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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997, by former King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something." The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.
June 11th, 2013
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The Cloud Forest (left) and Flower Dome, located in the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore.
The conservatory complex comprises two cooled conservatories, the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest, situated along the edge of Marina Reservoir. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the conservatories are intended to be an energy efficient showcase of sustainable building technologies and to provide an all-weather edutainment space within the Gardens. The conservatories won the World Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2012. ©Wikipedia
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Headed to Europe in a couple of weeks (Italy, France, Spain); looking forward to some old world architecture and street photography. Just in time, too, because I'm bored...
Chicago, IL
7-21-2012
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Spectators in the lobby area of Oslo Opera House during the intermission at a soirée.
The Oslo Opera House (in Norwegian, Operahuset) is the seat of The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building lies in Bjørvika, in the center of Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. Its builder was Statsbygg, a government-run property owner. The architects were the Norwegian firm Snøhetta who were also the architects of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the Library of Alexandria) in Egypt. The theatre designers were Theatre Projects Consultants based in London, the acoustic designers were BrekkeStrandArup, a joint venture between local consultant Brekke Strand Akustikk and international acousticians Arup Acoustics. Norwegian construction company Veidekke was awarded one of the largest building contracts of the project. The structure provides a total area of 38,500 m² and includes 1,100 rooms, one of which has 1,350 seats and another has up to 400 seats. Total expenditures for the building project were planned at 4.4 billion NOK, but finished ahead of schedule, and 300 million NOK under budget.
The Opera House was finished in 2007 with the opening event held on 12 April 2008. King Harald V of Norway opened the Opera House that evening at a gala performance attended by national leaders and royalty, including President Tarja Halonen of Finland, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The main stage is 16 meters wide, and can be made up to 40 meters deep.
The Opera won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008. Jury member Sir Peter Cook said of the Opera House that it "...in its scale, ambition and quality has raised the bar for Norwegian architecture."
More information on the building from Snøhetta architects.
HDR from three handheld exposures (+/- 2 EV). Processed and tonemapped using Photomatix.
Best seen large and on black.
Il Museo Guggenheim Bilbao è un museo di arte contemporanea progettato dall'architetto canadese Frank Gehry che si trova a Bilbao, País Vasco in Spagna. Il Guggenheim di Bilbao è uno dei vari musei della Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim.
Il Museo venne inaugurato nel 1997, nel contesto di rivitalizzazione della città di Bilbao e della provincia di Vizcaya (Biscaglia) intrapreso dall'amministrazione pubblica del Pais Vasco. Sin dalla sua apertura il museo si è trasformato in un'importantissima attrazione turistica, richiamando visitatori da numerosi paesi del mondo; diventando così il simbolo della Città di Bilbao nel mondo.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."
The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.
(source: Wikipedia)
I have finally consulted an architect and builder to construct a townhouse in this lot beside the studio.
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I committed to bringing trophies for the World Architecture theme. I thought it would be fun to make a "triumphal arch", which seems to incorporate the theme of architecture along with triumphing. I think they look better in person. I was also severely limited in color and piece count and all the rest. Oh well.
For added extra fun, I'm going to give a presentation on cheese slope mosaics Sunday morning.
Then I'm going to write an article about the convention for Hispabrick Magazine. Busy times!
Frank Owen Gehry, CC is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions and many customers seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction. His works were by far the most often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.
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You may easily find out why I chose the other "Salve" photo as a greeting for my profile page! Naturally because it's old, and it's a detail of a notable Hungarian photographer's studio.
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.
Statues: Róna józsef
www.flickr.com/photos/nora-meszoly/sets/72157645682699802
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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.
www.maimano.hu/maimanohaz_en.html
www.maimano.hu/maimanohaz_02_en.html
North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
August 22nd, 2014
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Cabinet portrait, around 1910s
Format: Promenade gross
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Photographer/Fényképész: Mai és Társa (Mai & Co.)
Budapest
Nagymező utca 20.
saját házában, az Andrássy út közelében
(in his own house, next to Andrássy Avenue)
No. 22 156
"Willst du haben Frieden viel, thu' wie dein Weib es haben will."
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About Mai Manó: www.maimano.hu/maimanohaz_en.html
Mai Manóról: hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Man%C3%B3.
Mai Manó (1855-1917) 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).
Mai Manó House - The Hungarian House of Photographers operates in this house. His eight-story studio-house and home was built in fourteen months in 1893-94.
The 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.
