Helicopters (and any other similar flying vehicles) have been banned from landing on rooftops in the city since the 70s, they are only allowed to use the 3 designated helipad ports around the island (Manhattan).
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^Nor would we want them too. NYC airspace is complicated enough, without experimental flying machines clouding the skies.
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Per:WARSAW | Varso Tower | 310m | 1017ft | 52 fl | Com | SkyscraperCity Forum
where can i buy this model?
I don’t like the metal models that much.
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Nowhere, that model is not one that the public can buy, it is a presentation model, not to mention it would be thousands of dollars.
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What exactly does a presentation model similar to 270 Park Ave cost these days?
I once read in the book that the model of the One Broadway State project (Bertelsmann Building) cost about $40,000.
In the similar price range I also estimated the model from Mellon Bank Center, only where is the model?
Perhaps this could be why no new RFA has been released for Site K 418 11th Ave. I could imagine that in the next few years, HY Phase Two will still rise.
I can’t imagine the RFA being completely repealed in NY.
The Golden Temple (Jehol) at the 1933/34 Chicago World’s Fair, this is a complete scale replica of a temple of the The Golden Temple (Jehol) at the 1933/34 Chicago World’s Fair, this is a complete scale replica of a temple of the Chengde Mountain Resort - Wikipedia.
Unfortunately only 70% of the replica remains, couldn’t this building be included in a Chicago project?
„ After the close of the Century of Progress in 1934, the Temple was dissembled, and was subsequently shown again at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. But where did it end up after that? The temple’s next stop was Oberlin College in the 1940s, where the thousands of pieces arrived by train. The Temple was supposed to be assembled on campus, but due to complications during the war, it was never re-constructed. Various colleges and other organizations laid claim to the Temple over the years, including Harvard and Indiana University. However these institutions’ plans for the Temple also never materialized. In 1983, the temple was purchased by the National Waste Company in Lorain, Ohio (not far from Oberlin) where it languished in a warehouse. During this ownership, the Temple was partially sold for scrap, and only about 70% of the original pieces remained. As of 2020, the final resting place of the Temple is Stockholm, Sweden. The deconstructed Temple is now under the care of the Golden Temple Foundation (about which there is limited information), where it still remains in storage, out of sight from the public. Vincent Bendix thought his replica temple would bring fame and fortune, and while it enjoyed the spotlight in its heyday in the 1930s, after decades of travel, the Golden Temple ended up meeting an inauspicious end.“
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Song Dynasty
An artist’s rendition of the imperial Deshou Palace in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in Hangzhou’s Shangcheng District. It is estimated that the construction will be completed by September 2022.
Above is the official rendering of the palace and below is a photo of what it will look like when completed.
Construction detail
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I would have preferred the green and yellow roof.
I have a suggestion for a themed area at a Disney resort:
Rebuilding the hall (Hanyuan Hall) as a complete replica is too big (it had a length of 130 meters) but maybe you could rebuild this in a scale.
https://zhangxiaodou.artstation.com/projects/QrmrGE
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Klingenthal is between 250 and 330 kilometers from Landshut, depends on which route you want to take. Heidelberg, yes that’s a very nice city I’ve been there a few times.
Yes, there was a border (concrete wall) in the middle of Germany between 1962 and 1990. The capital Berlin was also divided between West and East Germany. The two states were called FRG (Federal Republic of Germany) and GDR (Great Democratic Republic) or in German DDR.
If the Wall still existed today, I would never have come to New York.
On this postcard fly the two German flags side by side the GDR and the FRG.
I couldn’t imagine moving to New York right now because this is where my entire collection is.
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This is a good example of destroyed historical buildings after construction, this is the Gyeongbokgung Palace and is located in Seoul. So far, only 40% of the palace has been completed, but it is planned that the palace will be completely rebuilt.
Gyeonghoeru Pavilion
On tawatchai prakobkit | Flickr
Yes, I can imagine that there was a vote in China to completely rebuild the YuanMing Yuan (old Summer palace). But not as a theme park but on the site where the old one stood and is now recognized as a world heritage site.
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nice pictures at night
I’m excited
I will change this topic in the category as with the title, as I don’t have any new concepts myself at the moment. I can imagine that one or the other has counted on the editing of my Topic, because my last posts were more or less to the original title.
Therefore I change the title to:
Classical Chinese, Korean and Japanese architecture.
Feel free to post pictures or links related to “Chinatown in New York, Philadelphia,…”.
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Is there a name for the distinctive shape of the roofs that are seen all over Asia?
I couldn’t find a technical term about it, but what I can tell you is that it’s a hip roof. One square meter of the roof of the Forbidden City in Beijing weighs 800 kilograms.
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Osaka Castle (Japan) under construction 1930
File:3rd Osaka Castle Keep Tower completion and under construction.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Kon-dō and pagoda at Hōryū-ji, Ikaruga, Nara
Built in 7th century
Phoenix Hall at Byōdō-in, Uji, Kyoto
Built in 1053
Since the last building in Japan was built around the year 1050, now comes to the imperial palace from the Chinese Song Dynasty it was possibly built around 950.
(Modell)
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That’s the Chinatown Friendship Gate in Philadelphia. Weird how it’s not labled in the NY Yimby article