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So often taken for granted, the Riverside Expressway in the Brisbane CBD as seen from below. via 500px ift.tt/1qHGLN7
Krakow's Main Square (Rynek Glowny) as seen from the balcony of Hotel Wentzl (stay here if you're going to Krakow!). Aside from being one of the most energetic places on Earth, it is filled with stunning old world architecture. From left to right, the Town Hall Tower, Cloth Hall (the market), the open air market, St. Mary's Basilica and St. Adalbert's Church.
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Chicago, IL
October 16th, 2012
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Architect: Akira Yoneda/ARCHITECTON
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Founded: 1991
Principal: Akira Yoneda
Education:
Harvard GSD, M.Arch.II {1991}
University of Tokyo, M.Eng. {1984}
University of Tokyo, B.Eng. {1982}
Work history:
Practice- Takenaka Corporation {1984- 89}
Academic- associate professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology {2004- present}
Key completed projects:
K Clinic, Nabari, Japan, {2007}, White Base, Tokyo, {2006}, ?, Tokyo, {2005},
HP, Tokyo, {2004}, Conoid II, Tokyo, {2004},
BLOC, Kobe, Japan, {2002},
Conoid, Tokyo, {2002}, Beaver House, Tokyo, {2002}, nkm, Tokyo, {2001},
Ambi-Flux, Tokyo, {2000}, House E, Kanagawa, Japan, {1999},
White Echoes, Tokyo, {1998},
Key current projects:
Swing, Tokyo, {2008}, HOJO, Tokyo, {2008}
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Looking upward to the underside of the roof of Auckland Art Gallery's new wing, opened in 2011. A joint venture between Sydney-based Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp, Auckland-based Archimedia and Auckland City Council.
I learned that great care was taken to shape and define key symbolic elements within the new build that respond to traditional Māori beliefs and the site’s sense of history and place.
The wood seen here is Agathis australis, commonly known as kauri - the largest and most renowned of all the native New Zealand timber trees.
The redevelopment has to date, received 17 architectural and 6 design-related awards including the World Architecture Festival's 2013 World Building of the Year.
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Chicago, IL
February 12th, 2016
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Memorial Stupa at Choeung Ek. Between 1975 and 1978 about 17,000 men, women, children and infants who had been detained and tortured at S-21 were transported to the extermination camp of Choeung Ek. It is a peaceful place today, where visitors can learn of the horrors that unfolded here decades ago.
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North Avenue Beach
10-18-2011
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Sunset over cherry blossom park and tower background in Seoul city, South Korea, this image can use for travel, sakura, and holiday concept
Año 1242, capilla gótica en el centro de Paris, con 600 metros cuadrados de vitrales, dos terceras partes de ellos siguen siendo originales, soportando incendios y la propia Revolución Francesa. En el S.XIX fue restaurada por Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.
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Budapest, Terézváros.
The notable Hungarian photographer, Mai Mano's former home and studio, now The Hungarian House of Photography, exhibition hall, bookshop and café.
Architects: Nay & Strausz, 1894. Eclectic Neo-renaissance style.
Note the cast iron windows of the Sunlight studio and the frescos around it, with the attributes of painting, photography and chemistry (aka muses of photography).
Sculptor: Róna józsef
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Mai Manó House, The Hungarian House of Photography operates in a studio-house built for the commission of Mai Manó (1855-1917), Imperial and Royal Court Photographer. His eight-story studio-house and home was built in fourteen months, in 1893-94.
This special, eight-story neo-renaissance monument is unique in world architecture: we have no knowledge of any other intact turn-of-the-century studiohouse. In addition, it serves its original goal, the case of photography again.
Mai Manó was a professional photographer and specialist, in his time he was one of the best specialists of child portraits. His status in the professional community of that time is uncontested. He was also the founder and editor of the periodical called A Fény (The Light, launched in 1906)
The building's richly decorated neo-renaissance façade clearly served ideological purposes: Mai Manó wanted to lend a past to the young trade, hardly considered to be a form of art by anyone at that time. Take the majolica putti between the ground floor and the mezzanine or the façade paintings on the third floor showing the "six muses of photography".
Actual photographing took place in the Sunlight-studio on the second floor, we restored in 1996-97. During the restoration, we found the original frescoes hiding bethind the white wallpaper for decades. These used to serve as background for Mai's portraits. His studio worked in the house for four decades, until 1931. It was followed by a luxury-bar, Arizona, which was closed in 1944.
