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Despite the sign on the top, this building in George Street, Brisbane is actually the Queensland Government's Executive building where the Premier etc has their offices. CBus is a tenant (obviously with expensive naming rights) and is an Australian Superannuation Fund otherwise fundamentally a company that manages one's retirement savings. In the USA that would be known as your 401(k) although it's stormy waters all round lately. I don't know what our Superannuation equivalent is called elsewhere.

The old Executive building was demolished a few years back and more or less, this building and others around it are in the general vicinity of the new Queen's Wharf project. George Street leads down to Parliament House where the sometimes nonsense of effective government and Westminster democracy is played out! Queensland is the only Australian state with one house, the upper house and its extra costs abolished years ago. Mind you, it didn't necessarily make successive governments more streamlined or effective!

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One Bush Plaza, also known as the Crown-Zellerbach Building, is a landmark in San Francisco’s Financial District, offering a glimpse into mid-century modernism in the heart of the city. Completed in 1959, the 20-story tower was designed by architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), known for their work on iconic urban skylines worldwide. One Bush Plaza was one of the first International Style buildings to break away from the city’s tradition of ornate facades, featuring sleek glass and steel instead. This clean-lined aesthetic sets it apart from the neighboring architectural giants.

The building's unique history includes being the first high-rise built in San Francisco post-World War II, marking a shift in the city's architectural landscape. Its thin, rectangular shape is softened by elegant curtain walls with steel-framed glass windows, offering a balance between modernist design and urban utility. The plaza surrounding the tower is an open public space, which provides a rare break in the otherwise densely packed Financial District, ideal for a midday escape or a quick business meeting.

Given its prime location, One Bush Plaza is also a prominent hub for businesses, with easy access to public transportation and nearby landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid and Embarcadero Center. Whether you're an architecture enthusiast or a business professional, One Bush Plaza captures the essence of San Francisco's mid-century ambition and modern appeal.

One Bush Plaza, also known as the Crown-Zellerbach Building, is a landmark in San Francisco’s Financial District, offering a glimpse into mid-century modernism in the heart of the city. Completed in 1959, the 20-story tower was designed by architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), known for their work on iconic urban skylines worldwide. One Bush Plaza was one of the first International Style buildings to break away from the city’s tradition of ornate facades, featuring sleek glass and steel instead. This clean-lined aesthetic sets it apart from the neighboring architectural giants.

The building's unique history includes being the first high-rise built in San Francisco post-World War II, marking a shift in the city's architectural landscape. Its thin, rectangular shape is softened by elegant curtain walls with steel-framed glass windows, offering a balance between modernist design and urban utility. The plaza surrounding the tower is an open public space, which provides a rare break in the otherwise densely packed Financial District, ideal for a midday escape or a quick business meeting.

Given its prime location, One Bush Plaza is also a prominent hub for businesses, with easy access to public transportation and nearby landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid and Embarcadero Center. Whether you're an architecture enthusiast or a business professional, One Bush Plaza captures the essence of San Francisco's mid-century ambition and modern appeal.

One Bush Plaza, also known as the Crown-Zellerbach Building, is a landmark in San Francisco’s Financial District, offering a glimpse into mid-century modernism in the heart of the city. Completed in 1959, the 20-story tower was designed by architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), known for their work on iconic urban skylines worldwide. One Bush Plaza was one of the first International Style buildings to break away from the city’s tradition of ornate facades, featuring sleek glass and steel instead. This clean-lined aesthetic sets it apart from the neighboring architectural giants.

The building's unique history includes being the first high-rise built in San Francisco post-World War II, marking a shift in the city's architectural landscape. Its thin, rectangular shape is softened by elegant curtain walls with steel-framed glass windows, offering a balance between modernist design and urban utility. The plaza surrounding the tower is an open public space, which provides a rare break in the otherwise densely packed Financial District, ideal for a midday escape or a quick business meeting.

Given its prime location, One Bush Plaza is also a prominent hub for businesses, with easy access to public transportation and nearby landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid and Embarcadero Center. Whether you're an architecture enthusiast or a business professional, One Bush Plaza captures the essence of San Francisco's mid-century ambition and modern appeal.

A gaping cavity downtown will soon be filled with 49 floors of the neo-futurist residential Vancouver House.

Unfinished residential towers at Marine Gateway, when rotated 90 degrees, resemble crocodilian dentures.

