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PHILIPPINE SEA (July 5, 2022) Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Jonathan Hernandez, from Fontana, Calif., installs a roll trim servo on an MH-60R Sea Hawk, assigned to the Saberhawks of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 77, on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). HSM 77’s missions include surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and a variety of support roles for Ronald Reagan and Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 5. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of CSG-5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, and supports alliances, partnerships and collective maritime interests in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda)
Along the Boquillas Canyon Trail. Looking east-northeastward.
This is one of my all-time favorite structural-geology photos (of those taken by me, that is).
This visit occurred in the late afternoon, and the walls of this great breach in the Sierra del Carmen were bathed in golden light. I actually like the fact that this slide transfer is distinctly smudgy-impressionist in some places and grainy-pointillist in others. Not a crisp digital image to be sure, but rather painterly.
What's visible here is mostly or entirely the cliff-forming Lower Cretaceous Santa Elena Limestone. Since the late Mesozoic it has been subjected to two episodes of supersized crustal disturbance:
- compression of the Laramide Orogeny (Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary), which build a great monocline of strata warping upwards toward the northeast like a giant stair step; and
- Upper Tertiary to Lower Quaternary extension as part of the Rio Grande Rift / Basin and Range stretching of a huge portion of western North America. This created a series of normal faults and fault blocks—with the down-dropped blocks called grabens (also known as bolsons).
In this vista one doesn't have to be a trained structural geologist to see that the brightly illuminated fault block on the far side of the Rio Grande is tilting quite dramatically to the left (northward). As the angled Santa Elena strata show, it's slumping down toward the graben beyond it. The imposing west-facing fault scarp of the Sierra del Carmen was also produced by this Basin and Range activity.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set and my other Big Bend series, visit my my From Persimmon Gap to Boquillas Canyon album.
5 Image HDR/DRI 2 image stitched to relief spatial tension on right using black card technique + ND 0.9 for smoothed water and cloud effects. Art Science Museum @ Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
A scout around the area yield interesting compositions. I figured from this angle I might be able to see the sunrise at this time of the year. The camera was positioned nearly at the edge of the water!!
Shadow of the Colossus
PlayStation 4 Pro (4K .png, Cropped Flickr Tool)
Just built-in Photo Mode
- Yet another unhearting Photo Mode
And old building with apparenlt serious structural issues, York, England.
York’s old town is known for “The Shambles,” an old area of narrow and sometimes-curving streets lined with very old shops and businesses. (The appearance in places is “Harry Potteresque,” something that shops are now promoting.) They seem to take pains to maintain the very old and slightly off-kilter appearance of the shops, but this particular building is a standout!
And, no, your screen is not melting. This building actually looks like this, leaning precariously to one side, with the walls of the lower floor appearing to be badly distorted and cracked. I did not enter the building, nor could I find a name for it (though the sign says that ghost tours meet there), but I can only hope that there is some interior reinforcement not visible from the street!
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
structural framing detail, entrance elevation
Japanese architect Tadao Ando was the designer of the Stone Hill Center at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. . . . completed in 2008, the Stone Hill Center houses the museum's conservation facilities and some additional exhibition spaces
more photos of Stone Hill Center here: www.flickr.com/photos/atelier79033/sets/72157614010305312...
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Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.
- Henri Matisse
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Sculpture group Shoal Fly By (2003) by Bellemo & Cat at Docklands, Melbourne's precinct centre.
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NO GIFS AND ANIMATED ICONS, PLEASE!
Some background:
After the space-worthy conversion of the CVS-101 Prometheus and the SLV-111 Daedalus carriers, these ships were docked with the SDF-1 Macross and it became clear that this new gigantic vessel required a specialized unit with a heavy armament for medium range defense.
The resulting Space Defense Robot (SDR) Phalanx was tailored to this task. Development of the Phalanx began in a hurry, during the already ongoing Space War I in July 2009. Its systems and structural elements were, to save time and minimize development risks, taken over from a pre-war Destroid standard mass production model. The "Type 04" biped chassis from 2001 was common to several Destroid types, including the Tomahawk medium battle robot and the Defender anti-aircraft robot. The main frame from the waist down included a common module which consolidated the thermonuclear reactor and ambulatory OverTechnology system, and for the Phalanx it was combined with a new, jettisonable torso that was suited to space operations and could also act as a rescue capsule with modest independent propulsion. Thanks to this dedicated mission profile, the Phalanx was the best adapted Destroid to space operations, with the best zero-G maneuverability of any Destroid type during Space War I.
