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Parking Structure. New York City. August 14, 2010. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Parking structure and urban scene near the Highline Park in New York City
When in New York City... visit the Highline Park, as we did on this 2010 summer visit. For those who may not know, the Highline Park is a novel New York location, a park high above the streets that occupies the right of way of an old elevated railway. It is widely regarded as one of the most innovative public spaces in this city, and it really is a remarkable place.
It is also a great place to do photography. There are plenty of people subjects there, and there is all of the other stuff that is worth shooting in New York, plus the elevated perspective provides a lot of views that are different from those seen from street level. We've all seen this urban parking structures, which stack cars up several deep in order to make more efficient use of limited space. But we don't often see them from above, where the metal framing suggests planes that aren't visible from below but which connect in interesting ways with the angled lines and planes of the other nearby buildings.
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This image clearly represent de-evolution of building tradition in Croatia.
First on the left is the old village house that reflects history and tradition, but is completely abandoned for being too small for tourist apartments.
In the middle there is awkward construction that presents times when some urban planning was still present: semi-floor was allowed in the attic. While pretty grotesque it still show some charm.
Building on the right symbolizes total construction anarchy - ugly and soulless concrete structure that does not pay any respect to the environment, building rules and tradition, made by sole improvisation of the owner.
Stacked one by another these constructions show one historical path...
Structure Synth structure. Rendered in SunFlow.
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The third and fourth (pictured) European Service Modules are currently in production at Airbus facilities in Bremen, Germany. They are a key element of the Orion spacecraft, the first to return humans to the Moon since the 1970s.
These modules provide the spacecraft with propulsion, power and thermal control, and will supply astronauts with water and oxygen. The Orion spacecraft is composed of a European Service Module, a Crew Module Adapter and a Crew Module. The latter two components are provided by NASA.
Powering flights to the Moon is a collaborative effort. The components and hardware used in the European Service Modules are built and supplied by more than twenty different companies from ten different countries in Europe.
When ready for launch, each module will have a total mass of 13500 kg, almost two-thirds of which is propellant (rocket fuel). More than 11 km of cables are needed to send commands and receive information from the many on-board sensors. As can be seen in the photo, tie-wraps (yellow) come in handy when it comes to keeping all these cables organised.
The first European Service Module is already attached to the Orion spacecraft and awaiting launch for Artemis I later this year. The second European Service Module has been formally transferred to NASA and is completing integration at the Operations and Checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center. It will be used on the Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to fly all the way to the Moon in half a century.
By delivering six European Service Modules, ESA is ensuring NASA’s Artemis programme continues to develop a sustainable presence on and around the Moon in international partnership.
Learn more about Orion and Europe’s involvement here. Follow the latest updates via the Orion blog.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
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“Boxed Triangles” Twelve Triangles #4 + 6 Diminished Square Cupola 84 units
In my hand. From the nascent work I did over the summer on vertex deconstruction techniques for Sphere Theory, I had an idea that it should be possible the reorganize edge arrangement of various prisms into polygonal compounds, and this was a first attempt at demonstrating that. A project which was both illuminating and disappointing, I soon found out that the 12 triangle compound formed by means of this principle was just a macro- polygonal structure different than the previous ones I have done (the grouping of edges is different, and thus the weaving is different but the principle is the same).
The fact that the grouping of edges can be reversed is interesting and not something I initially expected. (It is difficult to describe what I am writing about without some kind of a visual schematic.) But, that aside, the model was visually uninteresting.
Thus, I added in some extra units, and turned this into a woven solid. It still looks like a shamelessly “cobbled together” mix of two ideas, but rather than shun that idea, here I just went with it in choosing the nickname.
Designed by me.
Folded out of kami paper.
The Grey Crane in Nantes, France.
Ondu 4x5 pinhole Camera
15 sec exposure
Kodak Tmax 100
developed in Tmax. 21°c, 7'30min
Shiny blue aBlue Paint and Handrail, Tower Bridge. London, England. July 3, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Shiny blue and black paint on a wall and a handrail on the Tower Bridge, London
I made this photograph in quite the jet-lagged state - though I had recovered a bit from my initial bout that left me unable to do anything but sleep for an hour or two right after we arrived at our hotel in Kensington. I had a laugh-worthy plan to minimize jet lag - and like most such plans it failed miserably. I figured I would just move my wake up time an hour earlier every day as the trip to approached, and I was actually getting up very early in the morning right before we left. (I can report that it is very quiet and peaceful at 2:00 a.m... ;-) What I failed to consider was that I was also reducing the length of every day by one full hour for the better part of a week before travel... and almost entirely by losing sleep. Obviously, I had a big sleep deficit going by the time we left. On top of that, I was basically completely unable to sleep on the flight over - which is odd, since I can usually sleep on planes.
So, we arrived in London, took the underground to Kensington, got a bit lost, finally found out hotel, checked in... and I was incapable of doing anything at all useful. I slept for an hour or two and managed to achieve a state of modest consciousness. If nothing else, I was so tired at this point that I had little problem sleeping that night. So we got on the underground and took the train to the station by the Tower Bridge and walked across it. I was so out of it that I didn't realize until a few days later than I had completely switched north and south directions! Somewhere I probably have some photographs of the whole bridge, but being the sort of photographer I am, I spent a bit of my time pointing that camera at odd things like this pattern of shiny blue paint, stone, and a black railing.
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SYLMAR - A vegetation fire quickly burned across a large open space, with neighborhoods on all sides. Firefighters defended homes and extinguished the flames without damage to any structures.