Located at the New York City Public Library. Third Floor, Room 315
The Deborah, Jonathan F. P., Samuel Priest, and Adam R. Rose Main Reading Room is a majestic public space, measuring 78 feet by 297 feet—roughly the length of two city blocks—and weaving together Old World architectural elegance with modern technology. The award-wining restoration of this room was completed in 1998, thanks to a fifteen million-dollar gift from Library trustee Sandra Priest Rose and Frederick Phineas Rose, who renamed the room in honor of their children.
The other side of the big brown dividing wall is an equally large room identical to this side.
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. ..
This Lynch, Kentucky building was used by the U.S. Coal and Coke Company as the general office personnel, including General Superintendent, Accounting, Safety, Engineering, Personnel Departments, as well as providing bathing facilities for the mine workers.
Designed to accommodate 1500, the bathhouse served 4500 at its peak. There were 71 showers were furnished and used live steam jets to mix cold water. A smoke room was also provided for training mine rescue workers.
The facility was closed in 1963 when the Portal 31 mine was closed.
The building is located along W. Main and Church Streets in Lynch, Kentucky.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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For other uses, see Guggenheim Museum (disambiguation).
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao / Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Guggenheim-bilbao-jan05.jpg
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao
EstablishedOctober 18, 1997
LocationAbando, Bilbao, Spain
TypeArt museum
Visitors1,002,963 (2007)[1]
951,369 (2008)[2]
DirectorJuan Ignacio Vidarte
Websitewww.guggenheim-bilbao.es
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997, by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."[3] The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.[3]
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation selected Frank Gehry as the architect, and its director, Thomas Krens, encouraged him to design something daring and innovative.[10] The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random; the architect said that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light".[11] The interior "is designed around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's estuary and the surrounding hills of the Basque country".[12] The atrium, which Gehry nicknamed The Flower because of its shape, serves as the organizing center of the museum.[7]
When the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of Deconstructivism (although Gehry does not associate himself with that architectural movement),[13] a masterpiece of the 20th century.[14] Architect Philip Johnson described it as "the greatest building of our time",[15] while critic Calvin Tomkins, in The New Yorker, characterized it as "a fantastic dream ship of undulating form in a cloak of titanium," its brilliantly reflective panels also reminiscent of fish scales.[14] Herbert Muschamp praised its "mercurial brilliance" in The New York Times Magazine.[16] The Independent calls the museum "an astonishing architectural feat".[12] The building inspired other structures of similar design across the globe, such as the Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California.[citation needed]
The museum is seamlessly integrated into the urban context, unfolding its interconnecting shapes of stone, glass and titanium on a 32,500-square-meter (350,000 sq ft) site along the Nervión River in the old industrial heart of the city; while modest from street level, it is most impressive when viewed from the river.[4][16] With a total 24,000 m2 (260,000 sq ft), of which 11,000 m2 (120,000 sq ft) are dedicated to exhibition space, it had more exhibition space than the three Guggenheim collections in New York and Venice combined at that time.[6] The 11,000 m2 of exhibition space are distributed over nineteen galleries, ten of which follow a classic orthogonal plan that can be identified from the exterior by their stone finishes. The remaining nine galleries are irregularly shaped and can be identified from the outside by their swirling organic forms and titanium cladding. The largest gallery measures 30 meters wide and 130 meters long (98 ft × 427 ft).[5][16] In 2005, it housed Richard Serra's monumental installation The Matter of Time, which Robert Hughes dubbed "courageous and sublime".[17]
The museum by night, November 2007
The building was constructed on time and budget, which is rare for architecture of this type. In an interview in Harvard Design Magazine, Gehry explained how he did it. First, he ensured that what he calls the "organization of the artist" prevailed during construction, to prevent political and business interests from interfering with the design. Second, he made sure he had a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding. Third, he used computer visualizations produced by his own Digital Project software and collaborated closely with the individual building trades to control costs during construction.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines donated $1,000,000 towards its construction.
A tear in urbanity. Where facades should align in rigid order, an anomaly has taken root, emerging from the ground like the remnant of a shattered world. Architecture, once unyielding and domesticated, seems to have lost its footing against the intrusion of an unknown fragment. A shard of steel and glass, like a prism from another dimension, has inserted itself into reality without warning.
Light grazes its sharp surfaces, unveiling a paradoxical geometry, a distortion where the urban landscape is reflected. But are these reflections still true to reality, or are they mere illusions projected by a material that does not belong to our world? Around it, silence weighs heavy. Mist rises from the ground, a sign of an impending collapse, a transition underway between two states of existence.
