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D+B office tour to observe construction progress on the historic building and the assembly of the tilt-up panels for the new addition which will house the Planetarium dome.
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Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture’s design for the Powerhouse Science Center re-envisions a historic riverfront structure as a hub for science education, exploration and promotion in the City of Sacramento. On the banks of the Sacramento River, the Science Center grows out from an abandoned power station building. As a principal component of the Riverfront activation, the Powerhouse Science Center anchors Robert T. Matsui Waterfront Park and borders the southern terminus of the 32-mile American River Bike Trail.
Vacant for over half a century, the structure undergoes a complete historic rehabilitation and the construction of a new floor level inside. A new two-story addition projects from the east side, containing a lobby, classrooms, offices and a cafe. A 110-seat planetarium is prominently on display with a zinc-clad hemispheric dome rising above the building’s mass. As representation of our place in the universe, the facade and building mass is sectioned by multiple planes, creating continuous vector lines that extend across the building and site. From satellites to world landmarks, the lines form connections with local and global points of interest.
The original PG&E Power Station B was designed in 1912 in the Beaux Arts Style by architect Willis Polk and was formally closed in 1954. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historic Places and the Sacramento Register of Historic & Cultural Resources. The Powerhouse Science Center is designed to achieve a USGBC LEED Rating of Silver.
Guyana is 6 feet below sea level. The only thing separating us from the great Atlantic is this wall.
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications. The term wind engine is also sometimes used to describe such devices.
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The Little Farm, Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley, CA
This drawing was initially an attempt at recreating a photograph of a modern styled home I saw in a book. I used the core structure of a few lines drawn in pencil, and overlayed the freehand patterns that were then colored with marker. The coloration is meant to highlight the 4 planes from the original photograph: the house entry; the house's sidewall; the ground; the sky.
This amazing glass couture piece Structures of Self was recently modeled by one of the collaborating artists during the new Beakerhead festival of science, art and engineering. The idea to collaborate on an a photoshoot that paired the alien/bug like garment with the 40 foot RayGun Gothic Rocketship during the setting sun, made for some pretty creative images
Structures of Self:
lead artist: Farlee Mowat
artist: Lana Collier
Raygun Gothic Rocketship:
Sean Orlando
Nathaniel Taylor
David Shulman
A very modern design of stucture atop Moiwayama Observation Deck. Looks like a time machine that travels back and forth the time stream.
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I regretfully neglected to record the source of the following, and Google search was no help at all in locating it. Any information would be greatly appreciated as I'd love to provide an appropriate source for quoted material.
The church is located a few miles south of Lynchburg, Virginia on English Tavern Road. This location is apparently considered as part of the Rustburg area in Campbell County, Virginia.
"White's Church was established in 1812 by two Quaker men who had been turned out of their church because they fell in love with and married Methodist girls. They decided to build a sanctuary of their own halfway between the homes of the two young couples." The church was named for Robert White, who, with John DePriest, transferred land "to the Methodist Episcopal Church forever." A sign above the entrance states the church was founded in 1812.
The core of the original church was built during the 19th century, a rectangular shape with 3 pointed windows on either side (notable for the shutters which curved at the top) and a small entry porch, which was probably redesigned to permit enclosure of the entrance. It was essentially a front gable construction with gable returns and a semicircular vent near the top. "The pews have been arranged with an aisle down the middle, whereas in former days there were two aisles, one on each side, and the pews were separated in the center by a board partition, with the men sitting to the right of the minister and the women to the left, as was the custom. The old box stove in the center of the church has been removed, as have the big square wooden spittoons, sandfilled and one to a pew, on the men's side of the room." There was at one time a slave gallery within the church. Changes have been made over the years with many additions and landscaping endeavors. The structure is set back from the road and has a pleasing setting with many nearby trees.
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9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
This amazing glass couture piece Structures of Self was recently modeled by one of the collaborating artists during the new Beakerhead festival of science, art and engineering. The idea to collaborate on an a photoshoot that paired the alien/bug like garment with the 40 foot RayGun Gothic Rocketship during the setting sun, made for some pretty creative images
Structures of Self:
lead artist: Farlee Mowat
artist: Lana Collier
Raygun Gothic Rocketship:
Sean Orlando
Nathaniel Taylor
David Shulman
Col. Donald L. Walker, deputy commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Atlantic Division (SAD), meets with officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge to discuss the operation of the freshwater control structures built by the Corps in 2011. Photo by George Jumara.