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Taken on a Resound Camera Club outing at The Mall Cribbs.
The lines and curves attracted me and thought it would work well in black and white against the black night sky
ok, i promised some updates featuring buildings with honest to goodness architectural significance, so: here’s a building with honest to goodness architectural significance. it’s a rare oscar neimeyer designed round spaceship building in the middle of l.a... tmblr.co/ZHkOLwIuriFE
Where there had been ruins of a an area of densely populated, working class housing, the East Germans build what they styled "The first socialist street". It replaced the "Große Frankfurter Straße" and from 1949 to 1961 was known as "Stalin Allee".
Designed in the so-called wedding-cake style, the socialist classicism of the Soviet Union, the avenue, which is 292 feet wide and nearly 1¼ miles long, is lined with monumental eight-storey buildings containing spacious and luxurious apartments for workers, as well as shops, restaurants, cafés, a tourist hotel and an enormous cinema (the International), At each end are dual towers at Frankfurter Tor (in the middle distance) and Strausberger Platz.
When Tripla rises at the beginning of the next decade, Central Pasila will become the new centre of Helsinki. Tripla will be a three-block complex that includes a shopping centre, a parking garage, public transportation hub, housing, hotels and offices.
cologne - 13.12.2013
Cologne is a harsh terrain of course. Thats why I laugh silently when I saw this little girl with a trolley case running around the area of the Rheinauhafen. I was trying to initiate a conversation about her case and her woolen cap, but she jet showed me her cold shoulder. Anyway, I was happy that I've found a street pic after a while and so I got this picture today. At this point I would like to assure that you know my flickr group flickr street 35 with a lot of very nice streetshots inside. I try to get the group as clean as possible and so I'm proud to have more than 18.000 fabulous and some extraordinary pictures inside. If you have time at the weekend please check out the pool and feel free to enter the group as a member or just post your streetpics.
What is today the Benares Historic House traces itself to 1837, when some original sections and outbuildings were constructed. The main house as it is seen today is from 1857. Originally home to four generations of the Harris and Sayers Family, today it is a museum in the City of Mississauga after the house and almost all of its contents were donated by the great-grandchildren of Captain Harris. Opened in 1995 as a public museum, the house is representative to what it would have looked like during the First World War.
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La tour Agbar, est un gratte-ciel de Barcelone en Catalogne, datant du début du xxie siècle. Elle a été dessinée par l'architecte français Jean Nouvel en collaboration avec la société b720 Fermin Vazquez Arquitectos. La tour a ouvert ses portes en juin 2005, et a été inaugurée officiellement par la famille royale d'Espagne le 16 septembre 2005.
Le 16 novembre 2013, il est annoncé que le gratte-ciel a été racheté par la chaîne hôtelière Hyatt et qu'il sera transformé en hotel de luxe. La transaction s'élève à 150 millions d'euros1,2.
Il offre 30 000 m2 de bureaux, 3 210 m2 pour les services techniques et 8 351 m2 destinés à des fonctions diverses, avec notamment un auditorium et des parkings, pour une superficie totale de 50 693 m2. La tour Agbar mesure 145 mètres de haut et comporte 38 étages, dont quatre en sous-sol.
Son design mêle différentes conceptions en matière d'architecture : une structure en béton armé, entièrement recouverte d'une façade de verre, créant plus de 4 400 fenêtres.
Cette tour est devenue l'un des bâtiments les plus remarquables de Barcelone, occupant désormais la troisième place en termes de hauteur, derrière l'Hôtel Arts et la Tour Mapfre, qui culminent tous deux à 154 mètres. Elle est située sur l'avenue Diagonale, près de la Place des Glòries Catalanes. Le bâtiment possède, intégrés à sa façade, plus de 4 000 dispositifs de types DEL qui permettent la création d'images sur les parois extérieures. De plus, des capteurs de température, placés à l'extérieur du gratte-ciel, permettent d'agir sur l'ouverture ou la fermeture des fenêtres, et par là même, de réduire la consommation d'énergie du dispositif d'air conditionné. Ce bâtiment abritera le siège du groupe Aigües de Barcelona, la Société des Eaux de Barcelone.
La tour s'éclaire différemment lors des équinoxes, d'ailleurs, son inauguration a eu lieu quelques jours avant l'équinoxe d'automne (21 septembre).
La Torre Agbar est appelée par les Barcelonais par le joli surnom de « suppositoire » (supositori). Un surnom en verdict populaire qui reste assez réducteur pour qualifier ce projet.
L'ambition délibérée fut de créer une icône pour la ville de Barcelone s'inscrit dans un contexte de profusion architecturale en Asie et dans les pays du Golfe a conduit à choisir l'architecte super-star Jean Nouvel. La Torre Agbar répond doublement à l'architecte super-star anglais Norman Foster, qui a fait sa marque de fabrique la production de "bâtiments symboliques" ("New Symbol...), comme l’exceptionnelle tour de communication de Barcelone justement, ou encore la tour londonienne en forme d'ogive conçue en 2004 appelée le Gherkin, le "cornichon" par les Londoniens. Mais ici pour insérer la Torre Agbar dans la ville de Barcelone, les architectes font appel à l’héritage architectural de Barcelone, et plus précisément à l’œuvre de l'architecte GAUDI selon deux références claires, la forme et la couleur.
