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British Grand Prix 2014 Silverstone
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The Grade II* Listed Lenton Lodge, in Lenton, a district of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
The Gate lodge to Wollaton Hall built in 1823 by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville in Elizabethan Revival style for the 6th Lord Middleton.
In the early nineteenth century Lord Middleton resolved to extend the eastern boundary of the park surrounding Wollaton Hall. His plan was for the park to stretch as far as the Nottingham Canal which had appeared on the scene in the 1790s.
He also gained a little extra portion of parkland at its southeast corner by moving part of the Derby Road southwards. Bricklayers were engaged to construct a new wall around the outside of the newly enlarged park. Lord Middleton had also decided that the main entrance to his park should have a gatehouse, an imposing edifice that would echo the style of the Hall itself.
The lodge, with its fireproof construction and mechanical gates, was part of a defence against riotous mobs, which were frequent in Nottinghamshire after 1815.
The gatehouse also provided accommodation for two households either side of the arch. Initially the head of the house would have been on of the Middleton's workforce but in later years the premises were rented out to non-employees.
Lenton Lodge has now been converted into office space by the University of Nottingham's Admissions Department.
Information Sources:
www.lentontimes.co.uk/streets/lenton_lodge.htm
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101270829-lenton-lodge-forme...
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Model : J0S0K
Lights : Pol Lution, Sébastien Ernest and me
Light painting session with Sylvain Horne, fabienne tromme, florent Horne, julien Lemmens, pierre Tromme, jean-luc Tromme, arnozpictures, Pol Lution, Sébastien Ernest, J0S0K
The Lafayette Apartments is a 62-unit building completed in 1920 that sits on the northwest corner of Washington and McLean streets, just a few blocks east of downtown Bloomington. The building is the design of architect A. T. Simmons, probably best known for his more than 71 Carnegie libraries in Illinois and a dozen other states, along with numerous courthouses, schools, churches and other public buildings. Simmons also designed most of the houses in the Cedar Crest Historic District of Normal, Illinois, the other half of the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal.
Constructed at a cost of $250,000, the building is a mix of architectural styles. The limestone columns and carved details, as well as the rooftop urns, are French Renaissance-inspired, while other elements, such as the inclusion of a sunroom in each apartment, is common to Amercan Arts and Crafts design.
Advertised during construction in 1919 as being modern and fireproof, each apartment included an icebox connected to a centralized refrigeration unit in the basement. There also was a centralized vacuum cleaner system.
On the roof of the building is an apartment, and atop the rooftop apartment is an observation tower. The roof apartment was once planned as a solarium or winter garden, and legend holds that it served as a Prohibition-era party house.
The Lafayette Apartments building underwent major renovations in the 1990s, and looks much like it did back in 1920.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is home to State Farm Insurance, Country Financial and Beer Nuts. Illinois Wesleyan University is located here, while the neighboring city of Normal is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
The source of this information comes from a July 29, 2007 article in the Pantagraph newspaper written by Bill Kemp, archivist/librarian for the McLean County Museum of History.
This is the Smith Interpretive Center / Greenhouse. It originally was administrative offices and laboratory/greenhouse.
Now it serves its special function as an interpretive center and a greenhouse.
"Crude masonry and rustication characterize the initial architecture at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. The Smith Building, the arboretum’s original visitor center and administration building, designed by Thompson and built by local contractor and mason Jack Davey in 1925–1926, is sited on the canyon floor. The rustic edifice, composed of locally quarried rhyolite, originally featured lichen-covered interior walls and flagstone floors. The 6,500-square-foot space contained offices, laboratories, a library, a herbarium, a seed room, a photography studio, supply rooms, and a fireproof vault; a soft-water cistern filled the basement. Flanking the structure are two attached greenhouses that display indigenous and exotic cacti and succulents. Measuring 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, the prefabricated iron-frame and glazed structures were supplied by the Lord and Burnham Company of New York."
sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AZ-01-021-0017
I haven't been here since I was a child. I consider it more of a walk rather than a hike. But it is incredibly interesting. Especially for photography. My Grandfather - Joseph Harris - was the Superintendent of Col. Thompson's Miami Inspiration Mines.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyce_Thompson_Arboretum
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. Founded in 1924 as a desert plant research facility and “living museum”, the arboretum is located in the Sonoran Desert on 392 acres (159 ha) along Queen Creek and beneath the towering volcanic remnant, Picketpost Mountain. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is on U.S. Highway 60, an hour's drive east from Phoenix and 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Superior, Arizona.
