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The Federation of Victorian Bushwalking Group's Hut - Federation Hut - at the top of Bungalow Spur, near the summit of Victoria's second highest peak, Mt Feathertop.

Red Sticks Sculpture behind Fed Square. Dressed in all shiny black latex for a walk at Federation Square in April 2012. Photo by YouBeautie.

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of 2,511 square kilometers (970 sq mi), while the urban area covers 5,891 square kilometers (2,275 sq mi), and the metropolitan area covers over 26,000 square kilometers (10,000 sq mi). Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city in its entirety in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent.

 

First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to serve as the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. When the Tsardom of Russia was proclaimed, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of its history. Under the reign of Peter the Great, the Russian capital was moved to the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg in 1712, decreasing Moscow's influence. Following the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Russian SFSR, the capital was moved back to Moscow in 1918, where it later became the political center of the Soviet Union. In the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Moscow remained the capital city of the newly established Russian Federation.

 

The northernmost and coldest megacity in the world, Moscow is governed as a federal city, where it serves as the political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe. As a global city, Moscow has one of the world's largest urban economies. The city is one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations and is one of Europe's most visited cities. Moscow has the second-highest number of billionaires of any city (tied with Hong Kong). The Moscow International Business Center is one of the largest financial centers in the world and features the majority of Europe's tallest skyscrapers. Moscow was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics and one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

 

The city contains several UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is known for its display of Russian architecture, particularly in areas such as the Red Square and buildings such as the Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin, the latter of which is the seat of power of the Government of Russia. Moscow is home to Russian companies in different industries and is served by a comprehensive transit network, which includes four international airports, ten railway terminals, a tram system, a monorail system, and the Moscow Metro, which is the busiest metro system in Europe and one of the largest rapid transit systems in the world. The city has over 40 percent of its territory covered by greenery, making it one of the greenest cities in the world.

Zakuski is the term for an assortment of cold hors d'oeuvres, entrées and snacks in Russian food culture. They are considered to be an integral part of any Russian festive meal, as well as often everyday meals.

 

Red caviar is a caviar made from the roe of salmonid fishes (various species of salmon and trout), which has an intense reddish hue. It is distinct from black caviar, which is made from the roe of sturgeon.

 

Although commonly referred to as caviar, red caviar is not considered "true caviar" under the traditional definition, which restricts the term to salted roe from sturgeon species (family Acipenseridae). In culinary and regulatory contexts, particularly in Europe, red caviar is classified as fish roe or caviar substitute. In North America, however, the term “caviar” may legally be used for non-sturgeon roe, provided the species name (e.g. "salmon caviar") is included on the label.

 

Red caviar is part of Russian and Japanese cuisine. In Japan, salmon caviar is known as ikura (イクラ) which derives from the Russian word ikra (икра) which means caviar or fish roe in general.

 

In Japanese cuisine, it is usually marinated in salt or soy sauce and sake. The seasoning used varies between households. Many families pickle red caviar using only soy sauce, but some use dashi instead of sake or mirin.

 

Russians enjoy red caviar appetizers (zakuski) on buttered bread or on a blini (Slavic crêpes). Caviar on blini may be paired with sliced salmon and champagne, especially on such occasions as Russian New Year's Eve.

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of 2,511 square kilometers (970 mi2), while the urban area covers 5,891 square kilometers (2,275 mi2), and the metropolitan area covers over 26,000 square kilometers (10,000 mi2). Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent.

 

First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lands in the 15th century and became the center of a unified state. Following the proclamation of the Tsardom of Russia in 1547, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of its history. During the reign of Peter the Great, the Russian capital was moved to the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg in 1712, leading to a decline in Moscow's importance throughout the imperial period. Following the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Russian SFSR, the capital was moved back to Moscow in 1918. The city later became the political center of the Soviet Union and experienced significant population growth throughout the Soviet period. In the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Moscow remained the capital city of the newly reconstituted Russian Federation and has experienced continued growth.

 

The northernmost and coldest megacity in the world, Moscow is governed as a federal city, where it serves as the political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe. Moscow has one of the world's largest urban economies. Moscow has the second-highest number of billionaires of any city (tied with Hong Kong). The Moscow International Business Center is one of the largest financial centers in the world and features the majority of Europe's tallest skyscrapers. Moscow was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics and one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

 

The city contains several UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is known for its display of Russian architecture, particularly in areas such as Red Square and buildings such as Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin, the latter of which is the seat of power of the Government of Russia. Moscow is home to Russian companies in different industries and is served by a comprehensive transit network, which includes four international airports, ten railway terminals, a tram system, a monorail system, and the Moscow Metro, which is the busiest metro system in Europe and one of the largest rapid transit systems in the world. The city has over 40 percent of its territory covered by greenery, making it one of the greenest cities in the world.

More Speeder Bikes to come... thanks everybody for the nice comments (and faves) on the previous MOCs of this serie (which is as fun to build for me as Febrovery is, and that means a lot !)

Not really a rover, but still a planetary surface transport vehicle. These cars were used by officers and higher-ranking civilian staff on the larger colonies and were quite ubiquitous on the streets and byways of Federation worlds.

- Bonus upload for Febrovery 2016 Leap Day. Enjoy!

Lego FEDERATION vs SECESSIONIST ALLEGIANCE federation members lego3130starwars custom

a walk around with the Zeiss 21mm f2.8 lens

Korean Marinated Foods

Korean cuisine features a variety of marinated dishes that are flavorful and savory. These dishes not only enhance the ingredients but also offer a delightful balance of taste and texture. Here are some popular types of Korean marinated foods.

A MOC from ages ago, I've had it build for months in the hope that it'll become part of a bigger project (a Neo-Futuron project, ironically enough), but it never happened so here's this dio in case anyone wanted to see it.

 

More photos on Brickshelf, because I don't want to crowd my photostream with this meh. You may recognise the trailer - I posted it a few months back.

 

Now I've got this photographed, I can finally take it apart! Wahoo!

 

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It was a wonderful sunny day on Friday for a wander along the Federation Trail.

Happy Selfie Sunday!

I need a larger photo set-up to get Voyager and Enterprise on the same picture plane to properly show their relative size. Voyager is in the foreground and through the magical properties of closer objects appearing larger, seems almost the same size as Enterprise. Voyager is 74 studs long and Enterprise is 100, and has at least twice the mass.

Light in Winter Festival (Fed Square, Melbourne)

Frontier Federation designation 021-WM-8

This set zooms in from a little distance away from the building to finally reveal detail of the domed ceiling.

Water from a trough in the ceiling reflects and nicely flickers on the tiles of the ceiling.

 

Check my home to see this building from the outside :-)

This guy was running upstairs to get to the pub on the immediate left hand side.

I've tried to shoot at federation square before but I've made the mistake of getting that god awful architecture in the background. It's a nice spot and there are plenty of people that go there to chill or use it as a rendezvous location. This strangers was one of those, she had a spot on the stairs and was waiting for her friend who was running terribly late. I believe the two of them where from Yorkshire in England and are over here backpacking down the east coast of Australia.

 

I told her about 100 strangers for a while, she seemed fairly interested. But couldn't get over my voice. She was convinced that I had an accent from somewhere and suggested perhaps Germany. I took some photos near the beginning of our encounter but having spotted this one and the one after, which was similar but with her eyes closed in a smile, I decided that I had what I wanted and stopped shooting.

 

We chatted for a fair while, and she told me about how in Kuala Lumpur she'd been approached by a few people who wanted to take her picture. But, as if she was a celebrity or something, they wanted to be in the picture with her. So they'd get a friend or a passer by to take a photo of them and her standing together. Eventually my knees got tired and I thanked her and headed off, saying I hoped her friend arrived soon. She said he'll be getting a punch when he does.

 

This is the sixty eigth portrait of my attempt at the 100 strangers project.

in the Capital city the filthy rich lives in Stratos-scrapers and levitating palaces, at ground level those with regular employment and some status lives...

 

Then at what is known to most as The cellar levels the poor and factory workers live in just above starvation and misery, if you travel even deeper to the grotto parts of the undercity hoards of savage mutants and outcast aliens and renegade droids live most people who doesn´t have to travel down here with out a platoon of bodyguard federations soldiers and 2-3 defense Bots and a dozen of pathfinders...

