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A steel structure embraces the Iidamaru Gokai Yagura, the five-storey guard tower of Kumamoto castle that was at risk of imminent collapse after a series of powerful earthquakes in April 2016. Much of the stone wall supporting the turret collapsed, leaving only about 8 stones standing, supporting a corner of the 5-ton tower and hence named the “miracle single stoned wall”.
The restoration of the main keep of Kumamoto-jo will be completed by 2019, but the full repair and restoration of the entire castle is scheduled for 2036! For the Iidamaru Gokai Yagura, photographs and historic documents will be used to assigned each stone a number and stack them back, accurately restoring the wall to its original state.
Empire State Building 02/05/2015 10h36
Looking down towards the West 33rd and 34th Street with Macy's flagship department store at the right.
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Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets. It has a roof height of 380 m, and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 443 m high. Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York (although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world), until One World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. he Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 25th-tallest in the world (the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai). It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
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« Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970 »
Preceded by: Chrysler Building
Surpassed by: World Trade Center (Twin Towers)
Architectural style: Art Deco
Location: 350 Fifth Avenue - Manhattan, New York 10118
Construction started: March 17, 1930
Completed: April 11, 1931
Floor count: 103
Height:
Architectural: 381.0 m
Tip: 443.2 m
Roof: 381.0 m
Top Floor and observatory: 373.1 m
Length (east-west): 129.2 m
Width (north-south): 57 m
Lifts/elevators: 73
Architect: Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
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Full view of the front or the river view side of the Rosenbaum House.
Touring Alabama's one and only structure designed by the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The Rosenbaum House is the second of Wright’s Usonian style homes to be built. The Usonian style home was a new designed concept intended as a low-cost housing for middle-class American families. In 1938, newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum were given a two acre lot and funds to build a home by Stanley’s parents. After reading about Frank Lloyd Wright, they commissioned Wright to design and build the house. The first phase of the house cost the couple $14,000. The Rosenbaums moved into their new home in September 1940. The first photographs of the house were placed on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Built in an L-shape, the house is made from natural materials, largely cypress wood and brick. Multilevel low-rising steel-cantilevered roofs covering both the living spaces and adjoining carport. The distinctive feature of the house is its glass, with most of the rooms have their own door to the outside. The center of the house is the “service core”, built around a large stone hearth. The original Usonian floor plan provided 1,540 square feet of living space. After the Rosenbaums fourth child, the family needed more space in the already cramped house. The Rosenbaums asked Wright to design an extension. Wright’s 1948 modification added an additional 1,084 square feet in a second L-shape.
The house was occupied by the Rosenbaums until 1999 when Mildred was moved into a nursing home. This makes the longest occupancy by the original owners of any of Wright’s other Usonian homes. The Rosenbaum family donated the house to the City of Florence and sold the furniture and contents of the house to the city for $75,000. When the city acquired house, the house was in poor repair, with extensive water penetration and termite damage. According to the tour guide, “we almost lost the house for good after a building inspector looked over the house and saw the severity of the damage that he recommended for the house to be torn down since it was in an unsafe condition.” City leaders came up with a plan to fund the restoration of the house. With the help of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, along with the many volunteers and professionals, the Rosenbaum house was meticulously restored and opened to the public in 2002 as a museum.
The Rosenbaum House was place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
2:34 PM CDT, September 4, 2022
Florence, Alabama Trip September 4-5.
Frank Lloyd Wright - Rosenbaum House Museum, 601 Riverview Drive, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama.
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Manhattan NYC Icons - View to a few of New York City's classic iconic structures. Seen in this image is One Vanderbilt, Billionaire's Row and the Statue of liberty lined up in front of the Empire State Building (ESB). This image shows the NYC midtown Manhattan skyline.
The Empire State Building is lit up in blue and white with a flickering candle in the mast in celebration of Chanukkah.
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Das Bild entstand durch eine Fehlzündung, nach dem Spielen in ACDSee fand ichs aber irgendwie doch cool.
The Nine-Dragon Lake, covering about 530 square metres, is divided into two parts, with the strait crossed by the long Nine-Dragon Bridge on which I was stood to take the above picture. The dragon heads seen above decorate an end (the bow?) of the Stone Boat on the western side of the lake, which is a centrepiece of the Huaqing Hot Springs complex, some 25 km east of Xian in Shaanxi Province.
The springs use locally-occurring geothermal heating and have a long documented history of almost three millennia, having served as the location for several palaces built during the reigns of past Chinese dynastic rulers, including King You of the Zhou dynasty, Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty, and an expanded version by Wu Han of the Han dynasty.
Under the Tang emperors Taizong and Xuanzong, with the latter had the structure rebuilt in 723 as part of the Huaqing Palace and is famous as the supposed scene of Xuanzong's romance with his consort Yang Guifei. However, during the events associated with the An Lushan rebellion, considerable damage was done to the site. Nevertheless, the historical legacy of the Huaqing pools has received lasting commemoration, often in the form of poetry.
This site was also the scene of the 1936 Xian Incident, when Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped by two subordinates. Up until then he had been fighting the Communist Chinese and effectively ignoring the expanding Japanese occupation of China. After two weeks of negotiations he agreed to suspend operations against the Communists and begin engaging the Japanese.
Since 2006 the springs complex has been extensively modernised. Whilst key old features, including the lake and Stone Boat remain, I'm not sure exactly what their surroundings look like today in comparison with the view above. For instance, there now appears to be a helipad in the middle of the lake with walkways out to it, based on looking at that well-known registered and trademarked mapping website...
Scanned from a negative.
Under the George Washington Bridge - a 4,760 ft (1,450 m) bridge connecting northern New Jersey to upper Manhattan, New York City.
Haven't been playing around with lighting much, slowly trying to incorporate them into my 365 Days project again..
5 Bowens Gemini 500 strobes in the background at lowest power, Gemini 1000PRO into 1m softbox on the left, Gemini 750 into 1m octa on boom.
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At 11:30PM on November 7, 2021 the Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire in the 8100 block of N Sunland Bl in Sun Valley. Firefighters arrived to a two story, commercial building (site of previous burn) with heavy fire showing. In a mostly defensive operation, 87 firefighters battled flames with at least four ladder pipes and several other heavy streams in operation on the commercial building for over two hours before safely achieving a knockdown.
© Photo by Mike Meadows
LAFD Incident 120721-1589
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