The arboretum was founded by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), a mining engineer who made his fortune in the copper mining industry. He was the founder and first president of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company at Globe-Miami, Arizona and Magma Copper Company in Superior, Arizona. In the early 1920s, Thompson, enamored with the landscape around Superior, built a winter home overlooking Queen Creek. Also in the 1920s, as his fortunes grew, he created and financed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York (now at Cornell University), and the Boyce Thompson Arboretum on the property of the Picket Post House, west of Superior.
Boyce Thompson wrote: “I have in mind far more than mere botanical propagation. I hope to benefit the State and the Southwest by the addition of new products. A plant collection will be assembled which will be of interest not only to the nature lover and the plant student, but which will stress the practical side, as well to see if we cannot make these mesas, hillsides, and canyons far more productive and of more benefit to mankind. We will bring together and study the plants of the desert countries, find out their uses, and make them available to the people. It is a big job, but we will build here the most beautiful, and at the same time the most useful garden of its kind in the world.”[3]
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Planet Earth Vintage Architecture, PEVA,
#67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT: Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell World Endurance Championship - Silverstone - Friday
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June2025. The Albert Pike Residence Hotel garage in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas USA Kentmere200.PentaxZ1p.PentaxFA-100mm.YellowFilter.DiafineDeveloper5+5.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1 Note:
The Albert Pike Hotel in Little Rock had a fireproof garage, built in the 1930s, as part of the building complex. It was located on 7th and Scott Streets. The hotel, designed in a Spanish Revival style, was known for its 175 guest rooms and was a prominent landmark in Little Rock for decades. It was later converted into a residential facility and is now known as the Albert Pike Residence Hotel.
#92 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR: Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre World Endurance Championship - Silverstone - Friday
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The Tampa Bay Hotel was built by railroad magnate Henry B. Plant in 1888. The construction cost over 3 million dollars.[5] It was considered the premier hotel of the eight that Mr. Plant built to anchor his rail line. The hotel itself covers 6 acres (24,000 m2) and is a quarter-mile long. It was equipped with the first elevator ever installed in Florida. The elevator is still working today, making it one of the oldest continually operational elevators in the nation. The 511 rooms and suites were the first in Florida to have electric lights and telephones. Most rooms also included private bathrooms, complete with a full-size tub. The price for a room ranged from $5.00 to $15.00 a night at a time when the average hotel in Tampa charged $1.25 to $2.00. The poured-concrete, steel-reinforced structure of the building was advertised as fireproof. 204
The muniments room above the warming house, a place where important documents could be stored in a fireproof and damp-free environment.
Meanwhile over at the Muppet Labs...
Here's another build I displayed at the Plymouth Brick Festival last weekend.
It's based on a few episodes
Fireproof Paper
Beaker Gets Multiplied
Magnetic Carrots
Vancouver，Canada
Kodak 5222
HC110 1+31
5 mins
Hasselblad Xpan
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Hotel Europe is a six-story heritage building located at 43 Powell Street (at Alexander) in the Gastown area of Vancouver, British Columbia. The building was commissioned by hotelier Angelo Calori and built in 1908-1909 by Parr and Fee Architects. Situated on a triangular lot, the building is designed in the flatiron style. It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada. Contractors had to be brought in from Cincinnati, Ohio for the necessary expertise; the Ferro-Concrete Construction Company began this project six years after constructing the first tall concrete building in the world.
With funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the building was renovated in 1983 as affordable housing with A. Ingre and Associates as the project designers. The residential units are now managed by the Affordable Housing Society.[1][2] A beer parlour formerly existed below the ground floor, which included areaways extending underneath the above sidewalks. To prevent a cave-in from the weight of pedestrians and above ground traffic, the City of Vancouver filled the areaway in with pea gravel at a cost of $215,000, which presumably can be easily removed in the event of future restoration.[3]
The Hotel Europe was one of the filming locations for the suspense movie The Changeling. In it, the building houses the Seattle Historical Society, but the hotel sign can be seen on the right side facade of the building in some takes. Some scenes are set on its roof terrace. Hotel Europe was also a filming location in the 1994 epic drama film Legends of the Fall.
Wild & Woolly 2016 - Blisworth, Northamptonshire
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Ginza (銀座) es un distrito de abolengo del barrio de Chūō (中央区), en Tokio, Japón. Está localizado al sur de los distritos de Yaesu y Kyobashi; al oeste del distrito de Tsukiji, al este de Yurakucho y Uchisaiwaicho; y al norte de Shinbashi. Es famoso por la concentración de grandes almacenes, boutiques y restaurantes.
