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A tour of Seville on our coach. A local tour guide talked about what we were seeing (allowing our normal tour manager to have a break for once!).
Calle Juan de Castellanos.
Torre Pelli construction site with tall crane.
Construction started in 2007 and is expected to be finished by 2015.
The Cajasol Tower or Torre Pelli , as known in the city, is a building designed by Cesar Pelli currently under construction in an area called Puerto Triana in Seville. The north tower has two lower buildings with a central street. The name of the project in the study of the architect is Seville Tower .
When the project was proposed was sponsored by savings El Monte and Caja San Fernando, you agree to merge in December 2006 to form the savings Cajasol , to be operational in 2007. The box is integrated into the bank CaixaBank in March 2012. Since 2013 Cajasol exists as foundation.
Upon completion it will become the first skyscraper and the tallest building in the city and also in the highest Andalucía , and in the seventh tallest skyscraper in Spain , just after the skyscrapers of Madrid and Benidorm and ahead of cities like Barcelona . Construction of the building is carried out in the southern sector, Isla de la Cartuja with avenues of sponsorship and Inca Garcilaso, in a plot with an area of 59,000 m². On 17 July 2007 the first stone was laid. The tower will have a total height of 180.5 meters . The proposed building has 37 floors and elliptical of reinforced concrete above ground with 3 underground. The facade is made of glass and steel was studied and its protection against the sun with ceramic blades, although the project was changed so that these were aluminum colored tile.
In 2010 the works were awarded to a Joint Venture of the builder FCC (80%) and Inabensa (20%), being the second subsidiary of Abengoa . the same year the construction of the two efificios podium is awarded to the company Isolux Corsan. In 2013 CaixaBank works awarded to Dragados completion.
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En un tormentoso día de agosto.
Parque Empresarial Madrid Arena/CTBA (Cuatro Torres Business Area). De izquierda a derecha:
Torre Repsol: Altura 250 m; Norman Foster; construidos ag-2006 110 m
Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso: Altura 236 m; Carlos Rubio Carvajal y Enrique Álvarez-Sala Walter; construidos ag-2006 80 m
Torre de Cristal: Altura proyecto 249 m; César Pelli; construidos ag-2006 90 m
Torre Espacio: Altura proyecto 223 m; Pei Cobb Freed & Partners; construidos ag-2006 155 m
Vuela hasta este sitio / Fly to this location
(Precisa / requires Google Earth)
Agosto 2006 : La foto de Google Earth corresponde al momento anterior a las obras, cuando el recinto era la Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid.
Febrero 2007: La foto de Google Earth ya recoge las obras
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Amazing skyscraper in Santiago
The Gran Costanera tower (also know as Costanera Center complex) is near for end their rough work. Designed by Pelli Clark Pelli studio, Gran Costanera will reach until 300 meters (1,000 ft.) from Andrés Bello avenue, in the financial district of Santiago.
Greetings for everyone
Best regards from Chile
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[Pocas Palabras]
Costanera Center, falta cada vez menos
A pasos agigantados avanza la construcción del edificio más alto de Latinoamérica, el edificio Gran Costanera, el cual se emplaza en el complejo Costanera Center. En la actualidad, las grúas plumas del edificio se encuentran construyendo el núcleo de los elevadores en lo que será el piso 59, a una altura aproximada de 240 metros desde la avenida Andrés Bello.
Eso sería el Pocas Palabras de hoy
Nos vemos y que tengan un grato día
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Lugar+Citadino™
Felipe Burgos Alvarez
April | Abril [2011]
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Fort Saint-Jean 31/08/2013 17h32
The roof of the Fort Saint-Jean has been refurbished and looks very nice and clean. In the distance the Cathédrale de la Major and throught the smoke of a departing ferry the skyscraper Euroméditerranée.
Fort Saint-Jean
Fort Saint-Jean is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port. Since 2013 it is linked by two thin bridges to the historical district Le Panier and to the first French national museum to be located outside Paris; called Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée.
History:
Fort Saint-Jean was built on a site earlier occupied by the Military Order of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John, from which the new building deprived its name. Fort Saint-Nicolas was constructed at the same time on the opposite side of the harbour. Commenting on their construction, Louis XIV said, "We noticed that the inhabitants of Marseille were extremely fond of nice fortresses. We wanted to have our own at the entrance to this great port." In fact, the two new forts were built in response to a local uprising against the governor, rather than for the defence of the city: their cannons pointed inwards towards the town, not outwards towards the sea.