 

This is of cause not even the deepest levels, there are all sorts of rumors of different deep-city Abyssal levels...

 

since the contact between the different levels in the city, few above cellar-level knows anything about the deeper levels, some say there is huge mutated Dinos running around eating everything, some say a huge biological fleshy mutated mass spread it´s tentacles through the deepest levers incorporating all organic and some inorganic matter in to it´s huge swelling bloated mutant body... but the deepest levels are yet unexplored by "Civilized surface dwellers"

 

This picture depicts a common trap made by mutants and deep-level scum, the lure-trap goes like this, a mutant with special radio-active attributes such as tapping in to radio-messages or someone who has accidentally swallow a piece of communication tech and gotten this trait in that manner...

 

...anyway one of these gangers homes in on the radio of a random spacecraft and does his best to convince the victim pilot that they are ground control, then slowly lures the pilot down towards the landing strip which in reality is one of the vents leading deep in to the planet core...

 

before this the whole pack of underhivling scums have constructed a fake landing coarse and when the pilot lands they wait until the engines are turned off, then they all strike at once, coming from all corners with chains, hooks, chainsaws, pipes, magnets, tentacles and so on...

 

the pilot then usually tries to start his ship again, but since most spacecraft especially small fighter are lightweight because of economic reasons the pure mutant-body-weight is enough to pull it down, at the same time as they cling to the ship all starts bashing and hacking it, tearing it apart piece by piece in hope to maim it enough to prohibit flight, then at most time there will be fighting among the Hive-scum on which parts they are "the rightful" owners of, many are starving carnivores who see the pilot as a juicy pice of meat behind the thin crystal canopy...

 

Some pilots choose to eject themselves, with is an almost certain death at this cluttered level of the city, with metal and pipes sticking out everywhere and concrete wall, still the choose certain death rather than being ripped apart by brawling aliens and mutants fighting over dinner...

  

The atrium at Melbourne's Federation Square is a sea of rich colours in the evening.

 

HDR photo taken on a Canon EOS 350D and merged using 3 exposures 2.0 EV apart.

The National Aquarium in Baltimore several years ago...

Xenia of St. Petersburg (Russian: Святая блаженная Ксения Петербургская, born as Xenia Grigoryevna Petrova (Russian: Ксения Григорьевна Петрова), c. 1719–1730 – c. 1803) is a patron saint of St. Petersburg, who according to tradition, gave all her possessions to the poor after her husband died.

 

Her husband had been Colonel Andrey Fyodorovich Petrov, a chanter at the Saint Andrew Cathedral. After his death, Xenia became a "fool-for-Christ" and for 45 years wandered around the streets of St. Petersburg, usually wearing her late husband's military uniform.

 

Xenia's grave is in the Smolensky Cemetery of St. Petersburg. It has been marked by an ornate chapel since 1902. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia on September 24, 1978 (O. S. September 11, 1978) in the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign in New York, USA and by the Russian Orthodox Church on June 6, 1988, during the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church. Her feast day in the Old Style Calendar is January 24, which is February 6 in the New Calendar. In July 2020, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church also resolved to include Xenia of St. Petersburg in its calendar on January 24.

 

As a saint, she is noted for her intercessions in helping those with employment, marriage, the homeless, for fires, for missing children, and for a spouse. She is venerated in several countries. There are about 40 churches and chapels built in her name.

 

Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (Russian: Александр Ярославич Невский; monastic name: Aleksiy; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1249–1263), and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263).

 

Commonly regarded as a key figure in medieval Russian history, Alexander was a grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories in northwestern Russia over Swedish invaders in the 1240 Battle of the Neva, as well as German crusaders in the 1242 Battle on the Ice. He preserved Eastern Orthodoxy, agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde. Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow canonized Alexander Nevsky as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1547.

 

The veneration of Alexander began almost immediately after his burial, when he reportedly extended his hand for the prayer of absolution. According to Orthodox tradition, Alexander foresaw his death and before this took strict Orthodox Christian monastic vows, called Great Schema, and took the name Alexey.[citation needed]

 

In 1380, Alexander's remains were uncovered in response to a vision before the Battle of Kulikovo and found to be incorrupt. The relics were then placed in a shrine in the church. Alexander was canonized as a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Macarius in 1547.

 

In 1695, a new wooden reliquary was made in Moscow, and the relics were placed in it in 1697. By order of Peter the Great, the relics were then removed from Vladimir on 11 August 1723 and transported to Shlisselburg, arriving there on 20 September. There they were kept until 1724, when they were brought to Saint Petersburg and installed in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra on 30 August.

 

In 1753, a silver shrine with sarcophagus for the relics, made from 90 pounds of silver, was donated by Empress Elizabeth of Russia. With the completion of the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in 1790, the shrine and relics were translated there at its consecration on 30 August, one of the saint's feast days.

 

In May 1922, during the general confiscation of Russian Orthodox Church property, the sarcophagus was opened and the relics removed;[better source needed] and the elaborate silver shrine was transferred to the Hermitage Museum. The relics were put into storage at the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, before being returned to Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1989. On 10 May 2023, the Hermitage Museum and Alexander Nevsky Lavra signed a contract for the transfer of the shrine to Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra for a period of 49 years. On 12 September 2023, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow placed the relics back into the silver sarcophagus.

 

Alexander's principal feast day is 23 November. A secondary feast day was instituted on 30 August in commemoration of his relics being placed in the Annunciation Church. He is jointly commemorated with other saints of Rostov and Yaroslavl on 23 May.

Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.

 

From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.

 

On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.

 

Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.

Parkes –the Early Years.

Like Forbes the Currajong district (later called Parkes after Sir Henry Parkes the politician and federalist) was first sighted and explored by white men in 1835 when Major Thomas Mitchell explored the areas from Parkes to the Bogan River which flows northwards from here to its junction with the Darling River near Bourke. Although not near Parkes Charles Sturt and Hamilton Hume had traced parts of the Bogan River north of Parkes in 1828. Mitchell’s explorations opened up the Parkes area but his conflict with the Wiradjuri Aboriginal people did not help later squatters. Richard Cunningham the noted botanist on Mitchell’s explorations was killed by Aboriginals on the Bogan River in 1835. As early as 1826 the “limits of settlement” were set where land could be bought and sold, or even squatted upon. Bathurst was the furthest point west at that time. In 1827 a road was surveyed to Wellington, 110 kms to the north east of Parkes and the town of Wellington was laid out in 1828. No settlement was permitted beyond Wellington or Orange or Molong or Cowra or Yass. But the new ordinance banning western settlement in 1829 did not stop the pastoralists who chased good open pasture lands with creeks and good pasturage. The men who settled on land beyond the legal limits called themselves squatters. In 1833 NSW passed the Protection of Crown Lands Act to stop this. But it too failed. The first settlement beyond the defined limits in the Parkes district was Eugowra in 1834. Mitchell’s explorations of 1836 and his favourable reports on the western lands open the flood gates to squatting. Acts of violence between Aboriginal people and the squatters was uncontrolled so in 1839 and act was passed to levy squatters an annual tax to pay on their stock for police and peace keeping forces with Commissioners to ensure the peace. In 1846 the government granted 14 year leases to the former squatters as their claim to the land was legalised. The nearest sheep station to what became Parkes was Bald Hill station run by Thomas Bolton but there were four other big station in the district by 1848. The pastoralists developed their properties over the years until the discovery of gold at Lambing Flat (Young) and Forbes in 1861.The routes the diggers followed bypassed Currajong (Parkes) but that was not to last. Currajong had been surveyed as a village site in 1853 but little had emerged there. In August 1862 James Pugh discovered gold in the hills at Currajong. Golden Bar Hill gold field was discovered nearby about the same time. The first ores were taken to Forbes to be crushed but by early 1863 crushing machinery was located near Currajong. By 1867 the gold mining was declining but 40,000 ounces had been extracted from shaft mines. But the village had police barracks and a school and a tent village. By 1871 it was almost deserted when another gold find was made at Bushman’s and more in 1872 and 1873. Bushmans was soon a village of 6,000 people. Some of the god found was easy alluvial gold but most was in deep lodes.

