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This is the bridge that spans the Santa Ana River, near Imperial Highway and La Palma Avenue, in Anaheim Hills, CA.
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The Bank of Liverpool was a financial institution founded in 1831 in Liverpool, England.In 1918, it acquired Martins Bank,and the name of the merged bank became the Bank of Liverpool and Martins Ltd. The name was shortened to Martins Bank Ltd in 1928.Stunning architecture in Victoria Street Liverpool.Taken from the Victoria Cross Pub corner of Sir Thomas Street.
Liverpool City Centre. 327/365
Ostrów Tumski is the gem at the centre of WrocÅawâs crown. This, after all, is where the city began, making it one of the most historically significant parts of town, in addition to its most archaically picturesque. The districtâs history has always been closely tied to Catholicism and today youâll find an incredible concentration of religious buildings across the river, making it an incredibly peaceful place to explore and relax.
During the latter part of the 9th century what is now known as Ostrów Tumski (the name means 'Cathedral Island' in Polish) was settled by a Slavic tribe, the Åleżanie, who considered the island impregnable. The first bishopric in Lower Silesia soon followed in 1000, and for the next two and a half centuries Ostrów Tumski was the centre of WrocÅaw before the marauding Tartars proved they could indeed make it pregnant (so to speak); pregnant with fire and ruin, that is. After its destruction, the cityâs nucleus shifted across the river where its development would be less restricted by rivers. Ostrów Tumski, meanwhile, became a place of almost exclusively religious and royal (the Piast Dynasty built a castle here in the 1260s) significance. With a few exceptions it remains primarily a place of worship and reflection to this day; as such, there are few shops, dwellings, cafes, bars and restaurants, and the WrocÅaw Archdiocese occupies almost all of the beautifully maintained classical buildings you will see.
One of the first things observant visitors may notice is that though Ostrów Tumski is indeed accessed from central WrocÅaw by bridge, it is not actually an island. It was until the 19th century, but persistent flooding led town planners to fill in one of the Odraâs tributaries in 1810 (though the city has sadly seen its share of floods since then as well). Seemingly miles from the bustle of Rynek, perhaps the real joy of Ostrów Tumski is its other-worldly feel. Katedralna and Idziego Streets both provide cobbled rem
Portpatrick, a local seaside village in Dumfries and Galloway has a small harbour where boats are moored. The place is so picture-postcard pretty, it’s hard to imagine that the harbour was almost left to rot – and with it, the future of the village – until local residents raised enough money a year ago to buy it.
Portpatrick Scotland
Deganwy is a small town in Conwy County Borough in Wales with a population of 3,700. It lies in the Creuddyn Peninsula alongside Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea. Historically part of Caernarfonshire, it is in a more English-speaking region of north Wales, with only 1 in 4 residents speaking Welsh as a first language. It is located south of Llandudno and to the east of Conwy, which is on the opposite side of the River Conwy, and with which it forms the Conwy community. Indeed, the name Deganwy has been interpreted in modern times as Din-Gonwy, which would mean "Fort on the River Conwy", but the historical spellings make it impossible for this to be the actual origin of the name although mentioned in Domesday Book is "the territory of the Decanae tribe". The original wooden castle was rebuilt in stone after 1210. Deganwy is in the ecclesiastical parish of Llanrhos, and has a Victorian era Gothic parish church dedicated to All Saints.
Deganwy has one bilingual primary school, Ysgol Deganwy.
Deganwy North Wales 2015
— Buildings at the waterfront with Christ The Redeemer statue in the background, Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
— Edifícios na beira-rio com a estátua do Cristo Redentor no fundo, Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
There have been no Duckmarine tours in the city since 2013 when a vehicle sank in Salthouse Dock with 33 people on board, unfortunately the company couldn't get health and safety certificates to proceed with the tours.
Liverpool Albert Dock.
Another fine sunny day to be around Liverpool's docklands, the fresh smell of the River Mersey. The skyline consisting the three graces and the surrounds of the grade 1 listed Albert Dock is breathtakingly exhilarating.
Albert Dock Liverpool.
