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Students of the Ecole Polytechnique school march during the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)
The SwissTech Convention Center is a conference centre on the campus of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
The building was designed by the architectural firm Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés of Lausanne. It was financed by two Credit Suisse real estate funds for 120 millions of Swiss francs. The Credit Suisse owns the building, while the EPFL pays an annual rent of 6 millions of Swiss francs. This public-private partnership was criticised by the Swiss Federal Audit Office as "the conditions are unfavourable to the EPFL and favourable to the investor".
Financial support from the Swiss electricity supply company Romande énergie allowed the west facade of the building to be covered with panels made of organic dye-sensitized solar cell, also called "Grätzel cells" after Michael Grätzel, a physical chemistry professor at the EPFL and the inventor of this technology. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwissTech_Convention_Center
The first satnav receiver designed to operate in lunar orbit has been delivered to satellite maker Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in the UK for integration aboard the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft.
The complete Navigation payload seen here includes a four helix antenna (left, in the glass box) developed by MDA in Canada, plus the NaviMoon satnav receiver (middle, on table) from Swiss company SpacePNT, and the low noise amplifier developed by EECL in the UK, who also undertook the manufacturing and the environmental test campaign for both the satnav receiver and amplifier.
The payload is designed to boost and process faint terrestrial Global Navigation Satellite Signal (GNSS) signals from more than 400 000 km away, harnessing advanced processing and navigation algorithms to fix the spacecraft’s position, velocity and timing in lunar orbit in real time. It is complemented by a lunar Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) (right), developed by NASA under agreement with ESA, composed of 48 mirrored retro-reflectors that will enable centimetre-scale laser ranging of the spacecraft as it orbits the Moon, to authenticate the satnav receiver position fixes during the experiment.
Due to be launched in late 2025, SSTL’s Lunar Pathfinder mission will serve as a telecommunications relay satellite for future missions to the Moon, to serve assets on both the nearside and farside, orbiting in an ‘elliptical lunar frozen orbit’ for prolonged coverage over the South Pole – a particular focus for future exploration. ESA is Lunar Pathfinder’s anchor customer, while NASA will also make use of its services in exchange for delivering Lunar Pathfinder to lunar orbit through its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative aboard the CS-3 Firefly Blue Ghost 2 mission.
Lily Forward, SSTL systems engineer and Spacecraft Lead for Lunar Pathfinder, comments: “SSTL is thoroughly looking forward to not only being part of this historic joint venture between ESA and NASA but also being part of the first CLPS task order to fund the transfer of both a landing and orbital asset to the Moon.”
Cyril Botteron, CEO and Co-founder of SpacePNT, says: “This will be for the team the culmination of a long development that we started nearly 10 years ago at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the development of a first proof of concept prototype of a super high sensitivity GNSS receiver suitable for Moon missions.”
Michele Scotti, Technical Manager at SpacePNT, adds: “This achievement stems from the hard work and dedication of the whole team. It is immensely rewarding to have this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pioneer autonomous lunar navigation with our NaviMoon receiver.”
Success would mean future Moon missions could effectively navigate in cislunar environment– fixing autonomously and in real-time their position, using GNSS, with an accuracy better than 100 m, while foregoing the use of costly ground infrastructure.
“This may become a practical way for lunar missions to autonomously determine their own orbits, and also to perform time reference transfers between Earth and the Moon,” explains Javier Ventura-Traveset, Moonlight NAV manager leading ESA’s Navigation Science Office and coordinating all ESA lunar navigation activities.
“To validate the satnav results, the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft will also perform concurrent X-band radio and laser ranging during the GNSS experiment windows. This will allow to test and combine three ranging technologies at once – GNSS, radio and laser ranging – which has never before been performed from lunar orbit.”
Pietro Giordano, Radio Navigation System Engineer and technical officer in charge of the receiver notes that “by demonstrating critical technologies required for precise lunar navigation, our Navigation Experiment Payload has the potential to revolutionize the way satellites are operated in cislunar space”.
A successful formal Delivery Review Board held this week confirmed the payload is ready to be embarked on Lunar Pathfinder.
Credits: SSTL
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The headquarters of the multinational Nestlé was built between 1958 and 1960 on the Entre-deux-Villes site, west of Vevey. Designed by Swiss architect Jean-André Tschumi (1904-1962), it was very modern for its time, featuring glass facades and a tripod shape. The architect designed other distinctive buildings in Switzerland, including the auditorium of the former Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the headquarters of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva.