Helicopter dropping water on grass fire, with firefighters on the ground nearby
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a brush fire at 1:54 PM on Thursday on the 15200 block of West Lakeside Street, where firefighter's initially found one-quarter-acre of medium brush on fire. Flames quickly spread across several acres of grass, fueled by 10 mph winds. Neighborhoods surrounded the large area of vegetation. The incident commander assigned several groups of fire companies to structure protection, defending at least 50 homes during the course of the fire.
Over one hundred LAFD firefighters responded by ground and air, along with assistance from LA County FD, LAFD Crew 3 and LAFD CERT teams, to stop all forward progress in one hour and forty minutes. The fire burned a total of 28 acres of vegetation, but did not damage any of the nearby homes. One patient had a minor complaint, and was evaluated on scene and released. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
© Photo by Greg Doyle
LAFD Incident 062322-1108
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Two solar roof topped parking structures provide an additional 5870 employee parking spaces to supplement the main building's 2385 space underground garage. These four-level decks are more than a quarter mile in length.
Photography Credit: Fabrizio Costantini
Another attempt at a Gasometer - this time with a nice streaky sky. Still a long way to go to get this right, but its a good start.
Gasometer near the train line in Wood Green, north London.
Form Finding through an investigation into the structure and rules governing bubble structures-
rhino scripts soon to be developed...
Who would think that such abstract beauty could be found in street lighting and a building under construction?
This old building is very near to RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk. I wonder if it has some relation to the airfield during WWII? Seen in October 2024.
Escalier de la bibliothèque universitaire de Strasbourg.
Un grand escalier hélicoïdal y a été installé, suspendu par d'immenses tiges métalliques. C'est l'entreprise Schafner qui a participé à sa construction, considérée comme un chef d'œuvre à lui seul qui a même été primé par les Amis du Vieux Strasbourg. "Le résultat est très fidèle au concours : la lumière est abondante, zénithale, comme les Gloires dans la peinture religieuse de la Renaissance", raconte l'architecte, Nicolas Michelin.
Blizzard on 2010
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_World_Trade_Center
1 World Trade Center, also known by its nickname and former name Freedom Tower, is the main building of the new World Trade Center under construction in Lower Manhattan in New York City, USA. The tower will be located in the northwest corner of the 16-acre (65,000 m²) World Trade Center site, bound by Vesey, West, Washington and Fulton streets. Construction on below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the 1,776-foot (541 m) building began on April 27, 2006. On December 19, 2006, the first steel columns were installed in the building's foundation.
Three other high-rise office buildings are planned for the site along Greenwich Street, and they will surround the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which is under construction. The area will also be home to a museum dedicated to the history of the site. On March 26, 2009, the Port Authority said that the building will be known as 'One World Trade Center,' replacing its former name 'Freedom Tower.' When completed, 1 World Trade Center will be among the tallest buildings in the world and the tallest in the United States.
Following the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in the September 11, 2001 attacks, there was much debate regarding the future of the World Trade Center site. Proposals began almost immediately, and by 2002, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation organized a competition to determine how to use the land. Public rejection of the first round of designs, the "Preliminary Design Concepts," led to a second, more open competition in December 2002, the "Innovative Design Study," in which a design by Daniel Libeskind was selected. This design went through many revisions,[13] largely because of disagreements with developer Larry Silverstein, who held the lease to the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001.
A final design for the tower was formally unveiled on June 28, 2006. To satisfy security issues raised by the New York City Police Department, a 187 foot (57 m) concrete base was added in April of that year. The final design included plans to clad the base in glass prisms to address criticism that the base looked like a "concrete bunker." Contrasting with Libeskind's plan, the final design tapers the corners of the base outward as they rise. Its designers stated that the tower will be a "monolithic glass structure reflecting the sky and topped by a sculpted antenna." Commenting on a completion date, Larry Silverstein stated "By 2012 we should have a completely rebuilt World Trade Center more magnificent, more spectacular than it ever was."[14] On April 26, 2006, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved a conceptual framework that enabled foundation construction to begin while a formal agreement was drafted on the following day, the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building. Construction began with a formal ceremony that took place when the construction team arrived.[15] It is projected that the building's topping out will occur in 2011. The building is projected to be ready for occupancy at some point in 2013.
Many remaining vestiges of the concepts drawn from the 2002 competition have since been discarded. 1 World Trade Center will now consist of simple symmetries and a more traditional design intended to bear comparison with selected elements of the existing New York skyline. There will now be a central spire drawing from precedents such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building (and also visually reminiscent of Tower 1 of the old World Trade Center) rather than an off-center spire intended to echo the Statue of Liberty.
1915 postmarked postcard view of a grain elevator at Medaryville, Indiana. This business is shown in the 1904 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Medaryville and is identified as the Crabs, Reynolds & Taylor Grain Elevator. In the 1909 map set, little had changed except the name. The elevator had become the Guild & Robinson (lessees) Elevator with Crabs, Reynolds and Taylor as owners.
The elevator was located on the northwest corner where the Monon Route (Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad) crossed Pearl Street. The photographer was facing northwest from the southeast side of the Pearl Street crossing. The elevator business office was in the wood frame building on the corner. The 1904 map set shows the railroad depot one block south on the southeast corner of the Main Street crossing, but the 1909 map set shows a larger depot structure about ½ block farther south.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
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In March 2014, “Architects of Air" brought their amazing luminarium to Discovery Green in Houston, Texas. Led by artistic director Alan Parkinson, they created Miracoco. This inflatable structure, Inspired by the Lotus Temple in India, is a dazzling maze of tunnels corridors and domes all lit by natural light. Stunning rooms of blue, green and red await those who explore its colorful passages.