#lakhta

[selidor]

frozen* (Explored 6/01/2024) by Frozen camera battery. Frozen…

#alone #foveon #lakhta #photherap #photography #photographer #merrill #sigma #dp3m #people #river #flickrsocial #лахта #landscape #snow #snowing #russia #forest #trees #happy #new #year #light #woods #beautiful #outdoor #foveonyc #woodlands #woodland #tree

[odinsblog]

I have always believed that there is something particularly cruel and needlessly evil about kicking someone’s food over - especially when it’s an unhoused, disadvantaged person.

I know that pro-Putin tankies will try to downplay and minimize this, but if this kind of bullshit is wrong when border patrol and cops do it in America (and yes, it is), then it’s also wrong when Russia does it.

#russia #immigration #lakhta center #food insecurity #russia is a terrorist state

[sheltiechicago]

Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Architect: RMJM, Gorproject

(Photo: Stock Photos from Nikita_Maru/Shutterstock)

#rmjm gorproject #architect #architecture #skyline #building #nikita maru #photographer #shutterstock #lakhta center #saint petersburg #russia

[quotesfrommyreading]

Yet supertalls not only ascend; they also sway, flutter, vibrate, bend, and lean. Often a lot. Chicago’s Willis Tower—which is more than 50 feet taller than 432 Park—can move up to three feet in strong winds. If you were to look down at the spire of a tall building during a windstorm, you’d see that it careens left, right, and around, like an inebriated giraffe.

All of that motion can cause people to feel a little drunk themselves. Occupants of tall buildings have, in high winds, reported nausea, distractibility, difficulty working, and fatigue, though researchers report that skyscrapers “rarely, if ever, induce vomiting.” As winds howl, buildings can moan like creaky container ships, or clatter like subway cars. “No Realtor would ever give a potential tenant a handbook that explains how these buildings behave, because they wouldn’t buy them, probably,” says Peter Weismantle, the director of supertall-building technology for Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, which designed Central Park Tower.

And yet some motion is safe and normal, and often goes unnoticed. In fact, evolving approaches to handling high winds are a big reason contemporary supertalls have gotten to be so numerous, and so thin.

Tall buildings get celebrated as gravity-defying, but it’s their defiance of the wind that should inspire awe. Imagine a strong wind blowing south over Central Park. The wind hits the supertall and pushes it backwards into a lean, then causes the structure to sway as the gust picks up and dies down. Wind can get stronger at higher altitudes and intensify as it whips off neighboring high-rises, so what registers as a gentle breeze on the fifth floor may give way to howling on the 45th. Wind barreling around the supertall creates turbulent eddies on the building’s exterior that cause the structure to wag from side to side. These are the accelerations that tenants are most likely to perceive, and slender supertalls are even more susceptible to them.

Developers know they cannot control the wind. What they can do—and this is an industry term—is confuse it. For this, they recruit a wind-whisperer like Derek Kelly. Kelly, an engineer with the consulting firm RWDI, is a garrulous Canadian who, when I asked about superslims, told me the company has worked on “almost every building you see out your window.”

Take 432 Park. Once the developer had an early design for the new tower, Kelly began by making the proposed supertall—a solid, skinny, square column—super small. Kelly and his colleagues 3-D-printed a knee-high model of the building, and stuck it into a miniature Midtown Manhattan, complete with dozens of neighboring high-rises that can affect the windscape at 432 Park’s site. They put the model buildings on a turntable inside a wind tunnel, then subjected them to smoke and powerful fans. RWDI adjusted the wind tunnel’s settings to mimic Manhattan’s gusts and rotated the tiny neighborhood in 10-degree increments to get a baseline measurement of how the proposed supertall would sway, absorb winds careening off other structures, and shift the wind around it—all of which remains too complex to accurately predict with algorithms, Kelly said.

Even a 10-story building will move, and most of us can handle our homes wiggling about five milli gs (a measure of acceleration) in any direction. Early tests on 432 Park’s prototype revealed poor aerodynamic performance. Rafael Viñoly, 432 Park’s architect, said in a 2014 lecture at the Skyscraper Museum that tests on one version of the building revealed the supertall would dance 30 milli-gs—just shy of the threshold found to “cause some occupants to lose balance,” according to research published in the International Journal of High-Rise Buildings. “If you’re standing here, your cup of tea moves,” Viñoly said at the lecture, rocking his lectern back and forth to demonstrate. He called the experience of 30 milli gs “absolutely frightening.”

When problems like these arise, Kelly brings the developer and the design team to RWDI’s wind tunnel for a “shaping workshop.” Architects and engineers tweak the shape of their supertall, 3-D-print new versions, then put each one in the wind tunnel to see how much it moves. “For some of these buildings in New York,” Kelly said, “we’ve done 12, 16 versions in an afternoon.”

