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Along the trail to Ice Caves
Mountain Loop Highway is a scenic road between Granite Falls and Darrington in Washington State.
This shows about half of the highrises that dominate Chicago's Loop, as seen looking northeastward from the Sears Skydeck. Many different broad conclusions and detailed observations can be made about a landscape such as this, but the first thought for most people would be, quite simply, "Wow!".
On the Incredible Hulk Coaster riders are shot out within 2 seconds at 40 mph and are sent through a zero-g roll, down a 105 foot drop and through a cobra roll. Riders complete a vertical loop, then enter a tunnel full of mist. At this point of the ride, the train's speed has reached approximately 60-67 mph. The train encircles the gamma tube and is sent into the back area via corkscrew. After another vertical loop and two over-banked turns, the coaster is slowed down by a brake run before being sent down another hill to a turn-around and corkscrew. Riders then travel sideways through a camera area and then to the ride's closing after a double helix. Phew!
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a looping motion background of a pink and purple flourish. Watch as the animated lines and vines take over the screen.
320 S. Plymouth Ct.
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More than a year after the former Standard Club property started housing migrants, the City of Chicago has shuttered the operation.
At its peak, more than 1,200 new arrivals, all males, lived at the shelter. But in recent months, the city began relocating people to different locations amid concerns about overcrowding and increasing crime in the area around the shelter, located on the 300 block of South Plymouth Court, in the shadows of the Dirksen Federal Building.
The former Standard Club had been used as a shelter for new arrivals since March 1, 2023.
The property had been a private club for 150 years until it closed in 2020.
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Built in 1925-1930, this Art Deco-style skyscraper was designed by Holabird and Root for the Chicago Board of Trade, which was founded in 1848 as an exchange for merchants in the rapidly developing city of Chicago, and replaced an earlier building that stood on the same site from 1885 until 1929. The previous building was the tallest in the city of Chicago from 1885 until 1895, when structural issues forced the truncation of the clock tower, with the present building taking up that mantle upon its completion in 1930, standing 44 stories and 604 feet (184 meters) tall, being the city’s tallest building until the completion of the Richard J. Daley Center in 1965. The tower forms a visual terminus along the northern section of LaSalle Street, which shifts a half-block west at Jackson Boulevard, highlighting the building as viewed down the skyscraper canyon from the north.
The building gets smaller as it rises, with a tower at the south end of the historic building, two shorter wings extending to the north, and a six-story base that covers the entire half-block footprint of the building. The exterior of the building is clad in limestone, with polished granite cladding at the base, the words “Chicago Board of Trade” engraved above the central bays of the north facade, flanked by decorative sculptural reliefs of bulls, tall window bays on the base with glass and metal spandrels, metal trim at the windows, and a central light court above the sixth floor with a parapet featuring sculptural reliefs surrounding a clock at the front. Above the base, the building is U-shaped, with two wings that rise thirteen stories above the base with vertical columns of one-over-one double-hung windows in the central bays with recessed metal spandrel panels that rise from decorative carved relief panels at the base, mechanical penthouses flanking the central light court atop the roof of each wing, low-slope roofs enclosed by parapets, and metal fire escapes mounted to the east and west facades of the building. Above this rises the building’s main tower, which features multiple setbacks, tapering as it rises, metal spandrel panels between windows in the central bays, decorative pilasters, and a hipped roof clad in standing seam metal, and crowned with an aluminum statue of the Roman Goddess of Grain, Ceres, created by John H. Storrs, which has no facial features. The building was expanded to the south in 1980 with a 23-story Postmodern-style addition, which was designed by Helmut Jahn, and is clad in glass curtain walls with a hipped roof, limestone panels, and arcades on the east and west facades of the ground floor, which is connected via an elevated multi-story walkway to the adjacent 1995 five-story annex, designed by Fujikawa Johnson, which is similar in appearance to the 1980 addition. Inside, the building houses offices, trading floors, with an intact Art Deco-style multi-story lobby with glossy polished black and white marble wall cladding, brass screens, railings, and trim, and a large light fixture down the middle of the ceiling, which was once the largest light fixture in the world.
