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As the rest of the brikverse begins arming for war with structural titans, the more agile approach of war begins to weaken, but some stick to their ways.
Sempervivum x 'Cobweb' (Crassulaceae - Crassulacées)
After flowering the base will die.
Après la floraison le pied va mourir.
Common names: Sempervivum Arachnoideum, Cobweb Houseleek, live forever, Sempervivum cobweb Hens and Chicks, Cobweb Sedum.
Noms communs: Joubarbe aranéeuse, Sempervivum Jubarbe à toile d'araignée,
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“The shell of a fighter
The shell of a man
The weight of a lifetime
Waiting for your healing hands”
—No-Man, “Shell of a Fighter”
The large expansive magnificent Registry Room or Great Hall as it is now called in the main building of the Immigration Museum at Ellis Island is completely lit with natural light because of its large semi-circular windows. When this edifice opened in 1900, it was touted as fire-proof which was a requirement of the United States government after the original station that opened 1892 had burned down, thus the use of bricks, concrete and ceramic tile is found throughout; the attention to detail is discernable in both this lovely open room as well as the exterior [ see image of exterior posted on my photostream flic.kr/p/eX6LEQ ].
First let’s make this clear that first and second class passengers on ships were inspected on the ships and allowed to go directly ashore. In this now open space on the second level back starting 1900 were bench after bench and enclosures for medical examinations. All steerage class passenger immigrants until 1924 believed that they started their process in this Registry Room and at its peak it is estimated that 10,000 immigrants were processed in 24 hour periods, 10,000….wow. However, the process actually started on the long flight of stairs to the second story registry room. There were doctors strategically posted at the top of the staircase who’s only purpose was to screen the immigrants as they went up the stairs, looking for signs like shortness of breath, limping and excessive gazing which allowed them to classify people with conditions like asthma, physical disability and mental illness respectively. If the doctors at the top of the stairs suspected one of the conditions based on his observation, he would mark that individual with chalk denoting what he suspected on their shoulder, for example the ‘L’ denoted lameness. If you had a chalk marking you were taken to special screening rooms away from the registry for a more in depth medical/mental evaluation. The truth is that only 1-2% of the eager immigrants were turned away, that number though totals a quarter of a million, 250,000 that were turned around, left the Registry Room, grabbed their belongings and re-boarded a steam ship returning as steerage passengers taking them back to their native country. Many were given a reprieve and shuttled to the infirmary on the south end of the island with hopes that whatever was ailing them would heal and allow their passage to America. In this hall, if you stop and think about it were so many anxiously awaiting, questioned, examined and given a yea or nay after being on a crowded, pungent sea vessel as the steerage area was nothing to write home about for 2 at least weeks with as much of their belongings that they could carry. The recurring theme through the immigration museum was “Island of hope, island of tears”. It is estimated even with all the immigration that’s occurred after Ellis Island 30 years of processing that stopped in 1924 that almost 40% of the current American population can trace its origin to Ellis Island.
Where does the island get its name? From its first proprietor, Samuel Ellis who opened a tavern for sea faring people in the latter part of the 1700’s, though the island Ellis owned was a much smaller plot of land barely visible during high tide. When Samuel passed, the Ellis family sold the island to New York State who in turn sold it the US government to build a fort for the war of 1812. When the excavation began for the New York City Subway, little Ellis Island initially doubled in size and as they city of New York continued to dig underground, the island continued to increase in size, they had to put the dirt & rocks somewhere. When the United States altered its policies to control and monitor immigration in the USA, New York City was the principal port for Trans-Atlantic sea travel from Europe, the small island just off the Jersey City shore already the property of the federal government, close to the Central New Jersey Railroad Terminal was a perfect way to keep in incoming immigrants isolated from the populations of New York and New Jersey until they could be properly processed and screened. This all stopped in 1924 when the immigration laws changed, but the facilities on the island continued to operate mainly as a detention facility for illegal aliens until 1954. It sat abandoned and neglected until 1965 when President Lyndon B Johnson declared it part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument which fell under the auspices of the National Park Service. However, it would not be until almost 20 years later in 1983 that actual work was done and the main building was restored to state it was in 1918-1920 and opened as the immigration museum in 1990. The southern part of the island, where the hospital and other medical buildings are have only been worked on in the past decade, mainly structurally fortifying them so they don’t collapse. I attended a lecture by Stephen Wilkes given by B&H Photo and Lexar, a professional photographer that was given the opportunity to shoot the buildings before they started clear them out. A New York photographer, he worked for 5 years until 2003 and captured the almost eerie deserted hospital buildings beautifully using only natural light. The work is in a book called ‘Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom’. I can’t imagine the emotion Stephen felt because I remember as I snapped this image, standing on the second floor balcony, I could almost see and feel the many people below with their hearts in their hands, with hope and anxiety. It is hard not feel like that in this place; I’m the offspring of immigrant parents as are my children as my ex-wife was an immigrant as well. Immigration is very much part of the fabric of America.
Captured with Olympus Evolt E-510 with an Olympus Zuiko 14-42MM F3.5-5.6 lens, processed in Photomatix and cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Sunrise over a collapsed pier.