Le siège de la multinationale Nestlé a été construit entre 1958-1960 sur le site d'Entre deux Villes à l'Ouest de Vevey. Réalisé par l'Architecte suisse Jean-André Tschumi (1904-1962), il était très moderne pour son époque par ses façades vitrées et sa forme en tripode. L'architecte a réalisé d'autres bâtiments de caractère en Suisse avec notamment l'auditorium de l'ancienne Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) ou le siège de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS) à Genève.
The Teatro al Massimo, originally known as Cineteatro al Massimo, is a Palermo theatre located in the historic centre.
The theatre was designed by the architect Giovan Battista Santangelo, who came from the Basil school, and was completed in 1924.
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The author of the project for the current “Al Massimo” Theatre (originally CineTeatro Massimo) was Giovan Battista Santangelo (1889-1966), an engineer trained at the school of Ernesto Basile, from whom he learned the scrupulousness of good craftsmanship and the essence of taste.
The Massimo Palace is a wonderful structure in reinforced concrete that clearly shows how much the architect had drawn positively from the theoretical and practical experience that had been gained in Europe in the previous decades. He had to look at buildings for entertainment and in particular at the famous Théâtre des Champs Elysée (1910-1911) in Paris that Perret had built with reinforced concrete structures. A technique that was especially suited to the creation of large covered spaces and in which the experience of architects such as Guimard and Horta flowed.
When Santangelo conceived the structure of the Massimo, Art Nouveau had already solved the problem of reconciling the load-bearing structure and architectural form in the sense that the structure was itself architecture and form. The Ecole Polytechnique had joined forces with the Acadérnie des Beaux Arts. This reconciled unity is precisely in the Massimo's shell, in the composed and firm texture of the window grid, in the dry profiling of the high pilasters, in the solid architectural cage that holds the whole together.
The weak neo-sixteenth-century references of the pediments, the 'Viennese Secession' references of the friezes at the top of the pilasters or the typically Basilian references of the corbels modulated on the stringcourse line of the first order are very little in relation to the strong structural syntax of the building. Even in the hall, the upper tribune is set on a dry play of load-bearing beams and only the angular curvature of the boxes reveals Art Nouveau nostalgia. The Bevilacqua atelier provided the decoration that embellished the smooth layout of the walls.
Cinema Massimo was inaugurated in 1924. Next to the big screen is the name of the patrons: the Biondos. The same Biondos who signed other theatrical and entertainment spaces in Palermo: the theater and the kursaal of the same name. They were the last exponents of that modern bourgeois class that had animated the Palermo entrepreneurship between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and had opened it to Europe. Cinema Massimo was perhaps the swan song. Before, during and after the war Cinema Massimo had as its director the maestro Gaetano Romeres, a well-known and beloved musician in Palermo. In those dramatic years with the related interruptions, the hall went on to clarify its role as a “cine-theater”, that is, cinema and variety.
The screenings alternated, even several times a day, with the vaudeville companies. Clara Calamarai, Luisa Ferida, Amedeo Nazzari, Massimo Girotti were the interpreters of films such as “Luciano Serra pilota”, “Cavalleria Rusticana”, actors who were very popular in the cinemas throughout Italy.
The variety show was a completely different matter, a real highlight, offered every day in the afternoon and evening at the Cinema Teatro Massimo. The audience couldn't wait for the film to end so they could enjoy the show. The final catwalk literally sent the audience into raptures - the male one, of course - who left the room dazed, with dull eyes, drained of all energy.
The revue or vaudeville companies that performed at the “Massimo” came down from all the most disparate locations in Italy, where they had formed to begin their tour, they held the bill for a period and then recrossed the strait and continued their tour. It was believed that, despite the conflict, everything could go smoothly, but, unexpectedly the effects of the war began to be felt, the companies began to be late, or not to arrive at all, the bombings became more and more frequent and most of the Palermitans began to evacuate, it was 1943.
With the end of the conflict, life slowly returned to normal, and the “Massimo” resumed its activity, which until the early sixties maintained its prerogative of cinema-theatre. Then, as the crisis of the vaudeville companies worsened, the programming became rather limited, until the fateful June of 1977 which saw its closure. On November 20, 1992, thanks to the commitment of a group of entertainment professionals, the “Teatro Al Massimo” was inaugurated, completely restructured, restored and adapted to modern techniques, with a show by Gigi Proietti.
It is currently the most important private reality in Sicily, with its Prose and Entertainment festival it hosts the largest national and international companies, boasting an audience of around 200,000 spectators per season.”
