28 March 2016

Bilbao - Transporter Bridge

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Puente Vizcaya, just outside Bilbao, and connecting Portugalete and Las Arenas, is the oldest transporter bridge in the world, the first...
14 March 2016

Echo of an Ekco

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The cabinet of Ekco's AC-only AC77, designed by Serge Chermayeff, was available in both  walnut Bakelite , and black Bakelite with a fro...
04 March 2016

Karan Anne Porter

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Thursday 4 March 1965 to Wednesday 4 February 2009. Photograph: with Sarah Willcox, Fulham, 1991.
17 February 2016

Rendsburg Transporter Bridge, Schleswig-Holstein

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The Rendsburg High Bridge was the last of the three transporter bridges built in Germany: Osten opened in...

Osten Transporter Bridge, Lower Saxony

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Osten Transporter Bridge was built 1908-09 to provide a crossing between Osten and Hemmoor that did not interfere with shipping on the R...
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16 February 2016

Chilehaus, Hamburg

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Ten-storeys tall and built using 4,800,000 dark Oldenburg bricks, the Chilehaus is an internationally famous example of Expressionist archit...
25 December 2015

Berwick Tunnel

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970 yards long, the Berwick Tunnel is the only tunnel on the Shrewsbury and Newport Canal, opened January 1797. The overlying burden is...
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10 December 2015

Trinidad & Tobago NAPA Napping

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Port of Spain's National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) is a teaching and performance facility in the form of a cluster of d...
12 November 2015

BTH Type E Loudspeaker

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British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd (BTH) was a diversified engineering company headquartered in Rugby, Warwic...
01 November 2015

Warrington - Transporter Bridge

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Of the 19 transporter bridges built to completion worldwide the UK boasted four:  Newport (operational), Middlesbrough (operational), Widn...
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Warrington - K4 Rarity

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Designed by the GPO's Engineering Department on the basis of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's K2, the K4 kiosk incorporated a post box a...
01 October 2015

Adelaide - The Cheese Grater

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Known locally as the Cheese Grater, the Spaceship, the Pine Cone, and the Prickly Pear, the distinctive feature of the new headquarters ...
30 September 2015

Adelaide - Mortlock Library

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Forming part of the State Library of South Australia, the Mortlock Library, know known as the Mortlock Wing, was opened in 1884 as a lib...
27 September 2015

Adelaide - Botanic Garden Old

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Gracing the 125 acre Adelaide Botanic Garden, the Palm House is of German origin. It was imported from Bremen in 1875 and opened in 187...