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Commercial Structure Fire
4-22-2015
Wilco, NC 42 West at I-40
Electrical fire in the bathroom
Cleveland, Clayton, Garner FD
EMS24, Medic2
Built in 1928-1930, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White for Marshall Field and Company, and is known as Merchandise Mart, housing multiple retail and wholesale operations on the former site of a train yard, with the massive structure occupying an entire city block. The building consists of a bulky and boxy eighteen-story block, with a tower in the center of the facade facing the Chicago River extending beyond the primary roofline of the building an additional seven stories, making the building 25 stories and 340 feet (103 meters) tall. The building consolidated thirteen wholesale warehouses, and was the largest building in the world by floor area when it opened in 1930, holding the distinction until the completion of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia in 1943. The building was built with a concrete and steel structure, being built utilizing methods and materials previously reserved for larger infrastructure projects like hydroelectric dams. The building was purchased in the mid-1940s by the Kennedy family of Boston, whom owned it for over half a century, and utilized the proceeds from their ownership of the building to build their wealth and fund their political ambitions. In 1998, the building was sold by the Kennedy family to the Vornado Realty Trust.
The building features multiple octagonal towers, with a large tower in the center of the facade facing the Chicago River that features the tallest portion of the building, and smaller towers at the corners of the building and ends of the rooftop penthouse, which are topped with octagonal copper hipped roofs, and feature setbacks as they rise, increasing in frequency towards the top of the towers. The building’s facade is relatively vertical up to the fifteenth floor, with setbacks of the facade of the main block at the sixteenth and eighteenth floors, and similar setbacks of the corner towers, as well as the nineteenth floor of each tower. The building’s limestone facade is broken up by vertical window bays with one-over-one windows, with copper spandrel panels between windows on the fourth through fourteenth floors and sixteenth and seventeenth floors, as well as decorative pilasters, belt coursing, and sculptures. The base of the building’s facade features tall storefronts that have spandrel panels and are separated by fluted pilasters, and are as wide as two window bays on the upper floors. The window bays at the top of the building feature chamfered corners, with the building being crowned with decorative trim atop the parapets that enclose the large low-slope roof of the building, and trim around the base of the copper hipped roof on the towers. The building’s main entrance, at the base of the largest tower and facing the Chicago River, is recessed at the rear of a portico, and features a tall curtain wall above three revolving doors, with two lower alcoves to either side. The building’s main tower once featured 56 terra cotta busts depicting Native American chiefs, commemorating the site’s early heritage as a trading center, which were removed in a renovation in 1961. Inside, the building features approximately 7 miles of corridors, with a lobby featuring a high ceiling, fluted rectilinear marble columns, a terrazzo floor, decorative murals around the base of the ceiling, marble cladding on the walls with granite base, bronze Art Deco-style elevator doors, large showrooms for furniture and interior design firms, office space, and multiple restaurants. The building’s major common areas generally maintain their original character, with the showrooms having been modernized and adapted to different tenant needs over time.
The building has continued to adapt to new tenants over time, with a modern annex building known as 350 North Orleans, or the Chicago Apparel Center, being built on the block to the west in 1977, designed by the notable firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, which is connected to the original building by an enclosed walkway over the street built in 1988 and designed by Helmut Jahn. The building underwent a major renovation in the 1980s that updated and modernized various building systems, and between 1989 and 1991, saw the restoration and rehabilitation of the facade and major interior common areas under the direction of the firm Beyer Blinder Belle. The building also has its own transit stop of the Chicago Transit Authority L, presently served by the Brown and Purple lines, one of only two commercial properties to have their own stop on the rapid transit system, with the building having housed the main offices of the Chicago Transit Authority from 1947 until 2004. The management of the building in recent decades has implemented many green energy and sustainable practices into the operations of the building, achieving the LEED existing buildings Silver certification in 2007. The building continues to house retail, wholesale, and office space, today still being one of the largest buildings in central Chicago.
Trying out my new lense while on crutches. I just walked around the corner from my flat and took some shots if the old mill.
Feldherrnhalle
The most prominent structure on the Odeonsplatz is the Feldherrnhalle or Field Marshal's hall, which from many angles, makes the Odeonplatz look like an Italian square.
The Feldherrnhalle consists of three arches, with at the entrance between two Bayern lions. The building was designed in 1841 by Friedrich von Gärtner after the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy on request of Ludwig I in honour of Bayern generals.
Of the two lions which grace the steps, it is said that one is growling at the Residenz and the other is keeping its mouth shut towards the church. They were sculpted by W. Ruemann in 1906.
The central sculptural group was added in 1882, The monument, dedicated to the Bavarian army, was designed by Ferdinand von Miller. It commemorates the Franco-Prussian War.