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Le Rolex Learning Center (SANAA, 2010
Sans titre (Roger Pfund, 2010 - Aluminium peint, 254 x 180 cm. - patio du Rolex Learning Center)
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The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
La Lune, Mars et Vénus au-dessus du Rolex Learning Center - EPFL - Suisse
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The Moon, Mars and Venus over the Rolex Learning Center - EPFL - Switzerland
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The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
KTH Royal Institute of Technology at Drottninggatan
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Swedish: Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest (by some definitions) institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden's technical research and engineering education capacity at university level.
KTH was founded in 1827 under the name Technological Institute (Teknologiska institutet), following the establishment of polytechnical schools in many European countries during the early years of the 19th century, often based on the model of École Polytechnique in Paris in 1794.
In the late 1850s, the institute entered a time of expansion. In 1863, it received its own purpose-built buildings on Drottninggatan.
In present-day KTH continue to be Sweden's largest, oldest, and most international technical university. The university provides one-third of Sweden's research and engineering education.
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
Some network cables left on the table @ École Polytechnique. Someone's been very bad!!
Photo took with my Canon PowerShot SD110.
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
Known for Founder of Citroën Cars
André-Gustave Citroën (5 February 1878 – 3 July 1935) was a French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish Jewish origin. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his application of double helical gears.
Life and career - Born in Paris in 1878, André-Gustave was the fifth and last child of Jewish parents, diamond merchant Levie Citroen from the Netherlands and Masza Amelia Kleinman from Warsaw, Poland. He was a cousin of the British philosopher Sir A. J. Ayer (the only son of his aunt Reine).
The Citroen family moved to Paris from Warsaw in 1873. Upon arrival, the French diaeresis was added to the Dutch surname (reputedly by one of André's teachers), changing Citroen to Citroën. Citroen comes from a grandfather in the Netherlands who had been a greengrocer and seller of tropical fruit, and had taken the surname of Limoenman, Dutch for "lime man," his son however changed it to Citroen, which in Dutch means "lemon".
His father committed suicide when André was six years old (presumably after failure in a business venture in a diamond mine in South Africa). It is reputed that the young André was inspired by the works of Jules Verne and had seen the construction of the Eiffel Tower for the World Exhibition, making him want to become an engineer.
André was a graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1900. In that year he visited Poland, the birthland of his mother, who had recently died. During that holiday he saw a carpenter working on a set of gears with a fish-bone structure. These gears were less noisy and more efficient.
Citroën bought the patent for very little money, leading to the invention that is credited to Citroën: double helical gears. Also reputed to be the inspiration of the double chevron logo of the brand of Citroën. In 1908, he was installed as a chairman for the automotive company Mors, where he was very successful.
During World War I, he was responsible for mass production of armaments. Citroën gained an international reputation during the war, and more as the leading production expert in France. His activities were extensive in connection with the Renault plant, which employed 35,000 men in the manufacture of munitions during the war.[citation needed]
In the middle of 1919, Citroën was one of the directors of the Société Française Doble, Paris, to build steam cars in France. Some other directors of the company were Paul Sicault, of the Renault Co.; M. Mery, of the Turcat-Mery Co.; M. Delage, the automobile designer.[citation needed] The design was not feasible and Citroën turned to other projects.
Citroën founded the Citroën automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the world by the beginning of the 1930s (specifically 1932). Costs for developing the model Traction Avant, which improved the sales for the company, led to bankruptcy in 1934. It was taken over by the main creditor Michelin, who had provided tires for the cars.
He died in Paris, France, of stomach cancer in 1935 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, the funeral being led by the Chief Rabbi of Paris.
Posthumous recognition - On 9 October 1958, while the Motor show was running, the city fathers renamed the Quai de Javel as the "Quai André-Citroën," in recognition of the transformation effected since the city's 15th arrondissement, two generations earlier characterized by market gardening, had been selected by Citroën as the location for Europe's first mass production car plant.
This was the second celebrity name for the street which in 1843 had been baptised "Quai de Javel," in recognition of the chemical factory that had been set up to produce a range of industrial acids, and which later numbered the well known eponymous "Eau de Javel" (bleach) among its products.
In 1992, the Parc André Citroën public garden in Paris was named after him. It was built on the site of the former automobile manufacturing plant of Citroën, which operated until its closure in the 1970s, and which had been demolished during an eight-year period between 1976 and 1984. In 1998, André-Citroën was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan
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The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique de l'École Polytechnique (LadHyX)
Rémi Dangla, post-doctorant au laboratoire d'hydrodynamique de l'Ecole Polytechnique (LadHyx), éxamine une puce microfluidique développée au laboratoire permettant d'analyser finement un échantillon biologique.