Ginza era un territorio pantanoso en la época en que Tokugawa Ieyasu se mudó a Edo. Los comerciantes comenzaron a poblar el área, hasta que en 1612 se construyó una casa de moneda en la zona, la cual le dio su nombre, pues Ginza significa "lugar de la plata".
La urbanización fue destruida por el fuego en 1872, y el arquitecto inglés Thomas Waters fue el encargado de la reconstrucción. La zona se vio entonces poblada con edificios de dos y tres pisos, junto con un paseo comercial en la calle que unía al puente Shinbashi con el puente Kyōbashi. La mayoría de estos edificios ya fueron demolidos para dar paso a construcciones mayores. Sobrevive la tienda departamental Wako, en Chuo-Dori.
A lo largo del siglo XX, Ginza concentró las influencias occidentales más notorias en el país, lo cual se ha visto reforzado por la localización de los centros corporativos de varias compañías transnacionales, como Sony Corporation.
Ginza - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Ginza / Portal Oficial de Turismo de Tokyo GO TOKYO
Ginza ( 銀座 [ɡindza]) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi. It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. It is considered to be one of the most expensive, elegant, and luxurious streets in the world.
Ginza was a part of the old Kyobashi ward of Tokyo City, which, together with Nihonbashi and Kanda, formed the core of Shitamachi, the original downtown center of Edo (Tokyo).
Ginza was built upon a former swamp that was filled in during the 16th century. The name Ginza comes after the establishment of a silver-coin mint established there in 1612, during the Edo period.
After a devastating fire in 1872 burned down most of the area, the Meiji government designated the Ginza area as a "model of modernization." The government planned the construction of fireproof brick buildings and larger, better streets connecting Shimbashi Station all the way to the foreign concession in Tsukiji.
Soon after the fire, redevelopment schemes were prepared by Colin Alexander McVean a chief surveyor of the Public Works under direction of Yamao Yozo, but execution designs were provided by the Irish-born engineer Thomas Waters; the Bureau of Construction of the Ministry of Finance was in charge of construction. In the following year, a Western-style shopping promenade on the street from the Shinbashi bridge to the Kyōbashi bridge in the southwestern part of Chūō with two- and three-story Georgian brick buildings was completed.
These "bricktown" buildings were initially offered for sale and later were leased, but the high rent prevented many of them from being permanently occupied. Moreover, the construction was not adapted to the climate, and the bold design contrasted the traditional Japanese notion of home construction. The new Ginza was not popular with visiting foreigners, who were looking for a more Edo-styled city. Isabella Bird visited in 1878 and in 1880 implied that Ginza was less like an Oriental city than like the outskirts of Chicago or Melbourne. Philip Terry, the English writer of tour guides, likened it to Broadway, not in a positive sense.
Nevertheless, the area flourished as a symbol of "civilization and enlightenment" thanks to the presence of newspapers and magazine companies, which helped spread the latest trends of the day. The area was also known for its window displays, an example of modern marketing techniques. Everyone visited so the custom of "killing time in Ginza" developed strongly between the two world wars.
Most of these European-style buildings disappeared, but some older buildings still remain, most famously the Wakō building with the now-iconic Hattori Clock Tower. The building and the clock tower were originally built by Kintarō Hattori, the founder of Seiko.
Its recent history has seen it as a prominent outpost of Western luxury shops. Ginza is a popular destination on weekends, when the main north-south artery is closed to traffic since the 1960s, under governor Ryokichi Minobe.
Many leading fashion houses' flagship stores are located here, in the area with the highest concentration of Western shops in Tokyo. It is one of two locations in Tokyo considered by Chevalier and Mazzalovo to be the best locations for a luxury goods store. Prominent high-end retailers include the American company Carolina Herrera New York, French companies Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent, Italian company Gucci and Austrian brands Swarovski and Riedel.
Flagship electronic retail stores like the Sony showroom (which closed in 2017 and new building would open in 2022) and the Apple Store are also here (Ginza 2 chome). The electronics company, Ricoh is headquartered in the Ricoh Building in Ginza. The neighborhood is a major shopping district. It is home to Wako department store, which is located in a building dating from 1894. The building has a clock tower. There are many department stores in the area, including Hankyu, Seibu, and Matsuya, in which there are many shops: grocery stores, restaurants, women and men clothes, sportswear, and jewellers etc. There are also art galleries. Kabuki-za is the theater for kabuki, one of Japanese traditional playing, and locates on between Ginza and Tsukiji. The building was opened in 1889 and has been reconstructed several times because of war and fire. The present building was built in 2013.
