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The twin towers of the wooden World Heritage listed Iglesia San Francisco, built in 1912, in Castro, Chiloé, Chile.
VIEWING TOWER (Reusel, the Netherlands) - ateliereenarchitecten
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I cant stop admiring the engineering. Did you know that a similar structural pattern is used in the Statue of Liberty?
I spent much of the weekend at Netheravon airfield camp, home of the Army Parachute Association and the Red Devils parachute display team. The reason was that our son, Will, had signed up to do his first parachute jump under the watchful eye of the Army.
After a promising day (during which I had lunch in sunshine in a pub garden) I made my way to Netheravon late in the afternoon to watch, only to see the weather close in, the wind pick up and the planned jump postponed.
So I came back the next morning to low cloud and a still persistent wind and, after a few hours waiting, it was clear that conditions were not going to be favourable enough to allow Will and his Air Cadet buddies to jump. So it will have to wait for another time.
I amused myself while kicking around the airfield with a Nikon and a long lens. Here is the control tower and some indication of the nature of the sky on Sunday morning.
A view from inside of the derelict control tower at Bovingdon airfield around 1982. It has since been covered in soil and has collapsed.
During World War 2, Bovingdon was home to the B17 Flying Fortess Combat Crew Replacment Centre (11CCRC)8th Air Force. After the war it was still busy with the USAF / RAF , being involved in activities connected with the Berlin Airlift.
The airfield also featured in many feature films, including "The War Lover" , "633 Squadron" and "Hanover Street" . Today Bovingdon airfield is home to a large prison and a saturday market site.
UPDATE : DEC2015 Bovingdon was used in the Brad Pitt film "Fury" for some of the tank battle scenes . Other films that have also used Bovingdon - Harry Potter ( Hagrid motorbike scene ) , Star Wars "Force Awakens" ( desert /palm tree plane crash ? scene )
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Shakespeare Tower, looking past Frobisher Crescent.
The Barbican Estate was built from the ruins of Cripplegate (flattened during the Blitz). The estate was built between 1965-75, although discussions began in 1951.
The architectural firm was Chamberlin, Powell and Bon - Geoffry Powell (1920–1999), 'Joe' Chamberlin (1919–1978) and Christoph Bon (1921–1999). The estate mixes residential buildings with a public library, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Museum of London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the City of London School for Girls and a YMCA.
The residential buildings comprise of three towers - Cromwell (completed in 1973), Shakespeare (completed in 1976) and Lauderdale (completed in 1974) - and 13 terrace blocks (including Ben Jonson House, Defoe House, Gilbert House, amongst others).
The estate is effectively an arcology, raised up above street level to be a small village. The stark concrete is a dominant look, but this is softened by its textured surface, and the curves in the design itself. Despite (or perhaps, because) being a concrete landscape, the estate is surprisingly green - with various gardens, and an artificial lake (let alone the windowboxes of the apartments and maisonettes).