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The revitalized Central Market has recently been reopened after being closed down for 18 years.
This Bauhaus style structure was completed in 1938 and opened on 1 May 1939 and was the 4th generation of the Central Market. It has now been transformed into a "Playground for All" as advertised.
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Browary Warszawskie (Warsaw Breweries) is an urban revitalization project located in the district of Wola in Warsaw. Formerly an industrial and forgotten part of the city, now the quarter is filled with offices, residential buildings and food halls.
For Kreative People's December 2018 Contest "Social Distortion"
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Revitalization of downtown Selma, NC. A beautiful small town America, where people were all so friendly to chat, true southern hospitality.
A temporary splash of white on the TD Centre exterior as part of an ongoing revitalization project. Originally designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohein 1967, in association with B + H and John B. Parkin Associates.
A post-industrial building in the current center of science and technology (formerly heat and power plant No. 1 in Łódź).
The cooling tower after revitalization serves as the base of the Foucault pendulum (a pendulum that can swing in any vertical plane. The slow change of the plane of the pendulum's motion relative to the Earth proves its rotation around its axis. The name of the pendulum commemorates its inventor, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, who demonstrated it in February 1851 at the Paris Astronomical Observatory.
At the top of the former cold store there is an observation deck from where you can see one of the most interesting panoramas of the city of Łódź.
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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In 1974 the National Parks Service, hoping to revitalized the area surrounding Grants Tomb, hired sculptor Pedro Silva to design and build a series of benches in conjunction with members, mostly children, of the neighboring communities . City Arts, an organization that creates community-based art projects, was enlisted to oversee the work. The resulting piece is a brightly colored, undulating bench that moves around the east, north, and west sides of Grant's Tomb. The images on the bench range from historical depictions of Grant's life, to fanciful, imaginary scenes of castles and dragons, to more contemporary subject matter such as cars. The bench's irregular contour often seems to be designed to accommodate the images in the work as well as elements of the environment such as trees and distant views.
The rounded edges, the color, and the flow of the bench contrasts with the white, straight edges of the monument that it surrounds. While some people have applauded this contrast in styles, others have contested the placement of the bench, and have fought to have it removed. Those who have spoken out strongly against the bench include members of historical and preservation societies, as well as Grant's descendents. However, in 2008, a project was undertaken and completed to renovate the bench! Yeah! (taken from NYC Public Art Cirrculum website, no author's name given. The Yeah is mine.)
To see an excellent video re the creation and restoration of this project click here:
www.revver.com/video/1135506/truly-public-art-the-rolling...
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Excerpt from www.stepsinitiative.com: Over the summer of 2014, STEPS collaborated with street art duo Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson to transform a derelict rail underpass, plagued by graffiti and litter into a celebrated local landmark, as part of a wider effort by local City Councillor Josh Colle and residents to reclaim the historic York Beltline for public use.
Along the high traffic Dufferin corridor, this revitalization project included a large-scale new public artwork, including the two interior walls of the underpass and two pedestrian tunnels, as well as infrastructure improvements, such as new wayfinding signage and enhanced lighting.
This colourful and multifaceted new work, inspired the community’s rich textile history, was designed in collaboration with local residents, particularly with members of the Friends of the Beltline. Countless community members, recruited through local social serving agencies and schools were engaged in the various stages of the work production and celebration, through a series of community paint days and the culminating unveiling.
This project was generously supported by the City of Toronto’s StreetARToronto program, alongside area businesses, including Toronto Hyundai and local residence associations.
Europe, the Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam West, Vierhavenstraat, HAKA building (cut from B&T)
In my previous post, I’ve shown you a significant part of the Kop van Zuid urban revitalization project. Today's post showcases HAKA, an element of its pendant on the other side of the river Maas: the M4H urban redevelopment project.
The HAKA building at the Lekhaven in Rotterdam was created in 1932 as a coffee roasting and tea mixing plant with and a packaging facility, offices, a warehouse and a grain silo and garage commissioned by the Cooperative Wholesale Association De Handelskamer (HAKA) after a functionalist design by H.F. Mertens and J. Koeman.
The aim of the cooperation was providing workers with ‘good quality food at reasonable prices’. It worked with several dozen customer cooperations scattered all over the country. It supplied bread, coffee, tea and other groceries. In addition to the company building in Rotterdam, there was also a HAKA factory in Jutphaas. in 1947, it was integrated Co-op cooperation.
