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Siri Fort sports complex is one of its kinds in India. The sprawling facility is surrounded by a posh residential area, lush green lawns and a small-forest. The sports complex has 10 tennis courts, a pool for adults and children each, a golf course, gymnasium, aerobics centre, jogging tracks, badminton courts and basketball, football and cricket fields.
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Ashley Zee
age 12
The Dashanzi factory complex began as an extension of the "Socialist Unification Plan" of military-industrial cooperation between the Soviet Union and the newly formed People's Republic of China. By 1951, 156 "joint factory" projects had been realized under that agreement, part of the Chinese government's first Five-Year Plan. However, the People's Liberation Army still had a dire need of modern electronic components, which were produced in only two of the joint factories. The Russians were unwilling to undertake an additional project at the time and suggested that the Chinese turn to East Germany where much of the Soviet Union's electronics equipment was imported. So at the request of then-Premier Zhou Enlai, scientists and engineers joined the first Chinese trade delegation to East Germany in 1951, visiting a dozen factories. The project was green-lighted in early 1952 and a Chinese preparatory group was sent to East Berlin to prepare design plans. This project, which was to be the largest by East Germany in China, was then informally known as Project #157.
The architectural plans were left to the Germans, who chose a functional Bauhaus-influenced design over the more ornamental Soviet style, triggering the first of many disputes between the German and Russian consultants on the project. The plans, where form follows function, called for large indoor spaces designed to let the maximum amount of natural light into the workplace. Arch-supported sections of the ceiling would curve upwards then fall diagonally along the high slanted banks or windows; this pattern would be repeated several times in the larger rooms, giving the roof its characteristic sawtooth-like appearance. Despite Beijing's northern location, the windows were all to face north because the light from that direction would cast fewer shadows.
The chosen location was a 640,000 square meter area in Dashanzi, then a low-lying patch of farmland northeast of Beijing. The complex was to occupy 500,000 square meters, 370,000 of which were allocated to living quarters. It was officially named Joint Factory 718, following the Chinese government's method of naming military factories starting with the number 7. Fully funded by the Chinese side, the initial budget was enormous for the times: 9 million rubles or approximately 140 million RMB (US$17 million) at today's rates; actual costs were 147 million RMB.
Ground was broken in April 1954. Construction was marked by disagreements between the Chinese, Soviet and German experts, which led at one point to a six-month postponement of the project. The Germans' harshest critic was the Russian technology consultant in charge of Beijing's two Soviet-built electronics factories (714 and 738), who was also head consultant of the Radio Industrial Office of the Second Ministry of Machine Building Industry. The disputes generally revolved around the Germans' high but expensive quality standards for buildings and machines, which were called "over-engineering" by the Russians. Among such points of contention was the Germans' insistence, historical seismic data in hand, that the buildings be built to withstand earthquakes of magnitude 8 on the Richter scale, whereas the Chinese and Russians wanted to settle for 7. Communications expert Wang Zheng, head of Communications Industry in the Chinese Ministry of National Defense and supporter the East German bid from the start, ruled in favor of the Germans for this particular factory.
At the height of the construction effort, more than 100 East German foreign experts worked on the project. The resources of 22 of their factories supplied the construction; at the same time, supply delays were caused by the Soviet Red Army's tremendous drain on East Germany's industrial production. The equipment was transported directly through the Soviet Union via the Trans-Siberian railway, and a 15 km track of railroad between Beijing railway station and Dongjiao Station was built especially to service the factory. Caltech-educated scientist Dr. Luo Peilin (罗沛霖), formerly head of the preparatory group in 1951-1953, was Head Engineer of Joint Factory 718 during its construction phase. Dr. Luo, now retired in Beijing, is remembered by his former colleagues as a dedicated perfectionist whose commitment to the obstacle-strewn project was a major factor of its eventual success.
At MBU's new 47,000 square foot Carl and Deloris Petty Sports and Recreation Complex. October, 2011.
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8320 W HILLSBOROUGH AVE, TAMPA, FL 33615
Project Name: Baharan Residential Complex
Site: Velenjak, Tehran
Building Date: Year 2002-2004
Project description:
The Complex consists of 10 apartment units each with an area of between 250-280 m² .The facade is of stone with its natural texture together with wood. The interior spaces within the complex consist of sport facilities (e.g. swimming pool, wet and dry sauna), a library space and a central courtyard.
