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1975 In Architecture
The year 1975 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Events * Planned residential development of Noak Bridge in the Borough of Basildon (England), designed by George Garrard and Maurice Naunton, begins. Buildings and structures Buildings opened * June 10 – Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, designed by Josep Lluís Sert. * June 25 – Addleshaw Tower at Chester Cathedral in England, designed by George Pace. * June 28 – Sir Thomas White Building, St John's College, Oxford, England, designed by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates. * c. September – Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, designed by Harry Weese. * October 10 – Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl, South Africa. * December 10 – General Artigas Bridge, Uruguay River, Uruguay. * Worth Abbey church in West Sussex, England, designed by Francis Pollen, consecrated. * Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, designed by Klas Anshelm. Buildings completed * Frank House, also known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noak Bridge
Noak Bridge is a housing estate in the civil parish of Laindon in Basildon, Essex. The estate takes its name from the bridge over the River Crouch at the foot of nearby Noak Hill. Prior to its development most of the area was secondary woodland that had developed on the site of previous plotlands known as 'Central Park'. The continued use of South African street names in part of the area reflects the street names in the previous development. When people first moved into Noak Bridge the area was often popularly referred to as 'Wash Road', or the 'Wash Road Estate' after the road on its northern boundary, which in turn took its name from the 'wash' or ford that has now been replaced by a bridge just before the road's junction with Harding Elms Road. Part of that secondary woodland survives as Noak Bridge Nature Reserve. Noak Bridge is a rare example of a post-war, social housing estate that has been designated a Conservation Are First planned in the 1970s as part of Basildon new to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. History and design MCC Chicago was designed by architect Harry Weese. Construction began in 1971 and the facility opened in 1975. The building is a right triangle shape, is 28 stories high, and has a rooftop exercise yard. The irregularly-spaced windows on each wall are reminiscent of old computer Punched card, punchcards.The MCC: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Canadian Place
First Canadian Place (originally First Bank Building) is a skyscraper in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario, at the northwest corner of King and Bay streets, and serves as the global operational headquarters of the Bank of Montreal. At , it is Canada's tallest skyscraper and the 15th tallest building in North America to structural top (spires) and 9th highest to the rooftop, and the 105th tallest in the world. It is the third tallest free-standing structure in Canada, after the CN Tower (also in Toronto) and the Inco Superstack chimney (projected to be demolished) in Sudbury, Ontario. The building is owned by Manulife Financial Corporation (50 per cent) in addition to a private consortium of investors including CPP Investments. The building is managed by Brookfield Properties. History and architecture First Canadian Place is named for Canada's first bank, the Bank of Montreal. Designed by B+H Architects with Edward Durell Stone as a design consultant, First Canadian Plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Eisenman
Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932) is an American architect. Considered one of the New York Five, Eisenman is known for his writing and speaking about architecture as well as his designs, which have been called high modernist or deconstructive. Biography Early life Peter Eisenman was born to Jewish parentsEran Neuman, ''Longing for the Impossible''Haaretz, 12 May 2010 Quote:""I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10..." Even though he grew up in a non-Zionist and assimilated family where his father held radical leftist views...." on August 11, 1932, in Newark, New Jersey. As a child, he attended Columbia High School located in Maplewood, New Jersey. He transferred into the architecture school as an undergraduate at Cornell University and gave up his position on the swimming team in order to commit full-time to his studies. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell, a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House VI
House VI, or the Frank Residence, is a significant building in Cornwall, Connecticut, designed by Peter Eisenman, completed in 1975. His second built work, this small getaway house, located on Great Hollow Road near Bird's Eye Brook in Cornwall, Connecticut (across from Mohawk Mountain Ski Area), has become famous for both its revolutionary definition of a ''house'' as much as for the physical problems of design and difficulty of use. At the time of construction, the architect was known almost exclusively as a theorist and " paper architect," promulgating a highly formalist approach to architecture he calls " postfunctionalism." Rather than form following function or an aesthetic design, the design emerged from a conceptual process, and remains pinned to that conceptual framework. Unfortunately, Eisenman's limited construction experience meant that the entire building was poorly detailed. The tiny building took three years to build, went completely over budget, and finally had t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foster - Willis Faber And Dumas Headquarters Ipswich
