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The rough location of this site is 31°34'9.80"N, 74°18'41.69"E.
The mausoleum of Nila Gumbad houses the remains of the great mystic Sheikh Abdul Razzaq. He belonged to Mecca city, and came to Lahore in the reign of Mughal Emperor Humayun (1508-1556). He became a ‘mureed’ of the famous saint Miran Muhammad Shah Mauj Darya Bukhari, who soon realised that his pupil had powers beyond the ordinary. He called him Sheikh Abdul Razzaq Makki. His scholarship of the Holy Quran and his pow ers of the occult attracted a very large following.
Soon he was considered as the leading ‘seer’ of his time, consulted often by the Mughal court. Abdul Razzaq Makki died in 1084 A.H. and was buried at this place. The Mughal court built him a fine mausoleum, which still stands as a testimony to the man. Next to the graves they also built an elegant mosque, which today is known as the Nila Gumbad Mosque.
When the Sikhs came to power, they ransacked the elegant building of its excellent marble, which they transported to Amritsar. Maharaja Ranjit Singh ordered that an ammunition dump be made of the mausoleum, and to one side in the mosque he housed a gun manufacturing facility. To the western side, among other graves, he built a cannon manufacturing facility. Thus a majority of the graves of some of Lahore’s leading saints and seers were destroyed.
When the British came, they removed the arms manufacturing facility and converted the mausoleum into an eat ery, where officers of the British East India Company used to have their meals. A bakery was set up next door, the very first in Lahore. This bakery was owned and operated by a building contractor called Munshi Najmuddin Thakedar. Once the cantonment was shifted to Mian Mir, the contractor persuaded the British authorities to restore the mausoleum and the mosque. He invested in the project and on his death he was buried to one side inside the mosque.
To the west, just along the alignment where today exists the Anarkali Bazaar was the grave of Khawaja Saeed Lahori. Next to his grave were the grave of Haji Abadullah, and a third grave of the nephew of Khawaja Muhammad Saeed by the name of Abdur Rahman. Next to them is the grave of Hazrat Shah Sharaf. In an earlier piece I had dwelt on the grave of Shah Sharaf, who was originally buried at Bhati Gate. When Maharajah Ranjit Singh ordered that the grave be removed to make way for the expansion of the defences of the city, his grave revealed a man, buried over 100 years earlier, as fresh. The famous Fakir Nuruddin got the saint reburied near the Nila Gumbad.
After 1947 the entire area underwent a massive change, in which new shopping plazas came up. If you happen to walk through the ba zaar, the building to the south of the old Hindu temple to the east of the Punjab University, in which a number of clothes shops exists, is where a few well-known shoe shops exist. If you walk inside the narrow alley of shops, to one side, under a staircase, is the grave of this famous seer. This is what one can call a picture of the age in which we live. All the other graves have been cleared and new shops made on them. Mind you the original grave was built by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, an excellent structure the Sikh razed to the ground.
Outside the traffic flows past a fast deteriorating Nila Gumbad. In the narrow lanes a few graves have been left in small rooms, mostly unmarked. There is a need to research each one of them. The lost ones of some great saints need to be located, and if it is possible to move commercial interest, just let them be known
One of many spectacular moments on a wild day last year in southwest Texas. After the storm spun up a high based tornado near Fort Stockton, it cruised east along I-10 putting on an excellent structure show until sunset.
Sept 20, 2018 - Long Island Kansas, Smith Center Kansas US
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On the northern border of Kansas I patiently awaited the last severe cells that I could chase in 2018. I was in position for another fantastic chase day. No nader... but I had some excellent structure before she went outflow dominant east of Smith Center Kansas. It was definitely worth my time that afternoon. (BTW I spelled dominant wrong in the video...lol)
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Sept 20, 2018 - Long Island Kansas, Smith Center Kansas US
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On the northern border of Kansas I patiently awaited the last severe cells that I could chase in 2018. I was in position for another fantastic chase day. No nader... but I had some excellent structure before she went outflow dominant east of Smith Center Kansas. It was defenitly worth my time that afternoon. (BTW I spelled dominant wrong in the video...lol)
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Was going through my collection of photos from last year. I first started photography when my friend David insisted it would be fun to go out and take some shots around town. This is from my very first outing with the camera, and I just like how powerful it feels. Just a uniform building in its simplicity , that just feels like it towers over you. The blue of the sky and the eggshell white of the building just reach out to me.
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Nikon 35mm, 1/2000 sec at f/3.2, ISO 100
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A stunning display last night over Fife Scotland. Excellent structure and very bright. Quite difficult to get the pix as close to what he eye could see, maybe atmosphrics were playing up.
This is very square, simple and strong building. It is well known as excellent structured building.
みなとみらいセンタービルの平日夜のギラギラっぷりといったら！
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Minatomirai Center Building (みなとみらいセンタービル).