Client: Mozayani
Architect: Mohammad Reza Nikbakht
Co-Designers: Hamed Badri Ahmadi
Structural Engineer: Shahidokht
Mechanical Engineers: Movahedi
Electrical Engineer: Azmayesh
Decorations display at the Tanjong Katong Complex, Geylang Road for the Chinese New Year 2017 Festival.
Miami, Florida
Listed 10/16/2018
Reference Number: 100003017
The Bacardi Complex in was constructed in 1963 and served as the first United States headquarters for the Bacardi corporation, a Cuban company notable for its rum. The Bacardi complex consists of two prominent buildings, the main tower and the Bacardi Imports Administration Annex building that was completed in 1973. The buildings are iconic examples of mid-century modern International-style architecture, notable for their uses of steel and glass, each featuring imaginative cantilevered overhangs as the bulk of the building. They are each emblazoned with artistic products, with the tower decorated with over 28,000 azulejo tiles painted and assembled by Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand. The Annex building’s four walls are entirely defined by stained-glass windows manufactured by French artists Gabriel and Jacques Loire based upon a painting by German artist Johannes Dietz. The buildings are notable for the way they embrace international influences within architecture and art to create visually impressive works.
Since the establishment of the company in 1862 in Santiago de Cuba, the business has successfully expanded the branding, production, and headquarter sites outside of Cuba. Bacardi’s buildings in Miami have aimed to create and promote a visual identity for the corporation, one which is simultaneously past and forward-looking, with an appreciation of the natural and the man-made. Bacardi’s buildings are attempts to express concepts larger than mere business, combining art and architecture to tell a larger story.
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Density on field - TWDC - Designing connected places Summer School - Complexity Maps
Turin-Pollenzo 21-29 August
The cemetery of Ober St. Veit in the southwest of Vienna offers a view over to the housing buildings of Alt Erlaa.
Perspectives is a community art exhibit about racism, now on display in Mill Valley. This unique interactive space features art that encourages conversations about racial justice in our Marin and beyond.
This project was created by artist Zoe Fry, in collaboration with Sharon Virtue, Winona Lewis and Naima. They built 3 painted doors about the past, present and future of racism in our area, inviting visitors to add their own art or comments in the back of each door.
The exhibit is now open to the public in Lytton Square in downtown Mill Valley, and will remain there until the winter rains start. You can learn more about this project on The Introverts Collective site: theintrovertscollective.com/perspectives
This community project is self-funded and they could use your help: consider making a donation (as I did) at GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/racial-equity-community-art-project
This photo album also includes Heroes, a companion exhibit by Wesley Cabral, which was produced independently and features large portraits of recently deceased black figures John Lewis.
I was impressed by the exceptional teamwork on this project, which brought together people from diverse backgrounds and cultures to produce a beautiful creation that transcend the prejudices that divide our society. Well done!
As a society, we need to find a cure for racism, a terrible disease that has crippled America since its inception. Creative projects like these can give us a way to talk about this complex issue, through art.
View more photos of this exhibit, taken by Fabrice Florin: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157715877968807
#art #blacklivesmatter #creativity #community #diversity #millvalley #marin #racism
Fair Park is a 277-acre (1.12 km2) recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The complex is registered as a Dallas Landmark, National Historic Landmark and is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest Ferris wheel in North America. Many of the buildings on the complex were constructed for the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 which drew over six million visitors. Most of the buildings built for the exposition still survive and it is recognized as a significant example of Art Deco architecture.
A milestone year in the history of Fair Park was 1936, when the Texas Centennial Exposition was held on the site. In preparation for the six-month long event, the appearance of the park was dramatically altered by architect George Dahl and consulting architect Paul Cret. The park was transformed from an early 20th-century fairground into the Art Deco showcase it is today. While many of the exposition's buildings were meant to be temporary, several have survived and are now restored. Over the years the park was expanded to its current 277 acres (1.12 km2).
Fair Park was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986, and in 1988 administration of the park was transferred to the Dallas Parks Department. Today, the cultural facilities and annual events attract 7+ million visitors each year.
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Destination Jakarta today, Non-stop Amsterdam-Jakarta.
We arrived in Jakarta in the late morning and headed straight away for the old Harbor and Dutch Cityhall.
That was enough for the day and our 14 hour flight.
Leaving Jakarta already next morning, after a quick stop at the Monas, for Bogor and the Puncak pass, but the pass was deleted from the tour as the roads were blocked during this eastern holiday weekend.
Visited only Bogor Botanic gardens and headed to Bandung via Jakarta.