Foster may refer to: People * Foster (surname) * Foster Brooks (1912–2001), American actor * Foster Moreau (born 1997), American football player * Foster Sarell (born 1998), American football player * John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), American diplomat and politician * Sterling Foster Black (1924–1996), American lawyer * Jodie Foster (1962-), American actor Places ;Australia * Foster, Victoria ;Canada * Foster, Quebec, a village, now part of the town of Broke Lake ;United Kingdom * Foster Mill, in Cambridge, England ;United States * Foster (CTA), elevated transit station in Evanston, Illinois, USA * Foster, California (other) ** Foster, San Diego County, California * Foster, Indiana * Foster, Kentucky * Foster, Washtenaw County, Michigan * Foster, Minnesota * Foster, Missouri * Foster, Nebraska * Foster, Oklahoma * Foster, Oregon * Foster, Rhode Island * Foster Township, Michigan * Foster, Wisconsin (other) ** Foster, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malmö Konsthall
Malmö Konsthall is an exhibition hall located in the center of Malmö, Sweden. It is one of the largest exhibition halls for contemporary art in Europe. Building The hall was designed by architect Klas Anshelm (1914-1980), who was inspired by the Paris studio of the sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. It was built between 1971-1974 and is constructed of concrete, glass, wood and aluminium. The ceiling is made of domes with natural and artificial light sources. The light well has a large sloping skylight admitting northern light. The building was awarded the 1974 Kasper Salin Prize by the Swedish Association of Architects. The gallery was renovated in 1994, connecting the older brick building next door (Hantverkshuset or Craft Building) with the exhibition hall, and thus gaining space for a book store selling books, posters and postcards, a children’s area and a restaurant that offers Swedish food. Exhibitions The hall arranges exhibitions of international work that in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an area of 1,991 square kilometres (769 sq mi), West Sussex borders Hampshire to the west, Surrey to the north, and East Sussex to the east. The county town and only city in West Sussex is Chichester, located in the south-west of the county. This was legally formalised with the establishment of West Sussex County Council in 1889 but within the ceremonial County of Sussex. After the reorganisation of local government in 1974, the ceremonial function of the historic county of Sussex was divided into two separate counties, West Sussex and East Sussex. The existing East and West Sussex councils took control respectively, with Mid Sussex and parts of Crawley being transferred to the West Sussex administration from East Sussex. In the 2011 censu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worth Abbey
The Abbey of Our Lady, Help of Christians, commonly known as Worth Abbey, is a community of Roman Catholic monks who follow the Rule of St Benedict near Turners Hill village, in West Sussex, England. Founded in 1933, the abbey is part of the English Benedictine Congregation. As of 2020, the monastic community had 21 monks. History Worth Abbey is a daughter house of the monastic community of Downside Abbey, in Somerset. The first monastic community of 17 monks was founded in September 1933 in the property formerly known as "Paddockhurst", near Turners Hill village, by Abbot John Chapman of Downside. Worth was a dependent priory of Downside from 1933-1957. The conditions of sale of the property laid down that the name "Paddockhurst" should not be used by the new owners. Because the priory lay within the boundaries of Worth parish, the name "Worth" was chosen for the site. The first prior of Worth, Dom Anselm Rutherford, chose "''Our Lady, Help of Christians''", as the patron of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Artigas Bridge
The General Artigas Bridge () is an international road bridge that crosses the Uruguay River and joins Argentina and Uruguay. It runs between Colón, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina, and Paysandú, Paysandú Department, Uruguay. It is a cantilever bridge with a total length of 2,350 metres (7,709 ft). The main span of the bridge measures 140 metres (460 ft) in length. The bridge is named after José Gervasio Artigas, the father of Uruguayan independence. It was inaugurated on December 10, 1975. References * ''Puentes sobre el Río Uruguay''(in Spanish) See also * Libertador General San Martín Bridge * Salto Grande Bridge * Cellulose plant conflict between Argentina and Uruguay The pulp mill dispute was a dispute between Argentina and Uruguay concerning the construction of pulp mills on the Uruguay River. The presidents at the time were Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) and Tabaré Vázquez (Uruguay). As a diplomatic, econom ... External links Bridges in Argentina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 10
Events Pre-1600 *1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. * 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. *1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull ''Exsurge Domine'' outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. * 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. 1601–1900 * 1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. *1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter. *1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paarl
Paarl (; Afrikaans: ; derived from ''Parel'', meaning "pearl" in Dutch) is a town with 112,045 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the third-oldest city and European settlement in the Republic of South Africa (after Cape Town and Stellenbosch) and the largest town in the Cape Winelands. Due to the growth of the Mbekweni township, it is now a de facto urban unit with Wellington. It is situated about northeast of Cape Town in the Western Cape Province and is known for its scenic environment and viticulture and fruit-growing heritage. Paarl is the seat of the Drakenstein Local Municipality; although not part of the Cape Town metropolitan area, it falls within its economic catchment. Paarl is unusual among South African place-names, in being pronounced differently in English than in Afrikaans; likewise unusual about the town's name is Afrikaners customary attachment to it, saying not ''in Paarl'', but rather ''in die Paarl'', or ''in die Pêrel'' (lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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