After the Second World War, a number of institutions and companies moved into the house and a few private apartments were separated as well. In spite of all the vicissitudes, the house kept its original character. It was declared a piece of national heritage in 1996 considering its special architecture, ornaments and industry-historical significance.
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North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
July 13th, 2014
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Architecture details on the façade of the cathedral
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The Cathedral of Monreale, also called Santa Maria la Nuova, is a Sicilian masterpiece built during the Middle Ages. Is one of the best examples of coexistence between Islamic, Byzantine and Romanesque cultures. The church was founded by the Norman king William the II between 1174 and 1189, at the same time with the Abbey, the Royal Palace and the Archbishop’s Palace with which it constitutes a complex, expanded during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The external part of the Cathedral shows its Arab-Norman nature, with arches, windows and coloured marbles which are typical expressions of that kind of architecture. ..
The Helix Bridge, officially The Helix and previously known as the Double Helix Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. It was officially opened on 24 April 2010. Canopies (made of fritted-glass and perforated steel mesh) are incorporated along parts of the inner spiral to provide shade for pedestrians. The bridge has four viewing platforms sited at strategic locations which provide stunning views of the Singapore skyline and events taking place within Marina Bay. At night, the bridge will be illuminated by a series of lights that highlight the double-helix structure, thereby creating a special visual experience for the visitors. Pairs of coloured letters c and g, as well as a and t on the bridge which are lit up at night in red and green represent cytosine, guanine, adenine and thymine, the four bases of DNA. The intentional left handed DNA-like design, which is the opposite of normal DNA on earth, earned it a place in The Left Handed DNA Hall of Fame in 2010. The Land Transport Authority claimed it is a world first in architectural and engineering bridge design. It won the 'World's Best Transport Building' award at the World Architecture Festival Awards in the same year. It has also been recognised by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) at the BCA Design and Engineering Safety Excellence Awards in 2011.
The world's tallest climbing wall at 85 meters. CopenHill or Amager Bakke is a combined heat and power plant and recreational facility in Copenhagen. The sports facility was designed by the architects Bjarke Ingels Group with an 85 m (279 ft) tall sloped roof that doubles as year-round artificial ski slope, hiking slope and climbing wall. CopenHill was named the "World Building of the Year 2021" at the annual World Architecture Festival.
The plant opened in 2017. It is expected to burn 400,000 tons of municipal solid waste annually. Because of filtration and other technologies, sulphur emission is expected to be reduced by 99.5% and NOx by about 95%. It is claimed to be the cleanest incineration plant in the world.
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62 Buckingham Gate is a new 'landmark' development by Aukett Swanke Architects situated across the road from Westminster Cathedral. This 'groundscraper' has a facetted glass facade and on a better day should provide some good reflection shots.
On the day I visited the sky wasn't particularly blue so I've converted to monochrome and upped the contrast for graphic effect. Now it almost looks like wires against the sky rather than a solid object.
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From the World Architecture News website, "The building envelope is composed of a series of folding planes that either tilt forward or fold backward to respond to the contextual demands of the site and create more intimately scaled building volumes. Designed to achieve an optimum energy balance, the facade incorporates high performance solar control glass delivering a high light transmission whilst minimising heat gain.
Buckingham Gate has light-filled, highly efficient floorplates and by virtue of its island site, many of the floors have far-reaching views over London.
The building has impressive entrances to the office space together with a public amenity space, a superior retail environment, and restaurants under a coloured glass canopy.
With circa 38,000 sq m of office and retail space this 12 storey building provides a light, airy working environment.
62 Buckingham Gate was conceived by architects Pelli Clarke Pelli, with Swanke Hayden Connell as executive architects, and interior designed by Lehman Smith McLeish (LSM). Their brief was to create a unique, sustainable building that reflected Land Securities’ ongoing transformation of Victoria.
In addition, the building has been rated BREEAM Excellent."
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30 St Mary Axe is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. With 41 floors, it is 180 metres tall and stands on the sites of the former Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping, which were extensively damaged in 1992 in the Baltic Exchange bombing by a device placed by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, a narrow street leading north from Leadenhall Street.
After plans to build the 92-storey Millennium Tower were dropped, 30 St Mary Axe was designed by Norman Foster and the Arup Group. It was erected by Skanska; construction started in 2001.
The building has become a recognisable landmark of London, and it is one of the city's most widely recognised examples of contemporary architecture. It won the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award.