With this proven basis, the Phalanx quickly reached rollout in December of that year. Armed with dozens of missiles in two large launcher pods, the Phalanx made an excellent semi-mobile missile-based battery. On board of spaceships, the Phalanx also performed as a substitution deployment for the much more complex ADR-04-Mk X Destroid Defender, and it complemented this type with its longer-range guided missile weaponry. Minor Phalanx variants featured additional light close-range armament, such as a head-mounted gatling gun that replaced the original search light array, or more sophisticated sensor arrays. The latter led to the dedicated Mk. XIII version for space operations.
During the final battle of Space War I against the Zentraedi Bodol Zer Main Fleet, the Phalanx units, originally delivered in a sand-colored livery, were repainted in dark blue and refitted to fire long-range reaction warheads for use against space warships. The Phalanx’ on board of SDF-1 had their finest hour when the SDF-1 Macross broke through the Zentraedi fleet defenses and entered the interior of the massive Fulbtzs Berrentzs command vessel: all the Phalanx units unleashed their missiles and aided in the swift destruction of the enemy flagship.
However, Phalanx production only reached limited numbers, due to the type’s high grade of specialization and its inherent vulnerability in close combat - the Phalanx’ combat operation capability decreases substantially once the missile ordnance had been exhausted. Beyond the initial production on Earth, roughly 20 more Phalanx Destroids were also built aboard the SDF-1 Macross shipboard factories, and many of these were later updated from the Mk. XII to the Mk. XIII standard. Post-Space War I, Phalanx Destroids were deployed as part of defense forces on various military bases and used in the ground attack role as long-range infantry support artillery units, fighting from the second line of battle. Nevertheless, the Phalanx remained a stopgap solution and was quickly followed by the more versatile Destroid "Nimrod" SDR-04-Mk. XIV.
Technical Data:
Equipment Type: Space Defense Robot/heavy artillery
Accommodation: One pilot
Government: U.N. Spacy
Manufacturer: Macross Onboard Factories
Introduction: December 2009
Dimensions:
Height 12.05 meters overall (11.27 m w/o searchlight array)
Length 5.1 meters
Width 10.8 meters.
Mass: 47.2 metric tons
Powerplant:
1x Kranss-Maffai MT828 thermonuclear reactor, developing 2800 shp;
Auxillary Shinnakasu Industry CT 03 miniature thermonuclear generator, output rated at 970 kW.
Propulsion:
Biped, with limited zero-G maneuverability through many low-thrust vernier thrusters beneath multipurpose hooks/handles all over the hull.
Armament:
2x Howard SHIN-SHM-10 Derringer short-range high-maneuverability self-guided missile pods, one per arm, with 22 missiles each (missiles stored in two rows behind each other).
Production Notes:
The rather obscure Destroid Phalanx made its media debut in Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Episode 27, and it's actually the only occasion where it appears. Original mecha designer is/was Miyatake Kazutaka.
The kit and its assembly:
I have been pushing this build away from the workbench for a long time. I was – after building two conversions - missing a canonical Destroid Phalanx in my Macross mecha collection, and since I had one stashed away (you never know…) I tackled this project now. The kit is Bandai’s re-issue of Imai’s 1982 1:100 kit, a vintage “Matryoshka” construction (= build one element from two halves, place it between two more halves, etc.) which does not make the assembly process easy.