Each Saturday and Sunday, from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., the main street through Ginza is closed off to road traffic, allowing people to walk freely. This is called Hokōsha Tengoku (歩行者天国) or Hokoten for short, literally meaning "pedestrian heaven". There are some people who do street performance such as magic and playing instruments. As a famous photo spot, some cats sleep on signs, where people can put their own cats onto these signs. The location where cats are is different depending on the date.
Ginza - Wikipedia
#14 2 Seas Motorsport - Mercedes-AMG GT3: Martin Kodric
Round 2 - Silverstone 500 - British GT Championship Silverstone Circuit
...and i feel fine...thanks to upmc.
this is worse than the joker taking over gotham city.
holy anoscope, batman!
see secret photos of obama as a secret muslim here!
The U.S. Steel Tower is the tallest skyscraper in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the 35th tallest in the United States. Completed in 1970, the tower stretches 64 floors to 841 ft (256 m) and has 2,300,000 square feet (214,000 m²) of leasable space. Its original name was the U.S. Steel Building for many years before it was changed to USX Tower in 1988. The name was finally changed back to the U.S. Steel Tower in January 2002 to reflect U.S. Steel's new corporate identity (USX was the 1990s combined oil/energy/steel conglomerate). Although no longer the owner of the building, U.S. Steel is the largest tenant, occupying more than a half million square feet (46,452 m²) of office space. The building is located at 600 Grant Street, zip code 15219.
In the planning stages, U.S. Steel executives considered making the building the world's tallest, but settled on 840-ft (256-m) and the distinction of being the tallest building outside New York City and Chicago. However, it eventually lost even that distinction to newer buildings erected across the United States. Prior to 1970, the tallest building in Pittsburgh, at 44 stories, was the Gulf Building. Now an office complex known as Gulf Tower, it was the original headquarters of the Gulf Oil Corporation.
The U.S. Steel Tower is architecturally famous for its triangular shape with indented corners. The building also made history by being the first to use liquid-fireproofed columns. U.S. Steel deliberately placed the massive steel columns on the exterior of the building to showcase a new [in 1970] product called Cor-ten steel. Cor-ten resists the corrosive effects of rain, snow, ice, fog, and other meteorological conditions by forming a coating of dark brown oxidation over the metal, which inhibits deeper penetration and negates the need for painting and costly rust-prevention maintenance over the years. This metal is commonly seen in bridge supports, guard rails, and other outside structures. The Cor-Ten steel for the building was made at the former U.S. Steel plant in nearby Homestead.
Rockwell International Corporation, which had its headquarters in the building until the mid 1980s, displayed a large model of the Rockwell-designed NASA Space Shuttle in the building's lobby until it moved to other facilities.
The tower contains over 44,000 U.S. tons (40,000 metric tons) of structural steel, and almost an acre of office space per floor. The tower also includes retail and restaurant space, parking for 600 cars and features a rooftop heliport.
—from wikipedia
UPMC is considered an evil empire by many people in the region for placing its name atop a building that once loomed over the city as the steel industry's legacy of exploiting immigrant workers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries through sometimes deadly working conditions and near poverty level wages. Today, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, two of the men who treated their workers as indentured servants, are revered as far-sighted philanthropists whose names grace museums where the city's intellectual set soothe their egos and consciences as they view artistic treasures and relax to cool jazz during summer concerts on the lawn.
As the steel industry collapsed in the early 1980s due to a failure to modernize its business approach —leaving tens of thousands jobless overnight and destroying the economies of many mill towns — UPMC added to its long list of efforts to improve the lives and living conditions of the people in Western Pennsylvania through the work of people such as Jonas Salk, Thomas Starzl and others who are thinking about something more than how goddamn rich they can get on the backs of other people. And yes UPMC is now one of the region's largest employers.
These days, just about 4,600 people work in steel mills around Western Pennsylvania, according to Bloomberg.com, compared to 26,000 employees for UPMC.
—blindspot1330
It's really easy to understand why UPMC is so easy to hate, don't you think?
seems appropriate that the region's biggest employer should put its name on the region's biggest skyscraper.
when will Pittsburghers learn that the more they bitch about their hometown, the more people and businesses will believe their complaints — and either leave the city or decide against moving here?
sometimes, the people who live here are the town's worst PR.
