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Ruth Asawa went to Mexico in the 1940s and learned a technique they used for weaving wire into baskets. Here's her version.
"I Fold Under Pressure", or, how an origamist does her taxes. The message only becomes visible in certain lighting, reflecting the inconsistency of my annual tax rate.
This was folded from a standard, 8.5" x 11" size sheet of printer paper. It's based on an 80 x 80 grid. The final work measures 6.5" x 5.4". No cutting, gluing, or the like was involved in the folding process.
I used an origami technique that I developed myself. More details can be found here:
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Listen to a classic 80's track: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Official Video)
Loch Long at Dornie. While getting gear out and ready for a wee walk up the track the heavens opened up, quick shot and back to the shelter of the car..lol A really nice loch this one with plenty of ops for shooting the camera but not so much on this visit, so a return is def on the cards.
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a) Nikon D800E + Impostazione Live View;
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c) Formato “24:36” – Dimensione Immagine Originale“L-7360x4912 Dpi” – Dimensione Originale File Mb 96,3 – Qualità “Raw” – Espsizione “Media a Prevalenza Centrale” – I. Dinamico “HIGH” – Spazio Colore “S-RGB” – Stabilizzazione “No” – Messa a Fuoco “Manuale” – Impostazione Iso “100” – Bilanciamento del Bianco “Auto 1” – Regolazione Immagine Colore “0-0-0-0” – NR su ISO Elevati (Moderata - Bassa);
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d) Focale impiegata 60mm;
e) Rapporto di Riproduzione Ingrandimento 0,75/1,00;
f) Esposizione Tempo 1/500s con apertura a f.4,5 a mano libera;
g) Lettura Esposimetrica Media a Prevalenza Centrale (campo di azione della lettura fra il fiore rosso e la farfalla quasi al centro del fotogramma);
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h) Sono stati impiegati due Flash e un Faretto Led Manfrotto: il primo Flash di schiarita Nikon SB-900 Wireless (sistemato su zoccolo) posizionato in alto a destra con parabola direzionata verso il gruppo dei fiori a circa 100cm programmato sul “Canale A” con riduzione del lampo di 1 di stop + diffusore a cupola SW-13H (Nikon) + il secondo Flash Gruppo Nikon Kit Macro RiC1 con 4 Speedlight SB-200 pilotate in Wireless (I due superiori con applicato il Filtro diffusore Nikon SW-11 a quelli inferiori a schermo libero) + (riduzione del lampo delle lampade superiori di – 1 stop, aumento della potenza del lampo delle lampade inferiori di +2/3 ) + Nikon Wireless Speedlight Commander SU-800 montato sulla slitta della macchina:
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i) E’ stato utilizzato il Faretto Manfrotto ML240 regolato ad 1/3 della potenza (luce 1900°Kelvin) posizionato sopra la scena (leggermente a sinistra) ed all’altezza delle ali della farfalla in modo da correggere le lievi ombre azzurre e abbassare la temperatura cromatica della scena per vivacizzare i colori rosso/arancio dei fiori e delle striature giallo ocra delle ali delle farfalle. Tutto il lavoro è stato effettuato verso le ore 9,30 del mattino (luce laterale proveniente da destra diretta del sole);
l) Impostazione Asa 100/Asa;
m) Conversione del File Raw in Tiff con Nikon Capture NX 2;
n) Prima Post-Produzione Corel Photo-Paint X5 e Nikon Capture NX 2;
o) Seconda Post-Produzione con Adobe Photoshop CS6;
p) Post-Produzione di completamento con Nikon Capture NX 2.
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Bignonia Rossa - " Campsis Radicans"
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Bignonia (Campsis radicans) da ParoleVerdi
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Bignonia (Campsis radicans) da La Rivista Giardinaggio
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Farfalla Cavolaia - "Pieris Rapae"
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Eine Lok, die es in dieser Form so schon nicht mehr gibt:
Railpool-Vectron 193 806 mit "Quality is a chain reaction"! :)
Also, die Lok an sich gibt es natürlich schon noch. :) Nur eben nicht mehr in diesem Outfit und auch nicht mehr in diesem Einsatzgebiet...
Warum? :)
Nun, die 193 806 von Railpool war bis Ende 2017 hauptsächlich im Güterverkehrseinsatz. Im Jahre 2012 unter der Fabriknummer 21777 von Siemens gefertigt, kam die Lok dann Anfang des Jahres 2013 zunächst zur Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser GmbH (EVB), wo sie zunächst auch noch mit einer anderen Werbebeklebung verkehrte. In Diensten der EVB warb die 193 806 zunächst mit dem Spruch "Wer versichert eigentlich Eisenbahnen?" für die Deutsche Verkehrs- Assekuranz-Vermittlungs-GmbH (DVA). Ihr Einsatz bei der EVB endete dann im März 2016.