 

In August 1873, Henry Parkes (later Sir Henry Parkes from 1877) who was then the Premier of NSW, visited Bushmans gold fields and met with diggers and the local Gold Commissioner. A township was to be created called Coobang but this was changed to Parkes in December 1873. On the same day the largest gold nugget found on the fields was discovered – the Welcome nugget weighing 132 ounces. These gold field produced 50,000 ounces of gold between 1871 and 1873. A mail service was started from Orange and police patrolled the fields and a Union Church was built in 1872 near the present day Uniting Church in Court Street. At that time there was a general store, a hotel and some other commercial buildings in Bushman/Currajong. It was the gold Commissioner who laid out the streets of Parkes in 1873 with a dogleg in the main street because of the early buildings. After the gold declined the new land act ensured that farmers as well as pastoralists moved into the Parkes district. It was Henry Parkes who had championed the 1861 Robertson Act in NSW which allowed selection of land before survey for blocks of 40 to 320 acres at £1 per acre. 25 percent was due on occupation and the balance in three years’ time. This act remained in force until 1884. The earliest wheat crops were taken to Orange for milling into flour until the McGee and Quinn mill was erected in 1871. The mill and the two mill owning families were destroyed by a massive fire in 1895.A second mill was built near the railway line in 1911. In fact the railway from Orange opened up Parkes to markets beyond the district. It reached Molong in 1885 from Orange and Parkes in 1893. The line from Parkes was extended to Condobolin in 1898 and north to Peak Hill in 1914. The link across to Broken Hill (and Adelaide) via Condobolin was not completed until 1927. Parkes became a municipality in 1883 with its first mayor and the town was well established by the mid-1880s. The first Council Offices and library were erected in 1886.

 

The original Wesleyan/Union Methodist Church was erected in 1864 doubling as an early church school and then provisional government school from 1868. Compulsory education did not come about in NSW until 1880. The Currajong School in the Wesleyan Church closed in 1868 and another wooden school opened in 1872 until the Parkes Primary School was completed in 1875. It opened with 93 pupils and a few years later had 350 pupils! A new government school was built in 1933 and a high school established in 1941. The Sisters of Mercy built a convent school in Parkes in 1910 but the Sisters of St Joseph also had a two storey convent in Parkes. The Anglicans built a wooden church in 1875 but it burnt down in 1876. A parish hall was not built until 1889 and it was then used as a church until the new St George’s was completed in 1927. The Parkes Methodist Church was built in 1897 and the church hall added in 1913. At that time the original wooden Union/Wesleyan (1864) church was demolished to make room for the new church hall. The Presbyterians first met in the masonic Hall until they built a church around 1890. Their first church was started in 1916 and opened in 1919. The Catholics began masses in the early school in the 1870s until their church opened in 1889. This fine church was demolished in 1941 and replaced with a bigger Catholic Church in 1942. As a result of many German Lutherans moving from South Australia to Parkes a Lutheran congregation was established in 1892 but a church was not built until 1953. The Lutherans used various halls around the Parkes district for their services for around fifty years.

 

Some Historic Buildings in Parkes.

•The Royal Hotel. Built in 1881 by Mrs Fletcher whose husband established the first Royal hotel in 1871. Built with 20 guest rooms and staling for 23 horses. This is where Sir Henry Parkes used to stay when visiting the town. 217 Clarinda St. Clarinda St was named after Sir Henry Parkes wife.

•Methodist church hall. Built in 1913 in ochre red brick with buttresses and three thin spires in Gothic style. Ornate gable facing the street. Parkes Methodist Church built in 1897. It is an example of a Federation Gothic building in red brick with white stucco bandings and quoins.

•Parkes Post Office with the clock. The first Post Office was built in 1871 as a single storey structure. Rebuilt as a two storey structure in 1880 after the telegraph had reached Parkes in 1875.It has endured several major renovations since with rounded Art Deco style windows on the lower storey.

•The Courthouse in Currajong St. Earliest Courthouse was erected 1875.The current erected in 1896 and the architect was Walter Vernon. It has three layers of rooves up to a clerestory window apex.

•Parkes Convent Bed and Breakfast in Currajong St. Built in 1910 as the Catholic presbytery then it became the convent of the Sisters of St Joseph by 1918 as they ran their convent school. In 1923 it was remodelled and taken over by the Sisters of Mercy who ran the school and convent in it until 1986 but the convent was sold in 1983. 33 Currajong St.

•The Parkes Police Station was built earlier in 1872 at 2 Court St. Architect was Colonial Architects J Barnet. It is in a simple single storey style.

•Parkes Presbyterian Church. The first church was built between 1890 and 1893 when Reverend Smythe was the minister. The current tower church was built in 1919 at a cost of £3,000 and opened in May 1919. The 1890 church became the church hall. A new Memorial Hall was built in 1955.

•Anglican Church. An arts and crafts interwar years Gothic revival church. Built in 1926 at a cost of £14,000. It is one of the most significant buildings in Parkes architecturally as it has no arched Gothic windows but the mass and towers still give it a Gothic appearance. The architect was Louis Williams of Melbourne a devotee to the inter war Gothic style. It adjoins the parish hall 1889. North west end of the church added in 1955.

•Balmoral House. Built in the 1880s with proceeds from gold mining. It is a grand Italianate style two storey house with bay windows which were all the rage in the mid-1880s. Avoids symmetry and has fine cast iron lacework on the verandas. It was built by William Hazelhurst the towner of Phoenix gold mine one of the richest of the region. But alas Hazelhurst died almost penniless. In Hill St opposite the school.

•The NAB bank 230 Dalton St on Chamberlain Square. Red brick with classical features such as a balustrade around the roof line. A cube building with pilasters on the walls. Built in 1925 for the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. Heritage listed as an interwar neo classical building.

•Sir Henry Parkes’ statue in Chamberlain Square in front of the NAB Bank.

•The railway station dates from 1893. May St. Opposite is the Railway Hotel built in 1915, silos and good shed.

•During World War Two the Telstra building was the Small Arms factory an offshoot of the Arms factory of Lithgow.

 

From Clarinda Street walk up Court Street.

On the left is the Royal hotel, on the right is the Methodist church and church hall; and on next corner left is the Post Office and on the right is the Courthouse. Next to the Courthouse is the Convent B & B (1910). If you continue along Currajong Street you will see the Catholic Church on the next corner.

Continuing along Court Street on the next corner is the old Police Station and cells. On the northern corner is the Presbyterian Church. Turn left here into Hill Street. On the next corner on your left is the Anglican Church. Continue along Hill St and next on your right is the beautiful Balmoral House. Return to the main street- Clarinda St. If you go north of the Royal Hotel you will see the old NAB bank on the right on a corner.

 

A new batch of 4 Speeder Bikes. Hope you'll like them ;-)

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ALBANIA

 

Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems

 

Armando Lulaj

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Marco Scotini. Deputy Curator: Andris Brinkmanis. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

ANDORRA

 

Inner Landscapes

 

Roqué, Joan Xandri

 

Commissioner: Henry Périer. Deputy Commissioner: Joana Baygual, Sebastià Petit, Francesc Rodríguez

 

Curator: Paolo de Grandis, Josep M. Ubach. Venue: Spiazzi, Castello 3865

 

ANGOLA

 

On Ways of Travelling

 

António Ole, Binelde Hyrcan, Délio Jasse, Francisco Vidal, Nelo Teixeira

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture, Rita Guedes Tavares. Curator: António Ole. Deputy Curator: Antonia Gaeta. Venue: Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello - Palazzo Pisani, San Marco 2810

 

ARGENTINA

 

The Uprising of Form

 

Juan Carlos Diste´fano

 

Commissioner: Magdalena Faillace. Curator: Mari´a Teresa Constantin. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

 

ARMENIA, Republic of

 

Armenity / Haiyutioun

 