Bandung is famous for its Art Deco city center.
We boarded the train for a 5 hour scenic drive to Kroya .
Night-stop at Wonosobo with the Dieng Vulcanic area and Java's oldest Hindi temples are nearby.
Fortunatly it didn't rain during our visit to the famous Borobudur temple complex .
We arrived in Yogjakarta for a full package - 2 day visit.
A becak tour in the early moring to the the Sultans Kraton Palace, Shopping, Batik, silver and dinner show to name a few.
On the second day a bicycle tour near Prambanan and more World Heritage at the Impressive Prambanan temple complex
Our second scenic trainride ends in Batu.
Time to relax here and prepare for our ultimate sunrise experience at the Bromo vulcano.
One more stopover in Kalibaru with a nice Botanic Garden before we took the ferry to Bali.
A few days at Bali Sanur Beach, relax and enjoying the sun.
Despite a few activities : Mountainbike at Bali's famous Ricefields, snorkling and visiting art village Ubud as we headed for our last
visit at the Tanah Lot temple for sunset.
Our Unesco World Heritage visits
This is the Philae Temple Complex, located on Agilkia Island, though it was originally located on Philae Island at Aswan in Upper Egypt. Constructed between 380 and 362 BC under Nectanebo I of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the primary temple structure of the complex was built to honor Isis, the mother goddess and most important female deity in the Ancient Egyptian religion. The temple also gained quite a few smaller temples dedicated to various deities, including Hathor, and it is believed that the site was the last active Ancient Egyptian religious site after all pagan religious practices were banned by the Roman Empire in the 4th Century AD, in favor of Christianity, with the last known Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic carving being found at the site, dating to the late 4th Century. In 537 AD, religious ceremonies were halted at the site by the local commander, and the structure then became the Church of St. Stephen, with many of the carved reliefs being vandalized and the stone columns and walls having carvings of crosses and other religious symbols being added, while the temple structure itself remained largely intact for over a millennia. The temple complex includes the Vestibule of Hadrian, a tall Roman-era structure, and several Ptolemaic-era column capitals that were never completed, and remain in an unfinished state. The temple attracted a lot of attention in the 19th Century due to its picturesque location, immaculate state of preservation, and lack of sediments or debris obscuring the structure. The darkest period in the structure’s history began in 1902, when the British government, which controlled Egypt at the time, constructed the Aswan Low Dam on the Nile River, with the water level behind the dam rising up over the base of the temple, damaging the structure. The dam was raised twice, further covering more of the structure and leading to yet more damage. When the Aswan High Dam was under construction in the 1960s, UNESCO stepped in and moved the temple to higher ground, rescuing it from its watery grave.
學校/團體參觀立法會綜合大樓
学校/团体参观立法会综合大楼
Visits to the Legislative Council Complex by schools/organizations (2018.05.02)
ANSW 10000m Race Walking Championship 2024.
The Crest Sporting Complex, Bass Hill, NSW, Australia.
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Carbonatites in the Precambrian of Colorado, USA.
Southwestern Colorado’s Iron Hill Carbonatite Complex (also known as the Powderhorn Carbonatite Complex) is a subvolcanic, alkaline intrusive complex consisting of a mix of unusual igneous rocks. The complex has a relatively high concentration of scarce elements - for example, niobium (Nb) and titanium (Ti). It was intruded more than 570 million years ago, during the late Neoproterozoic. Some Early Paleozoic dikes have cut through a portion of the northern part of the complex.
The principal reported lithologies in the the Iron Hill Carbonatite Complex include magnesiocarbonatite, pyroxenite, nepheline syenite, ijolite, and uncompahgrite.
Most Iron Hill carbonatites are ankeritic magnesiocarbonatites (also known as rauhaugites), which are dolomitic intrusive igneous rocks. Here, they can also have calcite. The ankerite component is a calcium iron carbonate (CaFe(CO3)2). Magnesiocarbonatite is one of four types of carbonatite, which is a rare igneous rock dominated by carbonate minerals. The most common variety is calciocarbonatite, which has calcite (CaCO3) - these are essentially "igneous limestones". Other varieties include magnesiocarbonatite, with dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2), and ferrocarbonatite, which are significantly ferruginous, or are dominated by siderite (FeCO3). The rarest type is natrocarbonatite, which only occurs at one locality on Earth - the Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano in eastern Africa (see: www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/albums/72157646442276517 ).