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Ginza (銀座) es un distrito de abolengo del barrio de Chūō (中央区), en Tokio, Japón. Está localizado al sur de los distritos de Yaesu y Kyobashi; al oeste del distrito de Tsukiji, al este de Yurakucho y Uchisaiwaicho; y al norte de Shinbashi. Es famoso por la concentración de grandes almacenes, boutiques y restaurantes.
Ginza era un territorio pantanoso en la época en que Tokugawa Ieyasu se mudó a Edo. Los comerciantes comenzaron a poblar el área, hasta que en 1612 se construyó una casa de moneda en la zona, la cual le dio su nombre, pues Ginza significa "lugar de la plata".
La urbanización fue destruida por el fuego en 1872, y el arquitecto inglés Thomas Waters fue el encargado de la reconstrucción. La zona se vio entonces poblada con edificios de dos y tres pisos, junto con un paseo comercial en la calle que unía al puente Shinbashi con el puente Kyōbashi. La mayoría de estos edificios ya fueron demolidos para dar paso a construcciones mayores. Sobrevive la tienda departamental Wako, en Chuo-Dori.
A lo largo del siglo XX, Ginza concentró las influencias occidentales más notorias en el país, lo cual se ha visto reforzado por la localización de los centros corporativos de varias compañías transnacionales, como Sony Corporation.
Ginza - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Ginza / Portal Oficial de Turismo de Tokyo GO TOKYO
Ginza ( 銀座 [ɡindza]) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi. It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. It is considered to be one of the most expensive, elegant, and luxurious streets in the world.
Ginza was a part of the old Kyobashi ward of Tokyo City, which, together with Nihonbashi and Kanda, formed the core of Shitamachi, the original downtown center of Edo (Tokyo).
Ginza was built upon a former swamp that was filled in during the 16th century. The name Ginza comes after the establishment of a silver-coin mint established there in 1612, during the Edo period.
After a devastating fire in 1872 burned down most of the area, the Meiji government designated the Ginza area as a "model of modernization." The government planned the construction of fireproof brick buildings and larger, better streets connecting Shimbashi Station all the way to the foreign concession in Tsukiji.
Soon after the fire, redevelopment schemes were prepared by Colin Alexander McVean a chief surveyor of the Public Works under direction of Yamao Yozo, but execution designs were provided by the Irish-born engineer Thomas Waters; the Bureau of Construction of the Ministry of Finance was in charge of construction. In the following year, a Western-style shopping promenade on the street from the Shinbashi bridge to the Kyōbashi bridge in the southwestern part of Chūō with two- and three-story Georgian brick buildings was completed.
These "bricktown" buildings were initially offered for sale and later were leased, but the high rent prevented many of them from being permanently occupied. Moreover, the construction was not adapted to the climate, and the bold design contrasted the traditional Japanese notion of home construction. The new Ginza was not popular with visiting foreigners, who were looking for a more Edo-styled city. Isabella Bird visited in 1878 and in 1880 implied that Ginza was less like an Oriental city than like the outskirts of Chicago or Melbourne. Philip Terry, the English writer of tour guides, likened it to Broadway, not in a positive sense.
Nevertheless, the area flourished as a symbol of "civilization and enlightenment" thanks to the presence of newspapers and magazine companies, which helped spread the latest trends of the day. The area was also known for its window displays, an example of modern marketing techniques. Everyone visited so the custom of "killing time in Ginza" developed strongly between the two world wars.
Most of these European-style buildings disappeared, but some older buildings still remain, most famously the Wakō building with the now-iconic Hattori Clock Tower. The building and the clock tower were originally built by Kintarō Hattori, the founder of Seiko.
Its recent history has seen it as a prominent outpost of Western luxury shops. Ginza is a popular destination on weekends, when the main north-south artery is closed to traffic since the 1960s, under governor Ryokichi Minobe.
Many leading fashion houses' flagship stores are located here, in the area with the highest concentration of Western shops in Tokyo. It is one of two locations in Tokyo considered by Chevalier and Mazzalovo to be the best locations for a luxury goods store. Prominent high-end retailers include the American company Carolina Herrera New York, French companies Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent, Italian company Gucci and Austrian brands Swarovski and Riedel.
