 Exceed.
Registered in October 2002.
Last (extended) MoT test expired in December 2020 (SORN).
It failed a test that month -
Nearside inner suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength sill (5.3.6 (a) (i)) - Major
Brake fluid significantly below minimum mark (1.1.10 (d) (ii)) - Major