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It was built from 1997 to 2004, and it is the largest rigid-frame bridge in Japan and the third largest in the world. [1] Images of the bridge have been widely circulated on the internet, owing to its seemingly steep nature when photographed from a distance with a telephoto lens, but in actuality, it has a less pronounced, 6.1% gradient in the ...
1 International/World. 2 Africa. Toggle Africa subsection. 2.1 Botswana. 2.2 Madagascar. ... Map of highways in China's National Trunk Highway System. National Trunk ...
Writing for Digital Camera World, Hannah Rooke said that Bliss became a metaphor for peace, nostalgia, and natural charm. [4] Wayne Freedman of ABC7 called it the contemporary version of Adams's Monolith photograph. [9] Observing the sky in the photograph, cultural anthropologist Katrien Pype referred to it as "almost perfect." [31]
The bridge was built under budget for $199,861 (equivalent to $3.64 million in 2023 dollars [5]) and, at 360 feet (110 m), [1] was the longest concrete arch span in the California State Highway System. When it was completed, it was the highest single-span arch bridge in the world, [6]: 45 and it remains one of the tallest. [7]
Classic Googie sign at Warren, Ohio drive-in. Googie's beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. [16] Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie: Ultra Modern Road Side Architecture that mobility in Los Angeles during the 1930s was characterized by the initial influx of the automobile and the service industry that evolved to ...
The showpiece aesthetic stretch of the Reichsautobahn was the Irschenberg on the autobahn from Munich to the Austrian border, where instead of passing through the valley, the highway was routed in a curving path up the hill to the summit, from which there was a full view of the Alps to the south. A rest stop was located there. [118] (The ...
A stitched photo of all 50 states in the artwork. Alaska and Hawaii hang on the left wall next to the contiguous U.S. map.. Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii is a video art installation created in 1995 and composed of 575 feet (175 m) multicolored neon tubing, 336 television sets, 50 DVD players (originally VHS players), and 3,750 feet (1,140 m) of cable.
The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales and/or Victoria. The Tooleybuc Bridge has aesthetic significance due to its setting and size.