The River Brathay rises at a point 1289 feet above sea level near the Three Shire Stone at the highest point of Wrynose Pass in the Lake District a small stream at the top of Wrynose quickly gathers pace as it descends some 930 feet (283 m) in a distance of about two miles (3.2 km), running roughly parallel to, and south of, the Wrynose Pass road. Before flowing into Little Langdale Tarn it subsumes Bleamoss Beck, the outflow from Blea Tarn.
Dungeon Ghyll Cumbria. 264/365
Oriel Chambers is the world's first building featuring a metal framed glass curtain wall. Designed by architect Peter Ellis and built in 1864, it is located on Water Street near the town hall in Liverpool, England. Due to its outstanding importance, it has been grade I listed.
Oriel Chambers seen on the right
in Water Street Liverpool City Centre. 104/365
"The design of the pavillon consists of 151 custom laminated lightweight beech plywood segments. In order to combine these ultra-thin plywood strips into a structurally stable configuration, newly developed robotic sewing techniques for prefabrication and manual lacing on site are applied."
further information:
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BECOMING - office for visual communication
The Ropewalks area is located within Liverpool’s Riverside Ward to the South of the City Centre. The land rises gently from the Liverpool 1 development at Hanover Street up towards Berry Street and Liverpool’s China Town along roads that have taken their form from the ‘roperies’ that were founded to service the shipping industry following the creation of the world’s first commercial ‘Wet-Dock’, designed by Thomas Steers, on land reclaimed from the former Pool in 1715.There are currently 102 individual listed buildings within Ropewalks.
Liverpool Ropewalks. 251/365
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May 2016.
Bird's-eye view of part of Fort and the emerging Financial City (Port City), Colombo
- A Chinese-backed real estate project near Sri Lanka's main port is expected to attract US$13 billion worth of investment from next year, the developer said on Friday.
The US$1.4 billion Port City project by China Communication Construction Company (CCCC) started late last year as part of Beijing's ambitious plans to create a modern-day "Silk Road" across Asia.
Liang Thow Ming, chief sales and marketing officer of CHEC Port City Colombo (Pvt) Ltd, the local company that handles the project for CCCC, said a third of the 269ha site had been reclaimed from the sea.
"We are hoping to deliver the first site for construction by the end of 2018," Liang told Reuters in an interview in Colombo.
The reclamation was expected to be completed by the end 2019 and the company anticipated US$13 billion worth of investment in the form of housing, marinas, health facilities, schools and other developments over the next 30 years, he said.
President Maithripala Sirisena's administration restarted Colombo's new waterfront development - the biggest foreign direct investment in the country - in 2016 after suspending the project because of concerns about overpricing and financial terms.
The new land is being built from the sea in the commercial heart of the capital adjacent to the main port and the historic Galle Face Green.
"We are positioning the port city as a hub to the whole of South Asia... This is a huge market and a region growing very fast," Liang said.
The government has proposed to ease rules for investors in the project, although no bills have been presented to parliament.
Liang said 50% of the land would be allocated for housing, 30% for commercial offices and the rest for other activities.
India has objected to some aspects of the development near Colombo port, a major trade route for the South Asian giant.
Sirisena's administration rejected a proposal to give 20ha of freehold land to CCCC after India raised concerns.
Instead, the Chinese firm was given land only on a 99-year lease. - Reuters
A walk along Green Street a quaint little street full of independent shops you arrive at
St. Michael’s Church a grade 11 listed building and a landmark in the North city centre. Known as St Michael's Without, it being the first church to be found outside Bath's city walls when exiting from the North Gate.
Bath City Centre. Somerset.
Troutbeck is a village in South Lakeland district in Cumbria.
The village consists of
Post Office, General Store and Teashop (on main road through the village)
a Village Institute a pub
The Mortal Man Inn. Has the "Oh, Mortal Man" verse on the pub sale, with reference to Sally Birkett's Ale: and a
Jesus Church - with unusual Pre-Raphaelite stained glass.
Troutbeck South Lakeland Cumbria. 133/365
Out on the Palos Verde Peninsula in Southern California sets a beautiful structure overlooking the Pacific Ocean. This is the under side of the structure that hold the Korean Friendship Bell. From here you can look west across 26 miles of ocean to Catalina Island and south to Newport Beach.
Enders Island - "A scenic 11-acre island in Mystic, Connecticut where men and women from all walks of life come to experience renewal, healing and inspiration." (www.endersisland.com/about)
See flic.kr/s/aHsmHeP3QL for more views from this visit.