Als die Lok dann mit Wirkung zum 01.04.2016 an TX Logistik (TXL) vermietet wurde, erhielt sie eine neue Werbung: Sie warb mit der markanten Kette und dem dazu passenden Spruch "Quality is a chain reaction" für die Zusammenarbeit in der Wertschöpfungskette - vermutlich auch für die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Railpool und TXL.
Mit ihren Zugzielanzeigen an beiden Fronten war die Lok schon immer ein kleiner Exot im Güterverkehr. Die Zugzielanzeigen an im Güterverkehr eingesetzten Railpool-Vectrons werden von den Lokführern auch durchaus rege genutzt - nicht selten fahren Vectrons im Güterverkehr mit Zugzielanzeigen wie "Güterzug", "Sonderzug", "Nicht einsteigen" oder auch "TX Logistik AG" vorbei. :)
...mit der Zugzielanzeige "TX Logistik AG" war die Lok auch versehen, als 193 806 am Tag dieser Aufnahme mit ihrem DGS 48828 (Fossacesia-Torino di Sangro 🇮🇹 - Rheinhausen) am in Langwied lauernden Fotografen in Richtung Augsburg unterwegs war. :)
Die Zugzielanzeigen an der Lok haben inzwischen allerdings eine - sagen wir mal - sinnvollere Verwendung gefunden, denn 193 806 ist inzwischen entklebt und als "normale" Railpool-Lok in Diensten der DB Regio.
Und was macht DB Regio mit Vectrons? :O
Im Rahmen des Franken-Thüringen-Express (FTX) gibt es seit dem großen Fahrplanwechsel im Dezember 2017 auf der Relation Nürnberg – Bamberg – Coburg – Sonneberg über die neue Schnellfahrstrecke einen neuen Regionalverkehrszug. Dieser neue Regionalverkehrszug besteht aus Doppelstockwagen und einem Vectron-Sandwich (eine Lok der Baureihe 193 zieht, die andere schiebt) und verkürzt die bisherige Fahrzeit zwischen Bamberg und Coburg um rund 30 Minuten. Zudem erhöht sich dadurch die Anzahl der Verbindungen auf dem Abschnitt Nürnberg – Bamberg, der seitdem annähernd im Halbstundentakt bedient wird.
Zu diesem Zweck bzw. für diesen Regionalverkehr über die Schnellfahrstrecke beschaffte DB Regio von Railpool insgesamt 5 mit dem europäischen Zugsicherungssystem ETCS ausgerüstete Loks der Baureihe 193:
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sowie die heute hier gezeigte 193 806.
Von daher: Ein Bild, das in dieser Form so nicht mehr reproduzierbar wäre. :)
Langwied, 03.10.2017
He actually came all the way back around on the same path as the echidna and looked like he would run into me. I moved a bit in my seat and he recoiled a bit before skirting out wider to avoid me. Phew!
This is one of the last shots as he passed close by me at point blank range and headed into the scrub.
February 8, 2020
(a "Flickr Friday" submission, theme "Forms in Nature")
Seymour Pond
Harwich, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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He stood on the edge of the world, a lone figure suspended between sky and stone. Before him sprawled New Zealand's Southern Alps, their peaks — Poseidon, Sarpedon, Amphion — rising like silent arguments carved from light and ice. The glacier unfurled its pale tongue, an ancient current arrested mid-sentence, its surface rippled with the memory of motion. The air shimmered, crystalline and unrepentant, a cold clarity that cut to the marrow.
Lake Agnes lay below, a still pool, dark and sharp as polished obsidian. It absorbed the landscape without a ripple, the reflection a perfect inversion—mountains upside down, the sky swallowed by earth. The scene was a paradox: immensity caught in a whisper, time paused on the brink of collapse. He felt the grass brittle beneath his boots, the wind threading through the crevices of his jacket—a touch neither warm nor cruel, merely indifferent.
For three days he had wrestled through the entrails of the land. The rainforest had closed around him with a suffocating lushness, roots coiling like serpents beneath the moss. Streams foamed with a glacial bite, the waters quick and thoughtless, bruising his ankles as he waded through. Thorned thickets tore at his skin with the intimacy of old grudges. He climbed slopes slick with rain, his body folded into painful angles, the horizon always receding. When he reached this place, the fog had been thick enough to erase the contours of the world. His tent had trembled in the night winds, the cold seeping in like an unwelcome thought.