Two earlier buildings were incorporated into the structure of the fort: the twelfth century Commandry of the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem, which served as a monastic hospice during the crusades; and the fifteenth century tower of René I, King of Provence.
In April 1790 Fort Saint-Jean was seized by a revolutionary mob who decapitated the chevalier de Beausse, commander of the royal garrison, when he was captured after refusing to surrender the fortress. During the subsequent French Revolution the fort was used as a prison, holding Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and two of his sons, Louis-Charles, Count of Beaujolais, and Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier. Following the overthrow of Robespierre in 1794 about a hundred Jacobin prisoners held in the fort were massacred.
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries Fort Saint-Jean was in the possession of the French Army, who utilised it as a barracks and clearing station for the Army of Africa. During the years when the French Foreign Legion was based mainly in North Africa (1830 to 1962), the fort was a final stop-off point for recruits for the Legion destined for basic training in Algeria.
During World War II Fort Saint-Jean was occupied by the German military in November 1942. In August 1944 during the liberation of Marseilles, the explosion of a munitions depot within the fort destroyed much of its historic battlements and buildings. Although returned to the French Army, Fort Saint-Jean remained in a neglected and disused state until it was passed to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in 1960. Classified as a historical monument in 1964, the damaged portions of the fort were reconstructed between 1967 and 1971.
From 2013 the Fort Saint-Jean is to be a part of the MuCEM.
[ Source: Wikipedia - Fort Saint-Jean Marseille ]
Torre Espacio
Arquitecto Henry N. Cobb de la firma Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, fundada por Ieoh Ming Pei. Colaborador: José Bruguera.
Colaborador en la dirección de las obras: Reid Fenwick Asociados, de Madrid. Estructura: MC2. Instalaciones: R. Úrculo Ingenieros Consultores.
Proyectada en 2003, promovida por la Inmobiliaria Espacio S.L, se construye entre 2004 y 2008, con una altura de 236 metros y 57 plantas sobre el nivel del suelo. La fachada está formada por un muro cortina de vidrio. Las plantas, varían de forma y dimensiones a lo largo de su altura, pasando del cuadrado en la base, hasta alcanzar la forma de un ojo abierto, es decir dos arcos de circunferencia secantes, en su culminación; dando al edificio una fisonomía exterior muy variable, desde un prisma a una botella, dependiendo del punto de vista. Las aristas son curvas y las fachadas no son planas, por lo que hubo que dotar de un especial diseño a los soportes de hormigón. Alberga, entre otras, oficinas de empresas pertenecientes al grupo promotor como la Inmobiliaria Espacio o la constructora OHL, y algunas embajadas. Cuenta con dos áreas de descanso de ocho metros de altura situadas en las plantas 18 y 33. Su sistema de climatización está compuesto por el "Techo Frío" emisor y la “fachada activa” de doble capa con movimiento de aire interior.
Durante su construcción, en septiembre de 2006 se declaró un incendio entre la planta 40 y 42, la última en construcción en ese momento, pero no afectó a su estructura.
Delante de la Torre Espacio se ha situado la escultura “Simeón sentado” abra de Francisco Leiro en 2007,
November 2014
Frankfurt am Main - St. Katharinen-Kirche
Beginn des Weihnachtsgeschäfts auf Frankfurts Einkaufsmeile Zeil - the start of the christmas business on Frankfurt's Zeil shopping mile
Torre CajaMadrid (inicialmente Torre Repsol)
Arquitecto: Norman Foster & Partners
Estructura: Halvorson & Partners - Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP. Instalaciones: Aguilera Ingenieros. Responsables del proyecto de construcción José Ramón Burgos Morcillo y Pedro González Lejarriaga
Es el edificio más alto de España, con 45 plantas y 250 metros de altura. Proyecto: 2003. Edificado entre 2004 y 2009. La estructura está compuesta por un entramado de acero, que permite una planta rectangular de oficinas, soportado por dos grandes núcleos de hormigón, que encierran los elementos de comunicación vertical y de servicio, que se unen en el remate superior mediante un elemento tipo puente. La fachada se cubre de vidrio en la zona de oficinas y de placas de acero inoxidable en los núcleos de hormigón. Las plantas de oficinas se agrupan en tres cuerpos prismáticos intercalados entre los dos núcleos verticales que los sustentan, conformando una geometría que da su característica imagen al edificio.