The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1977, and was both listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. The building has been modernized through a series of renovations, though it remains home to trading firms and offices, as well as the Chicago Board of Trade, one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges, today known as CME Group after its merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 2007. The building is the tallest and most prominent of several structures along LaSalle Street that form a historic Skyscraper “Canyon” that terminates at the tallest structure along the street, the Board of Trade Building.
The Verlot Public Service Center was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930's. It consisted of a Forest Service Ranger Station, a Rangers Residence, and several work buildings. Today it serves as the Information Center for the Mountain Loop Highway.
Mountain Loop Highway is a scenic road between Granite Falls and Darrington in Washington State.
A spiral bridge, loop bridge, or pigtail bridge is a road bridge which loops over its own road, allowing the road to climb rapidly. This is useful in steep terrain.
In the Black Hills of South Dakota, a “pigtail bridge” was introduced in 1932 by Cecil Clyde Gideon while planning Iron Mountain Road because there was a need to negotiate sudden elevation drops while preserving natural features for this scenic highway
Common Looper Moth - Autographa precationis (Hodges 8908)
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I heard about the Tehachapi Loop where trains cross over themselves. The loop was engineered to assist trains with making the grade. I took the day off to go check it out.
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33 N. LaSalle (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, completed in 1930)
*This was originally known as the Foreman State National Bank Building. Foreman failed in 1931 and its assests were taken over by First National Bank of Chicago.
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Google Earth Presentation on the possible effects of the Gulf Oil Spill on the Grand Strand. Imagery from Google Earth, NOAA and NESDIS.
The Fruit Loop is a ring of 30 farms in Hood River County, OR. Every year at harvest time, this loop becomes incredibly fun to explore. Whenever you do the Fruit Loop, the first order of business is finding a map. Most of the local businesses have them. The first place we went was out of them, but they had these adorable bittersweet pumpkin truffles, so I had to grab one.
Se khít chân lông, giữ ẩm và giúp cân bằng da. Viện da liễu kiểm nghiệm, khả năng kháng khuẩn tốt. Chiết xuất từ Cam Thảo, lành tính trên mọi loại da
Der Metropol Parasol ist eine Holzkonstruktion in der Altstadt der spanischen Stadt Sevilla. Er wurde von 2005 bis April 2011 auf dem Platz „Plaza de la Encarnación“ errichtet, an der Stelle einer früheren Markthalle aus dem Jahr 1842. Das Bauwerk mit organischen Strukturen wurde durch den deutschen Architekten Jürgen Mayer-Hermann entworfen. Das neue Wahrzeichen von Sevilla hat eine Länge von 150 Metern, eine Breite von 70 Metern und eine Höhe von 26 Metern und gilt als größte Holzkonstruktion der Welt.
Für den Bau wurden 3.500 Kubikmeter Furnierschichtholz und 700 Tonnen Stahl verwendet. Es besteht aus 3.400 verschiedenen Bauteilen.
Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at La Encarnación square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. It was designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer-Hermann and completed in April 2011.[1] It has dimensions of 150 by 70 metres (490 by 230 ft) and an approximate height of 26 metres (85 ft)[2] and claims to be the largest wooden structure in the world.
For the construction was used 3,500 cubic meters of laminated veneer lumber and 700 tons of steel . It consists of 3400 different parts.
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One of the many, many cool parts about hiking in Bryce is that the trails really stand out. We're on our way down the Fairyland Loop and over there, there's the return leg. It would be a few hours, but we'd be right over there.
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June 13th 2011, and we hoofed it into Bryce Canyon again for the Fairyland Loop. We hiked it clockwise this time, we've never done it that way and it was noticeably different.
An eastbound Skyline coal train peeks through the bottom of the Gillully Loops on Union Pacific's Provo Subdivision in Utah. It will retrace its steps twice on the way up Soldier Summit. 5 July 2021.