Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

@cicerone imposter,

Yes, I read that, why I brought it up. I thought it was re chengdu, and yep.

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@cicerone imposter,

This is the museum that another couple and I went to visit by taxi. On our way back to the hotel, I gave the taxi driver the hotel business card for the address, but he got lost. We drove miles away from our hotel, and I had to show him the business card again. When we arrived back at the hotel, I wanted to give the driver a tip, because we enjoyed the extra detour to see more of Chengdu, and taxi fare was very reasonable in China. He wouldn't accept the tip. I really felt bad for him.

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Sichuan University Museum (四川大学博物馆; Sichuan Daxue Bowuguan), Wangjiang Rd (望江路) (About a 15 min ride from Xinnanmen bus station or a 40 minute walk), ☎ +86 028 85412313, [4]. 9AM-5PM. Excellent display of local artifacts and is worth while way of spending an hour or two. The museum is one of the better in China and there are four floors of well lite, air conditioned displays with decent English translations. Starting in the basement, enter the first room where dozens of stone carvings dating from the Han dynasty to the Tang are on display. The room next door has a moderately interesting display on the museum's history and numerous examples of ancient bronzes and stone age artifacts. The first floor is mostly artifacts from the Ming and Qing dynasty, including furniture, silk clothing, and an interesting display of leather puppets. The second floor has the perhaps the most engaging display: artifacts and daily use items from ethnic minority groups in China's southwest, including Tibetans, Miao, Yi, Qiang, Jianpo and Naxi. The third floor has a decent display of calligraphy scrolls, paintings, and ceramics. The museum is currently closed after the city changed the location of several universities. Plans are pending for a new museum to be built. ¥30 (students ¥10).

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@cicerone imposter,

Sounds good. I liked that re-done bridge Vonny posted, quite beautiful.

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The Silver Bridge--a link belt bridge that spanned the Ohio until December 1967 when it collapsed while loaded with traffic.

http://www.pointpleasantwv.org/MasonCoHistory/OldSilverBridgeColorPhoto.JPG

http://www.mywvhome.com/twenties/silverbridge2.jpg

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@cicerone imposter,

cicerone imposter wrote:

When my wife and I did a Europe tour about four decades ago, we walked that bridge. I also remember a lion carved into a rock, and we rode a train up to Stansihorn. (sp)

When I sung once in the loft at the church Notre Dame, Montreal Canada I remember seeing dragons painted on the ceiling.

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@RexRed,

That cathedral's blue hue is just beautiful! I can still see it in my mind's eye.

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@cicerone imposter,

exactly, light a candle Smile

be healed...

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Sugerloaf Bridge, Milam County, Texas

http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasBridges/Images/SugarloafBridgeMilamCountyTexas07JoeWilliams97.jpg

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http://cdn2.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/23.-Chengyang.jpg

Chengyang Bridge, China

Nicknamed the “Wind and Rain Bridge” and hidden amongst the rice fields and mountains, this bridge is found in the Guangxi Province of China spanning the Linxi River. Built in 1916 by the Dong people, an ethnic minority in China, the bridge has five separate pagoda structures with porches and pavilions. The traditional Chinese architecture makes for a fantastic looking structure but the most amazing thing about this bridge is that during construction, not a single nail was used, relying instead on some amazing architectural tricks.

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@vonny,

Instead of spanning over water, the Moses Bridge cuts a path through the water of a moat in the Netherlands.

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/d_zps2ebc6ca9.jpg

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/a_zpsf7f9582c.jpg

The Moses Bridge (Loopgraafbrug).
Fort De Roovere, West Brabant, Netherlands

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It has been up till now and I am sure it willl continue to be a pleasure to see the different architecture and engeenering works.
Some people think european /others global that we are all the same.
Far from it...
Look at these Chineese bridges - what a work of details. Look at our northern European bridges - it is a work of a engeenering - perfect but nothing where you spend time looking at details for the fun of it.
The British castles look like a castle and dominates the beautiful parks.
Our Scandinavian castles look more like a playhouse in above parks.
The Italian or sothern European narrow streets with arches and walls close to shut out the hot sun and still be close to neighbours.
We Swedes like "Sun at last" and space between us and the nearest person.

http://allas.se/files/2011/03/pigmentbank.jpg

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@Walter Hinteler,

Lovely - kind of a canal in a channel. Or a canal in a canal.

