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Sandstone Structures
Nikon z9, 70mm, 1/100, f/11, ISO 100
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The geologist in me loves to geek out on rock cliffs and erosional features. Sandstone is one of the funnest structures to see effects of wind, water, ice, and gravity. La Ventana Natural Arch area goes on for miles with tons of cool cliffs to geek out on!
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Founded in 1818, the Sacred Heart Academy occupies a series of buildings that were constructed at the present site beginning in 1835. The oldest section of the complex sits at the center of a structure that has been expanded multiple times with new wings, and faces a garden, centered around a statue of Jesus Christ, and gateway that opens onto 2nd Street. The original structure, originally a Federal-style building, but modified later with the addition of Second Empire-style elements, features a five-bay east facade facing the street, with red flemish bond brick exterior walls, two-over-two windows, a central front entrance door with a fanlight transom, a brick front portico, added in the early 20th Century, which features a concrete balustrade and roof, a bracketed cornice and mansard roof with gabled dormers, added in the late 19th Century, and tall chimney stacks at the north and south faces of the structure. To the north is a five-bay addition constructed in 1840, with a side-gable roof, two-over-two windows, and a red common bond brick exterior, which was constructed to provide additional classroom space. In 1856, another five-bay addition was constructed to the south of the original structure, which features a side-gable roof, two-over-two windows, and a red common bond brick exterior. In 1860, the Primary Wing was constructed to the rear (west) side of the original building, facing the interior of the campus, and features a red common bond brick exterior, arched window bays, two-over-two windows, a parapet and belfry at the west facade, added in 1905, a large arched window at the center bay of the west facade, decorative patterned brickwork, and slate mansard roofs with wide gabled dormers on the north and south facades. In 1883, a Gothic Revival-style chapel was added at the north end of the campus along Decatur Street, attached to the north end of the wing built in 1840. The former chapel, now known as Cribbin Hall, features a red common bond brick exterior, front gable slate roof, gothic arched stained glass windows with tracery, decorative brick corbeling, stone trim, a rough-hewn stone base, buttresses on the north and south facades, and two-over-two windows on the east facade. The chapel was modified in the early 20th Century with the addition of a two-story red brick structure on the east facade, which features stone trim, arched bays, a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, and one-over-one double-hung windows, with this wing later being extended further east and eventually connected to and obscured by a new wing built in 1980 to the east, towards 2nd Street, which features a mansard roof and red brick exterior, tying it into the earlier buildings. In 1886, the Science Building was constructed at the south end of the wing constructed in 1856, which features a red common bond brick exterior, rough-hewn stone base, arched bays containing one-over-one windows, a slate mansard roof with hipped dormers, decorative brick corbeling, and stone trim, turning the building complex into a T-shaped structure. The school complex changed very little between 1886 and 1951, with the exception of the construction of two small red brick service buildings along Decatur Street in 1893, which feature minimal ornament, arched window bays, rough-hewn stone bases, and low-slope roofs, with the larger structure, originally intended to be a parish school for the nearby St. Charles Borromeo Church, becoming utilized as a laundry.
In 1951-1952, a limestone-clad Romanesque Revival-style chapel was constructed south of the school, which is now the Shrine of Saint Philippine Duchesne, and was originally intended to be a larger structure, with a nave to the south having never been completed, the location of which is still visible as a buff brick exterior on the south face of the building. The building features roman arched stained glass windows, decorative columns, an entrance portal with a decorative mosaic, and a gabled red terra cotta tile roof. The modernist interior of the church was designed in 1964 by William Schickel and Barbara and David Day, all from Cincinnati, the latter of whom are better-known for their drawn illustrations. The chapel houses a shrine and the remains of Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769-1952), a French woman who founded the school, the first Sacred Heart Academy in the Americas, and was known for her missionary work in the early-to-mid 19th Century, and was canonized as a saint in 1988. The school was expanded in 1961 with a new two-story modernist red-brick wing between the shrine and the older buildings to the north, which is simpler in appearance than the earlier buildings in the complex. The west wing of the 1961 building contained a gymnasium, which now functions as a cafeteria. In 1967, Regis Hall was added to the west of the original buildings, which is clad in brick with a hipped roof. In 1987, the wing constructed in 1961 was extended to the west with the addition of a larger gymnasium, and the previous gymnasium was converted into a cafeteria. The academy discontinued its high school program and became co-ed in 1972, and remains so today, though classes for the middle school grades are still divided by gender. The buildings of the school constructed prior to 1961 are contributing structures in the Frenchtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The campus today remains in active use as the home of the Sacred Heart Academy, and houses the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne.
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
Tens of thousand of teenagers are fighting to be the ones that will fulfill their dream- To be a soldier in the Israeli Special Forces.
Many of them are training for many years in special groups that help them to pass the hard tests in the way. One of these groups is 'ALUF', which is 'Champion' in Hebrew.
I had the privilege to be there with them and to capture their very special moments in the way to their dream.
The mission in this picture is simple, or at least looks like. Every group needs to build a pile of sand that will reach the high of the garbage bin. The only problem is that in one word of the instructor, 'Incident', makes them sprint 150 meters, and they can't keep building untill the last teammate arrived.
The purpose of this mission is to train them to work in a team, and to check their creativity.
Aviv Meseznik.
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
October 17, 2024. Engines 12,15,20,21, Truck 21, Squad 16, Rescue 14, and Battalion 3, along with Atlanta Gas Light responded to a working structure fire on the Eastern Edge of the county
The huge, steep terraces that guard Ollantaytambo’s spectacular Inca ruins mark one of the few places where the Spanish conquistadors lost a major battle.
The rebellious Manco Inca had retreated to this fortress after his defeat at Sacsaywamán. In 1536, Hernando Pizarro, Francisco’s younger half-brother, led a force of 70 cavalrymen to Ollantaytambo, supported by large numbers of indigenous and Spanish foot soldiers, in an attempt to capture Manco Inca.
The conquistadors, showered with arrows, spears and boulders from atop the steep terracing, were unable to climb to the fortress. In a brilliant move, Manco Inca flooded the plain below the fortress through previously prepared channels. With Spaniards’ horses bogged down in the water, Pizarro ordered a hasty retreat, chased down by thousands of Manco Inca’s victorious soldiers.
Yet the Inca victory would be short lived. Spanish forces soon returned with a quadrupled cavalry force and Manco fled to his jungle stronghold in Vilcabamba.
Though Ollantaytambo was a highly effective fortress, it also served as a temple. A finely worked ceremonial center is at the top of the terracing. Some extremely well-built walls were under construction at the time of the conquest and have never been completed. The stone was quarried from the mountainside 6km away, high above the opposite bank of the RÃo Urubamba. Transporting the huge stone blocks to the site was a stupendous feat. The Incas’ crafty technique to move massive blocks across the river meant carting the blocks to the riverside then diverting the entire river channel around them.
Structure Security conference at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco on Tuesda & Wednesday September 27-28, 2016
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
In historic Grendell Village, Greenwood, S.C. Old Mill Village. All plants in containers. Resident here was on porch so had a nice conversation with here and got info from her about other houses in neighborhood. She has been here one year.