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Port House Antwerp, Belgium by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Port House combines a new beam-shaped structure and a former fire brigade building into a new headquarter building for the Port Authority. The project is strategically located between city and harbour, with magnificent views over both the centre and the port from behind the articulate glass walls – some transparent, others reflective – in reference to the Antwerp diamond trade.
In early September 2012 Zaha Hadid gave the official order to begin construction work on Port House, the new headquarters for Antwerp Port Authority on the Kattendijk dock. The new Antwerp Port Authority headquarters will house approximately 500 staff in a single new location that comprises both a former fire station and a new extension. Together, these two entities form an impressive new landmark as the headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority, overlooking both the city and the harbour. Staff and visitors arrive in the central atrium from where public counters, offices and meeting rooms in the existing building are directly accessible. The offices, meeting rooms, auditorium and panoramic restaurant in the new extension are accessible via panoramic lifts just off the central courtyard. Two underground levels of car and bicycle parking, the restoration and renovation of the existing building and the exterior landscaping of the site also form an integral part of the design. The new extension is positioned asymmetrically over the central courtyard, allowing light to enter the heart of the building. Leaving the existing structure untouched, it is supported by two sculpted concrete pillars that house stairs and lifts as well as a series of carefully placed steel columns that land in the courtyard. The new volume is enclosed by articulated surfaces of triangular glass panels which are slightly rotated with respect to one another to achieve ever-changing reflections that enhance its diamond shaped geometry. From the new building visitors will have a truly impressive view over the city as well as the port, so further strengthening the dialogue between the people of Antwerp and their port.
Total Floor Area: 12,800m2 (Gross); 114m Length; 24m Width; 46m Height (4 Extra Floors) Site Area: 16,400 m2 Date: 2008-2016.
My Dad is a carpenter. When I was a kid I went to work with him in the summers. This is how he taught me to plug in extension cords so they won't come unplugged no matter how hard you pull.
I took the photos to illustrate an Instructable at www.instructables.com.
Playing about with extension tubes to take macro photos on my 85mm f1.2 lens! They did a pretty good job for £20!
Butterfly Park - Castelló d'Empúries, Girona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) is a large saturniid moth found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, and common across the Malay archipelago. In India, Atlas moths are cultivated for their silk in a non-commercial capacity; unlike that produced by the related Silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), Atlas moth silk is secreted as broken strands. This brown, wool-like silk is thought to have greater durability and is known as fagara. Atlas moth cocoons have been employed as purses in Taiwan.
Atlas moths are considered the largest moths in the world in terms of total wing surface area [upwards of c. 400 cm2 (62 sq in)]. Their wingspans are also amongst the largest, from 25–30 cm (10–12 in). Females are appreciably larger and heavier.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacus_atlas
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CASTELLANO
La mariposa atlas (Attacus atlas) es una especie de lepidóptero ditrisio de la familia Saturniidae. Es el representante de mayor tamaño de la familia y la mariposa más grande del mundo tomando en cuenta el área total de sus alas (más de 400cm2). La envergadura de sus alas también está dentro de las más grandes, de 25 a 30 cm. Los especímenes femeninos son más grandes y más fuertes. El lepidóptero de mayor envergadura es el diablo blanco (Thysania agrippina). Su nombre científico deriva del nombre del titán Atlas de la mitología griega. En Hong Kong, en idioma cantonés, su nombre común se traduce como "mariposa cabeza de serpiente", en referencia a la extensión apical de las alas, que tiene un parecido con tal cabeza de ofidio.
Habita en los bosques tropicales del sudeste de Asia, el sur de China, pasando por el archipiélago malayo hasta Indonesia. En India, las mariposas atlas son cultivadas por la seda en proporciones no comerciales. A diferencia de la seda producida por el gusano de seda (Bombyx mori), la seda de la oruga de la mariposa atlas es secretada en hilos no continuos. Esta seda (llamada "fagara") de color café y parecida a la lana es apreciada por su gran durabilidad. En Taiwán, las crisálidas de la mariposa atlas se emplean para hacer carteras.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacus_atlas
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I put a film through my old Chinon CM3 back in the summer. I always liked using extension tubes with a 35mm SLR and I was just messing about for the retro experience here. I think I ordered Kodak T-Max 400 from my usual supplier of photographic materials, but they sent this ...the same manufacturer's Tri-X. There was no explanation, so I don't know whether they'd substituted for an item out of stock, or if it was a simple mistake. But I'm not fussy: all the mainstream films are good. The only black & white films at which I'd turn up my nose are Foma Retropan 320 "Soft" (too soft) and Fomapan 200 "Creative" (full of black specks). I've never found anything wrong with Foma's other films mind you. Grain can be nasty, but when it's just right it is a thing of beauty and I like the graininess here. My missus tells me there are male and female bell peppers, identifiable by the number of "lobes". I don't know which this is ...or was: it underwent the horrors of digestion towards the end of July.
Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tank (W/No.2158 built in 1955) is on temporary loan to the N.C.B. from the adjacent Albright & Wilson chemicals plant at Kells (the chimney on the left of the Ladysmith Washery belongs to the factory). On a bitterly cold 14th March 1969 it is photographed trundling down the grade on the 'Croft Extension' with empty internal wagons for Haig Colliery. Croft Colliery was originally located to the left, giving the name to this line perched high on the cliff top overlooking St. Bees Head and the Irish Sea.
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Farmer Belia Sikelo walks through a groundnut plot under conservation agriculture (CA). She and her husband Jelimoti have been practicing CA and demonstrating it to other farmers since the 2005-06 cropping season, with support from extension workers. Visitors to their fields, in Mwansambo extension planning area, Nkhotakota zone, central Malawi, can see the benefits of CA for themselves, and compare it with conventional practices.
CA is a set of practices that includes eliminating traditional ridge-and-furrow tillage systems, keeping crop residues on the soil, and rotating or intercropping maize with other crops. In addition to labor and cost savings, the improved soil structure resists erosion and increases water infiltration and retention, a huge benefit when drought threatens in places like Malawi, where maize subsists on rain alone.
Photo credit: T. Samson/CIMMYT.
For more, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story "Conservation agriculture in Malawi: 'We always have problems with rain here,'" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/front-page-tems/aboutmediaresources/130....
My own poor man's version of an Xtra cycle type bike frame extension. For the full article of this build and more bike tips, check out my blog at howtofixbikes.ca
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February 2008 sees the work well underway to provide Milton Keynes Centra with extra platforms as Desiro 350 123 heads for London
Fuji Macro Extension Tubes MCEX-11
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$180.00 - Custom Curly double-end dreads. 50 extensions = 100 hanging dreads. Can be fashioned into falls.Straighten a little or a lot with hot water or steam. Length when installed 4 - 16"
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This 25’ extension cord on an encased reel with built-in cicuit breaker has been about the most useful and reliable Christmas gifts I’ve ever received. I believe I received it in December, 1983 and it has been handily accessible in every place I’ve lived during that period. It was a Christmas gift from my late friend Tom who passed during February of this year, 2024. So now I will remember my best friend with something that symbolizes that long standing reliability. So thank you, Tom.
The case states that it was made in Canada.
This industrialised kitchen extension blends brilliantly with the period feel of it's listed host building; complimenting the brick work whilst remaining unafraid to claim an identity of it's own through the use of masculine grey powder coasted aluminium and a stainless steel kitchen design. The lean-to design of this structure works well; encapsulating the views of nature both across the garden space as well as from above as the canopy of trees shades the roof from extra heat.
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