Crédit photographique : © École polytechnique - J.Barande
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in natural sciences and engineering. It is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and it has three main missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level.
EPFL is widely regarded as a world leading university. The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 12th in the world across all fields in their 2017/2018 ranking, whilst Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks EPFL as the world's 11th best school for Engineering and Technology.
EPFL is located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland; the sister institution in the German-speaking part of Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Associated with several specialised research institutes, the two universities form the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain), which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. In connection with research and teaching activities, EPFL operates a nuclear reactor CROCUS, a Tokamak Fusion reactor, a Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer and P3 bio-hazard facilities. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d...
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
La ceinture de Venus et les heures bleues avec La Lune, Mars et Venus au-dessus du Rolex Learning Center de l'EPFL (Suisse)
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Venus' belt and the blue hours as well as the Moon, Mars and Venus itself above the Swiss Institue of Technology EPFL's Rolex Learning Center (Switzerland)
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Fulgence Bienvenüe , born January 27 , 1852 in Uzel ( Côtes-du-Nord ) and died on August 3 , 1936 in Paris , is a French engineer.
After brilliant studies at the École Polytechnique and the National School of Roads and Bridges , this notary son of Breton origin became inspector general of the Bridges and Roads in 1875 . Amputated from his left arm after an accident in 1881 , he worked for the city of Paris from 1886 and continued the development work of the capital initiated under Baron Haussmann . In 1895 , together with his colleague Edmond Huet , he presented a draft metropolitan underground and electric railway network for the capital. After the final adoption of the project in 1898 , Bienvenüe devoted himself entirely to the construction of the Paris metro , the major work of his career. For more than thirty years, he oversaw the construction and extension of the network, which earned him the nickname "father of the subway".
Faced with the various challenges and technical constraints that arise during metropolitan construction sites, Bienvenüe will be ingenious in designing bold technical solutions. Its most significant achievement is surely the underwater crossing under the Seine line 4 , carried out between 1905 and 1907 , which requires the construction and then sinking, in the center of Paris, gigantic metal boxes to accommodate the metro.
In 1932 , at the age of eighty, Bienvenüe claimed his pension rights, leaving behind a network of twelve lines and nearly 130 km , including nearly 115 km built under his direction. He died in Paris on August 3 , 1936 , at the age of 84. His grave is in the Père Lachaise cemetery .
The Montparnasse-Bienvenüe metro station is named in his honor.
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Fulgence Bienvenüe, né le 27 janvier 1852 à Uzel (Côtes-du-Nord) et mort le 3 août 1936 à Paris, est un ingénieur français.
Après de brillantes études à l'École polytechnique puis l'École nationale des ponts et chaussées, ce fils de notaire d'origine bretonne devient inspecteur général des Ponts et Chaussées en 1875. Amputé de son bras gauche après un accident en 1881, il travaille pour la ville de Paris à partir de 1886 et poursuit les travaux d'aménagements de la capitale initiés sous le baron Haussmann. En 1895, il présente, avec son collègue Edmond Huet, un avant-projet de réseau de chemin de fer métropolitain souterrain et électrique pour la capitale. Après l'adoption définitive du projet en 1898, Bienvenüe se consacre entièrement à la construction du métro de Paris, l'oeuvre majeure de sa carrière. Pendant plus de trente ans, il supervise la construction et l'extension du réseau, ce qui le vaudra le surnom de « père du métro ».
Face aux différents défis et contraintes techniques qui apparaissent lors des chantiers du métropolitain, Bienvenüe fera preuve d'ingéniosité en concevant des solutions techniques audacieuses. Sa réalisation la plus marquante est sûrement la traversée sous-fluviale sous la Seine de la ligne 4, réalisée entre 1905 et 1907, qui nécessite la construction puis le fonçage, en plein centre de Paris, de gigantesques caissons métalliques destinés à accueillir le métro.
En 1932, à quatre-vingts ans, Bienvenüe fait valoir ses droits à la retraite, laissant derrière lui un réseau de douze lignes et près de 130 km, dont près de 115 km construits sous sa direction. Il meurt à Paris le 3 août 1936, à l'âge de 84 ans. Sa sépulture se trouve au cimetière du Père Lachaise.
La station de métro Montparnasse-Bienvenüe est nommée en son honneur.