Haig Aivazian, Lebanon; Nigol Bezjian, Syria/USA; Anna Boghiguian Egypt/Canada; Hera Büyüktasçiyan, Turkey; Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Argentina/Germany; Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas, Iran/Palestine/USA; Mekhitar Garabedian, Belgium; Aikaterini Gegisian, Greece; Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy; Aram Jibilian, USA; Nina Katchadourian, USA/Finland; Melik Ohanian, France; Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Armenia/Italy; Rosana Palazyan, Brazil; Sarkis, Turkey/France; Hrair Sarkissian, Syria/UK

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia. Deputy Commissioner: Art for the World, Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro Island, Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Italy, Vartan Karapetian. Curator: Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg. Venue: Monastery and Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni

 

AUSTRALIA

 

Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time

 

Fiona Hall

 

Commissioner: Simon Mordant AM. Deputy Commissioner: Charles Green. Curator: Linda Michael. Scientific Committee: Simon Mordant AM, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Max Delany, Rachel Kent, Danie Mellor, Suhanya Raffel, Leigh Robb. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

AUSTRIA

 

Heimo Zobernig

 

Commissioner: Yilmaz Dziewior. Curator: Yilmaz Dziewior. Scientific Committee: Friends of the Venice Biennale. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

AZERBAIJAN, Republic of

 

Beyond the Line

 

Ashraf Murad, Javad Mirjavadov, Tofik Javadov, Rasim Babayev, Fazil Najafov, Huseyn Hagverdi, Shamil Najafzada

 

Commissioner: Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Curators: de Pury de Pury, Emin Mammadov. Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S.Stefano, San Marco 2949

 

Vita Vitale

 

Edward Burtynsky, Mircea Cantor, Loris Cecchini, Gordon Cheung, Khalil Chishtee, Tony Cragg, Laura Ford, Noemie Goudal, Siobhán Hapaska, Paul Huxley, IDEA laboratory and Leyla Aliyeva, Chris Jordan with Rebecca Clark and Helena S.Eitel, Tania Kovats, Aida Mahmudova, Sayyora Muin, Jacco Olivier, Julian Opie, Julian Perry, Mike Perry, Bas Princen, Stephanie Quayle, Ugo Rondinone, Graham Stevens, Diana Thater, Andy Warhol, Bill Woodrow, Erwin Wurm, Rose Wylie

 

Commissioner: Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Curators: Artwise: Susie Allen, Laura Culpan, Dea Vanagan. Venue: Ca’ Garzoni, San Marco 3416

 

BELARUS, Republic of

 

War Witness Archive

 

Konstantin Selikhanov

 

Commissioner: Natallia Sharanhovich. Deputy Commissioners: Alena Vasileuskaya, Kamilia Yanushkevich. Curators: Aleksei Shinkarenko, Olga Rybchinskaya. Scientific Committee: Dmitry Korol, Daria Amelkovich, Julia Kondratyuk, Sergei Jeihala, Sheena Macfarlane, Yuliya Heisik, Hanna Samarskaya, Taras Kaliahin, Aliaksandr Stasevich. Venue: Riva San Biagio, Castello 2145

 

BELGIUM

 

Personnes et les autres

 

Vincent Meessen and Guests, Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Sammy Baloji, James Beckett, Elisabetta Benassi, Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin, Tamar Guimara~es & Kasper Akhøj, Maryam Jafri, Adam Pendleton

 

Commissioner: Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Wallonia-Brussels International. Curator: Katerina Gregos. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

COSTA RICA

 

"Costa Rica, Paese di pace, invita a un linguaggio universale d'intesa tra i popoli".

 

Andrea Prandi, Beatrice Gallori, Beth Parin, Biagio Schembari, Carla Castaldo, Celestina Avanzini, Cesare Berlingeri, Erminio Tansini, Fabio Capitanio, Fausto Beretti, Giovan Battista Pedrazzini, Giovanni Lamberti, Giovanni Tenga, Iana Zanoskar, Jim Prescott, Leonardo Beccegato, Liliana Scocco, Lucia Bolzano, Marcela Vicuna, Marco Bellagamba, Marco Lodola, Maria Gioia dell’Aglio, Mario Bernardinello, Massimo Meucci, Nacha Piattini, Omar Ronda, Renzo Eusebi, Tita Patti, Romina Power, Rubens Fogacci, Silvio di Pietro, Stefano Sichel, Tino Stefanoni, Ufemia Ritz, Ugo Borlenghi, Umberto Mariani, Venere Chillemi, Jacqueline Gallicot Madar, Massimo Onnis, Fedora Spinelli

 

Commissioner: Ileana Ordonez Chacon. Curator: Gregorio Rossi. Venue: Palazzo Bollani

 

CROATIA

 

Studies on Shivering: The Third Degree

 

Damir Ocko

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Marc Bembekoff. Venue: Palazzo Pisani, S. Marina

 

CUBA

 

El artista entre la individualidad y el contexto

 

Lida Abdul, Celia-Yunior, Grethell Rasúa, Giuseppe Stampone, LinYilin, Luis Edgardo Gómez Armenteros, Olga Chernysheva, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo

 

Commissioner: Miria Vicini. Curators: Jorge Fernández Torres, Giacomo Zaza. Venue: San Servolo Island

 

CYPRUS, Republic of

 

Two Days After Forever

 

Christodoulos Panayiotou

 

Commissioner: Louli Michaelidou. Deputy Commissioner: Angela Skordi. Curator: Omar Kholeif. Deputy Curator: Daniella Rose King. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, Sestiere San Marco 3079

 

CZECH Republic and SLOVAK Republic

 

Apotheosis

 

Jirí David

 

Commissioner: Adam Budak. Deputy Commissioner: Barbara Holomkova. Curator: Katarina Rusnakova. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

ECUADOR

 

Gold Water: Apocalyptic Black Mirrors

 

Maria Veronica Leon Veintemilla in collaboration with Lucia Vallarino Peet

 

Commissioner: Andrea Gonzàlez Sanchez. Deputy Commissioner: PDG Arte Communications. Curator: Ileana Cornea. Deputy Curator: Maria Veronica Leon Veintemilla. Venue: Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701

 

ESTONIA

 

NSFW. From the Abyss of History

 

Jaanus Samma

 

Commissioner: Maria Arusoo. Curator: Eugenio Viola. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, campo San Samuele, San Marco 3199

 

EGYPT

 

CAN YOU SEE

 

Ahmed Abdel Fatah, Gamal Elkheshen, Maher Dawoud

 

Commissioner: Hany Al Ashkar. Curator: Ministry of Culture. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

FINLAND (Pavilion Alvar Aalto)

 

Hours, Years, Aeons

 

IC-98

 

Commissioner: Frame Visual Art Finland, Raija Koli. Curator: Taru Elfving. Deputy Curator: Anna Virtanen. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

FRANCE

 

revolutions

 

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

 

Commissioner: Institut français, with Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Curator: Emma Lavigne. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

GEORGIA

 

Crawling Border

 

Rusudan Gobejishvili Khizanishvili, Irakli Bluishvili, Dimitri Chikvaidze, Joseph Sabia

 

Commissioner: Ana Riaboshenko. Curator: Nia Mgaloblishvili. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

 

GERMANY

 

Fabrik

 

Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony

 

Commissioner: ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office. Deputy Commissioner: Elke aus dem Moore, Nina Hülsmeier. Curator: Florian Ebner. Deputy Curator: Tanja Milewsky, Ilina Koralova. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

GREAT BRITAIN

 

Sarah Lucas

 

Commissioner: Emma Dexter. Curator: Richard Riley. Deputy Curator: Katrina Schwarz. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

GRENADA *

 

Present Nearness

 

Oliver Benoit, Maria McClafferty, Asher Mains, Francesco Bosso and Carmine Ciccarini, Guiseppe Linardi

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Deputy Commissioner: Susan Mains. Curator: Susan Mains. Deputy Curator: Francesco Elisei. Venue: Opera don Orione Artigianelli, Sala Tiziano, Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Gesuati, Dorsoduro 919

 

GREECE

 

Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKÁ.