Architect : Taisei Corporation (設計：大成建設).
Completed : May 2010 (竣工：2010年5月).
Location : Minatomirai 3-6-1, Nishi-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan (所在地：横浜市西区みなとみらい3-6-1).
Taken in Valencia a few days ago when I went there with my partner for a week. There is a dry river bed containing all of these amazing pieces of architecture, housing a science museum, aquarium, and concert venue. It is like being in a movie. Such excellent structures. Worth a look! Took this early morning before sunrise, when no-one around! Long exposure of 15 seconds to get a nice still exposure of the water.
May 5, 2019 - Chester Nebraska US
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I was late to the game on this one after the mesoscale discussion had everything to my east and models had cells developing into northern Kansas. I took the risk and missed out on the eastern Nebraska severe weather that afternoon.
Though I was late I wasn't out of the game as I approached from the south back into Nebraska and got into position for the severe warned cells that had just produced a tornado 25 mins before my arrival to my north. Excellent structure as the cells moved to the due south... I was in for a supercell photographic treat!
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May 5, 2019 - Chester Nebraska US
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I was late to the game on this one after the mesoscale discussion had everything to my east and models had cells developing into northern Kansas. I took the risk and missed out on the eastern Nebraska severe weather that afternoon.
Though I was late I wasn't out of the game as I approached from the south back into Nebraska and got into position for the severe warned cells that had just produced a tornado 25 mins before my arrival to my north. Excellent structure as the cells moved to the due south... I was in for a supercell photographic treat!
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Sept 20, 2018 - Smith Center Kansas US
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On the northern border of Kansas I patiently awaited the last severe cells that I could chase in 2018. I was in position for another fantastic chase day. No nader... but I had some excellent structure before she went outflow dominant east of Smith Center Kansas. It was definitely worth my time that afternoon. (BTW I spelled dominant wrong in the video...lol)
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This excellent structure was built in 1928-29 by the City of Phoenix and Maricopa County.
It doesn't quite have the appearance from the outside, but it was actually built as two separate structures. The west wing was originally built as the Phoenix City Hall by a different architectural firm than the architect who designed the rest of the building. The county courthouse part was designed by Louisiana architect Edward F. Neild. The city hall portion was designed by Phoenix firm Lescher and Mahoney.
It was built in Classical Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles with amazing terra-cotta Art Deco detail work. I'm not certain of its present county court uses, but I know that it still functions as a county building. The west wing, however, is no longer used as Phoenix's city hall and the interior of the old city hall wing has been linked to the courthouse part. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This is the front, or north facing side of this courthouse. The sky scraper across the street makes for some interesting lighting due to the reflection from its windows onto the surface of this courthouse.
A Froebel Square. I've seen a bunch of them in various places and thought I'd try my hand at them! They provide excellent structures for trying out some of these logarithmic algorithms I've been exploring...
Day 137: Sage Leaf
Late spring has come to the area, and herbs that were started a few weeks ago are now really beginning to leaf out, especially with all the rain we have had. Here, a sage plant in a neighbor's garden shows some excellent structure and variety on its surface, as highlighted in the afternoon sun.
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This excellent structure was built in 1928-29 by the City of Phoenix and Maricopa County.
It doesn't quite have the appearance from the outside, but it was actually built as two separate structures. The west wing was originally built as the Phoenix City Hall by a different architectural firm than the architect who designed the rest of the building. The county courthouse part was designed by Louisiana architect Edward F. Neild. The city hall portion was designed by Phoenix firm Lescher and Mahoney.
It was built in Classical Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles with amazing terra-cotta Art Deco detail work. I'm not certain of its present county court uses, but I know that it still functions as a county building. The west wing, however, is no longer used as Phoenix's city hall and the interior of the old city hall wing has been linked to the courthouse part. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This is the front, or north facing side of this courthouse. The sky scraper across the street makes for some interesting lighting due to the reflection from its windows onto the surface of this courthouse.
Sprites schools, Ipswich
Johns, Slater Haward for Ipswich Borough Council, 1960.
Sculpture reliefs by Bernard Reynolds.
In the 1960s, the Borough Council planned for an expansion of Ipswich to three times its size. This never happened, but there was a considerable and largely unnecessary rebuilding of the town centre to give it a metropolitan character, many of the buildings designed to line an aborted urban motorway.
Not many of these new buildings were good. Perhaps the most notorious was the Greyfriars complex by Vine & Vine (1964-66, largely demolished apart from the towers in the early 1990s).
However, local architectural practice Johns, Slater Haward were responsible for some excellent structures that survive today to adorn the Borough. At a time when brutalism and modernism were fashionable, the firm of Johns, Slater Haward designed buildings of real character, with a jauntiness that looked back to the Festival of Britain, and forward towards the post-modernism of Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.
