Wednesday 4 November 2020

US6235 - Early Chicago Skyscrapers (2017)

This is a serial proposal of 9 primarily commercial buildings in Chicago’s central business district, the “Loop.”The buildings are:
Auditorium Building                                        16TN  448139  4636208
Second Leiter Building                                     16TN  447952  4636279
Marquette Building                                          16TN  447752  4636621
Rookery Building                                            16TN  447571  4636545
Monadnock Building                                       16TN  447761  4636420
Old Colony Building                                        16TN  447808  4636280
Fisher Building                                                16TN  447818  4636325
Schlesinger & Mayer Building                         16TN  447950  4636824
[later Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store]                   
Ludington Building                                          16TN  448020  4635421

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(lower left) Auditorium Building

Sunday 1 November 2020

326 JO - Petra (1985)

Brief Description

"Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. It is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, where ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture."

佩特拉
"佩 特拉城位于红海和死海之间,它的历史可以追溯到史前时代,最初是由纳米泰人沙漠商队建立的,它位于阿拉伯、埃及、叙利亚腓尼基之间的交通要塞。佩特拉城一 半向外突出,一半嵌入岩石中,周围群山环绕,山中道路蜿蜒,峡谷深深,是世界上最著名的考古遗址之一。古希腊建筑与古代东方传统在这里交汇相融。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/326
 
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Courtesy of Elia03 from postcrossing forum