Protective shelters over bete amanuel monolithic rock-cut church, Amhara region, Lalibela, Ethiopia , Camera: ILCE-7RM2 , f4.5 , 1/400 , 24.0 mm , ISO 1250 , © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com
"The design of the pavillon consists of 151 custom laminated lightweight beech plywood segments. In order to combine these ultra-thin plywood strips into a structurally stable configuration, newly developed robotic sewing techniques for prefabrication and manual lacing on site are applied."
further information:
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication
The Tagus is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales in mid-eastern Spain to empty into the Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon.
Lisbon Portugal.
Adelaide, South Australia
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A skyscraper designed years before the Mies van der Rohe and Second Chicago school that it evokes. What was an historic but forgotten architectural landmark is now listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.
In 1895, Daniel Burnham, John Root and Charles Atwood, visionary architects, revolutionised their world and downtown Chicago. Using a radical steel and glass design, they created the Reliance Building, ushering in a new era and setting the precedent for the modern skyscraper. During the late 1800s, a commercial architectural style surfaced in Chicago, later becoming known as "the Chicago style." Completed in 1895, the Reliance Building was not just a premier product of this school of architecture, it was the first direct predecessor to today's modern skyscrapers, and such a fundamental part of Chicago.
After years of neglect and disrepair, the century-old Reliance Building was reborn in October 1999 as Hotel Burnham after a $27.5 million refurbishment and renovation. The 14 floors of the building seem to defy gravity, thanks to an interior iron and steel frame construction and delicate glass and terra cotta façade. Renovation included meticulously reconstructing the mosaic floor, multi-coloured marble ceiling and walls, and ornamental metal elevator grills, stairways and archways to resemble the lobby as it once existed.
The Baton Rouge dock is an interesting structure. It’s decorated on top with giant metal works resembling paper-clips, thus earning its nickname. To accommodate for the rivers massive annual rise and fall (of 40, 50, even 60 feet), the docking structure is four levels tall with a spiral ramp connecting the levels to a top level walkway which leads over to the levee.
Perth, Western Australia
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The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in LiverpoolI it originated in 1866 as a music hall, and in 1911 developed into a repertory theatre.The present theatre on the site was designed by Edward Davies, and opened in 1866. It replaced an earlier theatre called the Star Concert Hall.Minor structural alterations were made to the theatre in 1961 and in 1966.The exterior of the older part of the theatre is stuccoed, and it has a slate roof.The interior is decorated in Greek Revival style.
Liverpool City Centre.
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and affectionally nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" by the local people of Liverpool. Opened in 1967, Paddy's Wigwam was designed by a Protestant, Sir Frederick Gibberd. It features modern works of art and multi-coloured windows. The original Cathedral design by Sir Edwin Lutyens began in 1933 but was abandoned after only the crypt was completed.
Liverpool City Centre.
Lungshan Temple is located in the district Manka of Taipei. It was founded in 1738 and dedicated to the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy (Kuan-in in Chinese, or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit).
This temple originated its name from the ancient Lungshan Temple established in Chin-chiang county of Fukien province in the seventh century.Immigrants from the three counties Chin-chiang, Nan-an and Hui-an of Fukien came to Manka in the beginning of the eighteenth century. As they were pious followers of that ancient Lungshan Temple in their home town, they erected this one as a branch temple at Manka and named it after the root temple when they created a new settlement here in Taipei. Lungshan Temple of today is no longer in the original buildings constructed in 1738. It was rebuilt in 1919 and completed in 1924.
Lungshan Temple always keeps it nature as a Buddhist temple,but in the course of its development many deities of Taoism were also included. The variety of deities in this temple shows the tolerant mentality of the Chinese people in their religious life.
The present Lungshan Temple consists of three halls: the fore hall, the main hall and the rear hall. The fore hall is used as the entrance and the space for the people to worship. The main hall is in the center of the whole complex with a statue of Kuan-in as the main god of the temple. Kuan-in is enshrined in the center accompanied by another two bodhisattvas, Manjusri at the left and Samantabhadra at the right. The eighteen Arhans are also present on both sides as attendants. When the temple was first established, it was only for the Buddhist deities as the main hall shows. The rear hall was added only around the end of the eighteenth century after Manka was assigned as an official port for the trade with Chuan-chou and Foochou of Fukien in 1792 by the chinese government. As a result of properous business, the merchant guild "Chuan Chiao" of Manka erected the rear hall to venerate their patron Matzu to pray for protection for their safe sailing to China on business. The rear hall is divided into three parts. The center is for the veneration of Matzu as the Goddess of marine voyage. The left is dedicated to the Gods of literature, or patrons of examinations for civil service in old days. The right is for the Lord Kuan, the God of war.