This fractured monolith carries the memory of an elsewhere. It evokes both a fall and an ascension, a rupture and a revelation. Could it be a wreck from the future, an architecture that has yet to find its era? Or the awakening of a mineral entity attempting to tear through the veil of the rational world?
North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
1-6-2012
Taken with an iPhone using AutoStitch, Camera+ & Sunrise Sunset
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Lincoln Park
Chicago, IL
October 18th, 2016
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right
Breakfast at Mai's....
Terrace of Mai Mano Café.
Doorway of 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.
www.flickr.com/photos/nora-meszoly/sets/72157645682699802
www.flickr.com/photos/nora-meszoly/sets/72157647652442301
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.
www.maimano.hu/maimanohaz_en.html
www.maimano.hu/maimanohaz_02_en.html
THIS IS NO A PHOTOGRAPHY.THIS IS MY COMPUTER RESTORATION OF DESTROYED BY THUNDERSTORM SET OF CHURCHES MADE OF LOGS ON THE BANKS OF RIVER MEZEN.I USED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS ENSEMBLE SAVED IN OLD BOOKS.WE CAN SEE ONLY 2-3 PROJECTIONS .MY RESTORATIONS WAS DONE WITHIN 3D PROGRAMS AND WE CAN SEE ENSEMBLE FROM ALL SID EVEN FROM THE TOP.IF I HAD HAD MESERMENTS WHICH PROBABLY ARE IN MOSCOW MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE I COULD MAKE EXACT DEPICTION OF WORK WHICH I AS MASTER OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN REGARD AS A MASTERPIECE OF WORLD ARCHITECTURE. INTERESTED CAN WRITE ME. MAKS ERLIKH
The "public stage" at the Staatstheater, Darmstadt, as viewed from the vistors' terrace. Take a few steps forwards and you yourself appear on a stage above the main entrance to the theater. The big concrete block also contains the lift and the stairwell to and from the car park.
Please view in full size for the best effect.
Building with 476 apartments that looks like the figure 8 from above (built 2010). A café, a preschool, shops and offices are placed at the base of the building. You can bike from the ground up to the tenth floor. Award winner in the category best housing project in the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona 2011. Architect: BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group, Denmark.
(In the World Architecture Festival 2008 the architects won the award for the housing project The Mountain.)
www.big.dk (website in English)
Built around 1180 and is dedicated to the Apostle Andrew. The church is exceptionally well preserved and is one of the most distinctive stave churches in Norway. Some of the finest features are the lavishly carved portals and the roof carvings of dragons's heads. The stave churches are Norway's most important contribution to world architecture and Norway's oldest preserved timber buildings.
North Avenue Beach
June 26th, 2016
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
February 21st, 2017
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
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. ..
Oslo Opera House in the night.
The Oslo Opera House (in Norwegian, Operahuset) is the seat of The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building lies in Bjørvika, in the center of Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. Its builder was Statsbygg, a government-run property owner. The architects were the Norwegian firm Snøhetta who were also the architects of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the Library of Alexandria) in Egypt. The theatre designers were Theatre Projects Consultants based in London, the acoustic designers were BrekkeStrandArup, a joint venture between local consultant Brekke Strand Akustikk and international acousticians Arup Acoustics. Norwegian construction company Veidekke was awarded one of the largest building contracts of the project. The structure provides a total area of 38,500 m² and includes 1,100 rooms, one of which has 1,350 seats and another has up to 400 seats. Total expenditures for the building project were planned at 4.4 billion NOK, but finished ahead of schedule, and 300 million NOK under budget.
The Opera House was finished in 2007 with the opening event held on 12 April 2008. King Harald V of Norway opened the Opera House that evening at a gala performance attended by national leaders and royalty, including President Tarja Halonen of Finland, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. The main stage is 16 meters wide, and can be made up to 40 meters deep.
The Opera won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008. Jury member Sir Peter Cook said of the Opera House that it "...in its scale, ambition and quality has raised the bar for Norwegian architecture."
More information on the building from Snøhetta architects.
HDR from three handheld exposures (+/- 2 EV). Processed and tonemapped using Photomatix and noise reduction in Noiseware.
Best seen large and on black.
Part 1 of 2:
I have been putting this off for quite a while because I just didn't want to think that hard. But the time has come to figure out how to realistically recreate photos of real-world architecture when taking pictures of micro-scale MOCs.
