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ZAANDIJK - with a view on the "Zaanse Schans"
In the 17th and 18th century there were thousands of windmills along the dykes; sawmills, dye mills, oil mills etc that powered the Dutch economy. The Zaanse Schans village gives you a picture of what it must have been like. Not all the windmills and buildings started out in Zaanse Schans, many of them were moved here from the region as they came under threat from urban development across North Holland.
The windmills are all working mills, and the perform various functions, including a saw mill, a paint mill (grinding pigments), and oil mill (grinding linseed or peanuts to draw off the oil)
VELSEN - The Ventilation Towers, which are also called Hyacinths, no longer have a function since the tunnel was completely renovated a few years ago, they remain standing, because they have been designated as a National Monument.
The Velsertunnel is part of the A22 motorway, goes under the North Sea Canal and is the oldest motorway tunnel in the Netherlands.
This three story gristmill at Pioneer Village was built in 1817. According to the DNR, it is still used for grinding cornmeal.
Spring Mill State Park
Mitchell, Indiana
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is a functioning monastery in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The monastery is located on the right bank of the Dnieper River on the edge of a bluff northeast of the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The site is located in the historic administrative Uppertown and overlooks the city's historical commercial and merchant quarter, the Podil neighbourhood.
Originally built in the Middle Ages by the Kievan Rus' ruler Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych, the monastery comprises the Cathedral itself, the Refectory of St. John the Divine, built in 1713, the Economic Gates, constructed in 1760 and the monastery's bell tower, which was added c.1716–1719. The exterior of the structure was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style in the 18th century while the interior remained in its original Byzantine style. The original cathedral was demolished by the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, but was reconstructed and opened in 1999 following Ukrainian independence in 1991.
A classic aviator's watch, with a Herbertz "Top Collection" folding knife. Older photo, dug out from the archives...
BTW, as the knife is single-hand operated and locking, it may not be carried under German weapons laws.
The watch is a monopusher, meaning the stopwatch functions "Start", "Stop" and "Reset" are all performed by one single pusher.
The movement is based on an ETA 7750, modified by Hanhart for the monopusher arrangement and relocation of the stopwatch minutes counter.
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MLC Centre architecture cannot be overlooked. With elegantly contoured, stark white concrete, white quartz and glass, the façade presents itself as a handsomely moulded sculpture.
Harry Seidler AC QBE is a luminary of Australian architecture. Widely considered as the first architect to fully express the Bauhaus aesthetic here. The MLC Centre remains one of his most definitive works on the Sydney Skyline.
244m to antenna and 227m to roof. The MLC Centre was Sydney’s tallest building in Sydney from 1977 to 1992. It is currently the fifth tallest building behind the Meriton World Tower (230m), Deutsche Bank Place (240m), Citigroup Centre (243m) and Chifley Tower (244m). The tallest structure in Sydney is still the Sydney Tower at 309m.
Looking up at the award-winning Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD University in Toronto. Although quite striking with the 12 multi-coloured, pencil-like supports, I downplayed the colour as to highlight the contrasting shapes, angles, light and textures with this capture.
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Each rhododendron bloom is a gathered colony of small, near-identical flowers—delicate, deliberate, and designed to draw in early summer’s pollinators. Their symmetry has both function and grace.
In France we say: "La fonction fait la forme". Here, one could say: "The form generates the function".
Location: Stuw van Driel (NL)
First time using the bulb-function on the camera, loved this view & shot..
Green's Mill, Sneinton, Nottingham - the home of George Green. About George Green, from the mills website -
"George Green was 14 years old when his father built the windmill and for most of the rest of his life George worked in the windmill. But George Green was also a brilliant mathematician and physicist. He devised new ways of doing mathematics which he used to make many discoveries about such things as electricity, magnetism, light, sound and wave motion. His mathematics – still called Green’s Theorem and Green’s function – are used today by scientists and engineers all over the world working with computers, lasers, satellite communications. Research scientists trying to understand the gravitational field of the Earth and sub-atomic particles, for example, use his mathematics.
Remarkably George Green had only 14 months at school, leaving when he was only ten years old to work in his father’s bakery and later in the windmill. In 1828 this self-taught genius published his greatest scientific work where he devised a completely new way of using mathematics to understand electricity and magnetism. Five years later he became a student at Caius College in Cambridge; he was forty years old. After taking his degree in mathematics he became a Fellow of the college where he did more research and published more scientific papers. But his health failed and heAn image of Green's Memorial in Westminster Abbey returned to Nottingham, to his partner Jane Green and their seven children. He died in 1841 at the age of only 47 years. He is buried at St Stephen’s church, almost within the shadow of his windmill.