Una vez iniciada la construcción, Repsol decidió cambiar la ubicación de su futura sede por lo que el edificio en obras fue adquirido por Caja Madrid con el fin de convertirlo en su sede principal en 2009. En su base se incluye el grupo escultórico Géminis, de Blanca Muñoz, de 2007, y la Menina de Manolo Valdés entre esta torre y la de Sacyr Vallehermoso
Torre CajaMadrid (inicialmente Torre Repsol)
Arquitecto: Norman Foster & Partners
Estructura: Halvorson & Partners - Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP. Instalaciones: Aguilera Ingenieros. Responsables del proyecto de construcción José Ramón Burgos Morcillo y Pedro González Lejarriaga
Es el edificio más alto de España, con 45 plantas y 250 metros de altura. Proyecto: 2003. Edificado entre 2004 y 2009. La estructura está compuesta por un entramado de acero, que permite una planta rectangular de oficinas, soportado por dos grandes núcleos de hormigón, que encierran los elementos de comunicación vertical y de servicio, que se unen en el remate superior mediante un elemento tipo puente. La fachada se cubre de vidrio en la zona de oficinas y de placas de acero inoxidable en los núcleos de hormigón. Las plantas de oficinas se agrupan en tres cuerpos prismáticos intercalados entre los dos núcleos verticales que los sustentan, conformando una geometría que da su característica imagen al edificio.
Una vez iniciada la construcción, Repsol decidió cambiar la ubicación de su futura sede por lo que el edificio en obras fue adquirido por Caja Madrid con el fin de convertirlo en su sede principal en 2009. En su base se incluye el grupo escultórico Géminis, de Blanca Muñoz, de 2007, y la Menina de Manolo Valdés entre esta torre y la de Sacyr Vallehermoso
La Torre Espacio, Madrid, Abril 2011. La curva responde a la fórmula y= cox (x).
The curve presented by this tower is defined by the function y = cos (x).
(230 metros)
Before moving on from La Defense, I've just got a few more reflection shots to go. I don't think it would be wrong to say it's (probably) the best place I've been for this kind of shot due to the wide variety of fully glazed curved buildings of various architectural styles.
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9º dia de viagem - A segunda construção mais alta da cidade e edifício mais alto. Colônia, Alemanha.
Colônia (em alemão: Köln) é, em termos de população, a quarta maior cidade da Alemanha e a maior cidade do estado de Renânia do Norte-Vestfália. É um dos mais importantes portos fluviais alemães e considerada a capital econômica, cultural e histórica da Renânia. Com 991.395 habitantes (2007) é a 16ª maior cidade da União Européia.
Colônia é uma cidade independente (Kreisfreie Stadt) ou distrito urbano (Stadtkreis), ou seja, possui estatuto de distrito (kreis).
Sua localização na intersecção do rio Reno (Rhein em alemão) com uma das maiores rotas comerciais entre a Europa Ocidental e Oriental foi a fundação da importância comercial de Colônia. A feira comercial KölnMesse é das maiores e mais importantes da Alemanha. Na Idade Média também se tornou um centro eclesiástico maior e um importante centro de artes e aprendizado. Colônia foi severamente atingida ao longo da II Guerra Mundial.
Colônia tem uma universidade com sete faculdades e aproximadamente 45.000 estudantes (2005), uma das maiores na Alemanha e renomada por sua faculdade de economia. Foi fundada em 1388, fechado durante a ocupação da cidade pelos franceses em 1798, e só reaberto em 1919. Além da universidade, existem mais oito institutos de ensino superior na cidade, privados e públicos, entre eles a Fachhochschule Köln, o maior instituto politécnico da Alemanha. No total, Colônia tem acerca de 70.000 estudantes.
Colônia tem um arcebispo católico. A Catedral de Colônia (em alemão Kölner Dom), uma igreja gótica, é o marco principal da cidade e seu símbolo não-oficial. Os habitantes da cidade são 43% católicos, 18% protestantes e 39% de outras religiões. Até a II Guerra Mundial e a consequente leva de refugiados da Alemanha Oriental, o Catolicismo era a religião da vasta maioria em Colônia.
Colônia tem 31 museus, entre eles a destacar o Museum Ludwig (Arte moderna e contemporánea), o Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Arte do medieval até o século XIX) e o Römisch-Germanisches Museum (Artesanato da época romana), com varias construções subterrâneas da época do império romano.
Vinte por cento da população de Colônia não é alemã. Desses, quarenta por cento são turcos.