Flagship electronic retail stores like the Sony showroom (which closed in 2017 and new building would open in 2022) and the Apple Store are also here (Ginza 2 chome). The electronics company, Ricoh is headquartered in the Ricoh Building in Ginza. The neighborhood is a major shopping district. It is home to Wako department store, which is located in a building dating from 1894. The building has a clock tower. There are many department stores in the area, including Hankyu, Seibu, and Matsuya, in which there are many shops: grocery stores, restaurants, women and men clothes, sportswear, and jewellers etc. There are also art galleries. Kabuki-za is the theater for kabuki, one of Japanese traditional playing, and locates on between Ginza and Tsukiji. The building was opened in 1889 and has been reconstructed several times because of war and fire. The present building was built in 2013.
Each Saturday and Sunday, from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., the main street through Ginza is closed off to road traffic, allowing people to walk freely. This is called Hokōsha Tengoku (歩行者天国) or Hokoten for short, literally meaning "pedestrian heaven". There are some people who do street performance such as magic and playing instruments. As a famous photo spot, some cats sleep on signs, where people can put their own cats onto these signs. The location where cats are is different depending on the date.
Ginza - Wikipedia
Built by retired Ohio entrepreneur Homer Laughlin (founder of the Homer Laughlin China Company), the Homer Laughlin Building was the Los Angeles's first fireproofed, steel-reinforced structure. The original six-story building was designed in 1896 by architect John B. Parkinson.[1] Smith & Carr were the building contractors.
In 1905 the structure was expanded through to Hill Street, called either the Laughlin Annex or the Lyon Building. This design by architect Harrison Albright was the first reinforced concrete building in Los Angeles.[3] The first tenant was the Ville de Paris Department Store, replaced in 1917 by the Grand Central Market, which still occupies the ground floor of the building. The location was chosen because of its proximity to the Angels Flight Railway allowing for easy access to the well to do citizens of Bunker Hill
Grand Central Market, a downtown landmark since 1917, brings together the cuisines and cultures of LA.
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In flames, I walk, where others retreat,
A heart once tender, now stone in its beat.
The fire that rages leaves no mark on me,
For I've been forged where the flames can't see.
Numb to the burn, where warmth used to dwell,
I rise unscathed from this personal hell.
Resilience is my armor, in the heat I thrive,
Fireproof, I stand—unbroken, alive.
Music: FIREPROOF
#1 Rebellion Racing Rebellion R-13: Andre Lotterer, Neel Jani, Bruno Senna - World Endurance Championship - Silverstone - Sunday
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Doubl-Glo brand, vintage amosite asbestos "Penguin" snow drift and original carton, made by Paper Novelty Mfg. Co., New York.
Not all asbestos products are plainly labeled to indicate asbestos content; the fake snow material in this antique cardboard box is comprised of nearly 95% amosite asbestos (amphibole asbestos), with just a smidgen of mica flakes.
Likely due to close proximity to elements of heat around holiday decorations and displays (hot wiring, candles, hot light bulbs, etc.) using fibrous fireproof asbestos was apparently a natural decorative-snow application for the "magic mineral" material.
Was this a possible source for "non-occupational" exposure to harmful asbestos dust?
The Rookery was built in 1887–1888 by the architectural partnership of Daniel H. Burnham and John Wellborn Root, known as Burnham and Root. In the architectural boom that followed the Great Chicago Fire, architects in what would become known as the Chicago School of commercial architecture competed with each other to create the world's first true skyscrapers. By mixing modern building techniques, such as metal framing, fireproofing, elevators and plate glass, together with traditional ones, such as brick facades and elaborate ornamentation, Burnham and Root sought to create a bold architectural statement. At the same time, they intended their buildings to be commercially successful. This building is one of the few results of their partnership that is still standing.
Beginning in the early 20th century, the building underwent three major renovations. In the first, from 1905 to 1907, Frank Lloyd Wright was retained to remake the interior spaces. In keeping with contemporary tastes, Wright's design covered Root's elaborate wrought iron finishes with white carved Carrara marble surfaces. Nearing the peak of his fame, Wright's changes brought enhanced status to the building, making the Rookery one of the most sought after buildings in all of Chicago. Some of Wright's other changes included incorporating simplified ironwork and adding planters as well as light fixtures.
Built:
1886
Architect:
Burnham & Root; Frank Lloyd Wright; William Drummond; et al.
Architectural style:
Chicago
Governing body:
Private
NRHP Reference#:
70000238
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Chicago Landmark
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Although labeled as, "PURE WHITE" SNOW, the highly fibrous material inside this vintage carton is actually beige; reflecting the fact that it is primarily amosite, amphibole asbestos (also known as "brown asbestos").
Was this a possible source for "non-occupational" exposure to harmful asbestos dust?
