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Alexander Kock-Krame… said:

Huebsche Arbeit, gefaellt mir gut!


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RicarditoSVK said:

Hafeezmj, thank you very much for your visit, praise and like! Best wishes, Richard


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Reiner Spangemacher said:

Eine saubere Arbeit Egon, da komme ich dann doch nicht umhin, schnell noch ein Fav anzuhängen. Gruß Reiner


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timek said:

Very beautiful composition. Like! Greetings, timek


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Marin Stanisic said:

Amazing view - L22. Best regards, Marin


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Wladan said:

Andermatt ski centar u Svajcarska!!!Lepo mesto


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PKusserow said:

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption,

also known locally as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is the principal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. It is the mother church of the Catholic faithful in the California counties of Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo and is the metropolitan cathedral for the Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco.

The 1891 cathedral

The cathedral is located in the Cathedral Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption replaced two previous churches of the same name successively. The first original cathedral was built in 1854 and still stands today and is now known as Old Saint Mary's Church. In 1891, a second cathedral was constructed but was destroyed by arson in 1962. The present-day cathedral was commissioned just as Vatican II was convening in Rome. Prescriptions of the historic church council allowed the Archdiocese of San Francisco to plan boldly in the building of its new cathedral. That resulted in the modern design of the present structure. The cornerstone was laid on December 13, 1967, and the cathedral was completed three years later. On May 5, 1971, the cathedral was blessed and on October 5, 1996, was formally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the name of Saint Mary of the Assumption. The first papal mass was celebrated by Pope John Paul II in the cathedral in 1987.

The cathedral was designed by local architects John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney, collaborating with internationally known architects Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi — at the time, the Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT.

Its saddle roof is composed of eight segments of hyperbolic paraboloids, in such a fashion that the bottom horizontal cross section of the roof is a square and the top cross section is a cross. The design is reminiscent of St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo, which was built earlier in the decade.

Due to its resemblance to a large washing machine agitator, the cathedral has been nicknamed "Our Lady of Maytag" or "McGucken's Maytag". The building was selected in 2007 by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects for a list of San Francisco's top 25 buildings. source: Wikipedia


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Rudian Wasiliy said:

df3vi, Oh yes I mixed. With this panorama. Иванчай


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radu bulubasa said:

Au fost niste masini minunate ... Si americanii pionieri in domeniu !

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Salutari , Radu .


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df3vi said:

Great - didn't know that FIAT build something like this, too. Maybe you would like to present your cars photo also at FAHRZEUGBILDER.de ?


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