 

Maria Papadimitriou

 

Commissioner: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs. Curator: Gabi Scardi. Deputy Curator: Alexios Papazacharias. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

BRAZIL

 

So much that it doesn't fit here

 

Antonio Manuel, André Komatsu, Berna Reale

 

Commissioner: Luis Terepins. Curator: Luiz Camillo Osorio. Deputy Curator: Cauê Alves. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

CANADA

 

Canadassimo

 

BGL

 

Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada, Marc Mayer. Deputy Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada, Yves Théoret. Curator: Marie Fraser. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

CHILE

 

Poéticas de la disidencia | Poetics of dissent: Paz Errázuriz - Lotty Rosenfeld

 

Paz Errázuriz, Lotty Rosenfeld

 

Commissioner: Antonio Arèvalo. Deputy Commissioner: Juan Pablo Vergara Undurraga. Curator: Nelly Richard. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie

 

CHINA, People’s Republic of

 

Other Future

 

LIU Jiakun, LU Yang, TAN Dun, WEN Hui/Living Dance Studio, WU Wenguang/Caochangdi Work Station

 

Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group, CAEG. Deputy Commissioners: Zhang Yu, Yan Dong. Curator: Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. Scientific Committee: Fan Di’an, Zhang Zikang, Zhu Di, Gao Shiming, Zhu Qingsheng, Pu Tong, Shang Hui. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Giardino delle Vergini

 

GUATEMALA

 

Sweet Death

 

Emma Anticoli Borza, Sabrina Bertolelli, Mariadolores Castellanos, Max Leiva, Pier Domenico Magri, Adriana Montalto, Elmar Rojas (Elmar René Rojas Azurdia), Paolo Schmidlin, Mónica Serra, Elsie Wunderlich, Collettivo La Grande Bouffe

 

Commissioner: Daniele Radini Tedeschi. Curators: Stefania Pieralice, Carlo Marraffa, Elsie Wunderlich. Deputy Curators: Luciano Carini, Simone Pieralice. Venue: Officina delle Zattere, Dorsoduro 947, Fondamenta Nani

 

HOLY SEE

 

Commissioner: Em.mo Card. Gianfranco Ravasi, Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

 

HUNGARY

 

Sustainable Identities

 

Szilárd Cseke

 

Commissioner: Monika Balatoni. Deputy Commissioner: István Puskás, Sándor Fodor, Anna Karády. Curator: Kinga German. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

 

ICELAND

 

Christoph Büchel

 

Commissioner: Björg Stefánsdóttir. Curator: Nína Magnúsdóttir. Venue: to be confirmed

 

INDONESIA, Republic of

 

Komodo Voyage

 

Heri Dono

 

Commissioner: Sapta Nirwandar. Deputy Commissioner: Soedarmadji JH Damais. Curator: Carla Bianpoen, Restu Imansari Kusumaningrum. Scientific Committee: Franco Laera, Asmudjo Jono Irianto, Watie Moerany, Elisabetta di Mambro. Venue: Venue: Arsenale

 

IRAN

 

Iranian Highlights

 

Samira Alikhanzaradeh, Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar, Jamshid Bayrami, Mohammed Ehsai

 

The Great Game

 

Lida Abdul, Bani Abidi, Adel Abidin, Amin Agheai, Ghodratollah Agheli, Shahriar Ahmadi, Parastou Ahovan, Farhad Ahrarnia, Rashad Alakbarov, Nazgol Ansarinia, Reza Aramesh, Alireza Astaneh, Sonia Balassanian, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Moakhar Wafaa Bilal, Mehdi Farhadian, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Shadi Ghadirian, Babak Golkar, Shilpa Gupta, Ghasem Hajizadeh, Shamsia Hassani, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sitara Ibrahimova, Pouran Jinchi, Amar Kanwar, Babak Kazemi, Ryas Komu, Ahmad Morshedloo, Farhad Moshiri, Mehrdad Mohebali, Huma Mulji, Azad Nanakeli, Jamal Penjweny, Imran Qureshi, Sara Rahbar, Rashid Rana, T.V. Santhosh, Walid Siti, Mohsen Taasha Wahidi, Mitra Tabrizian, Parviz Tanavoli, Newsha Tavakolian, Sadegh Tirafkan, Hema Upadhyay, Saira Wasim

 

Commissioner: Majid Mollanooruzi. Deputy Commissioners: Marco Meneguzzo, Mazdak Faiznia. Curators: Marco Meneguzzo, Mazdak Faiznia. Venue: Calle San Giovanni 1074/B, Cannaregio

 

IRAQ

 

Commissioner: Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq (RUYA). Deputy Commissioner: Nuova Icona - Associazione Culturale per le Arti. Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren. Venue: Ca' Dandolo, San Polo 2879

 

IRELAND

 

Adventure: Capital

 

Sean Lynch

 

Commissioner: Mike Fitzpatrick. Curator: Woodrow Kernohan. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie

 

ISRAEL

 

Tsibi Geva | Archeology of the Present

 

Tsibi Geva

 

Commissioner: Arad Turgem, Michael Gov. Curator: Hadas Maor. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

ITALY

 

Ministero dei Beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo - Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura Contemporanee e Periferie Urbane. Commissioner: Federica Galloni. Curator: Vincenzo Trione. Venue: Padiglione Italia, Tese delle Vergini at Arsenale

   

JAPAN

 

The Key in the Hand

 

Chiharu Shiota

 

Commissioner: The Japan Foundation. Deputy Commissioner: Yukihiro Ohira, Manako Kawata and Haruka Nakajima. Curator: Hitoshi Nakano. Venue : Pavilion at Giardini

   

KENYA

 

Creating Identities

 

Yvonne Apiyo Braendle-Amolo, Qin Feng, Shi Jinsong, Armando Tanzini, Li Zhanyang, Lan Zheng Hui, Li Gang, Double Fly Art Center

 

Commissioner: Paola Poponi. Curator: Sandro Orlandi Stagl. Deputy Curator: Ding Xuefeng. Venue: San Servolo Island

   

KOREA, Republic of

 

The Ways of Folding Space & Flying

 

MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho

 

Commissioner: Sook-Kyung Lee. Curator: Sook-Kyung Lee. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

KOSOVO, Republic of

 

Speculating on the blue

 

Flaka Haliti

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen. Deputy Curator: Katharina Schendl. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie

   

LATVIA

 

Armpit

 

Katrina Neiburga, Andris Eglitis

 

Commissioner: Solvita Krese (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art). Deputy Commissioner: Kitija Vasiljeva. Curator: Kaspars Vanags. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

   

LITHUANIA

 

Museum

 

Dainius Liškevicius

 

Commissioner: Vytautas Michelkevicius. Deputy Commissioner: Rasa Antanaviciute. Curator: Vytautas Michelkevicius. Venue: Palazzo Zenobio, Fondamenta del Soccorso 2569, Dorsoduro

   

LUXEMBOURG, Grand Duchy of

 

Paradiso Lussemburgo

 

Filip Markiewicz

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Deputy Commissioner: MUDAM Luxembourg. Curator: Paul Ardenne. Venue: Cà Del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052

   

MACEDONIA, Former Yugoslavian Republic of

 

We are all in this alone

 

Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski

 

Commissioner: Maja Nedelkoska Brzanova, National Gallery of Macedonia. Deputy Commissioner: Olivija Stoilkova. Curator: Basak Senova. Deputy Curator: Maja Cankulovska Mihajlovska. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Sale d’Armi

   

MAURITIUS *

 

From One Citizen You Gather an Idea

 

Sultana Haukim, Nirmal Hurry, Alix Le Juge, Olga Jürgenson, Helge Leiberg, Krishna Luchoomun, Neermala Luckeenarain, Kavinash Thomoo, Bik Van Der Pol, Laure Prouvost, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Römer + Römer

 

Commissioner: pARTage. Curators: Alfredo Cramerotti, Olga Jürgenson. Venue: Palazzo Flangini - Canareggio 252

   

MEXICO

 

Possesing Nature

 

Tania Candiani, Luis Felipe Ortega

 

Commissioner: Tomaso Radaelli. Deputy Commissioner: Magdalena Zavala Bonachea. Curator: Karla Jasso. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

   

MONGOLIA *

 

Other Home

 

Enkhbold Togmidshiirev, Unen Enkh

 

Commissioner: Gantuya Badamgarav, MCASA. Curator: Uranchimeg Tsultemin. Scientific Committee: David A Ross, Boldbaatar Chultemin. Venue: European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora

   

MONTENEGRO

 

,,Ti ricordi Sjecaš li se You Remember "

 

Aleksandar Duravcevic

 

Commissioner/Curator: Anastazija Miranovic. Deputy Commissioner: Danica Bogojevic. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero (piano terra), San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero

   

MOZAMBIQUE, Republic of *

 

Theme: Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Mozambique

 

Mozambique Artists

 

Commissioner: Joel Matias Libombo. Deputy Commissioner: Gilberto Paulino Cossa. Curator: Comissariado-Geral para a Expo Milano 2015. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

   

NETHERLANDS, The

 

herman de vries - to be all ways to be

 

herman de vries

 

Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund. Curators: Colin Huizing, Cees de Boer. Venue: Pavilion ar Giardini

   

NEW ZEALAND

 

Secret Power

 

Simon Denny

 

Commissioner: Heather Galbraith. Curator: Robert Leonard. Venue: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Marco Polo Airport

   

NORDIC PAVILION (NORWAY)

 

Camille Norment

 

Commissioner: OCA, Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Curator: Katya García-Antón. Deputy Curator: Antonio Cataldo. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

PERU

 

Misplaced Ruins

 

Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves

 

Commissioner: Armando Andrade de Lucio. Curator: Max Hernández-Calvo. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

   

PHILIPPINES

 

Tie a String Around the World

 

Manuel Conde, Carlos Francisco, Manny Montelibano, Jose Tence Ruiz

 

Commissioner: National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Felipe M. de Leon Jr. Curator: Patrick D. Flores. Venue: European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora

   

POLAND

 

Halka/Haiti. 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W

 

C.T. Jasper, Joanna Malinowska

 

Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska. Deputy Commissioner: Joanna Wasko. Curator: Magdalena Moskalewicz. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

PORTUGAL

 

I Will Be Your Mirror / poems and problems

 

João Louro

 

Commissioner/Curator: María de Corral. Venue: Palazzo Loredan, campo S. Stefano

   

ROMANIA

 

Adrian Ghenie: Darwin’s Room

 

Adrian Ghenie

 

Commissioner: Monica Morariu. Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian. Curator: Mihai Pop. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

Inventing the Truth. On Fiction and Reality

 

Michele Bressan, Carmen Dobre-Hametner, Alex Mirutziu, Lea Rasovszky, Stefan Sava, Larisa Sitar

 

Commissioner: Monica Morariu. Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian. Curator: Diana Marincu. Deputy Curators: Ephemair Association (Suzana Dan and Silvia Rogozea). Venue: New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice

   

RUSSIA

 

The Green Pavilion

 

Irina Nakhova

 

Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva. Curator: Margarita Tupitsyn. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

SERBIA

 

United Dead Nations

 

Ivan Grubanov

 

Commissioner: Lidija Merenik. Deputy Commissioner: Ana Bogdanovic. Curator: Lidija Merenik. Deputy Curator: Ana Bogdanovic. Scientific Committee: Jovan Despotovic. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

SAN MARINO

 

Repubblica di San Marino “ Friendship Project “ China

 

Xu De Qi, Liu Dawei, Liu Ruo Wang, Ma Yuan, Li Lei, Zhang Hong Mei, Eleonora Mazza, Giuliano Giulianelli, Giancarlo Frisoni, Tony Margiotta, Elisa Monaldi, Valentina Pazzini

 

Commissioner: Istituti Culturali della Repubblica di San Marino. Curator: Vincenzo Sanfo. Venue: TBC

   

SEYCHELLES, Republic of *

 

A Clockwork Sunset

 

George Camille, Léon Wilma Loïs Radegonde

 

Commissioner: Seychelles Art Projects Foundation. Curators: Sarah J. McDonald, Victor Schaub Wong. Venue: European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora

   

SINGAPORE

 

Sea State

 

Charles Lim Yi Yong

 

Commissioner: Paul Tan, National Arts Council, Singapore. Curator: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. Scientific Committee: Eugene Tan, Kathy Lai, Ahmad Bin Mashadi, June Yap, Emi Eu, Susie Lingham, Charles Merewether, Randy Chan. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

   

SLOVENIA, Republic of

 

UTTER / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope

 

JAŠA

 

Commissioner: Simona Vidmar. Deputy Commissioner: Jure Kirbiš. Curators: Michele Drascek and Aurora Fonda. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie

   

SPAIN

 

Los Sujetos (The Subjects)

 

Pepo Salazar, Cabello/Carceller, Francesc Ruiz, + Salvador Dalí

 

Commissioner: Ministerio Asuntos Exteriores. Gobierno de España. Curator: Marti Manen. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

 

Origini della civiltà

 

Narine Ali, Ehsan Alar, Felipe Cardeña, Fouad Dahdouh, Aldo Damioli, Svitlana Grebenyuk, Mauro Reggio, Liu Shuishi, Nass ouh Zaghlouleh, Andrea Zucchi, Helidon Xhixha

 

Commissioner: Christian Maretti. Curator: Duccio Trombadori. Venue: Redentore – Giudecca, San Servolo Island

   

SWEDEN

 

Excavation of the Image: Imprint, Shadow, Spectre, Thought

 

Lina Selander

 

Commissioner: Ann-Sofi Noring. Curator: Lena Essling. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

   

SWITZERLAND

 

Our Product

 

Pamela Rosenkranz

 

Commissioner: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Sandi Paucic and Marianne Burki. Deputy-Commissioner: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Rachele Giudici Legittimo. Curator: Susanne Pfeffer. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

THAILAND

 

Earth, Air, Fire & Water

 

Kamol Tassananchalee

 

Commissioner: Chai Nakhonchai, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture. Curator: Richard David Garst. Deputy Curator: Pongdej Chaiyakut. Venue: Paradiso Gallerie, Giardini della Biennale, Castello 1260

   

TURKEY

 

Respiro

 

Sarkis

 

Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. Curator: Defne Ayas. Deputy Curator: Ozge Ersoy. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi

   

TUVALU

 

Crossing the Tide

 

Vincent J.F. Huang

 

Commissioner: Taukelina Finikaso. Deputy Commissioner: Temate Melitiana. Curator: Thomas J. Berghuis. Scientific Committee: Andrea Bonifacio. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

   

UKRAINE

 

Hope!

 

Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Mykola Ridnyi & SerhiyZhadan, Anna Zvyagintseva, Open Group, Artem Volokitin

 

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Björn Geldhof. Venue: Riva dei Sette Martiri

   

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

 

1980 – Today: Exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates

 

Abdullah Al Saadi, Abdul Qader Al Rais, Abdulraheem Salim, Abdulrahman Zainal, Ahmed Al Ansari, Ahmed Sharif, Hassan Sharif, Mohamed Yousif, Mohammed Abdullah Bulhiah, Mohammed Al Qassab, Mohammed Kazem, Moosa Al Halyan, Najat Meky, Obaid Suroor, Salem Jawhar

 

Commissioner: Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d'Armi

   

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word

 

Joan Jonas

 

Commissioner: Paul C. Ha. Deputy Commissioner: MIT List Visual Arts Center. Curators: Ute Meta Bauer, Paul C. Ha. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

URUGUAY

 

Global Myopia II (Pencil & Paper)

 

Marco Maggi

 

Commissioner: Ricardo Pascale. Curator: Patricia Bentancour. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

VENEZUELA, Bolivarian Republic of

 

Te doy mi palabra (I give you my word)

 

Argelia Bravo, Félix Molina (Flix)

 

Commissioner: Oscar Sotillo Meneses. Deputy Commissioner: Reinaldo Landaeta Díaz. Curator: Oscar Sotillo Meneses. Deputy Curator: Morella Jurado. Scientific Committee: Carlos Pou Ruan. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

   

ZIMBABWE, Republic of

 

Pixels of Ubuntu/Unhu: - Exploring the social and cultural identities of the 21st century.

