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Happy 60th Anniversary, HDB! Public housing in Singapore is what truly defines this country, as it is the dwelling place for the vast majority of the populace, making it a shared experience for Singaporeans.
To me, Punggol Waterway Terraces kinda fits the interpretation of the HDB kampung, with multiple common decks and an enclosed, yet open, layout and architecture that allows for community interaction.
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Terraced rice paddy fields are quite a spectacular marvel, both in their beauty and their ingeniousness.
A while ago I stumbled upon some mind-blowing photos of these, and I really wanted to see if I could do them justice in LEGO. I had quite a bit of lime wedge plates lying around, so that became the basis for the build, augmented with tiles and jumper plates.
I wanted to make thin paddies to get the very layered feel to the build. This naturally meant that the terrain had to be quite steep, or the paddies would be wider. I also wanted to intersperse the paddies with some overgrown jungle, to get a nice contrast and some variation. A river at the bottom also made sense since the water had to end up somewhere.
The terracing was certainly the most complicated thing going on here. The goal was to get smooth angles with showing as few studs as possible. Smooth angles pretty much means you need to use wedge plates, which also means you have very little area to work with before the studs become visible.
The building process was quite frustrating as building up layer by layer doesn't really work as you have to make sure that the top layers will combine well, or you may have to tear everything up. This meant the paddies were actually built from left to right rather than from the bottom to the top. There was still quite a bit modifications needed and I sometimes had to pull whole sections out to fix a small detail, and then try to put it back together again. Not the most fun ;)
I generally find lime green a bit hard to work with, as it is easy for it to overpower other greens because of its brightness. It was definitely the right colour choice here though, so had to try to make it work. In the end I think the colours work together because they represent different things, while trying to make them blend might have been harder. Here it is quite clear that the lime is paddies and the other greens are jungle and other random vegetation.
The most enjoyable part for me was (as it usually is) the forest/jungle. Making it work on very steep mountainsides was a bit of a challenge, but I had a lot of fun trying out both new elements and new techniques to get a varied, but still natural looking jungle.
I am quite happy with the end result of this build, though I feel it generally looks better close up rather than in overview photos of the whole build. Probably because close ups are more immersive. Will have to take some more of those later :)
As to whether I have made the rice terraces justice, I would have to say no. Though I do feel the build turned out quite well, the beauty of the real thing is just too high of a benchmark to reach. Just go ahead and google 'rice terraces' and you'll see what I mean :)
A closer look at the water flowing over the natural mineral terraces at Baishuitai.
Located at the foothills of the Haba Snow Mountains, this area has views worthy of Shangri-la.
Yunnan; October 2024
The Dufferin Terrace is located on a beautifully landscaped esplanade.. Running in front of the Château Frontenac, the historical terrace was built in 1838 and is visited year-round. From the terrace you can enjoy the stunning view of the Gulf of St.Lawrence and Basse Ville ( Lower Town)
These beautiful Terraced houses date back to the good old days of coal fires. You can see the chimneys on the top of all the building. The designs are rather elegant and the uniformity of the structures are a delight to behold.
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park
The supply of water to the Travertine Terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs comes and goes. Where there is water there are Thermofiles which lend their colors to the formation. Dry areas go to a light grey.
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Agfa Isolette III with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Acurol-N
Printed on Bergger Prestige CM
Developed in SE1 Sepia
Selenium / Thiourea / Viradon
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Rooftop Terrace. Burano, Italy. Digital Pastel artwork by Donna Corless.
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Here we see WAMX 4182 and WAMX 4177 leading an uncommon daylight T005 as they work their way off the Lake Monona causeway and onto Madison's Isthmus for the final few miles to the yard at Johnson Street. At this point, seen from the Monona Terrace, T005 is strung out around the connector at Monona Tower and over the junction with the Prairie Sub at Broom Street.
The area around Monona Tower is the convergence of the Madison, Reedsburg, and Prairie subdivisions. The Madison Sub crosses the Reedsburg Sub at Monona Tower. From there, the Madison Sub continues until the junction with the Prairie Sub at Main Street. The Prairie Sub begins here at Broom Street. Both Broom and Main street switches are radio controlled whose normal positions are lined for the Reedsburg Sub and Prairie Sub respectively. The connecting track between the Reedsburg and Madison subdivisions at Monona Tower has a pair of spring switches whose normal positions are lined for movement from the Madison Sub to the Reedsburg Sub and vise versa.
At one time, there were four tracks and a two-lane road between the buildings and the lake. The two northern tracks were for the Milwaukee and the two southern tracks were for the CNW. This was eventually consolidated to two tracks, and then finally one track during the construction of the Monona Terrace in 1994.
The Longji Rice Terraces (Longsheng Rice Terraces) filled with luscious rice crops can be seen from September through October. After that, crops are harvested and the terraces are transformed into a photogenic mirror-like landscape when farmers irrigate the land.
Flooding the land and retaining the water by building risers protected by fodder grasses allows the soil to soften in preparation for the next planting season.
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