DSC01212a
7-23-2016
Outbuilding behind a house on North Seventh St
Smithfield FD, Selma FD, JCEMS, Smithfield PD, Johnston County Fire Marshal's Office
Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture’s design for Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC) - formerly 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, MOSAC 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 30,000-square-foot structure undergoes a complete historic rehabilitation and the construction of a new floor level inside. A new two-story, 22,000-square-foot 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 a 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. MOSAC is designed to achieve a USGBC LEED Rating of Silver.
4-3-2016
700-blk Morgan Rd, Benson
Benson FD, Blackman's Crossroads FD, Meadow FD, JCEMS, Johnston County Fire Marshal's Office
The current cathedral is built on the site of at least two previous structures dedicated to Finbarr of Cork. The first dated from the 7th century, with works continuing through the 12th century. This building was damaged during the Siege of Cork (1690), and a new structure was built in 1735 - though elements of the earlier spire were retained.
This structure remained until the 1860s, when a competition for the building of a new larger cathedral was held 1862. In February 1863, the designs of the architect William Burges was declared the winner of the competition to build a new cathedral of St Fin Barre. His diary records his reaction - "Got Cork!" - whilst the cathedral accounts record the payment of the winning prize sum of £100. Building work took seven years before the first service was held in the cathedral in 1870. Building, carving and decoration continued into the 20th century, long after Burges's death in 1881.
The style of the building is Early French, Burges's favoured period and a style he continued to favour throughout his life, choosing it for his own home, The Tower House, in Kensington. The stipulated price for construction was to be £15,000, a sum vastly exceeded. The total cost came to significantly over £100,000. Burges was "unconcerned" (his own words) in his letter of January 1877 to the Bishop of Cork: "(In the future) the whole affair will be on its trial and, the elements of time and cost being forgotten, the result only will be looked at. The great questions will then be, first, is this work beautiful and, secondly, have those to whom it was entrusted, done it with all their heart and all their ability."
Burges oversaw all aspects of the design, including the architecture of the building, the statuary, the stained glass and the internal decoration. The result is "undoubtedly Burges's greatest work in ecclesiastical architecture".
Painting the structure was a good move; it helps define the space, gives it a fresh and new aesthetic and lifts it from its brown surroundings.
Structured Bokeh and Hillarys Boat Harbour. Canon EF 75-300mm. Setting at f4, 300mm. A six (6) pointed star template in front of the UV filter to shape the Bokeh
Steel Structure, High Tension Galvanized Steel Tubular Pole, Straight Pole,
Tensile Pole, Turn Pole, Galvanized Electric Steel Pole, Power Transmission
Pole, Steel Tower, Street Lighting Pole, High Mast Lighting Pole, Communication
Tower (Only Sale Overseas), Communication Steel Pole, Steel Structure, Street
Lighting Pole , Transmission Line Towers,Communication System Towers.
The grounds of Hiyoshi Taisha has several structures--at one time as many as 108. This is Usa Shrine, located between the main shrine areas.
Hiyoshi Taisha is dedicated to Sanno Gongen, the deity of Mount Hiei, and dates back to 806. The shrine is located at the base of the mountain in Sakamoto near the shores of Lake Biwa. Because of its proximity to Hieizan, it has always been associated with Enryaku-ji. The shrine was destroyed in 1571 when Nobunaga eliminated the Enryaku-ji monks, but it was rebuilt soon after.
Hiyoshi Taisha. Otsu, Shiga.
Thorne Road just off NC 96 North
Selma FD, Thanksgiving FD, Micro FD, Selma EMS, JCEMS
Some extension into the woods, defensive operations on an abandoned structure.
Wilson's Mills
1-18-2017
Fire Department Road
Wilson's Mills FD, Selma FD, Clayton FD, Selma EMS, Johnston County EMS, NC Forest Service, Johnston County Fire Marshal
Abandoned home place back in the woods off of White Star Dr off of Holland Rd. A house, several outbuildings and woods.
Fuquay-Varina FD
Holly Springs FD
Northwest Harnett FD
Wake County EMS
WC1
Iron structured coast tanker was builded in England at 1944 and sold to Finnish owner. Tanker was sold again at 1954 to Turkish shipping company and renamed to Necati Pehlivan.
Turkish owners took possession of ship and left Marienhamn harbour at 26.9.1954. Soon after, tanker run aground in Lågskär and sinked to archipelago Åland, Baltic sea.
Hi,All,I responded to a report in my local paper.Maybe Wartime building.(Surrey Mirror).
Its just been uncovered from growth that has surrounded for many years.
They are after info about it.
I asked my Dad who is 82 about it and we came to this theory!
It could have been built by French Canadian Forces who were in the UK at the time.
It may have been a lookout, a shell for AA guns or petrol store with a conveyer to get goods/stores out.Hence no ladders etc.
At this time there were many AA batteries in Roffes Lane and Alderstead Heath.
Any info anyone can give would be much appreciated.