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20 Fenchurch Street the "Walkie-Talkie" the fifth-tallest building in the City of London costing over £200 million.
The high altar at Ely Cathedral. High altar's in English cathedrals are funny things - some have the most elaborate altar screens you can imagine, others do not have one at all.
At Ely there is a small and very pretty altar screen shown here.
Um dos mais importantes monumentos do Barroco em Portugal, o Palácio Nacional de Mafra é um símbolo do reinado absolutista de D. João V. Das suas 1200 divisões, realce para a Biblioteca, uma das mais importantes do século XVIII, com um acervo de cerca de 35 mil volumes, para o Convento, que constitui um património religioso ímpar no nosso país, para a Basílica, obra-prima da arquitectura setecentista, e para os famosos Carrilhões, conjunto único no mundo pelas suas dimensões e beleza do seu mecanismo. www.cm-mafra.pt/turismo/palacio.asp
The Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin is the Orthodox cathedral of Kharkov city. First church with this name, with wooden belfry was built in 1655. In 1789 the erecting of new stone church began. It has been built in early classicism style. As flock multiplied with a growth of city in 1888 it was considered to erect a new much greater church aside of active one. It was intended to serve as main church of Kharkov city, i.e. as cathedral. Cathedral's project has been designed by architect of Kharkov Technology Institute prof Michail I. Lovtsoff. It was styled in quazi-Bizantyne style which was actually in a great vogue in Russia. The huge 300-feet belfry has been designed in quazi-Gothic style. The total price of building exceeded 400000 golden roubles. 7 mlns of bricks have been expended. The church was consecrated in 1901. Now it is the centre of Kharkov Diocese.
Modern architects tells that this kind of style is "eclecticizm". I know that "eclecticizm" is a sort of obscenity in architecture, it meens something ugly and awful. But I'm definitely not a specialist ina branch of arcitecture. And for my non-educated point of view this cathedral is looking nice and slim, even despite it's monstruos dimensions
This Dutch pier (in Scheveningen Holland) opened in 1961 and was designed by the Dutch architects Huig Maaskant, Dick C. Apon en D. Dijk. They had been working on the it for 6 years..
In 1991 the dutch hotel and restaurant firm 'van der Valk' bought it for 1 guilder, promising they would make it back to what it was...
On the pier there are some shops, a restaurant, a casino, and there is a 40m high tower for the great view and for bungee jumping.
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"For seventeen years physician and surgeon in this town"
By the first half of the 19th Century, the churchyard around St Woolos Cathedral was overcrowded, noisome and unhealthy with broken coffins and bodies showing above the ground. Land was obtained from the Tredegar Estate for a municipal cemetery, and the first interment was in July 1854, making St Woolos the oldest public cemetery in Britain. Despite government legislation governing such public cemeteries, Roman Catholics were excluded for some time from the cemetery. The cemetery has been used for a Dr Who location.
Barnstaple is the main town of North Devon, England, and possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom. It is a former river-port, located at the lowest crossing-point of the River Taw, flowing into the Bristol Channel.
From the 14th century, it was licensed to export wool, since the merchants claimed that the town had been declared a free borough in Saxon times. This brought great wealth to Barnstaple, whose town centre still preserves a medieval layout and character. Later the town became an importer of Irish wool, but its harbour silted up, and it developed other industries, such as shipbuilding, foundries and sawmills. Its Victorian market survives, with its high glass and timber roof on iron columns. Barnstaple railway station is the terminus of a branch line from Exeter, known as the Tarka Line.
The 1937 Davidson County Courthouse was the 5th (of 6) to be used in Nashville.
In 1935, the Courthouse of 1857 burned, and the county decided to make the replacement building in the public square the County Courthouse and Nashville City Hall.
A Competition was held to design the new building, and the winning Architects were Emmons H. Woolwine of Nashville and Fredrich C. Hirons of New York with their PWA-influenced Art Deco design. The Cornerstone was placed on Aug. 10, 1936 and was dedicated on Dec. 8, 1937. The building cost $2,000,000 and was the first building in the city with air conditioning. The building is eight stories high and measures 260 feet by 96 feet. The official title of the building was Davidson County Public Building and Court House.
After several decades of use, updates were needed. Starting in 2003, the Courthouse began an extensive renovation. (When I was summoned for jury duty, courts were held in MetroCenter.) For additional space, a newer courthouse was built nearby with similar design themes. Also, the surface parking lot in front of the courthouse was replaced by an underground lot, and a small public park. The park has an observation deck, large lawn, small reflecting pool and picnic tables.
The quality of the Architecture placed the building on the National Register of Historic Places. As a significant Public Works Administration project, it is an example of Government Art Deco. The symbolism and Classical Columns are typical of a public building. The excellent craftsmanship is seen in the decorative work: Bronze castings, terra cotta and carvings.
There are a total of 13 photos in this batch and the thumbnails of alternate views and building detail are given below.
A colecção de escultura compreende toda a estatuária da Basílica, encomenda joanina a grandes mestres italianos, entre os quais se contam Lironi, Monaldi, Bracci, Maini, Corsini, Rusconi e Ludovisi., constituindo a mais significativa colecção de escultura barroca italiana fora de Itália, a qual inclui ainda os seus estudos em terracota, bem como a produção da Escola de Escultura de Mafra, aqui criada no reinado de D. José I sob a direcção do mestre italiano Alessandro Giusti, e por onde passaram importantes escultores como Machado de Castro.
Possui ainda uma importante colecção de paramentos de encomenda real em Itália (e em França. São obras de grande qualidade de execução, distinguindo-se das suas contemporâneas por serem bordadas com a técnica do ouro, mas utilizando apenas o fio de seda cor de ouro, por serem destinados a um convento franciscano, com um severo voto de pobreza.
Na Flandres, encomendou ainda dois carrilhões com 92 sinos, que constituem o maior conjunto histórico do mundo.
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The Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad Station (AKA the Coudersport Depot) was a railroad station in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. Built in 1899 and opened in January 1900 during the lumber industry boom in Potter County. When the lumber ran out, the railroad's business decreased. The station was abandoned in 1970 and was unoccupied until 1975, when the borough of Coudersport purchased it. The borough restored it and uses the building for office space. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976.
Pennsylvania Road Trip May 27 - May 29, 2016 - Day 2
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Though the construction of the Theory and Computer Sciences Building was announced in 2007, to me the interior feels very much like '60s brutalist construction. Which is not a critique at all; I'm rather fond of that style.
I love the concrete and sharp geometries here, along with the sand garden filling the inner courtyard spaces. The repeated vertical and horizontal lines help make the inside feel very modern, in keeping with the buildings purpose.
It houses Argonne's Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, among other things.
September 20th was Seoul’s Car-free Day with traffic restricted from Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Plaza down to City Hall Plaza leaving the streets free for pedestrian use on a fine autumn day. With a festival atmosphere, citizens and tourists alike could enjoy the various themed zones along the road with activities for both children and adults including bike rentals, clean energy exhibitions, a flea market, and various music performances.
Accessible from:
Gwanghwamun Station, Line 5.
City Hall Station, Line 2.
Moonrise above the skyline
Set Description: A look at the first inaugural Chicago Fire Festival, and surrounding views, from the terrace at Trump Tower.
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This building is still in use as a hotel but what not many people know is a church and cemetary sat on this spot. The church was gone by the time they wanted to put up the hotel in the late 1960s but the cemetary was still there. The graves were dug up and moved where i don't know. I have photos of the church yard when i find them i'll be sure to put them on.