Push en 2019

Push en 2019

Le beau marcheur blanc

To Jump or not to Jump! This is the question!

The Master and Commander of the Universe.

The Cat that Changes our Universe.

Cat thinking about the trip to the Moon.

A gorgeous Light Cat. 

Push Reflecting.

Push the Wise Cat.

Manhattan, New York Manhattan

Manhattan Buildings

Steam engines,  electricity, made energy available to do many more times the work that people and animals had done before. A new method of smelting iron produced huge quantities at low prices. Other inventions gave builders steel, a material even stronger than iron. Cities grew an skyscrapers provided a solution to the problems of overcrowding because they take up little space on the ground. Skyscraper frames were first built with iron, then with steel. New engines powered elevators to hoist people to the top. The weight of a tall building can easily cause it to sink or lean, so the early skyscrapers were usually built on solid rock. This is why so many were built on Manhattan, a rocky island in New Your City.

You can see here some photographs showing Manhattan not very well known... All the pictures have been taken by Elena.

South Pear.. In the XIXeth century,  thus South Pear was built one of the first iron structures to be constructed in the city.

Manhattan, Liberty Place. The world gained a new construction material when inexpensive iron was developed.

Skycrapers are a product of the Industrial Revolution, as new inventions revolutionized the way people lived. 

The first skyscraper was built in 1884 in the city of Chicago, Illinois. It was only ten-stories high.

Union Square. Manhattan's heart.

UN building, center of the worlds most well-known organization.

HM. Computers check all the designs, and the prestressed concrete roofs are made by casting concrete pieces that are placed on the building before steel cables are threaded through them and pulled tight.

Place in face of the Police Museum. The Art Deco style, a novelty of the 1930s, inspired the triangle-shaped windows. These are set within tiers of arches on the crown of many buildings.

Soho, Manhattan.

Old and modern buildings. The architect's imaginative design become a unique masterpiece which is recognized throughout the world.

The steel in prestressed concrete is stretched tight so that it squeezes the concrete around it.

Steam engines powered the first elevators, which were used only for freight. The first passenger elevators were installed in 1857 after a way was found to stop them from falling if a cable broke. By 1889, they were powered by electric motors. The elevator doors of the Chrysler Building are decorated in the Art Deco style.

Native Americans were some of the earliest construction workers on skyscrapers. They worked at great heights while standing only on 8-in wide steel beams.

A strong frame is built inside the building for the elevators. This frame also helps the building resist the pushing and twisting forces of the winds.

You may not like the way a particular building looks oe even understand why it is thought to be a great building. But once you learn about the lives and thoughts of the people who build it and about the time and place in which it was built, you may find something about the building they do like.

Giant cranes require dozens of trucks each to be transported to the building sites where they are assembled.

New York Loft.

New Design

Manhattan – A New Design

The construction of an innovative buildings is difficult and often requires new techniques and special building materials. Many unexpected problems arise no matter how careful the advance planning may be. The architects and engineers face major obstacles to introduce innovative methods and to work out a way to actually build new buildings.

All the pictures have been taken by Elena.

A great building can reflect many different ideas and styles and tells us about the values and beliefs of the people who design and build it.

These buildings have thing, lightweight roof, which was made by pouring concrete over a tightly stretched wire mesh.

Ancient buildings around the world looked different because they were shaped by the building materials available. Each material inspired  a different construction method.

Broadway and Toronto Dominion Bank on sight.

Metals, plastic and glass from around the world are used in this buildings.

There are always many unexpected costs and delays in construction.

Their roofs are designed to be made of prestressed concrete.

Large international corporations are building impressive and functional buildings. Many of these giant buildings can be seen all over Manhattan.

As space became scarce, corporations needed high-rise buildings, so architects and engineers designed skycrapers to withstand earthquakes.

Modern buildings dot the New York  skyline, but modern lifestyles affect their future.

Each new generation of architects and engineers will face many new obstacles and technological opportunities.

Architects will create different building materials, methods and architectural styles to meet new challenges. 

St. Andrew's church in the heart of Manhattan.

Trinity church, one of the oldest Christian temples on Manhattan.

Stone Jungle. New York, New York.

Place in front of the Trump Center, near the Central Park of New York.

Central Park - New York

Central Park - Manhattan - New York

The  New York Central Park was established in 1857 on 778 acres of land acquired by the city of New York. In 1858, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect/landscape designer Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year, and the park's first area was opened to the public in the winter of 1858. Construction north of the park continued during the American Civil War in the 1860s, and the park was expanded to its current size in 1873. 

After a period of decline in the early 20th century, Robert Moses started a program to clean up Central Park. Another decline in the late 20th century spurred the creation of the Central Park Conservancy in 1980, which refurbished many parts of the park during the 1980s and 1990s.

Here come some views of the park. All the pictures have been taken by Elena.

Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1963, which in April 2017 placed it on the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage sites.

The park is frequented by various migratory birds during their spring and fall migration on the Atlantic Flyway. 

In 1979, Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis established the Office of Central Park Administrator, appointing to the position the executive director of another citizen organization, the Central Park Task Force.

Pond. The park contains several natural-looking lakes and ponds that have been created artificially by damming natural seeps and flows.

Medieval Fight.

Arch under a bridge.

Rocks in the park.

Simon Bolivar.

Lonely trails.

 There is a large area of woods in addition to seven major lawns, the meadows.

There is an all-volunteer ambulance service, the Central Park Medical Unit, that provides free emergency medical service to patrons of Central Park and the surrounding streets.

The 6 miles (9.7 km) of drives within the park are used by joggers, cyclists, skateboarders, and inline skaters, especially when automobile traffic is prohibited, on weekends and in the evenings after 7:00 pm.

The park has many minor grassy areas; some of them are used for informal or team sports and some set aside as quiet areas; there are a number of enclosed playgrounds for children.

Flowers-blue-and-white on the roof.

While planting and land form in much of the park appear natural, it is in fact almost entirely landscaped. 

Monument to Jose Marti, the Cuban prophet.

An enchanted forest. A beautiful landscape at dark purple sunlight or moonlight.

The Central park has its own New York City Police Department precinct—the Central Park Precinct—which employs both regular police and auxiliary officers.