Their major buildings in the Borough included Ipswich Civic College (now Suffolk College), Castle Hill United Reformed Church, Harvest House (HQ building fo Fisons, now a business centre), Suffolk House (now AXA Insurance), Colchester Road fire station, and the East Anglian Daily Times building.
They also designed a number of schools for Ipswich Borough Council, which had responsibility for education in the Borough before 1974. The best of these, and a building of national significance, was the group known as Sprites Schools, today converted into a single primary school.
Sprites Schools was designed as a sequence of linked glass pavilions set in a field. The roofs are hyperbolic, curving to low and high points at the corners. Low, structural brick walls do not intrude. Wooden framing for the windows divides the glass walls into pleasing rectangles. Paths and grassed areas were arranged in parallel to walls to create another layer of lines leading to secluded courtyards. The sculptor Bernard Reynolds, responsible for a number of public artworks in the Borough, created reliefs that give a lively feel to the structural walls. When lit up at light, the pavilions were intended to appear like a caravan in the desert.
Unusually for buildings of the time, the schools were intended to mature, with trees growing to surround the pavilions and create a woodland effect. Sir Niklaus Pevsner, in The Buildings of England, admired Sprites Schools greatly, and they are the only post-war school in the county to appear in his Suffolk volume. The overall design has withstood the test of time, although, as with many late 1950s and early 1960s buildings, the schools were created for a low-fuel-price economy, and the lower and upper parts of most of the glass walls have now been filled in to save costs on heating and ventilation.
Addition of a nursery in 1995 celebrated and enhanced the original architecture, but conversion to a single school by Suffolk County Council in 2004 created an uneasy linkage that spoils the openness the main inner courtyard. Even so, the sheer exuberance of the original buildings survives. They are best seen from Hawthorn Drive across the playing fields, especially when lit up on a late winter afternoon.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"⠀
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Words commonly misattributed to Carl Sagan, but most likely written by reporter Sharon Begley⠀
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The eight-dish Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was one of a global federation of radio telescopes used to produce the world's first images of a black hole earlier this year.⠀
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From Wikipedia: "The radio frequencies accessible to this telescope range from 180–418 gigahertz (1.666–0.717 mm) which includes rotational transitions of dozens of molecular species as well as continuum emission from interstellar dust grains."⠀
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"⠀
⠀
Words commonly misattributed to Carl Sagan, but most likely written by reporter Sharon Begley⠀
⠀
The eight-dish Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was one of a global federation of radio telescopes used to produce the world's first images of a black hole earlier this year.⠀
⠀
From Wikipedia: "The radio frequencies accessible to this telescope range from 180–418 gigahertz (1.666–0.717 mm) which includes rotational transitions of dozens of molecular species as well as continuum emission from interstellar dust grains."⠀
#radiotelescope ⠀
#observatory⠀
#astronomicalobservatory⠀
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#creative_architecture⠀
#arkiromantix⠀
#archimasters⠀
#excellent_structure⠀
#lookingup_architecture⠀
#universetoday⠀
.⠀
#hawaiian⠀
#hawaiiunchained⠀
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From aerial view, you understand Zojoji is excellent structures.
行くと必ず撮るパターン。
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Zojoji Temple (増上寺).
Architect : - (設計：－).
Location : Minato Ward, Tokyo Metropolitan, Japan (場所：日本国東京都港区).
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"⠀
⠀
Words commonly misattributed to Carl Sagan, but most likely written by reporter Sharon Begley⠀
⠀
The eight-dish Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was one of a global federation of radio telescopes used to produce the world's first images of a black hole earlier this year.⠀
⠀
From Wikipedia: "The radio frequencies accessible to this telescope range from 180–418 gigahertz (1.666–0.717 mm) which includes rotational transitions of dozens of molecular species as well as continuum emission from interstellar dust grains."⠀
#radiotelescope ⠀
#observatory⠀
#astronomicalobservatory⠀
.⠀
#creative_architecture⠀
#arkiromantix⠀
#archimasters⠀
#excellent_structure⠀
#lookingup_architecture⠀
#universetoday⠀
.⠀
#hawaiian⠀
#hawaiiunchained⠀
#hawaiitag ⠀
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"⠀
⠀
Words commonly misattributed to Carl Sagan, but most likely written by reporter Sharon Begley⠀
⠀
The eight-dish Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was one of a global federation of radio telescopes used to produce the world's first images of a black hole earlier this year.⠀
⠀
From Wikipedia: "The radio frequencies accessible to this telescope range from 180–418 gigahertz (1.666–0.717 mm) which includes rotational transitions of dozens of molecular species as well as continuum emission from interstellar dust grains."⠀
#radiotelescope ⠀
#observatory⠀
#astronomicalobservatory⠀
.⠀
#creative_architecture⠀
#arkiromantix⠀
#archimasters⠀
#excellent_structure⠀
#lookingup_architecture⠀
#universetoday⠀
.⠀
#hawaiian⠀
#hawaiiunchained⠀
#hawaiitag ⠀