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Well, I thought it seemed an appropriate topic in light of certain recent events on here... 😉
So, yeah, power stations, control centres, that sort of thing. Structures that control aspects of the environment, so dams and locks I'll allow.
Tidal Basin Pumping Station, Royal Docks London:
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Thames Flood Barrier:
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And of course:
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Any excuse...lol
It's a structure that certainly controls an aspect of the environment 😉
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loch tummel hydro station
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/john_parker/5252706064/ ]Power Station Loch Tummel[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/john_parker/ ]John Parker Pix[/url], on Flickr
YAY!! Welcome back Fred!!!
Just for you, something from your spiritual home. Speke airport Control Tower and terminal. Art Deco lovliness:
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and the Mersy tunnel air vents
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Not appropriate Sharki!!!
Singletrack Towers...
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No?
Ok...8 mins to edit then...THINKS!
Sheffield Moor Street Sub Station:
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Better ^? 😉
It's still innapropriate Sharki! 😆
Vinneyh: Sublime... 😉
Fiddlers Ferry power station
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That's an awful lot of steam and hot air being produced
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ben cruachan, inside which a 1km long tunnel
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leads to the 440MW hydro electric power station
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Sorry the pics are a bit crap, very little on t'internet, but you can read all about it [url=www.scottishpower.com/uploads/CruachanPowerStation.pdf]here[/url]
Powerstation IM - Belgium
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Meh...
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Farnborough Air Traffic Control Centre. Looks quite phallic...
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Power [b][i]without[/i][/b] control - Chernobyl
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Drax @ Selby N. Yorks.
I was thinking about posting the Thams Barrier pic for the gateways and entrances thread cos it's kind of the river gateway to London...
Ah well.
Power and control:
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Shed loads of power to control very tiny things, the Large Hadron Collider.
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Transmission mast at Emley Moor.
The original mast, a 1266ft steel structure fell over in 1969 due to high winds and the weight of ice on its guy cables. Bet that made a din!
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Agecroft.
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Now gone, making the area a greener and cleaner place.
Hoover Dam.
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>>picture removed by Elfinsafety - not compliant with thread title<<
Monolithic but impressive in size. Boeing's plant at Everett, Washington state.
Kariba Dam
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Not the biggest or most impressive but responsible for Lake Kariba a pretty special place I miss.
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St. Denis II Powerstation - Paris
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And I'll see your phallic and raise you a yonic 😆
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Doesn't qualify, Starbelly, cos it's not a power or control centre. Sorry, but I don't make the rules oh actually I do. 😐
Crossness Pumping Station:
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Abbey Mills Pumping Station:
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Tat Modern (formerly Southwark Power Station):
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Power you say? Well, since most of my youth was spent watching this being built, I'd best introduce people to Sizewell B.
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This okay Elf'?
No it's not, Derek, it's not. You cooduv posted something nice like this Sayano-Shushenskoe Hydroelectric power station, but instead you've gone and bin silly which isn't nice and it spoils it for everyone else who is behaving themselves I think you should go and stand in the corner and stay there until you can learn how to be nice. 😐
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Power and Control, The Kremlin;
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Here's an American missile silo.
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Too much power and control...
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Again, inappropriate. 😐
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I prefer Naval Architechture for sheer Power and Control. 🙂
Danny79, you from Zambia then?
Caen Hill Lock Gates, Kennet and Avon Canal:
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Huge massive pipes, the steps on the right give and idea of size 😮
From this.
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And on the other side of the world, a night time lock transit on the 3 Gorges Dam. Much control of keeping the lock doors closed at the right time!
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No Baldysquirt, I lived in Zimbabwe from age 12 to 17 came back to the UK for A'levels and Uni. Still got friends out there, but we left well before farm seizures started.
That's not the Kremlin!
It's St Basil's cathedral (on Red Square just next to the Kremlin).
Turn to your right and you'll see the Kremlin..
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Pitstone windmill
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Cenarth watermill
Low tech now but back in the day they utterly changed the way of life forever.
Power and Control, The Kremlin;
...but that's not the Kremlin...
footflaps - I blame google images...
I do enjoy these threads. Here are some control rooms...
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/79623/details/hunterston+nuclear+generating+station+a+power+station/ ]Hunterston 'A'[/url]
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/93041/details/stonebyres+hydro+electric+power+station/ ]Stonebyres Hydro Station[/url]
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[url= http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/48119/details/kincardine+on+forth+bridge/ ]Kincardine on Forth Bridge[/url]
(Okay, so the last one controls a bridge rather than a power station but I'm putting it in on the strength of it looking damn cool and having a microphone to bark instructions at errant road/river users)
Well it's a church, so symbolic of Power and Control, I spose...
