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The weird thing about this factory is that it's still in business; it's not abandoned or converted into lofts. You can see every little section of the building and how chaotic it is. These guys manufacture the spotlights you see attached to police cars and things like that. This is on Clybourn in Chicago.
Keri Russell reading to children at the Cardoza Clinic while in a day long meeting with the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, DC.
I made this card for this week's Unity Stamp Company Challenge.
For the details check out my blog at thecraftycorgi.blogspot.com/p/unity-stamp-co-challenge.html
The external cladding of the Unity building is arranged in a "dazzle" camouflage pattern based on that applied to ships on the Mersey during the war.
The top of the Unity building features a distinctive box structure containing two penthouses. I don't see how this is as a natural development of the architecture below but it gives the building a strong visual identity on the skyline.
The Unity Building
architects : Allford Hall Monaghan and Morris
completed 2006
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Italia '61, la monorotaia inaugurata per i 100 anni dell' unità d' Italia...sospesa su un laghetto che sistematicamente gela tutti gli inverni...
Italy '61, the monorail was inaugurated for the 100th anniversary of the 'unity of Italy' ... suspended over a pond that systematically freezes every winter ...
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UNITY photographed in Tilbury Docks on 26 July 1980.
480 grt; 625 dwt
Built: 1952 by Martenshoekster Scheepsbouw NV, Martenshoek, Netherlands. Yard no 77, as OLIVER VAN NOORD
GRT : 460 / DWT: 625
Dimensions : Length : 51.5 metres x Beam : 8.4metres.
Main engine: six-cylinder, four-stroke Appingedammer Brons 6EF of 350 bhp. Speed: 10 knots.
History
1952 : Built for Scheepvaart Kantoor Liberg, Rotterdam, Netherlands as OLIVIER VAN NOORT. Port of Registry Raamsdonksveer
1970 : Sold to Rederij Viking CvoA, Netherlands and renamed CAPRICORN. Port of Registry Willenstad
1972 :Sold to Bulk Cargo Handling Services Ltd and renamed SEAFORTH TRADER. Port of registry Liverpool
1975 : Sold to Benlow Shipping Co Ltd and renamed BENLOW TRADER. Port of registry Liverpool
1975 : Sold to St.Swithins Shipping Co Ltd and renamed ARGUS PROGRESS .Port of registry Liverpool
1978 : Sold to Marine Management Corp and renamed LEK UNITY. Port of Registry Singapore.
1979 : Renamed UNITY by owners Marine Management Corp and Port of Registry changed to Panama.(as shown in photo)
1985 : Sold for breaking up in Israel.
Unity, By Simon Donovan and Ben Olmstead, Tucson, AZ
"For the Grant Road Improvement Project Phase 2, Simon Donovan & Ben Olmstead were selected to complete artwork for the project. The sculpture they created is called Unity and is comprised of five figures, three female, two male. Each one is approximately 10 feet tall. They stand in a circle facing outward, holding hands and leaning far forward. They would tumble forward if not for the cooperation, trust, and collective effort that is required in forming an unbroken ring. Thus the title "Unity".
"The sculpture is made of hundreds of parallel, vertically aligned stainless steel plates, each held 1 inch apart. The result is a study of figures with a shifting perception of form as one moves around the sculpture. Additionally, it will be illuminated with amber colored LED lights at night."
A shot taken during a wedding at a couple of angels.
Nikon D70s 1/500, f4.8, Tamron 28-75 @ 32 mm, iso 400
The "Unity Bridge", formerly called the "Frederick Avenue Pedestrian Bridge", is a footbridge crossing an active railroad, connecting the community of Lincoln Park to the town center in Rockville, Maryland.
Taken for Flickr's Our Daily Challenge: BRIDGE
A 130-year-old edition of Unity, the newspaper of the Western Unitarian Conference, which had been included in the 1884 time capsule.
Photographs © 2014 Sonja L. Cohen. From Christopher L. Walton’s article “UUA holds farewell ceremony for 25 Beacon St.” (uuworld.org, 3.3.14)
(Photo is the property of the Unitarian Universalist Association.)
Unity, Valiant. These were the first Valiant books I ever bought back when they came out. Fortunately now the pre-unity books are much cheaper than they were back in the 90s.
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, PA - Employees from the Pennsylvania National Guard and Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs gathered for Unity Day, an annual celebration of diversity, Aug. 27, 2015. Remarks on diversity and inclusion were presented by Jose Molina, executive director of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs. A variety of cultural displays, music and ethnic foods were the highlights of the event. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Ted Nichols/Released)
Walk About Before 27th POLICE UNITY TOUR Arrival at National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial along F between 4th and 5th Street, NW, Washington DC on Friday afternoon, 13 May 2023 by Elvert Barnes Photography
POLICE UNITY TOUR website at policeunitytour.com/
Elvert Barnes former Police Unity Tour docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/PoliceUnityTour.html
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial NATIONAL POLICE WEEK 2023 at nleomf.org/memorial/programs/national-police-week-2023/
Elvert Barnes 32nd POLICE WEEK 2023 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/police-week
Elvert Barnes May 2023 at elvertxbarnes.com/2023
United States Senator Mitch McConnell at the Unity Rally held on May 22, 2010 in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Unity Attained:
Who dares to equal him
Who falls into neither being nor non-being!
All men want to leave
The current of ordinary life,
But he, after all, comes back
To sit among the coals and ashes.
The Master's verse-comment says:
How many times has Tokuun, the idle old gimlet,
Not come down from the Marvelous Peak!
He hires foolish wise men to bring snow,
And he and they together fill up the well.
