Orange and Yellow work Together : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Orange and Yellow work Together / Jocey K
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Demolition started on the old Millers building on a walk around Christchurch May 6, 2013 New Zealand.The building was originally designed in 1935 by G. A. Hart for the retail store, factory and warehouse Millers and was completed in 1939. It was notable for its structural design concept of beamless floor slab construction in reinforced concrete where the design loads, including earthquake forces, are transferred to the hexagonal columns by mushroom-shaped heads and drop slabs. This concept was originated by a French Swiss engineer, Robert Maillart around 1912 and was further developed in the 1920s by the Bauhaus in Germany under the architects, Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius.Millers Department Store, 1939-1979 Millers was a well established retail and manufacturing business with many branch shops. The building was their head office, factory and main retail store. It boasted the first escalator in the South Island and one of the first in New Zealand. When the building was put up for sale in 1978 the council purchased it to refurbish as Civic Offices.Conversion to civic offices When planning for this, its fourth home, the Christchurch City Council initially had plans to erect new offices adjacent to the Christchurch Town Hall but inflation rendered this impractical. Conversion of the building had a number of advantages. Re-housing the staff from nine separate locations to provide a better service to the public, enhancing efficiency and improving staff working conditions was obvious enough, but additionally, some millions of dollars would be injected promptly into the local construction industry at a time when it was most needed. Also, just as the Town Hall had provided an impetus for development north of the Cathedral Square, the new Civic Offices were expected to do the same for the south. As far as public buildings were concerned, the south-eastern quadrant of the central business district had been rather neglected in the past. Finally, in an era concerned with conservation there seemed to be considerable virtue in recycling a sound existing building rather than building a new one.Taken from and for More Info: christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Places/Buildings/C...All about our earthquakes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake |
| 撮影日 | 2014-05-06 14:11:51 |
| 撮影者 | Jocey K , Christchurch, New Zealand |
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| 撮影地 | Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand 地図 |
| カメラ | PENTAX K10D , PENTAX Corporation |
| 露出 | 0.008 sec (1/125) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.7 |
| 焦点距離 | 33 mm |