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The V&A Waterfront is a mixed-use suburb in Cape Town, South Africa. It is on the site of the oldest working harbour in the Southern Hemisphere. [1] With Table Mountain as its backdrop, [2] the 123-hectare neighbourhood sees millions of people visiting each year. [3] It contains art, entrepreneurs, and sustainable design. [4] [5]
Ships entering the harbour in Table Bay from the east coast of Africa have to round the coast at Sea Point and over the years many of them have been wrecked on the reefs just off-shore. In May 1954, during a great storm, the Basuto Coast (246 tonnes) ended up on the rocks within a few metres of the concrete wall of the promenade. [27]
The V&A Dundee – the first branch of the V&A to operate outside of London – is the main centrepiece of the waterfront project. Today, Dundee is promoted as "One City, Many Discoveries" in honour of Dundee's history of scientific activities and of the RRS Discovery , Robert Falcon Scott 's Antarctic exploration vessel, which was built in ...
The V&A Dundee – the first branch of the V&A to operate outside of London – is the main centrepiece of the waterfront project. [7] [8] Today, Dundee is promoted as "One City, Many Discoveries" in honour of Dundee's history of scientific activities and of the RRS Discovery, Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic exploration vessel, which was built ...
View of the canal from the Third Street Bridge in 2010. The Gowanus Canal begins at Butler Street in the neighborhood of Boerum Hill, in the northwestern part of Brooklyn.. The wastewater pumping station at 201-234 Butler Street, a terracotta structure dating to 1911, [1]: 167 [2] is located north of the canal's he
On 15 September 2018, the first V&A museum outside London, V&A Dundee, opened. [9] The museum, built at a cost of £80.11m, is located on Dundee's waterfront, and is focused on Scottish design, furniture, textiles, fashion, architecture, engineering and digital design. [ 40 ]
At the same time 12 ft (3.7 m) high railings were installed across the fourth (open) side of the quadrangle to prevent desertions, and the ground floor windows of the wards were barred. [7] Robert Dods, who was Surgeon at Haslar in the 1790s, set up a separate operating room in the Royal Hospital Haslar (which was the first in any naval hospital).
[64] [79] Spandrel beams between the columns—6.3 feet (1.9 m) wide at the bottom, 9 feet (2.7 m) wide at the top, and 24 feet (7.3 m) deep—also supported the roof. [64] The roof was waterproofed, sealed, and covered with copper sheeting by the New York Roofing Co. and the Ehret-Warren Co. [ 56 ] [ 91 ] In August 1927, it was believed the ...