But then dawn came, unburdened and lucid. The veil lifted, and the mountains revealed themselves in their raw articulation. They did not posture or proclaim—they simply were, immutable and unscripted. The glacier’s silence was more profound than any roar; the peaks did not loom so much as exist beyond scale.
Here, in this distilled emptiness, the trivial machinery of the world he had fled seemed absurd. The restless striving, the ceaseless revolutions of ambition and vanity—all of it shrank to the size of a pebble lost in a chasm. There was no wheel here to turn, no circuit to complete. Only the landscape, bare and relentless in its honesty.
He filled his lungs, the air sharp enough to taste. It was an act of quiet rebellion, this deliberate witnessing. In that breath, he found not freedom, but a dissolution of need. The lines between man and mountain wavered, softened by the sheer scale of indifference. If he stayed long enough, perhaps he too would become part of this tableau—his form dissolving into lichen and shadow, his presence no more than a pause in the wilderness’s endless thought.
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Forming the Western arm of the Mallerstang valley Wild Boar Fell is the fifth highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. Seen here from the earthworks around Brough Castle.
Andromeda Rock
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends a sea monster, Cetus, to ravage Aethiopia as divine punishment.[1] Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to sate the monster, but is saved from death by Perseus.
Her name is the Latinized form of the Greek Ἀνδρομέδα (Androméda) or Ἀνδρομέδη (Andromédē): "ruler of men",[2] from ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός (anēr, andrós) "man", and medon, "ruler".
As a subject, Andromeda has been popular in art since classical times; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic hieros gamos (sacred marriage), giving rise to the "princess and dragon" motif. From the Renaissance, interest revived in the original story, typically as derived from Ovid's account.
Contents [hide]
1Mythology
2Constellations
3Perseus and Andromeda in art
3.1Film
3.2Novels
4Depictions in art
5See also
6Sources
7References
8External links
Mythology[edit]
A small Roman fresco from Pompeii
In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia.
Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that her daughter was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen. The desperate king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his daughter, Andromeda, to the monster. Stripped naked, she was chained to a rock on the coast.
Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa. After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible (for he was wearing Hades's helm), and killed the sea monster. He set Andromeda free, and married her in spite of her having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head.[3]
Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.
At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]
After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
Constellations[edit]
Andromeda (1869) Edward Poynter
Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.
Four constellations are associated with the myth. Viewing the fainter stars visible to the naked eye, the constellations are rendered as:
A huge man wearing a crown, upside down with respect to the ecliptic (the constellation Cepheus)
A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down (the constellation Cassiopeia)
A maiden, chained up, facing or turning away from the ecliptic (the constellation Andromeda), next to Pegasus
A whale just under the ecliptic (the constellation Cetus)
Other constellations related to the story are:
Perseus
The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her
The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded
Perseus and Andromeda in art[edit]
Cesari: Perseus saving Andromeda, 1596, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times, Corneille) made the story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous ancient works of art, including Greek vases. Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera, Persée, also dramatizes the myth.
Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, which typically show the moment of rescue, with Andromeda usually still chained, and often naked or nearly so. Examples include: one of Titian's poesies (Wallace Collection), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael (Louvre), Veronese (Rennes), many versions by Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau. From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest. Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks is unusual in showing her alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter’d, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain’d,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To fit the naked foot of poesy;
Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress
Of every chord, and see what may be gain’d
By ear industrious, and attention meet:
Misers of sound and syllable, no less
Than Midas of his coinage, let us be
Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown;
So, if we may not let the Muse be free,
She will be bound with garlands of her own.
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"If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d"
John Keats (1795-1821)[6]
The Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino composed an hour-long operatic drama called Perseo e Andromeda in 2000.
Film[edit]
In 1973, an animated film called Perseus (20 minutes) was made in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet animated film collection called Legends and mуths of Ancient Greece.[7][8]
The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes (notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group). Thetis was indeed a Nereid and also the future mother of Achilles. Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis' son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa. In the film, the monster is called a kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone. Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.
Andromeda also features in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans, a remake of the 1981 version. Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster. Andromeda was portrayed by Alexa Davalos. The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy. In the end of the sequel, Perseus and Andromeda begin a relationship.
In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus. In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.
Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of "Prometheus Academy" which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.
Novels[edit]
In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, there are a few references to Andromeda. The most obvious is that the series' lead villains have a cruise ship which serves as their headquarters and is called The Princess Andromeda.