Colônia é bem conhecida por sua cerveja, chamada de "Kölsch". Kölsch também é o dialeto de Colônia. É dito de forma jocosa que Kölsch é a única língua que se pode beber.
Em Agosto de 2005, Colônia era hospedeiro da XX Jornada Mundial da Juventude (em alemão Weltjungendtag), uma das maiores reuniões da juventude católica.
Em 2006, Colônia foi uma das sedes da Copa do Mundo que aconteceu na Alemanha.
Colônia tem uma das maiores Paradas do Orgulho da Europa, tendo nas últimas edições (2004 a 2005) reunindo entre 600 mil a 1 milhão de participantes.
A "Água-de-Colônia 4711" - tem uma história curiosa: Quando Napoleão invadiu a cidade, ordenou uma renumeração de todas as casas da cidade para maior controle, e coube aos donos da fábrica da Água-de-Colônia o 4711. Napoleão se foi, o número ficou.
9th day of journey - The second highest building in the city. Cologne, Germany.
Cologne (German: Köln; local dialect: Kölle) is Germany's fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants. It is one of the oldest cities in Germany, having been founded by the Romans in the year 38 BC. Cologne was granted the status of a Roman "city" in the year 50 AD.
Cologne lies on the River Rhine. The city's famous Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. The University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) is one of Europe's oldest universities.
Cologne is a major cultural centre of the Rhineland and has a vibrant arts scene. Cologne is home to more than 30 museums and hundreds of galleries. Exhibitions range from local ancient Roman archaeological sites to contemporary graphics and sculpture. The city's Trade Fair Grounds are host to a number of trade shows such as the Art Cologne Fair, the International Furniture Fair (IMM) and the Photokina. Cologne is also well known for its celebration of Cologne Carnival, the annual reggae summerjam, the largest of it's kind in Europe, and the LGBT festival Christopher Street Day (CSD).
Within Germany, Cologne is known as an important media centre. Several radio and television stations, including Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), RTL and VOX (TV channel), are based in the city. The city also hosts the Cologne Comedy Festival, which is considered to be the largest comedy festival in mainland Europe.
A tour of Seville on our coach. A local tour guide talked about what we were seeing (allowing our normal tour manager to have a break for once!).
Views from the Barqueta Bridge. Puente de la Barqueta.
Rio Guadalquivir.
View of the Torre Pelli and the next bridge down -
Pasarela de la Cartuja.
Construction started in 2007 and is expected to be finished by 2015.
The Cajasol Tower or Torre Pelli , as known in the city, is a building designed by Cesar Pelli currently under construction in an area called Puerto Triana in Seville. The north tower has two lower buildings with a central street. The name of the project in the study of the architect is Seville Tower .
When the project was proposed was sponsored by savings El Monte and Caja San Fernando, you agree to merge in December 2006 to form the savings Cajasol , to be operational in 2007. The box is integrated into the bank CaixaBank in March 2012. Since 2013 Cajasol exists as foundation.
Upon completion it will become the first skyscraper and the tallest building in the city and also in the highest Andalucía , and in the seventh tallest skyscraper in Spain , just after the skyscrapers of Madrid and Benidorm and ahead of cities like Barcelona . Construction of the building is carried out in the southern sector, Isla de la Cartuja with avenues of sponsorship and Inca Garcilaso, in a plot with an area of 59,000 m². On 17 July 2007 the first stone was laid. The tower will have a total height of 180.5 meters . The proposed building has 37 floors and elliptical of reinforced concrete above ground with 3 underground. The facade is made of glass and steel was studied and its protection against the sun with ceramic blades, although the project was changed so that these were aluminum colored tile.
In 2010 the works were awarded to a Joint Venture of the builder FCC (80%) and Inabensa (20%), being the second subsidiary of Abengoa . the same year the construction of the two efificios podium is awarded to the company Isolux Corsan. In 2013 CaixaBank works awarded to Dragados completion.
Nuevo edificio de BBVA en Las Tablas (Madrid), de 100 metros de altura
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New BBVA Building in Las Tablas (Madrid, Spain). About 100 meters high. Commonly known as «La vela» (The Sail).
Not from today, but from yesterday. Thus not material for the project 365. But there were some really neat colors anyway. This was taken from my balcony, thus there was no choice but to include the skyscraper - at least the see-through windows add some interest to it :P
Die Zwillingstürme der Deutschen Bank sind 155 Meter hoch.
