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DATE: 04/06/2012
This is an entrance of Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo.
After a big weekend, it is not easy to spend Monday at work...
However it was a beautiful day in Sapporo. Maybe today was the hottest of the season.
Yup I love Summer.
Camera Info: Nikon D300S | Tamron 17-50mm (f/2.8) @ 17mm | ISO 1600 | 1/20s @ f/8.0 | Handheld Camera | Lightroom 3
First Baptist Church Dallas, one week prior to implosion of super block of buildings on October 30, 2010. ARC Abatement prepared the buildings by containing and abating the asbestos within the structures, leaving the site cleaner than ARC found it.
We have 11 days in Puglia..today we're Driving through Gioia del Colle, Puglia, Italy (Nov 8, 2011)
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Built in 1851-1862, this Gothic Revival-style church was designed by Patrick C. Keely, and was consecrated as the seat of the Diocese of Buffalo in 1863, and served as the cathedral until 1915, when a new cathedral was built at the corner of Delaware Avenue and Utica Street north of downtown. The replacement cathedral, located adjacent to the Bishop’s residence, ended up proving ill suited for the climate of Buffalo, with the marble cladding separating from the brick due to the freeze-thaw cycle, eventually leading to expensive repairs being needed and the two towers being removed in the 1920s. By 1976, the newer cathedral was in such poor condition that the diocese elected to demolish it and this church once again became the cathedral in 1977, a designation it maintains to this day. The cathedral parish was established in 1847 to be the seat of the diocese, which was formed to serve the entire Western New York region, with the first bishop, John Timon, raising funds for the church in Europe. The church was originally intended to have two towers at the corners of the east facade, with the south tower being completed in 1862, and the north tower never being completed, remaining as a stump abruptly ending in a low-slope roof today. The church has a latin cross layout with a stone exterior, two towers on the east facade with corner buttresses, stained glass lancet windows with tracery, rose windows on the gable ends of the building, trefoil windows above the rose windows, gothic arched entry portals on the east facade in the center of the facade and at the base of each tower, a high nave and transepts with low aisles on either side, buttresses on the facades of the aisles, a small chapel to the rear, built in 1873, with lancet stained glass windows, a side gable roof, and buttresses, with a garage in the basement, and a tower at the southeast corner of the building with a belfry featuring lancet openings with tracery, decorative caps on the buttresses, four clock faces, an octagonal roof topped with a cross, and which contained one of the world’s largest carillons when installed in 1869, but never worked properly, and later ended up being removed from the structure. The interior of the church features extensive gothic trim, a Hook and Hastings organ, a vaulted ceiling, decorative plaster bosses at the intersections of the ribs of the vaulted ceilings, arcaded blind gothic arches on the walls, three lancet stained glass windows above the altar donated by King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1855, and columns with ornate capitals. The cathedral received renovations in 1882, 1903-1905, 1937-1947, and 1977, each time modernizing the building, with the last renovation allowing it to return fully to service as the diocese’s cathedral.
To the south of the cathedral is a four-story Second Empire-style rectory, built at the same time as the church, clad in the same stone as the cathedral with contrasting stone trim at the doors and windows, a mansard roof, replacement windows, gabled roof dormers, a front gable at the top of the projecting center bay, blind gothic arches over the windows, a quatrefoil attic window on the front gable, a projected entry porch with a gothic arched opening, a side gable over a projected bay with a side entrance to the building at the ground floor, and a rear stair tower with a copper hipped roof.
St.-Josefs-Kirchplatz 2
Finanzamt. Dreigeschossiger historisierender Bau mit Volutengiebeln und Erker, 1904 D-7-64-000-326
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Built in 1937 for Giacomo Gandalfo to use as a neighborhood restaurant, currently slated for demolition.
A young woman went jogging past and said, "That's Fine Art, guys!" to my brother and me.
