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Monday, February 24, 2014
Hotel in the heart of Namibia's Wildlife
World Tallest Fountain — King Fahd's Fountain
King Fahd's Fountain, also known as the Jeddah Fountain, is the tallest of its type of fountain in the world. Located in the coast of Jeddah, west coast of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The fountain jets water 1,024 feet (312 m) above the Red Sea. It was donated to the city of Jeddah by King Fahd, hence its name. The fountain is visible throughout the entire vicinity of Jeddah. The water it ejects can reach a speed of 375 kilometres (233 mi) per hour and its airborne mass can exceed 18 tons. It was constructed between 1980 and 1983 and began operating in 1985. The fountain uses saltwater taken from the Red Sea instead of freshwater. It uses over 500 spotlights to illuminate the fountain at night.
Magic Mountain Hotel
Full four star international service, in such a spectacular location, sets the Magic Mountain Hotel apart from all the other hotels in Southern Chile.The really funny thing is that the Magic Mountain hotel you see in the photo is possibly the least spectacular thing going on around the Huilo Huilo nature reserve in Southern Chile.Huilo Huilo is more of region than a single town.It includes one of the largest privately owned natural reserves in Chile along with several nearby towns, lakes, and a volcano with year around snowboarding and skiing, and the river Fuy that is famous for its class 3-5 white water rafting and kayaking. The name sake of the region is the Huilo Huilo falls (salto del Huilo Huilo ). There is also a smaller, but no less spectacular falls Salto de la Leona (Lion falls). The Lake Pirihueico borders Argentina, and daily car transport ferry connects the international highway to Argentina. The Most of the land surrounding the lake is also part of the Huilo Huilo reserve.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Rolling Bridge in London
London's Rolling Bridge is a type of curling or folding movable bridge is the part of the Grand Union Canal at Paddington Basin, London. Inspite of the connotation of its name, it is more accurately described as Curling. Heatherwick Studio's was commissioned to designed by SKM Anthony hunt with Packman Lucas, and built by Littlehampton Welding Ltd. The Hydraulic design and development was done by Primary Fluid Power Ltd.
The eight triangular sections hinged at the walkway level and connected above by two parts links that can collapsed towards the deck by Hydraulic Cylinders, which are concealed in vertical posts in the bridge parapets. The 12 meters long footbridge when it extended in resembles a conventional steel and timber. It allow the passage of boats, the hydraulic pistons are activated and the curls up until it two ends joins, to form an octagonal shape measuring 1 ½ of the waterway's width at that point.
The X-shaped Bridge | Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge
Talking about the land mark of Brazil, the mind click comes to " Christ the Redeemer Statue towering over the Rio. The second largest building which is the national pride of the country, a grand stayed bridge Octavio Frias Oliveria, named after a popular local newspaper publisher who influenced to a large extent on the whole social life of Sao Paulo, which actually is a magnificent bridge.
Amazing and unsurpassed design, that we can say, a delicious combination of engineering solution with high aesthetic qualities that make this building so impressive that the fame of the beauty sold worldwide. The quaintness of the bridge structure in that it substantially rests only on the X-shaped monolithic concrete base with running from it to the roadway steel shrouds, the of which pieces. The height of the pillars are 138 meters and stretched cables, illuminated by special LED bridge added visual lightness and weightlessness. It is the only bridge in the world that has two curved tracks supported by a single concrete mast. The two curved tracks, one at an elevation of 12 meters and the other at an elevation of 24 meters, have approximate lengths of 900 meters each. Due to this effect, the construction seems to be hovering over the water of the river Pinheiros and automobiles highways passing underneath. Apart from it utilitarian purpose of unloading vehicle traffic, the bridge to the city skyline a touch of uniqueness and originality, effectively becoming its principal symbol.
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