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54 yds., 5.3 oz., 150 g
Alpaca, merino, bamboo, soy silk, tussah silk, silk noils, angelina, fabric strips, novelty snippets, pearls
Slightly thick thin, plied
Bulky (avg 6 wpi)
Fiber source: Loop
I'd noticed these before, but am at a loss as to why they're there. the wires are electric power lines for trains.
Seamlessly Looping Background Animation Of Hard Geometry and Shape Extrusions Create An Edgy But Artistic Feel. Checkout GlobalArchive.com, contact ChrisDortch@gmail.com, and connect to www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdortch
314 S. Federal. St. Hubert's Heads. Great article here: blog.chicagoarchitecture.info/2012/12/12/saint-huberts-he...
Two young women hiking Kilcommon Loop, Kilcommon, Co.Tipperary
Photographer Hugh Sweeney - Bigo Creative
Photo of the Loop under construction at Churchill Bikepark for the Jon Cowan photo shoot in MBUK magazine
On Saturday 9th July 2022, DB Cargo 66010 at the rear of the 12:55 1Z64 Hartlepool Pipe Mill to Middlesbrough via Lackenby 'The Lackenby Looper' B.L.S. charter, passing the site of the former South Bank coking plant at Beam Mill Junction.
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Palmer House interior (17 E. Monroe)
Selected by Bertha Potter. Installed in 1924. Sculptor unknown.
Seats made with Standard Plywood (front) and Danzer 3D Veneer (back), 2017
Seats for the Loop Chair, designed by Claus Breinholt
Manufactured by Infiniti by OMP Group
Vinterio walnut-faced plywood (front); Vinterio walnut-faced plywood made with Danzer 3D veneer (back)
As the broken seat here demonstrates, standard plywood cannot be moulded in more than one direction without the veneer cracking. To solve this problem, the company Danzer makes regular cuts across each sheet of their veneer. When layered together, these form a plywood that can be curved in three dimensions. It gives a previously unachieveable degree of flexibility.
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Plywood: Material of the Modern World
(July to November 2017)
Plywood is made by gluing together thin sheets of wood called veneers, with the grain of each sheet running in an alternate direction. This creates a material that is stronger and more flexible than solid wood. The technique has been around for a long time – as early as 2600 BC in ancient Egypt – but it was not until the 1850s that plywood started to be used on an industrial scale.
Featuring groundbreaking pieces by Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer and Charles and Ray Eames, alongside an incredible range of objects from planes to skateboards, this exhibition told the story of how this often-overlooked material made the modern world.
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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.