Petrified logs on Blue Mesa in the Petrified Forest National Park which is in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.
The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name.
National Park information:
"The petrified wood found in the park and the surrounding region is made up of almost solid quartz. Each piece is like a giant crystal, often sparkling in the sunlight as if covered by glitter. The rainbow of colors is produced by impurities in the quartz, such as iron, carbon, and manganese.
Over 200 million years ago, the logs washed into an ancient river system and were buried quick enough and deep enough by massive amounts of sediment and debris also carried in the water, that oxygen was cut off and decay slowed to a process that would now take centuries.
During the gradual uplifting of the Colorado Plateau, starting about 60 million years ago, the still buried petrified trees were under so much stress they broke like glass rods. The crystal nature of the quartz created clean fractures, evenly spaced along the tree trunk, giving the appearance today of logs cut with a chainsaw.
Many of the petrified logs retain the original wood grain, allowing you to see growth rings and other wood structures. "
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Asbestos-containing spray-applied fireproofing shown above a suspended ceiling system with friable, delaminated debris on top of the ceiling panels. This particular soft, fluffy material contains approx. 35% chrysotile asbestos.
In this building, the entire area above the suspended ceiling system is utilized as an air plenum, whereby large volumes of air movement are continually recirculated through the space and redistributed to building occupants via the HVAC system. In addition to this, the small dots shown on the backside of the suspended ceiling panels (non-ACM cellulose/perlite/fiberglass tile) are actually small hole perforations that were designed to allow conditioned air movement through the panels. Any chance for microscopic airborne asbestos fibers to migrate through to occupied areas?
Asbestos survey quantities should also include estimates of the extra surface areas impacted by such delaminated debris and subsequent contamination as well as areas of "over-spray". Further, building occupants, especially maintenance personnel should be informed of the liklihood of encountering asbestos debris if servicing components above the suspended ceiling plane, in addition to receiving appropriate levels of asbestos training if working in proximity to asbestos materials (a written Operations & Maintentance Plan; "O & M").
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The Phelan Building is an 11-story office building located at 760 Market Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. It has a triangular shape reminiscent of the Flatiron Building in Manhattan, New York City, with its tip at the meeting point of Market Street, O’Farrell Street, and Grant Avenue. It is a San Francisco Designated Landmark.
The building was designed by William Curlett and built in 1908 by James D. Phelan on the place of the first, original Phelan Building, damaged by the 1906 earthquake and fire.
The first Phelan Building was constructed in 1881 by James Phelan, the father of James D. Phelan. It was a 6-story, bay-windowed, mansard-roofed flatiron.
Despite being advertised to be “thoroughly fire and earthquake proof”,[4] the building was badly damaged in the 1906 post-earthquake fire, and its ruins were subsequently dynamited on April 20, 1906.
Work on the new Phelan Building began on October 7, 1907 and was completed on September 1, 1908 for retail stores, and the first day of 1909 for offices.[6] It was one of the earliest office buildings to be rebuilt after the earthquake.
The building's exterior features metal windows and is clad in cream glazed terra-cotta. The original steel structure was designed to accommodate 13 floors; eventually eleven were completed]
At its opening, the building featured an assembly hall on the 11th floor, arcade stores on the second floor, and a basement café.[6]
For many decades, the Phelan Building was a de facto center for jewelry, hosting dozens of jewelers and a jewelry school.
7th floor of the Phelan Building in March 2014; the last floor in its original configuration at that point and not converted to open layout
The penthouse[edit]
The penthouse as of April 2014
An unusual feature of the building is a small penthouse. Originally adorned by a rooftop garden, it was used by James D. Phelan to entertain dignitaries. It has later served as a photography studio in the 1960s,[9] and was abandoned some time in the 1980s. 665
The statue of Thomas Jefferson was dedicated on June 15, 1910 in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Designed by by Moses Ezekiel in 1897, and cast in 1898, the statue portrays Jefferson standing on top of a replicate of the Liberty Bell, surrounded by four winged allegorical figures--at the front is Liberty, at the back is Justice, on Jefferson's proper right is Human Freedom, and on Jefferson's proper left is Religious Freedom. Religious Freedom holds a tablet, and Jefferson holds a scroll which represents the Declaration of Independence.
The Rotunda, anchoring the Academical Village on the north lawn of the original grounds of the University of Virginia, was designed in the early republic neoclassical style by Thomas Jefferson to represent the "authority of nature and power of reason." Construction began in 1822 and was completed shortly after Jefferson's death in 1826.