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in my Structural Details Series ...
Taken Jul 16, 2019
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Sticking with this wonderful structural concrete spiral stair in the recently completed University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. Herzog & de Meuron buildings usually have great stairs and this one is no exception.
One of the most impressive things for budding Architects to note is how the light fittings appear to be wireless......
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From Wikipedia : "The Blavatnik School of Government is located in the University of Oxford's Radcliffe Observatory Quarter on Woodstock Road, however its main entrance is on Walton Street. The building is designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron to promote open discussion, interaction and collaboration. The central forum is inspired by the idea of openness and transparency and connects all the floors together. Construction work started in autumn 2013, after some controversy, and ended in late 2015. The building is controlled by a combination of systems and technology that helps minimise its environmental impact.
The building is taller than Carfax Tower in the centre of Oxford, this dominating the site and causing opposition to the scheme by local residents in the Jericho district of the city and elsewhere. The site is immediately to the south of the café/bar Freud, in the historic 1836 Greek revival St Paul's Church on Walton Street. The scheme has been opposed by the cafe's owner, David Freud, due to its size compared to the church building. The site is also opposite the classical Oxford University Press building. In Spring 2013, a public meeting was held in St Barnabas Church and the building was described as "a concrete marshmallow".
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in my Structural Detail Series ...
Taken Feb 14, 2018
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Another photo of The Monument Building in the City of London, this is a cropped version of City Flickr 6.
See my Album called 'City Flickr' for the others.
Architect: Ken Shuttleworth of Make
Camera: Minolta X-300
Lens: Vivitar 28mm F2
Filter: Hoya Red(25A)
Film: Ilford HP5+
Processing and Scanning: Gulabi Photo Lab, Glasgow
Post Processing: Photoscape X
More from an afternoon walk around Mugdock Park can be found here youtu.be/HRWCEASfu5g.
This is a historic house, from what I understand its over a century old. The stone appears to b e local. After seeing so many structures fall to ruin in rural Missouri its a pleasure to see one being maintained. Taken on the outskirts of Owensville Missouri.
The old mausoleum has major problems with water infiltration. It is strewn with debris from the resulting decay, and from some of the individual crypts being opened.
The woman entombed in this one died in 1944, age 65 years and 2 days. Most of the nearby crypts were sealed in the 1920s and 1930s.
A landscape version of a square format image (flic.kr/p/2q9Qqit) that I posted on here earlier this year.
Colt House, Shoreditch, East London, Photo taken in April 2018
The trunk of a dead tree, with the bark worn off (eroded away) and the outer core wood desiccated and cracked. Some insect boring tunnels (linear grooves with U-shaped bends) are present.
C. J.R. Devaney
It was chilly. Our Pair of Ducks was resting after foraging and in order to preserve body heat and relieve neck muscles they'd tucked feather-naked yellow bills under their warm-feathered wings. Sleeping they keep one eye open to warn them in case I'd come too close for comfort. The coloring of green head and blue wing patches (called 'specula' in ornithological parlance) is beautiful. That coloring is not caused by pigmentation. Pigments 'color' by absorbing light. But the green and blue of our Mallard are produced by special nanostructures in those feathers that reflect special wavelengths of light.
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Yesterday we drove over an hour into Queens to get our first covid vaccine at the NYPD Police Academy where my son works... they allowed the parents of the police to get their shot without having having to jump through hoops...
Since we were close by, we went to visit the remains of the Worlds Fair, thankfully I had my little camera with me to get these shots... It was a very grey day, so I hope when we go back for the second shot, the sun is shining and maybe I can get better shots...
The New York State Pavilion is a historic world's fair pavilion at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Flushing, Queens, New York. It was designed in 1962 for the 1964 New York World's Fair by architects Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, with structural engineer Lev Zetlin. Wikipedia
Located in: Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Built: 1962–1964
Architects: Richard Foster, Philip Johnson, George Cary
One Thousand Museum is a high-rise residential condominium located in downtown in Miami, Florida, United States. The deep foundation required drilling to record depths of over 170 feet (52 m) by HJ Foundation, part of the Keller Group. The 62-story building is expected to rise over 709 feet (216 m), making it one of the tallest buildings in Miami. The depths of two auger-cast piles broke a record for Miami-Dade County that had recently been set by HJ Foundation at the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach. The building, which is located at 1000 Biscayne Boulevard, across from Museum Park, was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. After the death of Hadid, the Project Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, Chris Lepine, completed the project. The exotic design of the building features a curving exoskeleton partially obscuring the balconies that also serves structural purposes, allowing the interior space to have fewer columns. To meet the architect's designs of smoothness and finish, the columns were finished with glass fiber reinforced concrete permanent form works. The effect of the design and height on wind loading is part of the reason the foundation had to be exceptionally deep. The building is considered ultra-luxury, containing about 83 large units priced at about double the cost per square foot of nearby condominium towers, with amenities possibly including a rooftop helipad.
In early 2018, before the building was finished, an episode of PBS Impossible Builds featured the building, which they referred to as the "scorpion tower".
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