April 29, 2019, a perfect spring day. First to take care of some business in lower Manhattan, but then to make a day of it and take another mega-walk photo tour, which would include the length of Broadway from the Battery to 32nd St. This is a walk that takes one through several historic districts of Manhattan, and past the many architectural gems that are along Broadway. Historic buildings such as Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, the old US Customs House, and Cunard Lines Building in lower Manhattan. Then further north is New York City Hall and Park and the Municipal Building, it is then into the rich shopping district of a revitalized SOHO with its many fine examples of Cast Iron architecture. A stop was made at Grace Church at 10th Street to go inside and marvel at this architectural gem which was opened in 1846. The church was designed by architect James Renwick Jr, who later was responsible for the design of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. The similarity between the two churches is clearly evident. Further north one comes to Union Square reaching from 14th to 17th streets, along with its colorful and active Farmers Market in the heart of Manhattan, and then on to Madison Square Park at 23rd St. The last short stretch was to 32nd street and Horace Greeley Square and then across to Penn Station
A view of the National Aquarium, Baltimore under a partly cloudy sky in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The Kailasa (Sanskrit: Kailāsanātha) temple is one of the largest rock-cut ancient Hindu temples located in Ellora, Maharashtra, India. It was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I as attested in Kannada inscriptions. This is one of the 34 temples and monasteries known collectively as the Ellora Caves. These extend over more than 2 km, were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora. The Kailasa (cave 16) is a remarkable example of Dravidian architecture on account of its striking proportion, elaborate workmanship, architectural content, and sculptural ornamentation of rock-cut architecture. The temple was commissioned and completed between 757-783 CE, when Krishna I ruled the Rashtrakuta dynasty. It is designed to recall Mount Kailash, the home of Lord Shiva. It is a megalith carved out of one single rock.
METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION
The Kailasa Temple is notable for its vertical excavation - carvers started at the top of the original rock, and excavated downward. The traditional methods were rigidly followed by the master architect which could not have been achieved by excavating from the front. It is estimated that about 400,000 tons of rocks were scooped out over hundreds of years to construct this monolithic structure. From the chisel marks on walls of this temple, archeologists could conclude that three types of chisels were used to carve this temple.
ARCHITECTURE
All the carvings are at more than one level. A two-storeyed gateway opens to reveal a U-shaped courtyard. The courtyard is edged by a columned arcade three stories high. The arcades are punctuated by huge sculpted panels, and alcoves containing enormous sculptures of a variety of deities. Originally flying bridges of stone connected these galleries to central temple structures, but these have fallen.
Within the courtyard are two structures. As is traditional in Shiva temples, an image of the sacred bull Nandi fronts the central temple housing the lingam. In Cave 16, the Nandi Mandapa and main Shiva temple are each about 7 metres high, and built on two storeys. The lower stories of the Nandi Mandapa are both solid structures, decorated with elaborate illustrative carvings. The base of the temple has been carved to suggest that elephants are holding the structure aloft.
A rock bridge connects the Nandi Mandapa to the porch of the temple. The structure itself is a tall pyramidic South Indian temple. The shrine – complete with pillars, windows, inner and outer rooms, gathering halls, and an enormous stone lingam at its heart – is carved with niches, plasters, windows as well as images of deities, mithunas (erotic male and female figures) and other figures. Most of the deities at the left of the entrance are Shaivaite (followers of Lord Shiva) while on the right hand side the deities are Vaishnavaites (followers of Lord Vishnu).
There are two Dhwajasthambha (pillars with flagstaff) in the courtyard. The grand sculpture of Ravana attempting to lift Mount Kailasa, with his full might is a landmark in Indian art.
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Tronos del Cristo de la Agonía y Virgen de las Penas en la Iglesia de San Julian la mañana del Martes Santo de 2008 en Málaga
To the west of Brewood is another steepled church, this time the 1840s St Mary's Roman Catholic church, by Pugin, but not an exciting piece.
I found it locked, but it's oldest possession was visible, as just next to the south porch was what appeared to be a Norman holy water stoop on a squat colonette.
Scottish people dominated the engineering and shipbuilding industries in all countries to which they migrated. A pair of Scottish brothers, the Duncans, founded one of NZ’s leading early foundries and engineering works in 1865.
The building bearing their name (built in 1903) is at 204 St.Asaph Street, Christchurch NZ beside Buchanan's City Foundry. It has a Heritage NZ Cat.II listing.