Andromeda is the main character in Harry Turtledove's short story "Miss Manners' Guide to Greek Missology", published in Esther Friesner's Chicks in Chainmail series of humorous feminist fantasy collections, and reprinted in other anthologies afterwards. It is a satire filled with role reversals, puns, and deliberate anachronisms relating to pop culture.
Andromeda is Anna's full name in Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, which was turned into a movie in 2010. In the novel there are several references to mythology, as Anna's dad Brian is an astronomer in his free time.
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CITYLIFE MASTERPLAN MILÁN
Delimitado por los Viales Spinola, Senofonte, Berengario, Ezio, Belisario, Cassiodoro, Severino Boezio, Duilio y Eginardo, Piazzales Giulio Cesare y Elsa Morante y Piazza Tre Torri. Milán, Milano, Italia
Zonificación
Superficie total: 160.000 M2
Zona Residencial I: 38.000 M2.
Zona Residencial. II: 15.500 M2.
Torres de Oficinas: 32.000 M2.
Parque de las Tres Torres: 15.000 M2.
Desarrollo
Residencial Daniel Libeskind, Via Spinola 2009-13.
Residencial Zaha Hadid, Via Senofonte 2009-13.
Parterres verdes 2010
Estación de Metro Tre Torri 2010-12
Torre Allianz - Torre Isozaki (il dritto, el recto) 2012-15
Parque (primera fase - 25.000 m2) 2013
Parque (segunda fase - 33.000m2) 2013-15
Distrito comercial 2013-18
Torre Generali - Torre Hadid (lo storto, la trenzada) 2014-17
Parque (parte posterior) 2015-16
Torre Libeskind (il curvo, la curva) 2015-18
En 2004 el Estudio Libeskind junto con Zaha Hadid y Arata Isozaki & Associates resultó ganador del concurso para desarrollar el Master Plan para recomponer el tejido urbano existente en el viejo recinto de la Feria de Milán.
El proyecto Citylife situado en el corazón de Milán – en una de las mayores zonas peatonales de Europa- trae al contexto urbano un nuevo modelo para la residencia, el trabajo y el ocio, un área para ser disfrutada a pie o en bicicleta, dejando el tráfico rodado por el subsuelo.
Con un total de 662 viviendas, los dos proyectos residenciales se caracterizan por las formas sinuosas de los volúmenes asimétricos, organizados alrededor de patios.
En el centro del proyecto se encuentra el distrito de negocios formado por tres torres de oficinas entorno a la nueva "Piazza delle Tre Torri" donde se sitúa la nueva estación de Metro: Torre Isozaki (il dritto, el recto), Torre Hadid (lo storto, la trenzada) y la torre Libeskind (il curvo, la curva) - la Torre Isozaki tiene 202 metros de altura con 50 pisos, por lo que estará entre las más altas de Italia. La torre de Hadid tendrá 170 metros de altura, con 44 pisos, y la torre Libeskind alcanzará una altura de 150 metros con cerca de 30 plantas. Entre las tres son capaces de dar cabida a 10.000 personas, sobre un total de aproximadamente 130.000 m2. También son parte del proyecto un museo de arte contemporáneo, una zona comercial con bares y restaurantes, un pabellón de exposiciones, deportes, programas de entretenimiento y la moda.
LAS TORRES
Il Dritto / El Recto / Torre Allianz “Torre sin fin”
Piazza Tre Torri. Milán, Milano, Italia
Arquitecto Arata Isozaki. Arquitecto colaboradora Andrea Maffei. 2012-15
Il Dritto o Torre Allianz es actualmente uno de los edificios más altos de Italia con 207 m y 50 pisos -con la antena alcanza los 247 m -. Ha sido diseñado por el japonés arquitecto Arata Isozaki en colaboración con la arquitecto italiana Andrea Maffei.
La torre está compuesta por 8 módulos de 6 plantas cada uno con una planta larga y delgada de 24 x 61.5m. La elección de estas proporciones se hace para hacer todo el volumen más delgado enfatizando la verticalidad y haciendo que sea estructuralmente provocativa, debido a la forma esbelta y alta. La fachada de cada módulo está compuesta por una unidad de vidrio triple ligeramente curvada hacia el exterior. La sucesión vertical de formas redondeadas crean una sensación de ligera vibración del volumen del edificio a medida que sube hacia arriba. Los alzados laterales son totalmente acristaladas y muestran la serie de 6 ascensores panorámicos que dan servicio a los distintos pisos del edificio.