The building stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange (24–28 St Mary Axe), which was the headquarters of a global marketplace for shipping freight contracts and soft commodities, and the Chamber of Shipping (30–32 St Mary Axe). The tower's topmost panoramic dome, known as the "lens", recalls the iconic glass dome that covered part of the ground floor of the Baltic Exchange and much of which is now displayed at the National Maritime Museum. The Gherkin nickname was applied to the current building at least as early 1999, referring to the plan's highly unorthodox layout and appearance.
On 10 April 1992, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb close to the Baltic Exchange, causing extensive damage to the historic building and neighbouring structures. The United Kingdom government's statutory adviser on the historic environment, English Heritage, and the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation, were keen that any redevelopment must restore the Baltic Exchange's old façade onto St Mary Axe. The Exchange Hall was a celebrated fixture of the shipping market.
English Heritage then discovered that the damage was far more severe than initially thought, and they stopped insisting on full restoration, albeit over the objections of architectural conservationists. The Baltic Exchange and the Chamber of Shipping sold the land to Trafalgar House in 1995. Most of the remaining structures on the Baltic Exchange site were then carefully dismantled, and the interior of Exchange Hall and the façade were preserved, hoping for a reconstruction of the building in the future. The salvaged material was eventually sold for £800,000 and moved to Tallinn, Estonia, where it awaits reconstruction as the centrepiece of the city's commercial sector.
In 1996, Trafalgar House submitted plans for the London Millennium Tower, a 386-metre building with more than 140,000 m2 of office space, apartments, shops, restaurants and gardens. This plan was dropped after objections that it was totally out-of-scale in the City of London, and anticipated disruption to flight paths for both London City and London Heathrow airports; the revised plan for a lower tower was accepted.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, granted planning permission on 23 August 2000 to construct a building on the site, which would be much larger than the old Exchange. The site needed development, was not on any of the "sight lines" (planning guidance requires that new buildings do not obstruct or detract from the view of St Paul's Cathedral dome when viewed from a number of locations around London), and had housed the Baltic Exchange.
The plan for the site was to reconstruct the Baltic Exchange. GMW Architects proposed a new rectangular building surrounding a restored exchange: it would have the type of large floor plan that banks liked. Eventually, the planners realised that the exchange was not recoverable, forcing them to relax their building constraints; they hinted that an "architecturally significant" building might obtain a favourable reception from City authorities. This gave the architect a free hand in the design. The building was designed according to the client's needs, rather than for the needs of a large, capital-efficient, money-making building.
The new building's low-level plan satisfied the planning authority's desire to maintain London's traditional streetscape, with its narrow streets. The massing of the tower was not too imposing. Like Barclays' former city headquarters in Lombard Street, the idea was that the passer-by in neighbouring streets would be nearly oblivious to the tower's existence until directly underneath it.
The building was constructed by Skanska, completed in December 2003 and opened on 28 April 2004. The primary occupant of the building is Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, which had the building commissioned as the head office for its UK operation. The tower is thus sometimes known as the Swiss Re Building, although this name has never been official and has more recently fallen out of favour, since the company's main headquarters is in Zurich and the Gherkin name has become more popular.
The building uses energy-saving methods which allow it to use only half the power that a similar tower would typically consume. Gaps in each floor create six shafts that serve as a natural ventilation system for the entire building, even though required firebreaks on every sixth floor interrupt the "chimney". The shafts create a giant double glazing effect; air is sandwiched between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside.
Architects promote double glazing in residential houses, which avoids the inefficient convection of heat across the relatively narrow gap between the panes, but the tower exploits this effect. The shafts pull warm air out of the building during the summer and warm the building in the winter using passive solar heating. The shafts also allow sunlight to pass through the building, making the work environment more pleasing, and keeping the lighting costs down.
The primary methods for controlling wind-excited sways are to increase the stiffness, or increase damping with tuned/active mass dampers. To a design by Arup, its fully triangulated perimeter structure makes the building rigid enough without any extra reinforcements. Despite its overall curved glass shape, there is only one piece of curved glass on the building, the lens-shaped cap at the apex.
On the building's top level (the 40th floor), there is a bar for tenants and their guests, with a panoramic view of London. A restaurant operates on the 39th floor, and private dining rooms on the 38th. Most buildings have extensive lift equipment on the roof of the building, but this was not possible for the Gherkin, since a bar had been planned for the 40th floor. The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only reach the 34th floor, with a separate push-from-below lift to the 39th floor. There is a marble stairwell and a disabled persons' lift, which leads the visitor up to the bar in the dome.