The offices of the HAKA building were situated on either side of a middle corridor in the left part of the building. On the second floor were large open office spaces; on the fourth floor a lunchroom covering the entire width. In the middle of the building, the silo has been constructed as a separate building with reinforced construction with storage areas situated on the ground floor.
The right part of the building was the coffee and tea factory facilities combined with storage and packaging areas and an expedition area. Factory, workshops, storage and expedition were interconnected by a complex system of conveyor belts, elevators, slides and tubes.
Haka was classified as a National Monument ‘(Rijksmonument’) in 2002. In 2009, the HAKA building was designated to become a campus for cleantech activities. A 'Living Lab' for companies, institutions and governments that pool their knowledge and research in the field of water and energy. A plan was developed (check it out: rijnboutt.nl/projects/230 ) and the building was made ready for temporal office use in 2009 . The Living lab project fell thru and Dudok Project Development bought the building and will transform it.
In 2022 onwards it is supposed to start a new life as an office / recreational building with approximately 10,500 m2 of office and catering space. The industrial and monumental values of the building (and the unique ‘paternoster’ lifts) will be respected.
This is number 2120 of Urban frontiers, 966 of Minimalism / explicit Graphism and 277 of This is number 219 of Urban frontiers and 2777 of Zwart/Wit.
Post-industrial landscape.
In the background is the former Ludwik Grohman manufacture. The oldest buildings come from the 19th century. Currently, the area of the Łódź special economic zone.
The former factory grounds have been revitalized. Sky and water plus an old factory create a nice whole.
Former vodka monopoly plants in Łódź.
Construction started in 1897, production began in 1902.
Last product in 2007.
Currently, after the revitalization of the facilities center called Monopolis. Restaurants, theater stage, museum and more.
Comix Home Base is a collaborative project by the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Urban Renewal Authority. … on cultural and creative industries. A revitalization of a cluster of ten pre-war Grade 2 historic buildings on Mallory Street and Barrows Street, Comix Home Base serves as an important connector to the neighborhood. … In fact, Hong Kong is the world's third largest comics market, after Japan and the United States. … The establishment of Comix Home Base … provides a new cultural landmark in Wan Chai .... Besides, Comix Home Base acts as a platform for the communication and interchange between local and overseas artists. … Comix Home Base, a unique "art community", connecting and serving comics artists, animators, other industry players, and community members. … www.comixhomebase.com.hk/#/en//aboutus/vision_mission/
photo taken at the public open space at ground floor of the Comix Home Base. Main building is on the left, main entrance is on the right, the background is residential neighborhood.
it is panorama of three shots…it just the comic characters are very happy and dancing on the air…
I really like very early morning moments. Low warm light can conjure up a magical appearance of architecture. I liked the undulating glass facade (upper part of the building) of the revitalized building. Also, the combination of the style of old buildings and the glass superstructure in this case is acceptable.
S Barciński in 1884 founded a woolen factory at 6 Tylna Street, and two years later a woolen and semi-woolen spinning mill, weaving and finishing shop was established - one of the first electrically illuminated enterprises in Łódź.
Currently, the area of the Barciński Park housing estate. A successful example of revitalizing former factory areas.
A view while walking along the shoreline, looking to the east-southeast, across Naknek Lake to Mount Katolinat and other distant mountains and ridgelines on a mostly cloudy and overcast day. I later used a recipe in Color Efex Pro 4 that I came up with to match work I used to do in Capture NX2, after doing some initial post-processing work and making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3.
The Centre Theatre is a success story here in Montpelier, Idaho. Many small cities have lost their theaters over the years, and this one had been closed for a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The theater has struggled for years and had become pretty run down. Recently, the Montpelier Community Foundation arranged for a purchase / donation deal to acquire the theater and reopen it. The outside was refurbished with restored lighting and an updated marquee. Volunteers from the community cleaned up the interior, new seats were installed, and the rest rooms repaired. So far, attendance has been good and it looks like the theater will anchor more downtown revitalization.
First signs of revitalization of the former metropolis were destroyed by the warlike events at the end of the 17th century (Palatine war of succession) and the 18th century (French revolution and Napoleonic conquest). The strived regeneration could first be fulfilled bit by bit a few years after the Congress of Vienna in the first half of the 19th century.