Place de Clichy and the Monument of Maréchal Moncey
The Place de Clichy, also known as "Place Clichy", is situated in the northwestern quadrant of Paris.
It is also unusual in that it has been untouched by urban planners and is one of the few places in Paris where four arrondissements (the 8th, 9th, 17th, and 18th) meet at a single point.
In March 1814, at the close of the First French Empire, 800,000 soldiers of various foreign armies marched on Paris.
After breaking through the barriers at Belleville and Pantin, they took the hill of Montmartre.
Paris was protected in the north from Clichy to Neuilly, by 70,000 men of the garde nationale.
In the face of the advancing enemy, the Maréchal de Moncey defended the barrière de Clichy.
Moncey amassed 15,000 volunteers, tirailleurs — students from the École polytechnique and the École vétérinaire — and, despite their inexperience, valiantly resisted the Russian contingent until an armistice was declared on 30 March 1814.
A six-metre-tall bronze statue, executed by Amédée Doublemard and dedicated to de Moncey, stands on an ornate pedestal eight metres tall.
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
The tower on the right side is part of the former Polytechnique school, and the green dome on the left belongs to the Sorbonne building.
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Si vous en avez l’occasion visionnée ce diorama vous comprendrez mon
désappointement du résultat ici présenté. Je n'ai trouvé qu'une gravure
de 1836 correspondant à ce kiosque a musiqué intégrer dans un grand jardin probablement d'un restaurant.
Je ne pense pas que le diorama puisse être d'avant 1900,
la photo employée est peut-être antérieure.
Le militaire deux fois décoré, lui aussi pose problème :
impossible de trouver un uniforme avec bicorne et une seule rangée de boutons devant, polytechnique, marine ou autres ont tous deux rangés de boutons....
Juste trouvé l'équivalent dans « l'armée Française », sans plus de renseignement, sauf que les culottes étaient rouges évidements et surtout avec une rayure dorée sur le côté.
On ne voit pas son pantalon sur la stéréo...
Ça énerve !
Pour apprécier ce diorama au stéréoscope, il m'a fallu enlever la couche de papier blanc assez épais qui empêchait la diffusion de la lumière.
Et croyez-moi avant de hurler à la manipulation/amputation
d'un original... le diorama, c’est vraiment révélé alors !
Bon le choix de mettre des points de couleurs dans des arbustes...
La colorisation est assez pauvre, des aplats de couleurs unis... Cela n'aide pas non plus, surtout sur le premier plan avec toutes ces chaises vides qui se retrouve entre deux coups de pinceau de couleurs opposées !
L'anaglyphe du coup assez médiocre en effet alors que le rendu réel de l'image est bien plus intéressant, avec encore une fois cet enchevêtrement de dos de chaises métalliques.
L'emploi de papier transparent et coloré est particulièrement étonnant et on imagine le travaille dans les arbustes.
Cette technique réservée d'habitude à des
rangées de fenêtres ou d'éclairages urbains pas toujours du meilleur effet. (la surcouche du collage en bande coloré n’était plus translucide ! )
Ce qui explique peut-être l'emploi de ce papier protecteur très épais ?
Aucune idée de la manipulation pour coller ces « confettis » colorés.
À cette époque la 3M n'était encore qu'une mine...
Aucune trace de colle ou de vernis !
Sur les dioramas d'avant 1870, les perçages
étaient colorés par point au pinceau ou autres et sans bavure ou coulures!!
Jamais rien lu de sérieux sur la fabrication de diorama, pochoir oui, etc.
Mais il y a tellement d'interrogations et de possibilités !
Cela énerve !
If you have the opportunity viewed this diorama you will understand my
disappointment of the result presented here.
I found only one engraving
of 1836 corresponding to this musical kiosk integrated into a large
garden probably of a restaurant.
I don’t think the diorama
may be pre-1900, the photo used may be earlier.
The two-time decorated soldier, too, poses a problem: impossible to
find a uniform with a bicorn and a single row of buttons
front, polytechnic, marine or other have both rows of
buttons.
Just found the equivalent in «the French army», without more than
information, except that the panties were obviously red and
especially with a golden stripe on the side.
You don’t see his pants on the stereo...
It’s annoying!
To appreciate this diorama with stereoscope I had to remove the layer
of thick white paper that prevented the spread of the
light.
And believe me before you scream at manipulation/amputation
of an original...the diorama is really revealed then!
Good choice to put color dots in shrubs...
The colorization is rather poor, flat plain colors...
This does not help not either, especially in the foreground with all those empty chairs
who finds himself between two brush strokes of opposite colors!