In 1993, the bicentenary of his birth, George Green achieved the honour he so richly deserved when a memorial plaque was dedicated in Westminster Abbey."
A number of drastic adjustments were needed to give the castle a museum function. For example, a new, modern staircase in the former courtyard had to ensure clear routing in the castle. The staircase opens up the round corridors on the different floors
www.stedendriehoek.nl/stedendriehoek/ondernemend/het-werk...
A number of major adjustments were needed to give the castle a museum function. For example, a new, modern staircase in the former courtyard had to ensure clear routing in the castle. The staircase opens up the corridors on the various floors
www.stedendriehoek.nl/stedendriehoek/ondernemend/het-werk...
Ruurlo Castle is one of the most beautiful castles in the Achterhoek. The age of the castle is venerable. In the 14th century it was a fief of Count Reinoud I of Gelre. Jacob van Heeckeren, founder of the noble and distinguished knightly family Van Heeckeren, acquired it in the 15th century. In 2013 the castle was sold and converted into a museum
Location: film De Zevensprong, Tonke Dragt
Leyton Green Towers, an 11-storey block of flats. Built in the early 1960s and refurbished in the late 2010s.
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the sun is a sharp chisel, carving light into the tiled floor.
the shopping cart casts a shadow of industrial purpose, a precise grid.
nearby, the soft curve of another shadow, drawn by an unseen lamp.
it shapes the space, an artificial sun in an artificial world.
between form and function, a silent geometry of commerce unfolds.
Spring returns to the Fobbing Marshes. So do we. Not that we've been away much. But if recent walks in sub-zero temperatures and fog were a test of endurance we now look forward to joyous (and wet) walks in temperatures trending upwards. And with the water courses flowing things are stirring and splashing so they need investigating. I'll leave that to Freddie. "Form and Function" as my very knowledgeable Flickr friend wheres_bruce calls it. I'm just hoping my waterproof boots are as good as advertised...
Fobbing Marshes, Essex UK
We've had a string of winter storms lately - good to be prepared and protected.
From North Hollywood, California.
Looking great in fresh paint, veteran S317 leads container train 1845 through Lithgow past the last-built member of the 81 class, 8184, in October 2015.
Streamlined bulldog and good looker S317 was about to turn 54 years old, while functional 8184, the newest of its class, was a youngish 24. The first of each class entered service in 1957 and 1982 respectively. 8184 was one of four additional 81 class built several years after the rest.
Taking his cue from the Bible, or more precisely, from the experience of the prophets that produced biblical speech, Heschel offers a literary analysis of how religious words can function as “hyphens between heaven and earth,”135 a claim that implies a formal connection between the two.
-Sophia The Hidden Christ of Thomas Merton, Christopher Pramuk
The metaphor is a concrete image that alludes to another reality, based upon some analogy between the two terms. The “vehicle” of the metaphor is the term (or image) that appears in the text, alluding to the “tenor,” the absent reality or concept. Metaphor may be used to express something less known, abstract, or even unknown, by something more familiar: for example, “A mighty fortress is our God.” A fortress alludes to one particular aspect of the Deity, seen from a definitely human perspective. The common quality that enables the metaphorical equation or comparison is the “ground” of the metaphor, here God’s strength and stability. Heschel depicts the “ground” of the biblical metaphor as a “hyphen between heaven and earth,” since it hints to what is ultimately real. The vehicle and tenor themselves remain incomplete representations of their referents, for they must emphasize, in order to intensify them, only certain characteristics. In this sense as well, Heschel avers that religious assertion functions as understatement, for the vehicle of language can never completely express the divine tenor.
Edward K. Kaplan, Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Poetics of Piety (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), 10; hereafter HW.
L'isola di Suomenlinna, a 15' di traghetto da Helsinki (Finlandia) ospita una fortezza marina costruita nella seconda metà del Settecento per proteggere il paese contro l'espansionismo russo. Nel 1973 terminò la sua funzione militare e nel 1991 è stata dichiarata dall'UNESCO Patrimonio dell'Umanità come esempio unico di architettura militare europea del suo tempo.
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The island of Suomenlinna, 15' by ferry from Helsinki (Finland) houses a marine fortress built in the second half of the eighteenth century to protect the country against Russian expansionism. In 1973 it finished its military function and in 1991 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a unique example of European military architecture of its time.