If an observer finds too numerous deities crowding in the rear hall, it is because of transfers. In the early years of this century when the government built new streets to reform the city, some temples were destroyed. The statues of the Gods of water and the city god of Tam-sui county were transferred to Lungshan Temple in the rear hall.
When they rebuilt Lungshan Temple in 1919, they employed Mr. Wang Yi-shun, a master of temple-building in southern Fukien, as the architect. This temple, therefore, has become a masterpiece of Mr. Wang's in Taiwan. He made it a beautiful temple in large scale decorated with fine stone and wood carvings. The front of the fore hall is covered with stone carvings. The arrangement of beige and dark green granites imported from China and black local andesites immediately gives visitors a beautiful impression of color combination at the first glance, not to mention the nicely carved relief and open works of these stones. The pair of dragon columns standing in front of the central door is cast with bronze. They are the only bronze columns in Taiwan. Two towers respectively for bell and drum are on the east and the west sides of the courtyard between the fore hall and the main hall. They are two-storied buildings with a conic roof in hexagonal shape like a helmet. Under it there skirts a second tier of roof. Each sector of this hexagonal roof in double eaves forms a slope in converse "S" curve. They are the first example of such a roof design introduced into Taiwan. Since the construction was in early part of this century, Mr. Wang already knew something about western architecture. He put small concrete gables on top of the front walls as decorative screens and added Corinthian capitals on some columns as ornaments. These characteristics together make Lungshan Temple a landmark of traditional Chinese architecture of its time in Taiwan.
It is well known that the statue of Kuan-in in this temple survived the bombing from the allied aircrafts on 8 June, 1945. Lungshan Temple was bombed on that day. The whole main hall and a part of the right annex were burned out during the air raid, but the statue of Kuan-in in the center of the main hall left intact. This is the most famous manifestation of efficacy of Lungshan Temple.
Being a masterpiece of traditional Chinese architecture and a well-established Buddhist temple in Taipei, the Lungshan Temple of Manka has become a center of people's religious life and a heritage of local culture. The government, therefore, assigned it a historical site of second grade on 19 August, 1985, so that it will be preserved for future generations
"The design of the pavillon consists of 151 custom laminated lightweight beech plywood segments. In order to combine these ultra-thin plywood strips into a structurally stable configuration, newly developed robotic sewing techniques for prefabrication and manual lacing on site are applied."
further information:
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication
The Walker Art Gallery is in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as "the National Gallery of the North" because it is not a local or regional gallery but is part of the national museums and galleries administered directly from central government funds.The Gallery's collection dates from 1819 when the Liverpool Royal Institution acquired 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, who had to sell his collection following the failure of his banking business, though it was saved from being broken up by his friends and associates.
In 1843, the Royal Institution’s collection was displayed in a purpose-built gallery next to the Institution’s main premises. In 1850 negotiations by an association of citizens to take over the Institution’s collection, for display in a proposed art gallery, library and museum, came to nothing.
The collection grew over the following decades: in 1851 Liverpool Town Council bought Liverpool Academy’s diploma collection and further works were acquired from the Liverpool Society for the Fine Arts, founded in 1858. The competition between the Academy and Society eventually led to both collapsing.
William Brown Library and Museum opened in 1860, named after a Liverpool merchant whose generosity enabled the Town Council to act upon an 1852 Act of Parliament which allowed the establishment of a public library, museum and art gallery, and in 1871 the council organised the first Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, held at the new library and museum.
Liverpool City Centre. 92/365
Hobart, Tasmania
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"The design of the pavillon consists of 151 custom laminated lightweight beech plywood segments. In order to combine these ultra-thin plywood strips into a structurally stable configuration, newly developed robotic sewing techniques for prefabrication and manual lacing on site are applied."
further information:
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication