Interesting buildings. - Page 3

Bakkels · 04-06-11, 06:37 PM

The University of the city I live in:

And the main hall of the train station:

CCIP · 04-06-11, 06:41 PM

The Museum of Civilization in the foreground, and in the background - the Canadian Parliament and other historic buildings in central Ottawa. Spent a lot of time commuting back and forth around this area when I lived in Ottawa.

Also in town, the new Canadian War Museum. Really an awesome space, one of the best military history museums anywhere. The big "shard" sticking out of the building is part of a memorial arrangement that lines up to project a ray of sunlight on the original headstone of Canada's Unknown Soldier from WWI which is stored there, every year exactly at 11:11am every November 11th.

Bakkels · 04-06-11, 06:45 PM

Nice ones

vienna · 04-06-11, 06:56 PM

Los Angeles has destroyed most of its older, unique archtecture in the name of development. There are a number of walking tour routes in the city that have stops where one can see the site of a building that used to be there but only lives on as a photograph on site marker. A large proportion of the remaining buildings are originally commercial buildings that have long ago seen their glory days. This building I saw for the first time many, many years ago when I first visited Los Angeles. I saw it as we were speeding along the freeway; I thought it was perhaps a civic building or cultural site; Iasked what it was and was told it was a tire factory. Now it functions as a mixed-use property, mainly as a major garment outlet store. It is called "The Citadel" and is made to resemble an Assyrian Palace in design.

The building is immense and the facade extends over 1,700 feet.

magic452 · 04-07-11, 01:26 AM

That's the old Firestone building. Seems to me that it use to say "Firestone Tire and Rubber Co." on it some place. Long time ago.

Magic

04-06-11, 06:37 PM	#31
Bakkels Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Posts: 709 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 6	The University of the city I live in: And the main hall of the train station: __________________ My sh3 skins : http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/Bakkels Or go to the sh3 downloads section > skins

04-06-11, 06:41 PM	#32
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	The Museum of Civilization in the foreground, and in the background - the Canadian Parliament and other historic buildings in central Ottawa. Spent a lot of time commuting back and forth around this area when I lived in Ottawa. Also in town, the new Canadian War Museum. Really an awesome space, one of the best military history museums anywhere. The big "shard" sticking out of the building is part of a memorial arrangement that lines up to project a ray of sunlight on the original headstone of Canada's Unknown Soldier from WWI which is stored there, every year exactly at 11:11am every November 11th. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

04-06-11, 06:45 PM	#33
Bakkels Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Posts: 709 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 6	Nice ones __________________ My sh3 skins : http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/Bakkels Or go to the sh3 downloads section > skins

04-07-11, 01:26 AM	#35
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	That's the old Firestone building. Seems to me that it use to say "Firestone Tire and Rubber Co." on it some place. Long time ago. Magic __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

04-06-11, 06:56 PM	#34
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Los Angeles has destroyed most of its older, unique archtecture in the name of development. There are a number of walking tour routes in the city that have stops where one can see the site of a building that used to be there but only lives on as a photograph on site marker. A large proportion of the remaining buildings are originally commercial buildings that have long ago seen their glory days. This building I saw for the first time many, many years ago when I first visited Los Angeles. I saw it as we were speeding along the freeway; I thought it was perhaps a civic building or cultural site; Iasked what it was and was told it was a tire factory. Now it functions as a mixed-use property, mainly as a major garment outlet store. It is called "The Citadel" and is made to resemble an Assyrian Palace in design. The building is immense and the facade extends over 1,700 feet.