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Über den Dächern von New York, mit einem fantastischen Blick auf die Gebäude und die tiefen Schluchten der Strassen.
Over the rooftops of New York, with a fantastic view of the buildings and the deep canyons of the streets.
Manhattan - New York
Amerika (America)
September 2012
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Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower. This 54 storey high skyscraper is probably the most famous building in Roppongi - finished in 2003. It is now the home to shops, offices, an art museum and restaurants, and quite the landmark.
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Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower. This 54 storey high skyscraper is probably the most famous building in Roppongi - finished in 2003. It is now the home to shops, offices, an art museum and restaurants, and quite the landmark.
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Dawn breaking over the housetops in Shiba, Tokyo (the building to the right is the World Trade Center).
I am really not a morning person, but flying to the other side of the world means the jet-lag will keep me awake at odd hours (this was about five-six in the morning).
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Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower. This 54 storey high skyscraper is probably the most famous building in Roppongi - finished in 2003. It is now the home to shops, offices, an art museum and restaurants.
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...when you can escalate?
Yes, I admit, that is a terrible pun, but I couldn't resist.
Taken in Akihabara, Tokyo.
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Can you spot him (or possibly her)?
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With a view towards World Trade Center in Shiba.
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You know, because there is a lot of blue in this shot. And I miss Tokyo. So...
The train (for those of you interested in such things) is the Yamanote line, circling central Tokyo. You can tell by the green colour.
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The big one to the left is Roppongi Hill's Mori Tower.
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Tokyo's World Trade Center at night.
Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower. This 54 storey high skyscraper is probably the most famous building in Roppongi - finished in 2003. It is now the home to shops, offices, an art museum and restaurants, and quite the landmark.
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Akihabara at night.
(What you can't tell from this photo is that it was very, very cold, and rather windy, so getting my hands out of my pockets to take a photo was a bit of a self-sacrifice!)
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In Akihabara (Akiba for short) on a rather rainy day.
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On the border between Shibakoen and Atago, Tokyo.
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Towering - the Christmas edition.
Roppongi Hills' Mori Tower with last year's Christmas decorations. What you, of course, can't see is that the Christmas tree (though perhaps it would be more fitting to call it a Christmas pyramid) was changing colour over and over again. And it was terribly windy! (I have a lot of photos from this visit complete with blond hair all over the picture... I won't be uploading those)
Mori Tower is 54 storey high skyscraper which is probably the most famous building in Roppongi - finished in 2003 (though now with some competition from Tokyo Midtown). It is now the home to shops, offices, an art museum and restaurants.
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The bronze statue 'Maman' by the French artist Louise Bourgeois outside Mori Tower at Roppongi, Tokyo. It's a gigantic spider. It is not meant to scare anyone, instead it is actually a tribute to Bourgeois' own mother, who died when Bourgeois was 21. Her mother worked with weaving and tapestries, but was also helpful and protective - just as a spider. The statue is one of six casts made after the 1999 original at Tate Modern, London (the other five can be found in Ottawa, Canada, Bilbao, Spain, Leeum, South Korea, Bentonville, USA, and Doha, Qatar.
The sculpture is here because of the Mori Art Museum at the top of the building (well worth a visit) - and it's gigantic, being more than 9 metres tall).
[Thanks Wikipedia for most of the information.]
Wikipedia: The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is an 87-storey skyscraper in London that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Practical completion was achieved in November 2012. Its privately operated observation deck, the View from the Shard, opened to the public on 1 February 2013. Standing approximately 306 metres (1,004 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union. It is the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck – the UK's highest – on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres (802 ft). It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in Southwark in 1975. The Shard was developed by Sellar Property on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property and the State of Qatar. Architect Renzo Piano.
View from Hamamatsuchō station, Tokyo.
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Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. This 54 storey high skyscraper is probably the most famous building in Roppongi - finished in 2003. It is now the home to shops, offices, an art museum and restaurants.
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Tokyo World Trade Center to the right.
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A relaxing day by the lake in Ueno Park. (The lake is actually Shinobazu Pond - Shinobazu no Ike, 不忍池)
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Standing just outside the great hall at the Buddhist temple Zōjō-ji, in Tokyo, looking towards the gate Sanmon, and the modern buildings of Shiba beyond that (the tall brown thing to the right is Worldtrade center). Here you also get a snapshot of the different groups of people you generally come across on a Tokyo outing: housewives (the women closest to the camera), schoolchildren in their uniforms (a group of them are walking down the stairs to the left), salarymen (the black-and-white dressed men standing in front of the gate, probably taking photos with their phones of the temple) and a couple of tourists (to the upper right - the only ones not dressed in black and white).
The gate Sanmon is really called a Sangedatsu Mon (三解脱門) and anyone passing through here can rid oneself of the three passions of greed, hatred and foolishness. The gate dates to 1622 and is the only building in the temple compound that survived the second world war. Zōjō-ji was founded by Yūyo Shōsō in the 14th century - at another place but it was moved here in 1590 and during the Edo period it was one of the two family temples of the Tokugawa family (the other being Kan'ei-ji).The temple is the main temple of the Chinzei branch of Jōdo-shū Buddhism.
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings between 48th and 51st streets in New York. The 14 Art Deco buildings were built 1930-39. Principal architect: Raymond Hood.
Residential/commercial building complex with car-park, auditorium and marina on the bank of the Chicago River.
Built: 1959-1964. Architects: Bertrand Goldberg Associates.
Trump International Hotel and Tower was completed in 2009. With a height of 423 m, including its spire, it was the fourth-tallest in the United States in 2014.
Architect: Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Hotel_and_Tower_(Chicago)
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Am I the only one slightly surprised by a football field (soccer field, to you Americans) in a place known for its incredibly high land value?
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Looking towards Roppongi - the highest building to the left is Roppongi Hills, and the one a bit further to the right is Tokyo Midtown. The black, furthest to the right, is Izumi Garden Tower.
Wikipedia: The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is an 87-storey skyscraper in London that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development. The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Practical completion was achieved in November 2012. Its privately operated observation deck, the View from the Shard, opened to the public on 1 February 2013. Standing approximately 306 metres (1,004 ft) high, the Shard is currently the tallest building in the European Union. It is the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck – the UK's highest – on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244.3 metres (802 ft). It was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in Southwark in 1975. The Shard was developed by Sellar Property on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property and the State of Qatar. Architect Renzo Piano.
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In the financial district of Tokyo.
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Zōjō-ji and Atago Green hills.
The Ankokuden temple at Zōjō-ji. In this building the black image of Amida Buddha is kept - though it is shown to the public just three times a year (this is also the place where you can buy amulets and other trinkets from the monks).
Zōjō-ji was founded by Yūyo Shōsō in the 14th century - at another place but it was moved here in 1590 and during the Edo period it was one of the two family temples of the Tokugawa family (the other being Kan'ei-ji). The area was badly damaged in the second world war and the present hall was built in 1974 featuring both classical architecture and more modern elements. The temple is the main temple of the Chinzei branch of Jōdo-shū Buddhism.
The other building is one of the Atago Green hills tower, the MORI tower - named after the building tycoon Minoru Mori. The building dates to 2001 and was designed by the architect Cesar Pelli.
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One of the newly constructed houses at St Giles Court in central London - designed by the architect Renzo Piano.
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View over the Imperial palace east garden - towards Ōtemachi, in the area that in the Edo period was the castle grounds.