As is this place:
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Ceausescu's Palace of the Republic
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Oh well if we are veering off into any kind if power and control I give you:
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caer caradoc
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Maiden castle
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Both in one car.
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One for the IT nerds..
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BOT, sorry for the flit earlier outside of bricks n mortar..
Abengoa Solar Array, Espania.
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controlling and hrvesting the power of the waves
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Geof, what/where is that? - I'm guessing The Wash.
No no it's all gone horribly wrong. 🙁
[url= http://www.jonworth.eu/limehouse-accumulator-tower-eccentric-joys-of-london/ ]Limehouse Accumulator Tower:[/url]
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Simliar, but different; the Pimlico Accumulator Tower:
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The Galileo Mission Control Centre (shortly after construction)
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Harry_the_Spider - Member
Geof, what/where is that? - I'm guessing The Wash.POSTED 8 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
Yup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Trial_Bank
One with personal interest, designed and built by the company I work for, tallest electricity pylons in the world, the Yangtze river crossing in china (346.5m tall, 4192tonnes)
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Or one I was personally involved withthe construction of, the tallest structure in the UK, the Skelton transmitter mast in Cumbria
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Power [i]and[/i] control.
Sharpen your pencils folks..... The next time the A&A thread revisits the power and control theme it could feature something [url= http://www.ribapylondesign.com/ ]you[/url] designed 🙂
^ Iain1775 built a kickstand for a cloud, superb!
Nice one Maccruiskeen! 🙂
Mm, pylons....
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Grand Dixence Dam, all 285 metres of it:
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"Situated at the head of the Val des Dix, Grande Dixence is the highest gravity dam in the world, and something of a record-breaker! The height of its wall, 285 metres, remains unmatched. Its weight, approximately 15 million tonnes, makes it heavier than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
Each year it stores over 400 million cubic metres of water, a capacity achieved by the use of no less than 6 million cubic metres of concrete in its construction. With exactly the same quantity of concrete, it would be possible to build a wall 1.5 metres high and 10 centimetres wide, running all the way round the equator!
The dam is 200 metres wide at its base. At the top it “slims down” to just 15 metres. To make the foundation soil watertight, the grout curtain which surrounds the dam reaches a depth of 200 metres. It extends for 100 metres on each side of the valley."
GSK Headquarters, Brentford. Viewed from above, it looks like a spoon.
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Do more, feel better, live longer. Take your medicine.
It's difficult to detach contemporary vanicular easthics from functionality, this is especially true when the engineering requirements result in an understandable grand facade. Compare Frank Lloyd Write to Le Courbusier for aesthetics and functionality debate with fashion and modernist heroism as an example...
The last pic of Jamie's Belgian power station reminds me of the torture scene at the end of 'Brazil' but google told me that was filmed in the cooling tower of Croydon power station (since demolished).
Hmmm... you hear that Elfin? Film locations?
debaser - lovely set of dials you got there.
Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace)
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The bridge of Sigh's where traitors to the Doge would be taken out of the Palace and into the Dungeons/usually to their deaths....
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A [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon ]Panopticon[/url], designed to control prisoners. Illinois State Penitentiary, near Joliet:
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Pentonville is built in a similar way - uninterrupted sight lines from the central area down every wing - rather intimidating
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More of Fiddler Ferry
Pylons? How about these:
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Wow those pylons are amazing.. Looks like they're in Europe, wouldn't have anything so inspiring here in the UK would we now.
Great photos.
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A cube with so much power and control you would not believe.
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Power and control, try sailing one of these, and theres a design ethic within.
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Wow those pylons are amazing.. Looks like they're in Europe, wouldn't have anything so inspiring here in the UK would we now.
Great photos.
Sadly they're from another design-a-pylon competition, so renderings on top of a photo background rather than being "real". Agree that it would be great to see something like that though. Not everywhere, but as something different in the right environment they'd look ace.
bikebouy - A cube with so much power and control you would not believe.
So that's where the Transformers AllSpark cube is hiding!
Those pylons are awful, prime example of architects playing at being Engineers, they would be incrediably expensive to build, if not impossible, would never stand up to the loadings imposed and would be incredibly difficult to maintain as well as needing to be doubled up as single circuit outages on the one line would not be possible
And don't get me started in that RIBA design a pylon competition! That doesn't have one exeriemced engineer on the judging panel
No new designs will see light of day as a result of that, possibly some minor ideas may get cribed and incorporated into existing (revised) designs (access etc) but in the uk the traditional pylon is unlikely to change very much, that competition is just a very, very cheap way for ngt to get some new ideas and a means to try and pacify the public over the increase in windfarms etc
Awe, sucha shame.. those pylons are truely excellent..
Suppose "let pylons be pylons"