In 1895, the Rotunda was entirely gutted by a disastrous fire that started in the Annex. The Rotunda was rebuilt with a modified design by Stanford White and fitted with a new fireproof dome. In 1976, White's interior was gutted and completely rebuilt to Jefferson's original design.
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university, established by Thomas Jefferson in 1819. The university sits on a historic 1,135-acre central campus partially protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
National Register #66000937 (1966), VLR #002-5055
University of Virginia Historic District National Register #70000865 (1970), VLR #002-5161
Asbestos snow.
Such a "real-life" product seems to give additional meaning to the concept of "non-occupational" exposure to asbestos.
Doubl-Glo brand asbestos "Penguin" snow drift in vintage carton, made by Paper Novelty Mfg. Co., New York.
Not all asbestos products are plainly labeled to indicate asbestos content; the fake snow material in this antique cardboard container is comprised of nearly 90%-95% amosite asbestos (asbestiform-grunerite amphibole), with just a smidgen of mica flakes.
Printing on the side of the box indicates:
" A MOST NATURAL DECORATION FOR CHRISTMAS TREES, WINDOW AND HOLIDAY DISPLAY, ETC. USE LIBERALLY ON BRANCHES OF CHRISTMAS TREES. MAKES A PERFECT WINTER SCENE."
Was this a possible source for "non-occupational" exposure to harmful asbestos dust?
Close-up view of vintage amosite-asbestos snow drift; Doubl-Glo brand, "Penguin" variety, made by paper Novelty Co., New York.
Was this a possible source for "non-occupational" exposure to harmful asbestos dust?
Another example of an older, spray-applied fireproofing on a building's steel structural support member and adjacent ceiling deck. This light beige, fluffy, fibrous material was laboratory tested and found to contain approximately 65% amosite asbestos. Spray process appears to be of "Limpet" style application.
Doubl-Glo brand asbestos "Penguin" snow drift in vintage carton, made by Paper Novelty Mfg. Co., New York.
Not all asbestos products are plainly labeled to indicate asbestos content; the fake snow material in this antique cardboard container is comprised of nearly 90%-95% amosite asbestos (asbestiform-grunerite amphibole), with just a smidgen of mica flakes.
Printing on the side of the box indicates:
" A MOST NATURAL DECORATION FOR CHRISTMAS TREES, WINDOW AND HOLIDAY DISPLAY, ETC. USE LIBERALLY ON BRANCHES OF CHRISTMAS TREES. MAKES A PERFECT WINTER SCENE."
Was this a possible source for "non-occupational" exposure to harmful asbestos dust?
Expanded or exfoliated vermiculite is utilized based upon its intended application which would determine the size/quality of material (or grade) to be used. For example, smaller grades may have been used in acoustical ceiling/wall treatments and small-to-moderate flakes might have been used as an additive in surfacing plasters or in the once popular spray-applied fireproofing materials, such as proprietary Monokote with Libby-vermiculite produced by WR Grace.
Also shown in background are a few examples of Zonolite advertisements and marketing tools. Celebrity endorsements seem to add a touch of credibility to their featured products, such as using Bing Crosby's face on a Zonolite "leveling rake", even despite the later proven toxic nature of Zonolite.
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Jenson Button is retiring from F1 after 17 years, a career that had a great many ups and downs. The biggest up coming in 2009 where he ended the season as World Champion with BrawnGP. Here he is in 2015 for McLaren Honda.
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Another example of asbestos-containing snow decoration vintage carton; "WHITE CHRISTMAS" brand. Some of the fibrous asbestos snow material can be seen protruding from box lid and clinging to box exterior.
Not all asbestos products are plainly labeled to indicate asbestos content; the fake snow material in this antique cardboard box is actually almost pure chrysotile asbestos (serpentine asbestos), without any addition of mica flakes.
Such a "real-life" product artifact as this seems to give additional meaning to the concept of "non-occupational" exposure to asbestos.
The artificial snow is rather realistic in appearance, very powdery and very white. However, one would not want to dream of this "White Christmas".
Vintage box of fireproof asbestos snow decoration. While not all products may have been distinctly labeled to contain "asbestos", the highly fibrous material in this antique cardboard container is 100% pure chrysotile asbestos.
Directions on the side of the carton indicate:
"FOR BEST EFFECT-- sprinkle on tree after it has been completely decorated. Easily removed from rugs and carpet with vacuum cleaner. Can be used over and over again."
Dreaming of a "White [asbestos] Christmas"?
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