 

Chikonzero Chazunguza, Masimba Hwati, Gareth Nyandoro

 

Commissioner: Doreen Sibanda. Curator: Raphael Chikukwa. Deputy Curator: Tafadzwa Gwetai. Scientific Committee: Saki Mafundikwa, Biggie Samwanda, Fabian Kangai, Reverend Paul Damasane, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Stephen Garan'anga, Dominic Benhura. Venue: Santa Maria della Pieta

   

ITALO-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE

 

Voces Indígenas

 

Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal. Curator: Alfons Hug. Deputy Curator: Alberto Saraiva. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

 

ARGENTINA

 

Sofia Medici and Laura Kalauz

 

PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA

 

Sonia Falcone and José Laura Yapita

 

BRAZIL

 

Adriana Barreto

 

Paulo Nazareth

 

CHILE

 

Rainer Krause

 

COLOMBIA

 

León David Cobo,

 

María Cristina Rincón and Claudia Rodríguez

 

COSTA RICA

 

Priscilla Monge

 

ECUADOR

 

Fabiano Kueva

 

EL SALVADOR

 

Mauricio Kabistan

 

GUATEMALA

 

Sandra Monterroso

 

HAITI

 

Barbara Prézeau Stephenson

 

HONDURAS

 

Leonardo González

 

PANAMA

 

Humberto Vélez

 

NICARAGUA

 

Raúl Quintanilla

 

PARAGUAY

 

Erika Meza

 

Javier López

 

PERU

 

José Huamán Turpo

 

URUGUAY

 

Gustavo Tabares

   

Ellen Slegers

     

001 Inverso Mundus. AES+F

 

Magazzino del Sale n. 5, Dorsoduro, 265 (Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Saloni); Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro, 960

 

May 9th – October 31st

 

Organization: VITRARIA Glass + A Museum

 

www.vitraria.com

 

www.inversomundus.com

   

Catalonia in Venice: Singularity

 

Cantieri Navali, Castello, 40 (Calle Quintavalle)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Institut Ramon Llull

 

www.llull.cat

 

venezia2015.llull.cat

   

Conversion. Recycle Group

 

Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, Castello (Campo Sant’Antonin)

 

May 6th - October 31st

 

Organization: Moscow Museum of Modern Art

 

www.mmoma.ru/

   

Dansaekhwa

 

Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Dorsoduro, 874 (Accademia)

 

May 7th – August 15th

 

Organization: The Boghossian Foundation

 

www.villaempain.com

   

Dispossession

 

Palazzo Donà Brusa, Campo San Polo, 2177

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016

 

wroclaw2016.pl/biennale/

   

EM15 presents Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf

 

Arsenale Docks, Castello, 40A, 40B, 41C

 

May 6th - July 26th

 

Organization: EM15

 

www.em15venice.co.uk

   

Eredità e Sperimentazione

 

Grand Hotel Hungaria & Ausonia, Viale Santa Maria Elisabetta, 28, Lido di Venezia

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Istituto Nazionale di BioArchitettura - Sezione di Padova

 

www.bioarchitettura.it

   

Frontiers Reimagined

 

Palazzo Grimani, Castello, 4858 (Ramo Grimani)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Tagore Foundation International; Polo museale del Veneto

 

www.frontiersreimagined.org

   

Glasstress 2015 Gotika

 

Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, San Marco, 2847 (Campo Santo Stefano); Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Dorsoduro, 919 (Zattere); Fondazione Berengo, Campiello della Pescheria, 15, Murano;

 

May 9th — November 22nd

 

Organization: The State Hermitage Museum

 

www.hermitagemuseum.org

   

Graham Fagen: Scotland + Venice 2015

 

Palazzo Fontana, Cannaregio, 3829 (Strada Nova)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Scotland + Venice

 

www.scotlandandvenice.com

   

Grisha Bruskin. An Archaeologist’s Collection

 

Former Chiesa di Santa Caterina, Cannaregio, 4941-4942

 

May 6th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

 

www.unive.it/csar

   

Helen Sear, ... The Rest Is Smoke

 

Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Castello, 450 (Fondamenta San Gioacchin)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Cymru yn Fenis/Wales in Venice

 

www.walesinvenice.org.uk

   

Highway to Hell

 

Palazzo Michiel, Cannaregio, 4391/A (Strada Nova)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Hubei Museum of Art

 

www.hbmoa.com

   

Humanistic Nature and Society (Shan-Shui) – An Insight into the Future

 

Palazzo Faccanon, San Marco, 5016 (Mercerie)

 

May 7th – August 4th

 

Organization: Shanghai Himalayas Museum

 

www.himalayasmuseum.org

   

In the Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from the Arab World & South Asia

 

Dorsoduro, 417 (Zattere)

 

May 6th - November 15th

 

Organization: ArsCulture

 

www.arsculture.org/

 

www.eyeofthunderstorm.com

   

Italia Docet | Laboratorium- Artists, Participants, Testimonials and Activated Spectators

 

Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto, San Marco, 2504 (Fondamenta Duodo o Barbarigo)

 

May 9th – June 30th; September 11st – October 31st

 

Organization: Italian Art Motherboard Foundation (i-AM Foundation)

 

www.i-amfoundation.org

 

www.venicebiennale-italiadocet.org

   

Jaume Plensa: Together

 

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore

 

May 6th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore Benedicti Claustra Onlus

 

www.praglia.it

   

Jenny Holzer "War Paintings"

 

Museo Correr, San Marco, 52 (Piazza San Marco)

 

May 6th – November 22nd

 

Organization: The Written Art Foundation; Museo Correr, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

 

www.writtenartfoundation.com

 

correr.visitmuve.it

   

Jump into the Unknown

 

Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore, Dorsoduro, 1261-1262

 

May 9th – June 18th

 

Organization: Nine Dragon Heads

 

9dh-venice.com

   

Learn from Masters

 

Palazzo Bembo, San Marco, 4793 (Riva del Carbon)

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Pan Tianshou Foundation

 

pantianshou.caa.edu.cn/foundation_en

   

My East is Your West

 

Palazzo Benzon, San Marco, 3927

 

May 6th – October 31st

 

Organization: The Gujral Foundation

 

www.gujralfoundation.org

       

Ornamentalism. The Purvitis Prize

 

Arsenale Nord, Tesa 99

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: The Secretariat of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2015

 

www.purvisabalva.lv/en/ornamentalism

   

Path and Adventure

 

Arsenale, Castello, 2126/A (Campo della Tana)

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau; The Macao Museum of Art; The Cultural Affairs Bureau

 

www.iacm.gov.mo

 

www.mam.gov.mo

 

www.icm.gov.mo

   

Patricia Cronin: Shrine for Girls, Venice

 

Chiesa di San Gallo, San Marco, 1103 (Campo San Gallo)

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects

 

curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org

   

Roberto Sebastian Matta. Sculture

 

Giardino di Palazzo Soranzo Cappello, Soprintendenza BAP per le Province di Venezia, Belluno, Padova e Treviso, Santa Croce, 770 (Fondamenta Rio Marin)

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Fondazione Echaurren Salaris

 

www.fondazioneechaurrensalaris.it

 

www.maggioregam.com/56Biennale_Matta

   

Salon Suisse: S.O.S. Dada - The World Is A Mess

 

Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Dorsoduro, 810 (Campo Sant'Agnese)

 

May 9th; June 4th - 6th; September 10th - 12th; October 15th - 17th; November 19th – 21st

 

Organization: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

 

www.prohelvetia.ch

 

www.biennials.ch

   

Sean Scully: Land Sea

 

Palazzo Falier, San Marco, 2906

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Fondazione Volume!