1-Le profil de la tour est une parabole (x2) appelée chaine, catène ou caténa par les architectes : La simple suspension d'une chaine permet d'obtenir la courbe d'égale tension, en inversant nous déduisons la courbe d'égale compression, tel fut l’extraordinaire apport de Gaudi, à la pensée constructive et à l'esthétique de la ville ainsi qu'à l'architecture en général. Ici, seule l'enveloppe offre cette expression de catène, on peut regretter que la structure ne l'ai pas suivie (si ici le dogme fonctionnaliste s'applique à cette tour « form follows functions », disait Louis Sullivan, on peut regretter que la forme ne suive pas la structure comme le prônait Gaudi et bien d'autres architectes, on peut se demander quelle fut la part d'innovation structurelle ici? Il semble que ce ne fut pas l'ambition du projet.
2-Les couleurs miroitantes modulables sont aussi une belle interprétation contemporaine des revêtements en céramiques multicolore des façades et cheminées de l’œuvre de Gaudi.
Mais au delà des références symboliques relatives à la ville ou à la concurrence entre architectes ou entre les métropoles, on retrouve dans ce projet une constance de l’œuvre de Jean Nouvel : vouloir rendre les bâtiments vivants, cette ambition poétique est atteinte dans le projet de double peau et elle trouve son apogée quand la ville est plongée dans la nuit ; les jalousies de verre oscillent pour faire passer l'air et les couleurs chatoient.
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Arcitecture at the More London site on the Thame's south bank. Taken during the Fujiholics Street Photography day.
The oldest house in my neighborhood. They built small houses back then, when people lived off farming and fishing.
Vieux Port de Biarritz
Our Lunch Stop at Biarritz.. and it was raining.. Lucky only showers! Day 13 of our Cosmos tour, October 12, 2012 France on our way to Bilbao in Spain.
Biarritz is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées Atlantiques department in southwestern France. It is a luxurious seaside town and is popular with tourists and surfers.
Biarritz has long made its fortune from the sea: as a whaling settlement from the twelfth century onwards, in the 18th century doctors recommended that the ocean at Biarritz had therapeutic properties, inspiring patients to make pilgrimages to the beach for alleged cures for their ailments.
Biarritz became more renowned in 1854 when Empress Eugenie (the wife of Napoleon III) built a palace on the beach (now the Hôtel du Palais). The British royal family such as Queen Victoria and Edward VII were frequent visitors as well as other European royalty such as Alfonso XIII of Spain.
Biarritz's casino (opened 10 August 1901) and beaches make the town a notable tourist centre for Europeans, and East Coast North Americans. The city has also become a prime destination for surfers from around the world, developing a nightlife and surf based culture.
At the end of World War II in Europe, the U.S. Army's Information and Educational Branch was ordered to establish an overseas university campus for demobilized American service men and women in the French resort town of Biarritz. Under General Samuel L. McCroskey, the hotels and casinos of Biarritz were converted into quarters, labs and class spaces for U.S. service personnel. The University opened 10 August 1945 and approximately 10,000 students attended an 8 week term. This campus was set up to provide a transition between army life and subsequent attendance at a university in the USA, and therefore students attended for just one term. After three successful terms the G.I. University closed in March 1946.
Taken form: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biarritz
Arcitecture at the More London site on the Thame's south bank. Taken during the Fujiholics Street Photography day.
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, also called the Egyptian Museum and the Cairo Museum, holds an estimated 120,000 artifacts from ancient Egypt.
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n the Netherlands, spatial plans and the existing spatial situation were laid down until 1 July 2008 in key planning decisions (of the national government), in regional plans (of the provincial authorities) and in zoning plans (of the municipalities ).
In addition, the process is determined by legislation, for the Netherlands: Spatial Planning Act .
The Spatial Planning Act (Wro, which replaced the old Spatial Planning Act (WRO) on 1 July 2008), provides rules on the realization of spatial plans, such as in structural visions and zoning plans.
While embarking on a pseudo-infrared post processing quest, I stumbled upon this and settled here instead. Closing a door, opening a window and whatnot.
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Spatial planning is the process whereby the living space is systematically utilized and set up with a large number of rules. In doing so, individual and common interests are taken into account. In short: the adaptation of society and space as well as possible. The scientific areas that play a role here are planning , landscape architecture and urban development . But also issues such as the environment and economy play a major role in spatial planning.
This is inside Bristol Cathedral, Taken on a photography weekend with my friend Leo Smith.
The cathedral was only a few mins walk from the hotel. We we only had an hour at this location, and were delighted on entering the cathedral to find the morning sun bursting though the windows into the dusty air. It realy did look as dramatic as this in real life too!