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While we only had two days in London (which is like two hours in the Smithsonian...trust me, I've done both), we did a pretty good job of seeing the major landmarks. My favorite was Tower Bridge.
A box car near the bosque used at a small home at one time, common during the depression. I can't say this was or wasn't a Hooverville from the great depression at one time, but it reminds me of one
Bajang Ratu gate or also known as the Candi Bajang Ratu is a gate / relic temple in the village of Majapahit Temon, District Trowulan, Mojokerto, East Java.
The building was probably built in the 14th century and is one of the big gate in the heyday of Majapahit. According to the Heritage Preservation Board Mojokerto, temple / gate serves as the entrance to the shrine to commemorate the death of King Jayanegara in Negarakertagama called "back to the world of Vishnu" in 1250 Saka (circa 1328 AD). But actually before his death Jayanegara this temple used as a back door of the kingdom. This conjecture is supported by the relief "Sri Tanjung" and release symbolizes the wings of the gate and up to now in the region has become a cultural Trowulan if required mourn the dead through the back door.
World Trade Center is a terminal station in Lower Manhattan for PATH rail service. It was originally opened on July 19, 1909, as Hudson Terminal, but was torn down, rebuilt as World Trade Center, and re-opened on July 6, 1971. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, a temporary station opened in 2003. The main station house, the Oculus, opened on March 4, 2016, and the terminal was renamed the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, or World Trade Center for short.
The St. Ludwig Church Celle,
the only classicist church in northern Germany.
St. Ludwig is a style-pure building of classicism. Only the towers completed in 1881 on the existing pedestals show the characteristics of a romanticising historicism.
Love Park in Philadelphia. This is the Robert Indiana sculpture in John F. Kennedy Plaza which was first installed in 1976. I took this a few weeks ago while visiting Phillly when I spent one evening on a blue hour shoot around the downtown.
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The Blount Building is an historic seven-story Chicago school style office building located at 3 West Garden St., SW corner of Palafox St., Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. It was built by Charles Hill Turner in 1906-1907 for local attorney William Alexander Blount on the site of the three-story Blount-Watson Building, which had burned on Halloween night in 1905. The building features so-called Chicago windows and contains in its exterior the contain the three parts of a classical column, with the first and second floors being the base of the column, the third through sixth floors the shaft and the seventh floor the capital. The first floor exterior has been changed over the years reflect different retail needs, but the exterior of the upper floors remains intact.
In 1989, the Blount Building was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press, which described it as a "Fine example of turn-of-the-century commercial architecture in Pensacola.".
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blount_Building
www.emporis.com/buildings/232526/blount-building-pensacol...