The kit was basically built OOB, but “under the hood” it received some mechanical mods and improvements. These primarily include scratched joints for the arms/launcher pods and the hip. The pods remained detachable through an internal styrene tube construction. An important improvement for the “04 chassis” is a completely now hip joint arrangement because the Phalanx’ OOB posture is pretty stiff, with the legs and feet facing straight forward. The mecha model is just supposed to just stand upright and with the model’s OOB joint options it is really hard to create a vivid poise at all, so that a 3rd dimension improves the posing options a lot. Furthermore, the bolts that hold the legs are prone to break off, even more so because the kit is from the 1st generation of mecha kits without vinyl caps and just a very tight joint fit to hold the appendages in place. My solution was the implantation of a new hip “bone”, made from plastic-coated steel wire, which is stiff in itself but can be bent in two dimensions. The thighs had to be modified accordingly, since the wire is much thinner than the original bolts, and it needs a rigid attachment point. Resulting gaps around the hip joints were filled with bits of paper tissue drenched in white glue.
Other visual improvements include launch tubes inside of the missile pods. These were made from thin plastic drinking straw material, they fill the (rather ugly and well-visible) blank space between the warheads. Additionally, the hollow “heels” were filled on their insides with putty.
While the kit itself is a pretty simple affair, fit is mediocre, and you have to expect PSR almost everywhere. A direly weak spot area is the shank’s rear: there’s a recession with a seam running right through, and there are side walls missing in the section, too. I tried to mend this through putty and decals.
Painting and markings:
Since I wanted to stick to the authentic OOB livery, I gave the model an overall basic color, a greenish-grey, dull beige (RAL 1019) from the rattle can. The canonical Phalanx also features some dark contrast highlights all over the hull, and these were created with RAL 7013 (Revell 46), an olive drab tone that looks, in contrast to the light beige, almost like a dull brown on the model. The box art suggests a very dark grey, but I found that this would not work too well with the overall light beige tone.
Strangely, the characteristic white trim on the lower legs that many Destroids carry was in this boxing provided with the decal sheet – other Destroid kits require them to be painted manually!
Otherwise there's hardly any other color on the Phalanx’ hull. The missile pod exhausts as well as the launcher interior were painted with steel metallizer (Humbrol 27003) and treated with graphite for a shiny finish, the inside of the launcher covers and the missile tips became bright red (Revell 332). The bellows in the knees became anthracite (Revell 06), later dry-brushed with a reddish brown.
Quite a challenge were the three search lights in the “head unit”, because they consist of massive molded opaque styrene. I simulated glass and depth through a bright silver base, with vertical stripes in thinned white and medium grey and a coat with white translucent paint on top of that. Finally, extra artificial light reflexes were added with opaque white paint and, finally, everything was sealed with glossy varnish, which also adds some visual depth.
The model was thoroughly weathered with a black-and-brown watercolor washing and a generous dry-brushing treatment with Hemp 168 (RAF Hemp). The decals came next, taken from the OOB sheet, the Bugs Bunny artwork on the lower right leg is a typical individual detail of many Destroids, taken from a WWII USAAF P-47D.
After some additional weathering with watercolors and some graphite rubbing around the many edges for a worn and beaten look, the model received an overall coat with acrylic matt varnish. After final assembly of the model’s elements, soot stains were added around the missile launchers’ openings as well as to the small thrusters, again with grinded graphite, and some mineral pigments were dusted onto the model with a soft, big brush, esp. around the lower areas.
A build that took some time because of the mediocre fit of the kit and the mechanical mods it IMHO requires. But I am quite happy with the outcome, “just a Destroid” in its gritty heavy ordnance look, and the dull beige suits the Phalanx well.
Azabudai Hills, Tokyo's newest architectural marvel completed in 2023, showcases cutting-edge structural engineering through its distinctive exoskeleton design. This image captures one of the building's most striking features - the dramatic X-shaped structural supports that characterize its innovative exterior.
Designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners, with additional input from Japanese architects Sou Fujimoto and Tsuyoshi Tane, the complex represents the pinnacle of modern Japanese urban development. The building's exterior combines granitic materials with expansive glass surfaces, creating a dialogue between solidity and transparency.
The photograph highlights the intricate detailing of the structural supports, where massive crossed beams meet in a precise intersection. The pale granite cladding features subtle linear detailing that adds texture while maintaining the structure's clean, contemporary aesthetic. The glazing system reflects the sky while revealing glimpses of the interior, demonstrating the complex's commitment to natural light and visual connectivity.