The building is visible over long distances: From the north, for instance, it can be seen from the M11 motorway, some 32 kilometres away, while to the west it can be seen from the statue of George III in Windsor
In April 2005, a glass panel two thirds up the tower fell to the plaza beneath. The plaza was sealed off, but the building remained open. A temporary covered walkway, extending across the plaza to the building's reception, was erected to protect visitors. Engineers examined the other 744 glass panels on the building. The cost of repair was covered by main contractor Skanska and curtain-wall supplier Schmidlin (now called Schmidlin-TSK AG). The open-floor ventilation system did not operate as designed due to tenants adding glass partitions to increase security.
Since its completion, the building has won a number of awards for architecture. In October 2004, the architect was awarded the 2004 Stirling Prize. For the first time in the prize's history, the judges were unanimous. In December 2005, a survey of the world's largest firms of architects published in 2006 BD World Architecture 200 voted the tower as the most admired new building in the world. However, Ken Shuttleworth, who worked for Foster + Partners on the design of the building, said in 2011 that he believed the style was now out-moded: "I was looking at the glass all around and [thought], 'Why on earth did we do that?' Now we would do things differently". The building appeared in recent films such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, A Good Year, Basic Instinct 2, and Match Point and, rechristened the Spirit of London, became the spaceship centrepiece of Keith Mansfield's 2008 novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London.
In September 2006, the building was put up for sale with a price tag of £600 million. Potential buyers included British Land, Land Securities, Prudential, ING, and the Abu Dhabi royal family. On 21 February 2007, IVG Immobilien AG and UK investment firm Evans Randall completed their joint purchase of the building for £630 million, making it Britain's most expensive office building. Swiss Re made a gain of more than £300 million from the sale. The new owners are seeking compensation from four of their former managers on the deal, in which about £620 million was paid for a building with a build cost of about £200 million, giving the previous owners a clear £300 million profit.
Since February 2010, Sky News has broadcast its flagship business programme, Jeff Randall Live, from a studio in the building. The top two floors of the tower have been available since at least 2015 for private hire for events.
Deloitte announced in April 2014 that the building was again being put up for sale, with an expected price of £550 million. The current owners could not afford to make loan repayments, citing differences in the value of the multi-currency loan and the British pound, high interest rates and general financing structure. In November 2014, the Gherkin was purchased for £700 million by the Safra Group, controlled by the Brazilian billionaire Joseph Safra.
A striking blue Porsche, parked on a cobblestone street in a historic European town. The vibrant color and sleek curves of this vintage beauty steal the spotlight amidst the charming old-world architecture. An iconic classic car capturing the perfect blend of retro style and timeless engineering.
This captivating photograph captures a picturesque scene in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the lens peers out over a textured stone wall. The weathered and textured surface adds a touch of historic charm, setting the stage for the focal point of the image—the old guard tower overlooking the bay. Perched atop the city's fortifications, the ancient tower stands as a timeless sentinel, telling tales of centuries gone by.
Beyond the textured wall and the imposing guard tower, the expansive bay unfolds, providing a stunning backdrop to the scene. The tranquil waters of the bay stretch out, and against this maritime canvas, a sailboat gracefully glides, its silhouette adding a touch of serenity and movement to the panoramic view.
The juxtaposition of the weathered wall texture, the historical guard tower, and the modern sailboat creates a visual narrative that encapsulates the rich layers of history and maritime life in San Juan. The photograph invites viewers to appreciate the harmonious blend of old-world charm and contemporary vitality in this captivating coastal city.
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Chicago, IL
October 2nd, 2012
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A different play on a commonly shot subject.
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National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC opened Sept. 2004. Initially designed by Native American architect Douglas Cardinal, the building’s distinctive curvilinear form, evoking a wind-sculpted rock formation, grew out of his early work and formed the basis for the overall design. Following Cardinal’s conceptual design work, the project was further developed by Jones, House, and Sakiestewa, along with the architecture firms Jones & Jones, SmithGroup in collaboration with Lou Weller (Caddo) and the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects. This extended collaboration resulted in a building and site rich with imagery, layers of meaning, and connections to the earth.
Salamanca is something special and is undoubtedly Castilla’s liveliest, most beautiful city. Its secret is an irresistible combination of stunning uniform, old-world architectural elegance and a feel-good Spanish buzz that flows through the streets almost without respite. In few other places will you witness such virtuosity in Plateresque and Renaissance styles.
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