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A submission to Macro Monays on the topic "Collection". I am currently travelling, so all our collections are at home. But here is a very temporary collection of shells found on a beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Along route 14, in Wyoming, Shell Falls displays its beautifully time worn rocks and massive water volume.
The Shell House is a classical modernist architectural masterwork that stands overlooking the Landwehrkanal in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. It opened in 1932 and was designed by German architect Emil Fahrenkamp. At the time the building was noted for its striking wave-like façade, and for being one of the first steel-framed high-rise buildings in Berlin.
Das Shell-Haus ist ein fünf- bis zehngeschossiger Bau am Landwehrkanal im Berliner Ortsteil Tiergarten am Reichpietschufer 60–62, unweit des Kulturforums. Das unter Denkmalschutz stehende Bürohaus wurde nach einem Entwurf des Architekten Emil Fahrenkamp von 1930 bis 1932 an der damaligen Königin-Augusta-Straße (ab 1933: Tirpitzufer, seit 1947: Reichpietschufer) für die Hamburger Rhenania-Ossag Mineralölwerke AG (ab 1947: Deutsche Shell AG) errichtet. Fahrenkamp erhielt 1929 den ersten Platz im Wettbewerb zum Bau des Hauses, an dem fünf Architekten teilnahmen. Seit 2012 ist es neben dem Bendlerblock ein Teil des zweiten Dienstsitzes des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung.
Shell House
Shell-Haus is a five- to ten-story building on the Landwehrkanal in the Tiergarten district of Berlin at Reichpietschufer 60-62, not far from the Kulturforum. The office building, which is a listed building, was built from 1930 to 1932 on what was then Königin-Augusta-Strasse (from 1933: Tirpitzufer, since 1947: Reichpietschufer) for the Hamburg-based Rhenania-Ossag Mineralölwerke AG (from 1947: Deutsche Shell AG) according to a design by the architect Emil Fahrenkamp. Fahrenkamp was awarded first place in the 1929 competition to build the building, in which five architects participated. Since 2012, it has been part of the second official headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Defense, alongside the Bendlerblock.
This is a small, old abalone shell, macro. Not until I saw this image on my computer screen did I know that the fluid, molten looking colors of abalone (aka Mother of Pearl) are actually layers of color.
for Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Ombre, gradual shift in color'
Many years ago, when I first came across these shells, i thought they were deformed. I found them most intriguing and I loved them for their peculiar shapes. Since then, I have come to know them as Cardita shells which are formed in symmetrical pairs, like a clam. Many types of Carditas grow up to 5 or 7 cm long but these ones, pictured, are a maximum of 3 cm long. I'm not sure exactly which type these ones are but they were found along beaches around Wollongong, on the south eastern coast of Australia. Being so small, they are a little hard to find but now and then I come across one. It seems that their lumpy bumpiness is exactly how they are supposed to look :)