The decorative flourishes on a supertall that seem ornamental can be key to diffusing the suction-filled whirlpools that sway a building as wind whips around its sides. You could notch the corners, like on Taipei 101, which resembles a towering stack of gifts. You could twist the building, like the Twizzler-esque Shanghai Tower. You could taper it to look like the tip of a paintbrush, like the Lakhta Center, or cut out sections to let wind blow through it, like the Shanghai World Financial Center, which is nicknamed “The Bottle Opener.” 432 Park’s designers decided to make it more porous: Every 12 stories, there are two “blow through” floors with cutouts for windows, but no glass.

But can you comfortably host a dinner party on a blustery evening? To try to experience for themselves how hospitable 432 Park would be, Viñoly and his colleagues traveled to the Marine Institute in Newfoundland to be jostled around inside its simulator—a 20-ton steel ship’s bridge mounted on hydraulic pistons and surrounded by screens. Typically, ships’ crews use the simulator to practice for encounters with icebergs and roiling seas, but for the past 15 years, the institute has hosted supertall designers who want to double-check their work before they build. On these occasions, the institute covers up the nautical instruments, projects a city skyline on the screens, lugs in a forest-green sofa, puts water-filled glasses on a wooden kitchen table, and hangs a glass chandelier. Once the supertall’s team of designers settles in, the room starts rocking and rolling to mimic what tenants will feel on a windy day, during a strong gale, or during a once-a-century hurricane. At 432 Park, the blow-through floors alone wouldn’t settle the building, so the developers ultimately installed two tuned mass dampers—a pair of 600-ton counterweights between the 86th and 89th floors that can move 11 feet, to offset the supertall’s sway.

That’s the goal, anyway. New cars and planes go through rigorous testing before hitting the assembly line, but each supertall is essentially a prototype. “We’re going into production on one-offs every single time with the hopes that we get it right,” the structural engineer Stephen DeSimone told me. If you could crawl out over the side of 432 Park and look down at the facade during a windstorm, “you’d have not one but two heart attacks. Because the thing does move,” Viñoly said in his 2014 lecture. “Don’t tell the tenants that.”

  —  The Marvels—And Mistakes—Of Supertall Skyscrapers

#bianca bosker #the marvels—and mistakes—of supertall skyscrapers #architecture #engineering #real estate #physics #meteorology #usa #taiwan #china #russia #taipei #shanghai #saint petersburg #willis tower #central park tower #432 park avenue #tapiei 101 #shanghai tower #lakhta center #shanghai world financial center #peter weismantle #rafael viñoly #stephen desimone #skyscrapers #supertall buildings #pencil towers #wind #gravity

[kana-go]

The Lakhta Centre, Saint Petersburg, Russia

#saint petersburg #lakhta center #лахта #петербург #kana go photos

[irairasworld]

Lakhta Center. Russia, Saint-Petersburg.

#Lakhta Center #saint petersburg #Rossia

[viandede-porque]

It’s so hard to live knowing Nanami from Jujutsu Kaisen is dead 😰

#dmitri chistyakov #why shouldn't i post cringe #he was rescued from the dungeons of the lakhta center

[russianreader]

Flagpole Sitta

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a ceremony to raise the flags of the Russian Federation, the USSR, and the Russian Empire in St. Petersburg Tricentennial Park. The head of state arrived in the area of the Gulf of Finland near Lakhta Center on the yacht Okhta. He watched the ceremony from the water. On board the yacht, the head of state was welcomed by Elena Ilyukhina, deputy…

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#"Flagpole Sitta" (song) #Gazprom #Harvey Danger (band) #Lakhta Center #Russian flags #Sergey Abashin #St. Petersburg Tricentennial Park #Vladimir Putin

[your-colombina]

Солнечное затмение с «Лахта Центром» сегодня (прим. 25.10.2022) можно было поймать с воды или с берега. С воды был риск пойти ко дну, да и якорь на лодке сложновато установить, а для съемки затмений лучше делать серию снимков. Решено было выбрать берег и фазы окончания затмения. Важно знать, что и глазам, и технике нужна защита. Неловкое оставление фотоаппарата на несколько минут может привести к покупке нового, а в глазах в лучшем случае могут поселиться зайчики.

Прошлое солнечное затмение в Петербурге наблюдали в 2021 году, а следующее произойдет 12 августа 2026-го. Можно поставить напоминалочку. Продлится оно 1 час 40 минут 26 секунд, начнется в 19:59, достигнет максимума в 20:50. Солнце зайдет в 21:00, частично перекрытое Луной. Снять закатное затмение гораздо проще, чем близкое к полудню. Атмосфера рассеивает свет Солнца, проникают лучи только красного цвета, Солнце имеет приглушенные закатные тона, меньше вредит технике и зрению.