Explored October 18, 2022

"Berlin" Gold, to be precise – which is made of chromium-nickel steel. This is the famous "Berlin" sculpture on Berlin-Charlottenburg boulevard Tauentzien. It was created in 1987 by artist couple Martin Matschinsky and Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff, and erected for the "Skulpturenboulevard" (sculpture boulevard) exhibition, a temporary exhibition in public space (of Berlin-West) of seven large sculptures/installations on the occasion of Berlin's 750th anniversary in 1987 and in connection with the Capital of Culture Year 1988. The intertwined, yet separated steel pipes of "Berlin" were meant to symbolize the situation of the city that, back in 1987, was still divided by the Berlin wall.

Unlike the other sculptures, "Berlin" was bought by the Senate of Berlin after the end of the exhibition, and is permanently installed on Tauentzien's centre strip. There are several more chromium-nickel steel pipe sculptures created by Matschinsky-Denninghoff in Berlin (and other cities in Germany). The sculpture "Dreiheit" (Trinity), which I've photographed as well (and which I'll probably upload soon as well), can be found in front of the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

The building in the lower right corner is the Europa-Center, a building complex built between 1963 and 1965. Europa-Center's high-rise tower with the rotating Mercedes-Benz star on the roof was, for many years, West Berlin's highest building and also quickly became one of West Berlin's landmarks. Today, the entire building complex is heritage protected.

Berliner Gold

... Das, strengenommen, aus Chromnickelstahl in Gestalt der Skulptur "Berlin" besteht. Diese berühmte, aus ineinander verschlungenen, aber dennoch voneinander getrennten Röhren bestehende Skulptur, die die damals noch bestehende Berliner Teilung symbolisiert(e), wurde 1987 vom Künstlerehepaar Matschinsky-Denninghoff erschaffen. Die Erstausstellung erfolgte im Rahmen des "Skulpturenboulevards", einer Ausstellung mit sieben Groß-Skulpturen/-Installationen im öffentlichen Raum West-Berlins anlässlich Berlins 750. Geburtstag 1987 und der Kulturhauptstadt 1988. Anders als die anderen Skulpturen des Skulpturenboulevards wurde "Berlin" vom Berliner Senat erworben und ist permanent auf dem Mittelstreifen des Tauentziens in der City-West zu sehen.

Es gibt, nicht nur in Berlin, sondern auch in anderen deutschen Städten, noch weitere von Matschinsky-Denninghoff geschaffene Stahlskulpturen. Eine davon, die ich ebenfalls fotografiert habe (das Foto werde ich vermutlich demnächst auch hochladen), die Skulptur "Dreiheit", ist vor der Berlinischen Galerie in Berlin-Kreuzberg zu finden.

Das Gebäude rechts "unten" ist der Turm des Europa-Centers. Das Europa-Center besteht nicht nur aus dem Hochhaus, sondern auch aus einem Einkaufszentrum am Breitscheidplatz. Das Hochaus des Europa-Centers war lange Zeit West-Berlins höchstes Gebäude und avancierte, nicht zuletzt wegen des weithin sichtbaren, rotierenden Mercedes-Sterns auf dem Dach, schnell zu einem Wahrzeichen der geteilten Stadt. Der zwischen 1963 und *65 errichtete Gebäudekomplex steht heute unter Denkmalschutz.

The Trans Am Totem sculpture stacks five auto chassis on a tree trunk for the 2015 Biennale. The local artist Marcus Bowcott’s statement of his piece is a “sculptural response to the urban site, a celebration of mobility and technology and a critique of throwaway consumer culture.”

The Canada Line rapid transit route passes under the rising residential towers of Marine Gateway.

Tidal ebb empties much of Coal Harbour like the draining of a bathtub

Below the CityGate residential towers the SkyTrain, a school bus, and a couple of cyclists all seem to be heading in the same direction. Where are they all off to and why weren’t we invited?

The Canada Line rumbles past Marine Gateway in Marpole. The complex was then under construction but is today an urban mall with stores, restaurants, and a movie theatre below the residential towers and is well served by both rapid transit and a bus loop.

Autumn colour amidst the residential towers punctuates the West End.

A SeaBus scoots by cruiseliners in the harbour back in the good ol’ days last year when these behemoths frequented the port as their southern terminus for Alaska cruises.

Under the residential towers of City Gate the recently developed Concord Community Park accommodates a range of recreational activities.

The old Sheraton Landmark tower patiently awaits demo doom.

Buildings around the busy intersection of Georgia and Granville Streets reflect the afternoon sunshine.

Northbound traffic exits on the Seymour Street ramp off the Granville Bridge. Residential highrise construction now dominates the former vacant land at the north end of the bridge.

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