Other reported Iron Hill carbonatite lithologies are: 1) nearly pure magnesiocarbonatites; 2) ankerite and siderite magnesiocarbonatites; and 3) calciocarbonatites.
Locality: Iron Hill, eastern side of Cebolla Creek Valley (Powderhorn Valley), southeast of town of Powderhorn, southern Gunnison County, southwestern Colorado, USA (38° 15’ 08.60” North latitude, 107° 03’ 13.73” West longitude)
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Some info. from:
Nash (1972) - Mineralogy and petrology of the Iron Hill Carbonatite Complex, Colorado. Geological Society of America Bulletin 83: 1361-1382.
ORLANDO, Fla. - In today’s complex and high tempo operational environment, America’s Army Reserve to rapidly deploy highly trained units to any corner of the world with the personnel and equipment they have on hand. With multiple contingencies and numerous potential threats capable of employing cutting-edge tactics with modern military equipment, the Army Reserve looks to its premiere sustainers such the 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) to lead, train and equip its 10,000-Soldier command.
In taking the first, major step toward achieving this vital mission, the 143d ESC conducted a Mission Training Brief Feb. 2-3, 2018, at the command’s headquarters in Orlando, Fla.
“An MTB promotes cohesion through collaboration,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Walter L. Flinn, commander, 332nd Transportation Terminal Battalion. “It offers a forum for commanders to share their successes and shortcomings while seeking and offering guidance among their fellow leaders.”
Led by U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Deborah L. Kotulich, commanding general, 143d ESC, the MTB featured dozens of senior leaders from the company to the ESC level whose wealth of knowledge and experience offered solutions to a myriad of logistical challenges.
“The expectation of having several months to bring your Soldiers up to speed at a pre-mobilization station is coming to an end,” Kotulich announced to dozens of battalion and brigade commanders and command sergeants majors huddled in the conference room. “We must assume that we will mobilize at a moment’s notice, and it’s our responsibility that we physically and mentally prepare every Soldier for the rigors of combat through realistic training.”
Kotulich expects every downtrace unit to spend less time in classrooms and more time in the field. This focus on individual and collective readiness stems from the U.S. Army Reserve Command’s Ready Force X initiative.
“Ready Force X is the Army Reserve’s answer to the [U.S.] Army’s demand for properly equipped and highly trained Soldiers who can rapidly deploy into combat,” said U.S. Army Col. Wanda Williams, commander, 641st Regional Sustainment Group. “Almost half of the 143d ESC’s downtrace units must meet the strict criteria established by Ready Force X’s “Fight Fast” mentality. This MTB offers precious time for commanders to obtain timely information needed to properly execute the numerous requirements to maintain a constantly high state of readiness.”
While Kotulich entrusts her fellow officers to formulate plans and carry out the Army Reserve’s “Fight Fast” initiative, she relies on her command sergeants major to refine the tasks required to carry out their commanding general’s intent.
“There are 43 individual training requirements that every unit must complete before reporting to a pre-mobilization site,” said U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Carlos O. Lopes, command sergeant major, 143d ESC. “As NCOs, we are responsible for providing effective training that ensures every Soldier has mastered these fundamental skills that directly determine one’s survivability on the battlefield.”
“NCOs can only do this if they understand their commanders’ intent,” added Command Sgt. Maj. Kenyatta S. Stamps, command sergeant major, 787th Combat Support and Sustainment Battalion. “The MTB allows us to hear those intentions firsthand and develop effective techniques and tactics to achieve them.”
These techniques and tactics encompass a variety of tasks that enhance speed, agility and sustained readiness at the individual, team and unit level. From warrior drills to medical readiness, commanders must meticulously manage finite time and resources to crystallize the Army Reserve’s strategic vision and implement the 143d ESC’s operational mission.
“Ready Force X is about leadership, energy and execution,” said Flinn. “Commanders must own the responsibility for readiness. Establishing an open dialog among senior leaders remains paramount to understanding not only what we do but how we do it.”
With more than half of the 143d ESC falls under the Ready Force X umbrella, every unit and Soldier must face the challenges if they are to reap the awards of transforming America’s Army Reserve into the most lethal and capable federal reserve force in U.S. history.
“America demands highly trained and proficient Soldiers, and the Army Reserve is blessed to have motivated men and women ready to endure the hardships inherent in armed conflict,” said Williams. “That’s why I tell my Soldiers, ‘Don’t worry about the names. Just be ready. Be ready now!”
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143d ESC
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