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Deepest sympathy with the people of Paris after a night of horror. Friday 13th 2015 will definetly be a day to remember. Seems like we're heading for stormy weather here in Europe. Stay strong, Parisiens, you will get over this. Someday. 💔
Picture of the Eiffel tower taken from top of the Arc de Triomphe during my last stay there four weeks ago.
Update
Sorry I uploaded this and ran... literally. Sat in departures for an hour and only found I had free wifi access just as they called my flight .. doh :-( One quick upload... didn't even have time to put a description...
So... This was taken Tuesday night, and the sky really was that colour... an unbelievably beautiful night in London. 30 sec exposure and managed to catch the movement in the sky. Exif data, map location etc all added in replaced shot.
Ventilation Tower Sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi.
www.johannesreponen.com/journal/2018/1/5/ventilation-towe...
The Prosta Tower is a 70 m tall office building designed by Stefan Kurylowicz and completed in 2011 in the district of Wola in Warsaw. Its openwork facade is its most characteristic feature.
I haven't put a bridge up for a while so here's an old faithful. Can't remember whether it's a 2 or 3 shot pano.
Highlight Towers is a twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany, planned by architects Murphy/Jahn of Chicago. Tower I is 126 m (413 ft) tall with 33 storeys, and Tower II is 113 m (371 ft) tall with 28 storeys, which make them among the highest buildings in the city. The towers are joined by two skyways made of glass and steel.
The city walls in Piran, view from one tower to the other :)
Piran is a town in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. The town is known for its medieval architecture, with narrow streets and compact houses and it's one of Slovenia's major tourist attractions. Architecture of Piran resembles the Italian Venice, to which it belonged in the past, together with Istria. Most of the buildings, as well as the medieval walls separating the city from the rest of the mainland, also come from this period. In the middle of the town is the Tartini Square, with a monument in memory of Giuseppe Tartini. Nearby are located various important buildings, such as Tartini’s house, first mentioned in 1384 and one of the oldest in town, the Municipal Palace. The area of Piran has been inhabited since ancient times. The name of the town most probably originates from the Greek "pyros", meaning fire, due to ancient lighthouses which were supposed to be on the edge of the marina. From 1283 to 1797, the town became part of the Republic of Venice and then was annexed to the Austrian Empire. In 1954 The town was annexed to Yugoslavia.
City walls - former defensive fortifications erected around the city. The first fortifications were built in the 7th century. Today you can see fortifications from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Only the 200-meter-long walls with seven gates have survived. The walls are of uneven height because they were built in different periods - this shows how the architecture of defense has changed. This is one of the best viewpoints on the Old Town and the sea.
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Mury miejskie w Piranie, widok z jednej wieży na kolejną :)
Piran – miasto w Słowenii, siedziba gminy Piran, położone na skalistym cyplu, jest jednym z najatrakcyjniejszych turystycznie miejsc nad słoweńskim Adriatykiem, słynnym ze ze średniowiecznej architektury z wąskimi uliczkami i zwartą zabudową. Swą architekturą o przypomina włoską Wenecję, do której wraz z Istrią należało w przeszłości. Z tego okresu pochodzi też większość zabudowy, a także średniowieczne mury, oddzielające miasto od reszty lądu. Reprezentacyjny plac Tartiniego powstał pod koniec XIX wieku, po zasypaniu wewnętrznego basenu portowego (1894). Mieści się przy nim ratusz i budynek sądu oraz zachowana z obwarowań brama św. Jerzego. Obszar Piranu był zasiedlony od czasów antycznych, a nazwa miasta wywodzi się od greckiego "pyrá", oznaczającego ognisko, ponieważ na krańcu półwyspu zapalano ogień jako punkt orientacyjny dla statków płynących do portu Koper. W 1283 wraz z wybrzeżem Istrii Piran przeszedł pod władzę Republiki Weneckiej, zaś po upadku potęgi Wenecji (1797) Piran przeszedł pod panowanie Habsburgów, zaś w 1954r. znalazł się w granicach Jugosławii.
Mury miejskie - dawne fortyfikacje obronne wzniesione wokół miasta. Pierwsze umocnienia zbudowano już w VII wieku. To, co można zobaczyć dzisiaj to fortyfikacje z przełomu XV i XVI wieku. Zachowały się jedynie mury o długości 200 metrów z siedmioma bramami. Mury mają nierówną wysokość, bo powstawały w różnych okresach – widać dzięki temu jak zmieniała się architektura obronna. To jeden z najlepszych punktów widokowych na położoną na cyplu starówkę.
My 1st Trip to Erop. I love this Place but i feel terrible, because it's winter and Tep at -7. But I Spend all day Near Eiffel......I Should Say i love Paris, This city is totally different from other cites......Anyway i try to Capture a different shot, & i think this little bit different from other pics.