Lo Storto / La Trenzada / Torre Generali - Torre Hadid
Piazza Tre Torri. Milán, Milano, Italia
Arquitectos Zaha Hadid Architects 2014-17
Lo Storto o Torre Generali alcanzará una altura de 185 m con 44 pisos (+ 3 plantas de sótano), y una superficie total de unos 67.000 m2. Diseñada por la arquitecto anglo-iraquí Zaha Hadid. La geometría de la construcción es la de una forma de trenza, donde tanto la dimensión plantas y su orientación varían a lo largo del eje de la torre.
La estructura es de hormigón. Un núcleo central actúa como refuerzo horizontal principal y elemento resistente. La cimentación está constituida por una losa y pilotes. La base es una gruesa losa de hormigón de 2,5 m, apoyada en 64 pilotes en forma de racimo en los principales puntos de carga. Con el fin de resistir los principales efectos de torsión debidos a la disposición de la columna deformada, los dinteles de las puertas principales del núcleo cuentan con soluciones mixtas de elementos de acero, barras de refuerzo y hormigón. Debido a los efectos específicos de la deformación, se ha llevado a cabo una etapa de análisis altamente sofisticado para contrarrestar posibles efectos negativos, tanto durante la construcción como a largo plazo. El acero forma la base libre para uso comercial que rodea el edificio.
Il Curvo / El Curvo / Torre Libeskind “Esmeralda verde”
Piazza Tre Torri. Milán, Milano, Italia
Arquitecto Estudio Libeskind, Daniel Libeskind. 2015-18
La denominada “Esmeralda Verde” alcanzará una altura de 175 m con 28 pisos y una superficie total de unos 76.000 m2. Situado entre Il Dritto y Lo Storto, Il Curvo se inclinará en dirección de sus homólogos sobre la Piazza Tre Torri.
La cúpula renacentista es el principio básico en el que se inspira Il Curvo. Se reinterpreta a través del movimiento cóncavo de su elevación y culmina en la corona, ambos elementos definen el proyecto. La fachada de la torre curva es sostenible, en vidrio que reflejará el espacio público por debajo y alrededor.
libeskind.com/work/citylife-masterplan/
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#FlickrFriday #black
My form of protest is to *not* participate in “Black Friday”. Large corporations and big box stores will not get my patronage. When I was still teaching (not yet retired from teaching), I used to go to small specialty shops and buy my coworkers ornaments for their trees or trinkets.
STEAM INCORPORATED
Formed fifty years ago in 1972 Steam Incorporated is based at Paekakariki on the Kapiti coast near Wellington, on the North Island of New Zealand, where its primary purpose is to rebuild and maintain heritage railway equipment to the high standard required for main-line operation.
As part of the organisation's 50th anniversary celebrations, they ran one of their Ja class steam locomotives, an Ab class locomotive, and a pair of heritage Diesels on a short section of track; for a 'fee' of $50, members of the Public could drive one of the locomotives during the three day weekend that has just concluded...!
The experience was in high demand...!!!
Ja 1271 AND ITS CLASS MATES
There is much that could be written about this Class of locomotive, but I'll limit myself to just two facts, namely:
1. there are numerous instances of this type of locomotive charging across the Plains of the South Island at sustained speeds of 70mph (112kph) or more while hauling the South Island Limited Express that consisted of ten carriages (or coaches, but remember: we're influenced by British terminology!),
and
2. for an engine with just 56 inch driving wheels, this resulted in a rotational speed of 360 revolutions a minute or 6 revolutions a second - quite an achievement for the 3 foot 6 inch track gauge and a locomotive, that by world standards, fell into the "mixed traffic" class...!
TODAY
Today, however, it was rather pleasant to just sit and enjoy the warm sun, to watch Ja 1271 trundle quietly down a short length of track, and to allow my imagination to take me back to the days when it and its Class mates stormed across the Plains of the South Island, white clag / exhaust streaming behind, driving rods a blur of high speed motion, and the noise on the footplate a cacophony of Sound...!
Sigh... Those were the days...!
Some of the above has been gathered from
(A) www.steaminc.org.nz/about-us/
(B) www.steaminc.org.nz/our-rail-fleet/steam-locomotives/ja1271/
and from
(C) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR_JA_class
Thank you for your very kind and encouraging comments beneath my photos...! Your support is very greatly appreciated.
Scotrail Inter7City set formed of 43143 & 43179 slow for the crossing into the bi-directional Up & Down platform at Kingussie on 4th July 2025 with 1T88 1450 Inverness to Glasgow Queen Street. When I was here last time I didn't get a shot of what, from a distance appears to be a bracketed gantry on the north side of the station - only when close did I see it was two separate signals!
Not sure how long the 25 short HST sets have to go in Scotland - rumour is they'll be phased out over the next year or two, no doubt replaced by some inferior riding Japanese or Spanish tat!