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The West Pier in Brighton, UK. This pier gradually collapsed during the early 2000s, and multiple fires in 2003 left little of the original structure.
"Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Italian pronunciation: [katteˈdraːle di ˈsanta maˈriːa del ˈfjoːre]; in English "Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower"), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy (Italian: Duomo di Firenze). It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white, and has an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.
The cathedral complex, in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence and are a major tourist attraction of Tuscany. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.
The cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florence, whose archbishop is Giuseppe Betori.
Florence (/ˈflɔːrəns/ FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse]) is a city in central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.
Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy (established in 1861). The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes has ranked it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Florence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub. In 2008 the city had the 17th-highest average income in Italy." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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The late morning sun creates patterns under a bridge annex over Melbourne's Yarra River at the entertainment precinct of Southbank.
The contrast of the light-and-shade between the precise ones from the wooden slats at the top and the more diffused from the molded metalic surfaces catches the eye.
Taken with the Tokina AT-X 124 PRO DX 12-24mm F4 wide-angle zoom and converted to B&W in PS.
There's been a lot of hoopla about the possible sale of the Packard facility. Best line from the article? "The majority of those old structures are believed to still be structurally sound."
Good luck, pal.
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Nightime view base of Taipei 101, Taiwan. 101 Mall is on several bottom floors of Taipei 101, hence the high end fashion advertising outside the building. this is actually two stories up from the street.
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Soils in the foreground are Talkeetna-Chugach-Histic Cryaquepts association, cool, 10 to 70 percent slopes:
The Talkeetna series consists of deep to very deep, well drained soils that formrd in ash-influenced loess overlying friable to firm glacial till. They are on mountain slopes, hills, ridges, and structural benches with slopes of 0 to 85 percent. The mean annual precipitation is 35 to 50 inches nd mean annual temperature is 33 to 36 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Medial over loamy-skeletal, amorphic over mixed, superactive Andic Humicryods
USE AND VEGETATION: Wildlife habitat and recreation. Native vegetation is alder, willow, tall grass, and other shrubs and forbs. A few areas are used for summer grazing.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: MLRA 224 Cook Inlet Lowland, South-central, Alaska. The series is of moderate extent.
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/T/TALKEETNA.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#talkeetna
The Chugach series consists of very deep, well drained soils formed in a thin mantle of ash influenced loess overlying very gravelly glacial outwash. Chugach soils are on mountains and structural benches. Slopes range from 3 to 85 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 35 inches, and the mean annual temperature is about 34 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy-skeletal, mixed Andic Humicryods
USE AND VEGETATION: Wildlife habitat and recreation.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southcentral Alaska Mountains. The series is of small extent.
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CHUGACH.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#chugach
Histic Cryaquepts (a hydric soil) have a histic epipedon but otherwise are like Typic Cryaquepts. They tend to have ground water at a higher level than in the soils of the Typic subgroup, and shallow water stands for some time above the soil surface. Histic Cryaquepts are considered intergrades to Histosols. They are of small extent in the United States and occur mostly in southern Alaska and in the high mountains of the Northwestern States. Most of the Histic Cryaquepts support native vegetation. They support forest vegetation or watertolerant shrubs and grasses. Histic Cryaquepts are used mainly as forest and wildlife habitat.
The histic epipedon is a layer of organic soil that is naturally saturated with water. It consists of organic soil material (peat or muck) if the soil has not been plowed. If the soil has been plowed, the epipedon normally has a high content of organic matter that results from mixing organic soil material with some mineral material.
It is thick (20- to 60-cm, or 8- to 24-inch) and is saturated with water at some period of the year (unless the soil is artificially drained) and that is at or near the surface of a mineral soil.
Hydric soils are formed under conditions of saturation, flooding, or ponding long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part (Federal Register, 1994). Most hydric soils exhibit characteristic morphologies that result from repeated periods of saturation or inundation that last more than a few days.
To download the latest version of "Field Indicators of Hydric Soils" and additional technical references, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/ref/?cid=s...
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/alaska/AK605/0...
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For additional information about soil classification using Soil Taxonomy, visit:
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For more information about describing soils using the USDA-Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_052523...
For more information about describing soils using the USDA-Soil Survey Manual, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/ref/?cid=n...
To directly access soils data/map, visit “Web Soil Survey”;
Old age refuge
Maison personnes agées
Cowansville, Qc
800 iso, f/13, 1/320, -1ev
D7000 & sigma 24-70 @ 24mm
HDR
Phoenix-See / Dortmund / North Rhine-Westfalia / Germany
Album of Germany: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/sets/7215762606822...
Structurally-tilted sandstones in the Cretaceous of Colorado, USA.
This outcrop is part of Dinosaur Ridge (a section of the Dakota Hogback), which is a north-south trending ridge of eastward-dipping Mesozoic sedimentary rocks. Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous rocks are present, tilted by Laramide Orogeny uplift during the Cenozoic (the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains is immediately west of here).
The exposure consists of structurally tilted beds of the Dakota Sandstone, a Lower Cretaceous succession of nearshore terrestrial to intertidal to shallow marine quartz sandstone deposits. Darker-colored interbeds are composed of finer-grained siliciclastics.
Stratigraphy: Dakota Sandstone, Albian Stage, upper Lower Cretaceous
Locality: crest of Dinosaur Ridge, between Interstate 70 and the town of Morrison, west of Denver, north-central Colorado, USA
The Transamerica Pyramid rises here with a clarity that still feels quietly radical. Seen from the street, its geometry does the work: a disciplined taper, a relentless grid of windows, and a structural logic that reads cleanly even at full height. This view anchors the building where it meets the city—trees, pavement, and the human-scaled threshold—before letting the eye climb, uninterrupted, toward the pale San Francisco sky.
Designed to be read as much as experienced, the Pyramid rewards this straight-on, ground-up vantage. The repeating window bays become a measured rhythm rather than texture, emphasizing proportion over ornament. The flared base—often overlooked—reveals its role as a mediator between monument and neighborhood, opening space at street level while supporting the tower’s unmistakable silhouette above.
What’s striking today is how contemporary the building still feels. Against softer glass towers nearby, the Pyramid’s concrete discipline and precise geometry assert a different kind of confidence—less about spectacle, more about intent. The softened light here brings out subtle tonal shifts in the façade, while the trees frame the structure without competing with it, reinforcing a sense of calm rather than scale alone.
In a city defined by constant reinvention, the Transamerica Pyramid remains a fixed point of orientation—geographic, architectural, and emotional. It doesn’t ask for attention. It earns it, simply by standing exactly where it is, doing exactly what it was designed to do.
I think that would be the "politically correct" way of saying that this old barn along Illinois Rt 26, has collapsed.
Looking up in the glass elevator of the Ledenhall Building, also known as the Cheesegrater, in London, UK.
Structural concrete supporting the upper levels of the Brunswick Centre in Bloomsbury, London.
The Brunswick Centre is a modernist residential, retail and leisure development built in 1972 and designed by Patrick Hodgkinson.