The anaglyph of the blow rather mediocre indeed while the real rendering
image is much more interesting, with once again this
metal chair back tangle.
Use of paper transparent and colorful is particularly amazing and one imagines the
works in shrubs. This technique is usually reserved for
rows of windows or urban lights not always the best
effect. ( the coating of the coloured tape was no longer translucent ! )
Which may explain the use of this very thick protective paper?
No idea of the manipulation to stick these colored «confetti».
At that time the 3M was still only a mine...
No trace of glue or varnish !
On pre-1870 dioramas, piercings
were point-coloured with a brush or other and not smudged, or
drips!
Never read anything serious about the manufacture of diorama, stencil yes
etc. But there are so many questions and possibilities!
This is so annoying!
Rue Monge | Rue Larrey 17/07/2016 09h24
Just an unhealthy detail of a street corner in the 5ème arrondissement of Paris. Tabac Monge on the corner of the Rue Larrey with Place Monge at the other side of the street. On Place Monge is a market on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 7h00 till 15h00.
Rue Monge
Rue Monge is a street in the 5ème arrondissement in the quartiers Saint-Victor and Jardin des Plantes. It has a length of 1260 meters and a width of 20 meters. Starting at boulevard Saint-Germain and ending at avenue des Gobelins.
The path was traced by Theodore Vacquer in 1860 by absorbing a portion of the Rue Saint-Victor. During 1869 works were unearthed the long-sought remains of des arènes de Lutèce. The street is named after Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), French mathematician, one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.
By métro Rue Monge is easily accessible by métro line 7 (Censier – Daubenton and Place Monge) and 10 ( Cardinal Lemoine and Maubert - Mutualité) and bus lines 27, 47 and 86.
[ Source: Wikipedia - Rue Monge ]
Maker: Michel Berthaud (1845-1912)
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Size: 10 1/2 x 14 in
Location: Paris
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Rue des Carmes 20/06/2018 11h03
Rue des Carmes in the 5èm arrondissement of Paris. At the end the side face of the Panthéon, the neo-classical mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.
Rue des Carmes
Rue des Carmes is a street in the 5ème arrondissement of Paris in the quartier Saint-Victor. The street has a length of 208 meters and a width of 12 meters. Starts at boulevard Saint-Germain and ends at rue de l'École-Polytechnique, rue de Lanneau.
More information: Wikipedia - Rue des Carmes
Jean Paul Riopelle began his career at the école polytechnique in 1941, pursuing engineering with some architecture and photography. His childhood enthusiasm for making art became a hobby at this time, and he described himself as a Sunday painter with a constrained, academic style. In 1942 he enrolled at the école des Beaux-Arts in Montreal but shifted his studies to the much less academic approach at the école du Meuble, graduating in 1945. There he studied with Paul-émile Borduas, a teacher who was extremely dedicated to his students and gave them a great deal of freedom. It was under Borduas's direction that Riopelle made his first abstract painting. Borduas and several of his students, including Riopelle, formed a group that worked, socialized and exhibited together (1942-45). The group became known as the Automatistes for their spontaneous method of painting, which drew on the subconscious as a source. In 1946 Riopelle first travelled to France, where he would return and settle the following year. In 1948 Borduas authored the manifesto Refus global, which was signed by a number of his students, including Riopelle.
Riopelle had his first solo exhibition at the Surrealist meeting place, Galerie La Dragonne in Paris, in 1949. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he met and became friends with artists, writers and gallery owners including Georges Mathieu and Pierre Loeb, who introduced him to André Breton. He also met Jean Arp and Antonin Artaud at Loeb's gallery.
Riopelle pioneered a style of painting where large quantities of varied coloured paints were thickly applied to the canvas with a trowel for such works as Pavane (1954) and The Wheel II (1956). The coming years brought Riopelle increasing success and immersion in the Parisian cultural scene. He was represented in New York and participated in the biennials of contemporary art in Venice (1954) and Sao Paulo (1955). He spent his evenings in Paris bistros with friends including playwright Samuel Beckett and artist Alberto Giacometti.
In the 1960s, Riopelle renewed his ties to Canada. Exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Canada (1963), and the Musée du Quebec held a retrospective in 1967. In the early 1970s, he built a home and studio in the Laurentians. From 1974 he divided his time between St. Marguerite in Quebec, and Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies in France. Riopelle participated in his last exhibition in 1996. From 1994 until his death, he maintained homes in both St. Marguerite and Isle-aux-Grues, Quebec.