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The Glienicke Bridge (over the Havel River) connects Potsdam (state capital of Brandenburg) with Berlin

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/a_zpsd6a43879.jpg

It was most famous for being the "Bridge of Spies" during the Cold War (Until 1986, it was used by the Allied and Soviets for the exchange of captured spies.)

http://i1334.photobucket.com/albums/w641/Walter_Hinteler/c_zps52d37afd.jpg

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@Walter Hinteler,

I had to opportunity on one of my first visits to Berlin to visit Potsdam and the building where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met. However, I have long forgotten any bridge we crossed to get there.

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@cicerone imposter,

I remember the Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome as "blueish".
Also, speaking of arches...

wiki -
While many other medieval churches in Rome have been given Baroque makeovers that cover Gothic structures, the Minerva is the only extant example of original Gothic church building in Rome.[2] Behind a restrained Renaissance style façade[3] the Gothic interior features arched vaulting that was painted blue with gilded stars and trimmed with brilliant red ribbing in a 19th-century Neo-Gothic restoration.

Among several important works of art in the church are Michelangelo's statue Cristo della Minerva (1521) and the late 15th-century (1488–1493) cycle of frescos in the Carafa Chapel by Filippino Lippi. The basilica also houses many funerary monuments including the tombs of Doctor of the Church Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), who was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, and the Dominican friar Blessed John of Fiesole (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, born Guido di Piero) better known as Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455).

http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Rome%20&%20Central%20Italy/Rome/Rome_Churches/Santa_Maria_sopra_Minerva/SMSM-Images/800/SM_SM-May05-DC0929sAR800.jpg

I liked it. Walked into it another time when mass, quite crowded, was going on, organ sounding beautiful. I left, wrong time to be looking around, but it was nice to hear.

Here's the outside, which I like too, even with the big difference re the gothic interior.

http://d1ezg6ep0f8pmf.cloudfront.net/images/lthumbs/a2/15402-santa-maria-sopra-minerva-rome-unassuming-facade.jpg

I'm keen on Bernini's elefante -

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4eb5FAE7D8M/T7AsLp8h5kI/AAAAAAAAHw0/K9fIIb90gPU/s1600/1205110315.jpg

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/6c/8c/a6/filename-dsc2929-jpg.jpg

note: the church was built over the ruins of the temple of Isis..

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@Walter Hinteler,

Hmmm. My first boss was Dr. Havel. He'd be over a hundred by now so I don't feel too badly about saying his name here. I remember that his family background was German. Is Havel also a city or mainly the name of the river?

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@ossobuco,

Here, the Havel is a rather small river - only about 60 miles long, but a lot of lakes and some wonderful places on its bank.

Havel is a family name as well (Václav Havel).

While the river's name is related to the German word "Haff" (port, harbor), the family name is the Sorbian, Czech and Slovak version of the name of "Saint Gall" (Sanctus Gallus).
Upper and Lower Sorbia is located just south of Berlin.

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@Walter Hinteler,

How could I have momentarily forgotten about him, eh?

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Henderson Waves Bridge, Singapore

http://cdn.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/13.-henderson-Waves-Bridge1.jpg

The bridge was designed to look like waves, as you can guess by the name. It connects 2 of Singapore’s parks, Mount Faber Park and Telok Blangah Hill Park and has a stunning view of Singapore’s natural side. At night it is lit up to add more beauty to its already artistic design. Henderson Waves is made of steel and timber. Steel is needed for structural purposes, whereas timber celebrates the beauty of the parks that it connects while adding to its classy design. The bridge is equipped with seating, lounging and sight-seeing areas to compliment its surrounding view.

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Millau Viaduct, France

http://cdn3.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/11.-Millau-Viaduct.jpg

This bridge is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the tallest bridge in the world. It stands at an incredible 1,125ft tall to become an engineering masterpiece. The bridge gained international recognition as a major engineering feat and received the Outstanding Structure Award in 2006, one of the most prestigious prizes an architect can win. The New York Times described it as “a triumph of engineering” and the BBC called it “one of the engineering wonders of the 21st Century”. The president of France, Jacques Chirac, opened the bridge in 2004 which cost an estimated 394 million euros, or 524 million dollars. The bridge itself crosses over the Tarn River Valley in Millau and gives drivers some of the most stunning views in all of France, even rising above the clouds on some days!

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