With the opening of the "Binger Loch" ("Bingen hole") as the biggest boat trip barricade at the Middle Rhine river, the subsequent Rhine river regulation and the introduction of steam boats, the historic ware emporium was taken over by the boat landing stages for passenger boats. Since this time, several excursion day cruise boats pushed their way through in place of the former floating crane between Munztor (coin gate) and Zolltor (toll gate). The passengers of these boats, such as Victor Hugo, want to see and admire the Rhine river romanticism in Bacharach
A fragment of the revitalized housing estate of old workers' houses - Priest's Mill. The photo shows old coal cells. Before renovation, their condition was very bad. Currently, they have been used to create premises for business, artistic and cultural activities.
I am glad that buildings from the 19th century gained a second life.
feminine element (in architecture)
Fragment of the facade of the revitalized tenement house. The building is located on a street that had previously had a bad reputation. Most of the facilities were in very poor condition. Currently, it is an area of intensive revitalization and construction and renovation works. After they are finished, I will try to show you what came out of it.
So far, I can see that the focus was on a strong differentiation of building facades, colors, decorative elements and so on (perhaps an exaggerated effect). It remains with the evaluation to wait for the final result.
This block of buildings that was completely vacant in 2015 was completely renovated and occupied by 2018.
The Puerto Santa Ana District is an urban revitalization area along the river just beyond the Arts District in Guayaquil, Ecuador. This area has modern mid-rise residential buildings done mostly in Art Deco style that replaced an area of old warehouses and obsolete shipyards. The modern shipyard for container ships is a little farther down river toward the sea. It has become a popular area for night life with a lovely riverside promenade, plazas, and many excellent restaurants. Here you can see a lovely plaza with gardens and fountains.
31 West Main Street is in the heart of Patchogue’s downtown revitalization, the building has stood in the Village for more than a century and has been restored beyond its original glory by TRITEC.
Today, 31 West is a 26,334 SF mixed use Office and Retail building. The original structure once stood with proud architectural features; high ceilings, keystones, cornices, crown molding and tin ceilings, many of these features have returned in the revitalization.
Redevelopment of the facade, the reintroduction of the original cornice at the top of the building, replacement of all storefronts, a new main entrance and lobby core, upgraded elevator, bathrooms and hallways have all been completed. The building has become the jewel of Main St and is at a prime location in the heart of the New Village project.
Redevelopment of the property was done by TRITEC Development Group, the construction was completed by TRITEC Building Company, and the building is managed by TRITEC Asset Management. The photographs were taken by Steve Geraci of Reflex Photo.
For more information about this project please visit www.tritecrealestate.com
Alley cells for coal and place garbage cans. Recessed into the ground. Unique.
The city has plans to revitalize this space, it will be prettier but disappears special character of the place.
Is that good or badly let everyone judge for himself.
The holy place Mata Kalyaneshwari temple is situated adjacent to Maithon. By the grace of the Divine Mother I got the excellent view wherever I have focussed my camera. Every moment was becoming worth and revitalized.
oldschool workplace graffiti adorns the door of a refrigerated produce warehouse depot in downtown Providence, near-abandoned property within fifty feet of a quarter billion dollars of economic revitalization - its days are numbered
update: all gone. sweetheart sandbag deal took down this historic property in exchange for more soulless, upscale housing.
There is a major project of revitalization going on in Historic Downtown Lynchburg, Virginia and this is the facade of one of the beautiful old buildings awaiting restoration…
The Main Fountain Garden revitalization builds upon Longwood's first-ever physical master plan, which was completed by the landscape architect in 2011. The original astonishing design by Pierre du Pont was honored, and yet, the fountain garden was re-imagined. It plays a key role in the park as it is the first and most dramatic encounter of the vast gardens which span 1.077 acres. The 83-year-old fountain infrastructure has been replaced with the latest technology, visitor's access to the garden and horticultural elements are improved and make the fountain garden an entirely new experience. These changes are in line with the garden's ambition of becoming one of the greatest gardens in the world. While the restoration included corporeal retrofits, it is the visitor-oriented design approach that truly brings it closer to its goal. The Fountain Garden is coherent throughout and manages to merge traditional design and values with sustainable, contemporary design practices and needs alike. The Main Fountain Garden achieves a renaissance for the gardens while retaining its identity as recognizably "Longwood".