Rising 330 meters into the Tokyo skyline, Azabudai Hills represents the largest private-sector development in Japan's history. The complex incorporates innovative sustainability features, including extensive greenery visible along the building's edges, contributing to its WELL and LEED certifications.
The architectural language employs what the designers call "modern organicism," where rigid geometric forms are softened by curved elements and living walls. This particular view emphasizes how the structural system not only supports the building but serves as a key aesthetic element, creating a bold visual rhythm that continues throughout the facade.
The project, part of Mori Building Company's urban redevelopment initiative, exemplifies Tokyo's commitment to creating multi-use spaces that combine office, residential, and cultural facilities while pushing the boundaries of architectural possibility.
This was taken at Liberty Village, King West area. I see it all the time since I live in the area; but this time, it somehow looked different (better) so I had to capture it.
This photo has been featured in Torontoist Weekly Photo Roundup, Issue #82.
Passionflowers are so amazing! Look at the structural intricacies of them! I love watching bees visiting them. They go right into the middle and walk round and round while they get pollen wiped onto them. I always think that it must feel like walking on piano keys!
33. Something that flies in 52 in 2018 Challenge
Another from the Tamron 28mm lens test, looking at the beauty of temperate zone trees in winter. This is an Oak tree, almost certainly an American Red Oak, Quercus rubra, but without the leaves or acorns, one cannot be certain. Many species of oaks, both indigenous & introduced, are present in Limousin. Oak is the most durable of all temperate hardwoods, and also one of the strongest, and has been used for both structural and decorative purposes for many hundreds of years.
1980 Mamiya ZE, f2.5/28mm Tamron lens, X2 yellow filter. Rollei Retro100 @200, In Diafine, 5+5mins at 21C. scanned @ 2400dpi on Epson V500.
This is my take on the PacWest Center (also known as the Icecube Building). It’s a great comp for black and white processing because it’s already black & white (Okay, it’s black & silver). While the lone tree growing out the side intrigues me I have to admit I like my contact William Walsh’s version a lot better: www.flickr.com/photos/54241790@N03/6943024393
Sanatorium Zonnestraal, Hilversum NL, 1926-1928, architects Duiker, Bijvoet & Wiebenga - the architects/structural engineers designed the Sanatorium Zonnestraal near Hilversum in The Netherlands, completed in 1928. This cutting-edge design changed the way the world considered hospitals, by discarding the dark, unsanitary buildings of the past. Early twentieth century designs emphasized air circulation and access to sunlight. This innovation was so successful that many upscale homes placed sleeping quarters outside on balconies. The composition of glass, concrete, and steel in this structure continues to be copied in many modern homes. Three main buildings of three parallel wings contain treatment facilities and staff quarters. The infirmary houses 28 patients, specifically tuberculosis patients. Spatial relationships are clear and direct. The white concrete is brilliantly subservient to the airy and light atmosphere. There is no telling how much this project improved the quality of life for sick and mentally ill people all over the world. It is a triumph of Modernism. A major restoration took place from 2001. The main building is totally restored. From the remaining original pavilion the structure and facades have been restored. The interior is waiting for a new user.
Greifvogelstation
Landesgartenschau 2014
Zülpich, Germany
Project team: FH Köln
Students: Viviane Bonfanti, Patrick Müller, Nadja Thielen, Nina Wester
Prof. Peter Scheder, Prof. i.V. Susanne Kohte, Prof. i.V. Chris Schroeer-Heiermann
The fourth-semester project last year for architecture students at the FH Köln was a falconry, which we knew was supposed to actually be built on the grounds of a garden-exhibit in Zülpich, near Köln. So we approached the powers that be with 30 of the 120 designs which had been submitted, and one, designed by Viviane Bonfanti, was actually selected for realisation. A group of 4 students were assisted by myself and 2 other professors and, with the help of a structural engineer, worked out all the details and logistics to make the theory reality.
We found a sponsor willing to pay for the materials and a local vocational school with an interested teacher and group of ongoing carpenters with a sense of adventure who then volunteered to build it.
So two weeks ago, after we laid the sole plate, the architecture students coordinated the erection of the rough-construction over the course of one week.
Now on the the roofers, electricians and metalsmiths!