The twin towers of Deutsche Bank are 155 meters high.
Les tours jumelles de Deutsche Bank de 155 mètres de haut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Wall_Street
40 Wall Street is a 70-story skyscraper located in New York City. Originally known as the Bank of Manhattan Trust building, and also known as Manhattan Company Building,
it was later known by its street address when its founding tenant merged to form the Chase Manhattan Bank and today is known as the Trump Building.
The building, located between Nassau Street and William Street in Manhattan, New York City, was completed in 1930 after only 11 months of construction.
40 Wall Street (à l'origine le Bank of Manhattan Trust Building) est un gratte-ciel de 71 étages et de 282,5 mètres de haut situé sur l'île de Manhattan à New York.
Conçu par H. Craig Severance et Yasuo Matsui, il a été construit entre 1929 et 1930 en seulement 11 mois.
On l'appelle aussi le Trump Building depuis que son nouveau propriétaire, Donald Trump, l'a rénové en 1996.
Le 40 Wall Street fut pendant deux mois l'immeuble le plus haut du monde, jusqu'à l'achèvement du Chrysler Building.
HISTOIRE :
Course pour le plus haut gratte-ciel du monde
Le 40 Wall Street était prévu pour dépasser de 41 mètres le Woolworth Building (datant de 1913). Mais surtout, les plans étaient conçus de telle sorte que l’édifice soit 2 pieds plus haut que la hauteur prévue du Chrysler Building (282 mètres). Cependant, les concepteurs du Chrysler Building ont secrètement changé la hauteur planifiée après que le 40 Wall Street soit terminé. Une flèche de 38 mètres au sommet du gratte-ciel fit du Chrysler Building le plus haut bâtiment du monde. Cependant ce fut pour une courte période car moins d’un an plus tard, l’Empire State Building et ses 381 mètres s’empara du titre.
Accident
En 1946, par un jour de fort brouillard, 40 Wall Street a été percuté par un avion des garde-côtes américains. L'accident a fait quatre morts.
Torre Picasso (Picasso Tower) is a skyscraper located in Madrid, Spain, on Pablo Picasso Square, within the business and commercial complex AZCA next to Paseo de la Castellana, in the financial district of the Spanish capital. It was designed by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki (who also designed the destroyed World Trade Center in New York).
Construction began in late 1982, and the building was inaugurated in December 1988. Since then, this has been Madrid's tallest building, surpassing Torre de Madrid, but it will be no longer when Torre Repsol is completed. It was also Spain's tallest until recently when it was overtaken by the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm (Alicante).
A notable feature of Torre Picasso is the wide entrance arch, supporting the whole façade over it, with an underground steel structure serving to reinforce it. The gap under this arch is covered by a special security glass named STADIP (the one used in Torre Agbar in Barcelona).
La Torre Picasso es un rascacielos situado en Madrid, España, en la Plaza de Pablo Ruiz Picasso, dentro del complejo empresarial y comercial AZCA, ubicado junto al Paseo de la Castellana en el corazón financiero de la capital española. Fue proyectada por el arquitecto estadounidense de origen japonés Minoru Yamasaki (quien también proyectó el desaparecido World Trade Center de Nueva York).
Altura: 157 m sobre rasante (171 m desde la base del sótano),
Plantas: 43 habitables sobre rasante (planta baja de entrada, 42 dedicadas a oficina), 5 sótanos y 2 plantas superiores de maquinaria
Superficie: 71.700 m² de oficinas (121.000 m² en total)
Su construcción se inició a finales de 1982, y fue inaugurado en diciembre de 1988. Desde entonces, éste ha sido el edificio más alto de Madrid, superando a la Torre de Madrid; pero lo dejó de ser durante la construcción de las cuatro torres del CTBA. Fue asimismo el más alto de España hasta que lo sobrepasó el Gran Hotel Bali de Benidorm (Alicante). La madrileña torre de telecomunicaciones Torrespaña supera a Torre Picasso en altura, pero ésta no se clasifica como edificio sino meramente como estructura autoportante (al igual que la Torre CN de Toronto).
Una característica notable de Torre Picasso es su amplio arco de entrada, que soporta toda la fachada por encima del mismo, contando con una estructura subterránea de acero como refuerzo. El hueco bajo este arco está cubierto mediante un tipo especial de cristal de seguridad llamado STADIP (el mismo usado en la Torre Agbar de Barcelona).