This is probably obvious to everyone but me, but I'm one of those people who has to actually do something to learn something...if that makes any sense.
The first photo I'm hoping to recreate is a picture I took of the US Capitol Building from 3rd Street, which defines the border between the National Mall and the Capitol Grounds.
Okay, so what does forced perspective have to do with all this? Well, the area a building takes up in a picture is dependent on many variables, but two of the most important are: 1) the size of the building and 2) the distance between the building and the camera.
In this test, I built five objects based on a 1x2x1 brick. With each new version, I doubled the size. So I had a 1x2x1, 2x4x2, 4x8x4, 8x16x8, and a 16x32x16 version.
Looking through the camera's viewfinder, I placed each variation at a distance where they all appeared to be about the same size in the viewfinder. Then I measured the distance between the camera and each size variation.
The photography math says that when you divide the width of the object by the distance away from the camera, the number you come up with should be the same for each size variation.
NOTE: actual math is
2*invtan*(distance/(2*width))
In this example it means that if you double the size of an object, it will need to be twice as far away to appear to be the same size in a picture. And, in fact, that is exactly what happened in this test.
So how does this help me take recreate my picture of the Capitol Building? Well, things I know from Google Earth and my picture. The Capitol is about 760 ft. wide and I took the picture from about 1/4 of a mile away.
I also know that the LEGO US Capitol model is 16 3/8 inches wide. So now I need to figure out where to set the camera on the National Mall MOC.
The calculated distance is about 31 3/8 inches between the camera and the LEGO US Capitol.
Time to go take the pictures to see how well it matches the real thing.
Chicago, IL
June 21st, 2012
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
Istanbul, Turkey - October 14, 2015: Sancaklar Camii is the mosque. In 2013 it won 1st Prize in the World Architectural Festival’s Best Religious Building category.
Wissembourg (in French: Wissembourg, pronounced [visɑ̃buʁ]; in South Franconian: Weisseburch, pronounced [ˈvaɪsəbʊʁç]; in German: Weißenburg) is a small town and commune situated on the little River Lauter close to the border between France and Germany, in easternmost Alsace région, approximately 60 km north of Strasbourg and 35 km west of Karlsruhe. Wissembourg is a sous-préfecture of the Bas-Rhin département. The name Wissembourg is merely a Francosized version of Weißenburg (Weissenburg) in German meaning, "white castle".
The picturesque town is set in a landscape of rolling wheat fields retains its former Augustinian convent (1279) with its large-scale gothic church, now the parrish church Saints-Pierre-et-Paul; other medieval churches are the Église Saint-Jean, and the Église Saint-Ulrich. Its Grenier aux Dîmes (tithe barn) belonging to the Abbey is 18th century but an ancient foundation. Noteworthy houses are the medieval "Salt house", the Renaissance "House of l'Ami Fritz" and the imposing classicist City Hall, a work by Joseph Massol. Also Visiting the Pastery Shop Rebere as it's one of the oldest, and the top 100 in French Pastery.
Last week, I made a little trip to this wonderful little town.
Vor einer Woche habe ich einen kleinen Ausflug nach Weißenburg gemacht, das Wetter war traumhaft schön an dem Abend... heute regnet es wieder nur...
Weißenburg (frz. Wissembourg [visɑ̃ˈbuʀ], hergeleitet von rheinfränkisch wiss - weiß) ist eine Stadt im Elsass, Frankreich.
Die Stadt Weißenburg ist Sitz der Unterpräfektur (Sous-préfecture) des Arrondissements Wissembourg im Département Bas-Rhin in der Region Elsass. Das Arrondissement gliedert sich in fünf Kantone mit der Stadt Weißenburg als Hauptort (chef-lieu) des gleichnamigen Kantons.
Wissembourg ist eine der architektonisch reichhaltigsten Städte der nördlichen Elsasses. Die Altstadt ist heute noch teilweise von Resten der alten Stadtbefestigung umschlossen.
Zu den sehenswertesten Gebäuden der Stadt zählen das „Salzhaus“ (15. Jahrhundert) mit seinem auffallenden Dach, das Maison de l'ami Fritz (um 1550) mit seinem aufwändigen Erker und das klassizistische Rathaus (erbaut 1741 bis 1752), ein Hauptwerk des Straßburger Stadtarchitekten Joseph Massol.
Im Musée Westercamp werden archäologische Funde aus der Gegend, mittelalterliche Kunstwerke sowie Dokumente zur Stadtgeschichte und Heimatkunde ausgestellt.