 

www.fondazionevolume.com

   

Sepphoris. Alessandro Valeri

 

Molino Stucky, interior atrium, Giudecca, 812

 

May 9th – November 22nd

 

Organization: Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Narni(TR); a Sidereal Space of Art; Satellite Berlin

 

www.sepphorisproject.org

   

Tesla Revisited

 

Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro, 960

 

May 9th – October 18th

 

Organization: VITRARIA Glass + A Museum

 

www.vitraria.com/

   

The Bridges of Graffiti

 

Arterminal c/o Terminal San Basilio, Dorsoduro (Fondamenta Zattere al Ponte Lungo)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Associazione Culturale Inossidabile

 

www.inossidabileac.com

   

The Dialogue of Fire. Ceramic and Glass Masters from Barcelona to Venice

 

Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, San Polo, 2774

 

May 6th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Fundaciò Artigas; ArsCulture

 

www.fundacio-artigas.com/

 

www.arsculture.org/

 

www.dialogueoffire.org

   

The Question of Beings

 

Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello, 3701

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MoCA, Taipei)

 

www.mocataipei.org.tw

   

The Revenge of the Common Place

 

Università Ca' Foscari, Ca' Bernardo, Dorsoduro, 3199 (Calle Bernardo)

 

May 9th – September 30th

 

Organization: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University Brussels-VUB)

 

www.vub.ac.be/

   

The Silver Lining. Contemporary Art from Liechtenstein and other Microstates

 

Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Dorsoduro, 810 (Campo Sant'Agnese)

 

October 24th – November 1st

 

Organization: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

 

www.kunstmuseum.li

 

www.silverlining.li

   

The Sound of Creation. Paintings + Music by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno

 

Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Palazzo Pisani, San Marco, 2810 (Campo Santo Stefano)

 

May 7th - November 22nd

 

Organization: ArsCulture

 

www.arsculture.org/

   

The Union of Fire and Water

 

Palazzo Barbaro, San Marco, 2840

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: YARAT Contemporary Art Organisation

 

www.yarat.az

 

www.bakuvenice2015.com

   

Thirty Light Years - Theatre of Chinese Art

 

Palazzo Rossini, San Marco, 4013 (Campo Manin)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: GAC Global Art Center Foundation; The Guangdong Museum of Art

 

www.globalartcenter.org

 

www.gdmoa.org

   

Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, Hong Kong in Venice

 

Arsenale, Castello, 2126 (Campo della Tana)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: M+, West Kowloon Cultural District; Hong Kong Arts Development Council

 

www.westkowloon.hk/en/mplus

 

www.hkadc.org.hk

 

www.venicebiennale.hk

   

Under the Surface, Newfoundland and Labrador at Venice

 

Galleria Ca' Rezzonico, Dorsoduro, 2793

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Terra Nova Art Foundation

 

tnaf.ca

   

Ursula von Rydingsvard

 

Giardino della Marinaressa, Castello (Riva dei Sette Martiri)

 

May 6th - November 22nd

 

Organization:Yorkshire Sculpture Park

 

www.ysp.co.uk

   

We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles

 

Magazzino del Sale n. 3, Dorsoduro, 264 (Zattere)

 

May 7th - November 22nd

 

Organization: bardoLA

 

www.bardoLA.org

   

Wu Tien-Chang: Never Say Goodbye

 

Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello, 4209 (San Marco)

 

May 9th - November 22nd

 

Organization: Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan

 

www.tfam.museum

  

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of 2,511 square kilometers (970 mi2), while the urban area covers 5,891 square kilometers (2,275 mi2), and the metropolitan area covers over 26,000 square kilometers (10,000 mi2). Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent.

 

First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lands in the 15th century and became the center of a unified state. Following the proclamation of the Tsardom of Russia in 1547, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of its history. During the reign of Peter the Great, the Russian capital was moved to the newly founded city of Saint Petersburg in 1712, leading to a decline in Moscow's importance throughout the imperial period. Following the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Russian SFSR, the capital was moved back to Moscow in 1918. The city later became the political center of the Soviet Union and experienced significant population growth throughout the Soviet period. In the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Moscow remained the capital city of the newly reconstituted Russian Federation and has experienced continued growth.

 

The northernmost and coldest megacity in the world, Moscow is governed as a federal city, where it serves as the political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe. Moscow has one of the world's largest urban economies. Moscow has the second-highest number of billionaires of any city (tied with Hong Kong). The Moscow International Business Center is one of the largest financial centers in the world and features the majority of Europe's tallest skyscrapers. Moscow was the host city of the 1980 Summer Olympics and one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

 

The city contains several UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is known for its display of Russian architecture, particularly in areas such as Red Square and buildings such as Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin, the latter of which is the seat of power of the Government of Russia. Moscow is home to Russian companies in different industries and is served by a comprehensive transit network, which includes four international airports, ten railway terminals, a tram system, a monorail system, and the Moscow Metro, which is the busiest metro system in Europe and one of the largest rapid transit systems in the world. The city has over 40 percent of its territory covered by greenery, making it one of the greenest cities in the world.

Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia, straddling the Voronezh River 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising to 1,057,681 in the 2021 Census, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.

Hero City: Voronezh.

From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development. On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people. Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union.

PHLUG SPACETEMBER

  

Orbital frame(not orbital frame cuz its not a mech in outerspace)

  

LT - 495 Taurus is the general purpose mass produce combat suit design by lift tech for the atlas federation space force. purposely build for outer space combat and can be equip with multiple weapon systems for any given combat situations

FEDERATION vs SECESSIONIST ALLEGIANCE battle war custom moc lego3130starwars

A soldier poses with the assortment of weapons commonly issued to Federation troops.

 

Although not issued the latest high-tech gear, to say that Federation soldier are outmatched would be far from the truth. Firm believers in the principle of 'If if isn't broke, don't fix it.", the weapons a Federation soldier carries are battle-proven and reliable. Much of the gear also has been extensively modified. For example, the MK. 9 plate carrier appears to be old fashioned, as it still uses the PALS system. However, on the inside the vest is outfitted with the Gen. 4 ceramic/composite plates, that are lighter than older versions and able to stop larger rounds of ammunition.

 

Photo WILL be replaced with a better one tomorrow.

epa07557232 Russian female military servicemen march during the Victory Day parade on Red square in Moscow, Russia, 09 May 2019. Russia marks on 09 May the 74th anniversary of the victory in the World War II over Nazi Germany and its allies. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in the war. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV

This monochrome image looking along Hickson Street, features an excellent example of the Federation Warehouse style with distinctive Romanesque and Art Nouveau detailing. It was designed by a very prominent Federation Period architect, Walter Liberty Vernon, who was the first NSW Government Architect.

 

Built originally in 1902 as a single-storey sandstone electrical power station, it is today a six-storey brick building with a detached 61m-high chimney stack, which has been recessed into the side of the rectangular plan of the building. It has a combination of sandstone, brick and rendered facades. Considerable bedrock had to be excavated from the former quarry site which had supplied the sandstone used to construct most of the early buildings in The Rocks. The George Street entrance is approximately three storeys above the Hickson Road entrance.

 

The original plans of the George Street Electric Light Power Station building submitted by Walter Liberty Vernon was for a six-level structure structure similar to the one we see today. The plans were down-sized first to two storeys, then a single storey building, which was the plan finally adopted.

 

The power station was built to supply power to the 1,000 dwellings in the Rocks/Millers Point area after the bubonic plague outbreak in 1900. Demand quickly outstripped supply and the power station was grossly inadequate. Furthermore, debate had been raging as to whether direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) should be adopted as the world standard. In consequence of the leaning towards AC, a decision was made during its construction to change from DC to AC and the new station was not big enough to house the new equipment. Consequently, no machinery was ever installed, the chimney has never been used, the workshops were never completed and the shell was left roofless.

 

In June 1908, Vernon was asked to submit plans to convert the building into a mining museum and chemical laboratory. He reverted to his original plans, and recommended the addition of three extra floors similar in design to the large Federation woolstores and warehouses that were being built around Darling Harbour at the time. Vernon incorporated sandstone string courses into the dark red brickwork of the extensions with an attic level behind Romanesque style parapets and gabled roofs. - details from visitsydneyaustralia.com.au.

 

The building was erected on land originally occupied by Cunnyngehams shipyard in 1840s. At that time, the shoreline came right up to what is today the front of the building (I think that means George Street but happy to be corrected!). The power station was the first major public building in The Rocks Resumption area. When in 1908 the site is vested in the NSW Mines Department, the upper levels of the building constructed specifically for the mining museum and associated chemical laboratories, and a new entrance into George Street, with the Mining Museum opening in August 1909. Julian Ashton's Art School moved into the vacant first floor in 1930. The museum closed in 1995. In 2000-2001 the building reopened as the Arts Exchange with parts of it leased to the Australian Music Centre, the Sydney Opera House, and the organisers of the Sydney Festival. This use continues today.

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