Снимкам частичных солнечных затмений (когда Луна не полностью перекрывает солнечный диск) могут помочь и облака. Важно, чтобы облачность не была сильно плотной. А мне большое наслаждение к сегодняшним наблюдениям добавил пух от камыша, летающий в воздухе и искрящийся в лучиках осеннего, но теплого солнышка. Снято на Лахтинском Разливе в Юнтоловском заказнике.

Катя Стрельникова из сообщества «Астро Фото Болото», специально для «Лахта Центра».

#solar eclipse #saint petersburg #russia #Lakhta Center #Лахта центр #солнечное затмение #санкт петербург #россия

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Did you know that when it opened in 1973 at just over 775 ft the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis was the 16th tallest building IN THE WORLD? By comparison the 16th tallest building today is the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, Russia which is nearly double the height at 1,516 ft!

#minneapolis #minnesota #twin cities #downtown #history #travel #midwest #aesthetic #wanderlust #skyscrapers #russia #architecture

[benslittlestarkiller]

Vladimir Makarov Headcannon Imagines Part 2

A continuation of part 1 but you don't have to read the last one to understand what's going on. Thanks for reading!

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The mansion is a sprawling Gothic estate nestled in the wooded hills of St. Petersburg. Each room filled with elegant furnitures and beautiful artwork. The mansion has the feel of a grand Russian palace, complete with rich tapestries and a grand staircase.

Vladimir has many homes throughout Easter Europe. For example the Penthouse of Moscow Lakhta Center where he had a penthouse. And now he took you in a plane private jet to St Peterberb where he had a nice palace.

">I want you Vladddy," You say as you enter his office where he does business (you don't know what it is tho).

"I'm busy right now, moya malenkaya smetana (my little sour cream)" Vdaddy said in reply. He was liok at his papers on his desk, look of concern tration on him.

You glance at floor in dissappoint.

Your eye fluttes with sad. As tear fall from eyevd. You ran away from Vladimirs office where you collided with a firm chest of your body guard Pavel, a young birivle attractvie byff and manly man. "Oh, Pavel," you said. "I'm so sorry excuse me..."

"It's alright Miss..." Pavel beeathed in your scent and his cheek turn pink as he feel your soft form against chest. Pink like sunset over Russian mountains. Or over Black Sea. Also pink like when you mix the yogurt into the borscht (a Ukraininan dish).

Salthouggh your hearts on ly beat for your Vladdy ou can't help but buosh as you see the blush like the sunset of the black sea on the rosy cheeks of Pavel. He was your age too, not an old man like Vladimir (unless you are picturingthe 2023 Reboot Vladimir in which case Pavel and he are about same age).

OASSION Rhere is looked of uncertain yet uundeniable PASSION that bubbled up like a pot of cooking foods in kitchen of palace, of Vladimirs gome, but you never went there it was the servants place not yours as Vladimirs TSARINE.

HE hands come up to toxuch waste. He hand warm bur not as large and rough as Vladmir Pavela hands were thin and bony like the bones left over after taking all the meat off the chicken but your maid did it for you so you didn't know anyrhing bout cocking clean or maid things. That was for poor people

You breathed out a moan of desire as Pavel touché you. "Pavel, we can't......" Ypu suad.

"He does n have to j kow,"pabel sai

"But.... he in there" you gestured to the offive door wide open

"So?" Pavel push you against Wale

I moan loud like whale in sea but probably not black sea (I'm not sure, pls marine bilogy timblr tell me if whales in black sea)

As moan loud vlsDIMOR put down paper in office. He grab glock from under desk, as his browns ferrowed/creased deeply in annoyance “Vhat is zat?” he askred a

s he made he way too the door two find the two of you psvrl and you pressed against the whale. bodies pressed together in a passionate and steamy embrace.

Panel had strated eto kiss along your neck and his lips were touching your pulse pount. VLADimgr saw RED.

I BREAK KNEEE!!!!

“ he screanmed

loud as thunde3r

Pavel immediately pissed his pants

the room’s hallway filled with the scent of urine. which made Vladimire even more mad. “That carpet cost million rubels@!”

Vladmir tke gun and point at Pastvel knee. The knee cap burt in expllosion of red viscera and Pabel creamde

Vladmir stood over Pavel and look at him with green eye, “ while the blue eye look at AyOu

You shiuvered under his penetrating gaze

It touched you deeply in your core and made your tsarina parts (as vladdy called it)

WET like a bottle of vodka

taken out of freezer and left to chill on counter, drips of condensation drippign down the side

You looked back at Vladmir “No, don’t hurt Pavel, he didnt do anything”

“HE TOUCHED YOU??? You bELGONG to ME! Not HE!!!”

“Tjat why I BREAKING KNEE!!” He say calmly, in a voice that chilled you to the bone like Lake BAikal in midst of cold Russia winter

Tear fall from your eye balls as you say “It meant nothing to me. I love you Vladdy. I sweat.”