Designed by Gustave Eiffel.
The assembly of the supports began on 1st July 1887 and was completed 22 months later. All the elements were prepared in Eiffel’s factory located at Levallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris. Each of the 18,000 pieces used to construct the Tower were specifically designed and calculated, traced out to an accuracy of a tenth of a millimetre and then put together forming new pieces around five metres each. A team of constructors, who had worked on the great metal viaduct projects, were responsible for the 150 to 300 workers on site assembling this gigantic Meccano set.
All the metal pieces of the tower are held together by rivets, a well-refined method of construction at the time the Tower was constructed. First the pieces were assembled in the factory using bolts, later to be replaced one by one with thermally assembled rivets, which contracted during cooling thus ensuring a very tight fit.
A team of four men was needed for each rivet assembled: one to heat it up, another to hold it in place, a third to shape the head and a fourth to beat it with a sledgehammer. Only a third of the 2,500,000 rivets used in the construction of the Tower were inserted directly on site.
The uprights rest on concrete foundations installed a few metres below ground-level on top of a layer of compacted gravel. Each corner edge rests on its own supporting block, applying to it a pressure of 3 to 4 kilograms per square centimetre, and each block is joined to the others by walls. On the Seine side of the construction, the builders used watertight metal caissons and injected compressed air, so that they were able to work below the level of the water.
The tower was assembled using wooden scaffolding and small steam cranes mounted onto the tower itself. The assembly of the first level was achieved by the use of 12 temporary wooden scaffolds, 30 metres high, and four larger scaffolds of 40 metres each. "Sand boxes" and hydraulic jacks - replaced after use by permanent wedges - allowed the metal girders to be positioned to an accuracy of one millimetre.
On 7th December 1887, the joining of the major girders up to the first level was completed. The pieces were hauled up by steam cranes, which themselves climbed up the Tower as they went along using the runners to be used for the Tower's lifts.
It only took 5 months to build the foundations and 21 to finish assembling the metal pieces of the Tower. Considering the rudimentary means available at that period, this could be considered record speed. The assembly of the Tower was a marvel of precision, as all chroniclers of the period agree. The construction work began in January 1887 and was finished on 31st March 1889. On the narrow platform at the top, Eiffel received his decoration from the Legion of Honour.
A restored 16th century peel tower near Carsphairn, Brockloch Tower stands out against the misty hills.
Blackpool Tower is a tourist attraction in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which was opened to the public on 14 May 1894. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, it is 518 feet (158 metres) tall and is the 120th tallest freestanding tower in the world. Blackpool Tower is also the common name for Tower buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block comprising the tower, the ground floor aquarium and cafeteria, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom and roof gardens that was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973.
The Woolworth's building on the corner of Adelaide Street West was designed by B C Donaldson and opened in 1937. It is built on the site of the former Woolworth's Bazaar and the Royal Hotel. It was Pricebusters before being refurbished by JD Wetherspoon and opened on 2nd July 2010 as The Albert And The Lion freehouse.
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge) is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level. (9/28/2024)
One of London's most recognisable sights, familiar from dozens of movies. Its Neo-Gothic towers and sky-blue suspension struts add extraordinary elegance to what is a supremely functional structure. London was a thriving port in 1894 when it was built as a much-needed crossing point in the east, equipped with a then-revolutionary stream-driven bascule mechanism that could raise the roadway to make way for oncoming ships in just three minutes!
When it comes to creating darkening, somber skies, Mother Nature gives it her best in October and November. This one served as a backdrop for the abandoned guard tower at the former Lorton Prison. I borrowed the title from Stephen King who borrowed it from Robert Browning who borrowed it from Shakespeare. Lots of mileage on that puppy. : ))
Best viewed LARGE.
Veliky Novgorod, Russia
The 38,5 m high tower (apr. 126 feets, with the dome) is the tallest of the nine towers of the Veliky Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets) preserved to date. It received its modern appearance in the 17th century, was severely damaged during WWII and then carefully restored in the 1960s.
Башня Кокуй (Кукуй, Каланча, Каланчовская).
3 CSX SD's lead a Rochester-bound coal train past UN tower at the east end of New Castle on a frosty early morning in December 1986. UN tower was so named because it was near the underpass of UnioN road. UN controlled movements in and out of the east end of the yard in New Castle as well as the connection between the B&O's Pittsburgh & Western and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. It was remoted in November 1995 but was saved by the Beaver Valley Junction chapter of the NRHS who moved it to a nearby park in Mahoningtown. It was cut in half and top and bottom halves were moved by rail. This coal train would take the P&W out of New Castle down to Edineau where it would switch off onto the former BR&P that is now operated by the Buffalo & PIttsburgh.
Bell Tower of Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Sony A7 + SMC Pentax-M 28mm F2.8 + 10stop ND filter.
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