May 12, 2019 - Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple located at 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois. "Commissioned by the congregation of Oak Park Unity Church in 1905, Wright’s Unity Temple is the greatest public building of the architect’s Chicago years. Wright’s family on his mother’s side were Welsh Unitarians, and his uncle Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a distinguished Unitarian preacher with a parish on Chicago’s south side where Wright and his wife Catherine were married. Wright identified with the rational humanism of Unitarianism, particularly as influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalism, uniting all beings as one with the divine presence.
Wright’s father had been a Universalist preacher. With their emphasis on a loving God, Universalists were early advocates of abolitionism and were the first church to ordain women. In 1886 Universalist Augusta Chapin became minister of the Oak Park Unity Church, attracting new members to the congregation including Frank Lloyd Wright’s mother Anna. Unitarian Universalist minister Rodney Johonnot succeeded Chapin when she joined the Parliament of World Religions in 1893. A lawyer and graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Johonnot was known for his liberal views, even more extreme than those of Jenkin Lloyd Jones with whom he sometimes took issue.
When Unity Church burned to the ground in June 1905, Wright was awarded the commission, and in 1906 Johonnot published a booklet titled, A New Edifice for Unity Church. He wanted a modern building that would embody the principles of “unity, truth, beauty, simplicity, freedom and reason.”
Wright was a perfect match to these requirements. The design he submitted to the congregation broke with almost every existing convention for traditional Western ecclesiastic architecture. On the novel choice of construction material Wright states, “There was only one material to choose—as church funds were $45,000. Concrete was cheap.” Wright’s bold concept for the building enabled a series of concrete forms to be repeated multiple times.
In harmony with Wright’s philosophy of organic architecture, the concrete was left uncovered by plaster, brick, or stone. Wright’s sensitive handling of materials was a defining feature of his architecture from early in his career. “Bring out the nature of the materials,” Wright insisted in his seminal essay In the Cause of Architecture, “let their nature intimately into your scheme. Reveal the nature of wood, plaster, brick, or stone in your designs, they are all by nature friendly and beautiful. No treatment can be really a matter of fine art when those natural characteristics are, or their nature is, outraged or neglected.”
Unity Temple was a significant commission in Wright’s Oak Park Studio. Charles E. White, who worked as a draftsman for Wright from 1903 to 1906, details the collaborative effort of the Studio to secure the commission, “the chief thing at Wright’s is of course Unity Church, the sketches of which are at last accepted. We have all pleaded and argued with the committee, until we are well nigh worn out. All hands are working on the drawings."
In harmony with Wright’s philosophy of organic architecture, the concrete was left uncovered by plaster, brick, or stone. Wright’s sensitive handling of materials was a defining feature of his architecture from early in his career. “Bring out the nature of the materials,” Wright insisted in his seminal essay In the Cause of Architecture, “let their nature intimately into your scheme. Reveal the nature of wood, plaster, brick, or stone in your designs, they are all by nature friendly and beautiful. No treatment can be really a matter of fine art when those natural characteristics are, or their nature is, outraged or neglected.”
Unity Temple was a significant commission in Wright’s Oak Park Studio. Charles E. White, who worked as a draftsman for Wright from 1903 to 1906, details the collaborative effort of the Studio to secure the commission, “the chief thing at Wright’s is of course Unity Church, the sketches of which are at last accepted. We have all pleaded and argued with the committee, until we are well nigh worn out. All hands are working on the drawings.”
Approached from Lake Street, Unity Temple is a massive and monolithic cube of concrete, sheltered beneath an expansive flat roof. The introspective nature of the building is in part a response to its corner site situated along a busy thoroughfare. No entrance is apparent and the building appears impenetrable, save for a band of high clerestory windows recessed behind decorative piers and shadowed by overhanging eaves.
Entry to the building is via a low hall that connects Unity Temple and Unity House. Above the bank of doors leading into the hall, an inscription in bronze declares, “For the worship of God and the service of man.” The low, dimly lit hall that unites the buildings is a transitional space. To the south it opens directly onto Unity House. Designed for “the service of man,” this secular space includes a central meeting hall, flanking balconies for use as open classrooms, and other special purpose rooms for daily operation. Like Wright’s residential architecture, this congregational parish house is centered on a fireplace hearth.
Situated across the hall from Unity House is the temple. In contrast to the open entrance into Unity House, access to the sanctuary is complex. Wright masterfully manipulates the sequence of entrance; guiding the visitor through low dark passages he termed “cloisters,” before they ascend into the open, brightly lit sanctuary.
The sanctuary is the heart and anchor of the building. At once grand yet intimate, the sanctuary is a masterful composition in light and space. Its elegant articulation and warm colors stand in bold contrast to the grey concrete exterior. Devoid of overt religious iconography, its precise geometric proportions declare a harmonious whole.
The uppermost portion of the sanctuary appears light and transparent. A continuous band of clerestory windows of Wright’s signature leaded glass encircle the flat, coffered ceiling. Set in a concrete grid are twenty-five square skylights of amber tinted leaded glass The effect, Wright states, was intended “to get a sense of a happy cloudless day into the room… daylight sifting through between the intersecting concrete beams, filtering through amber glass ceiling lights. Thus managed, the light would, rain or shine, have the warmth of sunlight.”
While Wright’s innovative use of concrete was chosen for its economy, the completed building ultimately cost nearly twice the contracted price due to complications encountered during construction. In September of 1909, the new building was dedicated. Because its unique design bore little resemblance to the other churches along Lake Street, it was decided to rename it Unity Temple.
The congregation’s board of trustees issued a statement thanking Wright. “We extend to the architect, Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright, our most hearty congratulations upon the wonderful achievement embodied in the new edifice and further extend to him our most sincere thanks for the great service which, through the building, he has rendered to the parish and to the community. We believe the building will long endure as a monument to his artistic genius and that, so long as it endures, it will stand forth as a masterpiece of art and architecture.” Their words were prophetic."
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