Pavel screaming in pain still as he bleeds out on the carpet. Vladimir steps over him, bringing hand to your kneck.

He grips softly, but not hardly.

“Promise me,” He seeth. “Promise me youre MINE.”

‘I yours!”

He smile at you and his grop on your hip tightens, dgging into soft flesh like dough of unbaked bread in the morning at the bakery down thre street that your servants picked up for you.,

Vladmir push you up aga8nst the opposite wail, against a gilt framed painting of a woman

Actually it was the famous russian pwainting “The Last Day. OF Pompeii” buy artist Karl Bruylokovs

(sporry for spelling mistake keyboard still hard to tip with) 💔

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Psinting wobble on wall as Vlamir push you up against in it, you man in pain but also pleasure as you feel his body press into yours.

Your reach back behind to grab holds of painting,m ripping open the canvas with your acrylics

The rip is loud and vladmir smile smat you. “Naughty girl.: “

HGe smirks

“Noo im’ a good girl, vladdy,”

“Oh really, my little sour cream?” He

“Yes”

“Then why were you with that bastardous trator PAvel? Huh? You’ve been bad, you’ve been a naiughtly little WHORE”

“Your walls clench at his words, you feel yourself getting wetter as your secretions flow from you like vodka pouring into a glass.:”

“What”

Vladimir pressed his aching ock agaisnt your pussy where it was covered with your expensive armani dress

HE RIP DRESS]

in his hasty desperation to have access yo tour tsarina part

His throbbing cok was a large as AK 47 and ready to be shot. He aligns hinself in your entrace and thrust inside like a train arriving at the Moscow metro station, and your cunty was just as deep but tight like the tunnels of train

you moan in unbridle pleasure and lusty as he fill you deeplu , he trust into you so hard the painting frsme shook and broke

But neither of your cared too much abot this piece of Culture being destoryed, even Vladdy who loved Russia did nt care cuz your pussy felt so good, the grip of your tsarina aparts eased the anger inside home turning it into firey passion of love. You make him eel things he thought he never feel.

He want make baby inside you, make son, cute and small like Cheburashka. Vladimir’s favorite cartoon when he wass a childe (both OG and reboot)

His trusts grew harder and farter as he filled you deeper

Farter and fatter he thrusts

You were lost to bliss as he pounded your cunty

You wailed like you had just seen baba yaga in the forest but these were wais of pleasire not fear

Your wills grippped him as you started to lose control of your senses, your body shake violently like a bartender shaking up a malibu barbie pink cocktial with vodka, raspberry lemonade, grenadine and edible glitter well shaken and poured over ice with a pink heart shaped straw that the two of you enjoyed whn you went to see the Barbie movie together) and as you grip the paitning behind you, ripping it to shreds as you come on his cookie, Vladimnir throw his head back and growl out like a wolf in woods holwing to the moone.

He come deep inside womb, filling you wit thick heft and creamy condensed mlik like spurts like a Matryoshka doll as you put the dolls inside one another.

You two stay entwines and he rubs your belly with his large man hand, hariy on knuckles, “Mone.” he say, voice filled with devoation for yOU

SHorytly after your love makeing was completed, Vladimir whisked you away to bedroom. Maid came along and swept up destroyed artwork and cleaned blood and urine from carpet. Pavel’s family never saw his son nor his body for the funarl. closed casket. Presumed Missing. but in reality dumped into Neva river. His young wife and three children cry. Little do they know that Pavel was in love with You, so he was unfaitfu….

9 months later

Mikhail and Vladimir Jr sat in front of television watching the cartoon Masha and the Bear, Baby Mikhail was newborn and still had baby soft spot on head and needed to be supported with a baby chair, Vladimir Sr smiled wistfully, remembering his own childhood when he lived with his familyu in Khrushchevka in the city of Ivanono where he live with his mother and father and luttle brother and when in 1980 when he watched the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the bear was named misha which is what he and You decide to name your son after the bear.

Vlsdmir and yiou watch family as maid cook and clean.

The wen d

#vladimir makarov x reader #vladimir makarov imagine #vladimir makarov #call of duty #call of duty imagine #cod x reader #vladimir makarov art #vladimir makarov headcanons #marine biology #russia #russian culture #borscht #frodo baggins #eastern europe #moscow metro #lake baikal #karl bryullov #art history #call of duty makarov #makarov x reader #og makarov #vladimir makarov reboot #cod makarov #moscow #1980 summer olympics #moscow 1980 #cheburashka #mikhail potapych toptygin

[selidor]

frozen* (Explored 6/01/2024) by Frozen camera battery. Frozen…

#alone #foveon #lakhta #photherap #photography #photographer #merrill #sigma #dp3m #people #river #flickrsocial #лахта #landscape #snow #snowing #russia #forest #trees #happy #new #year #light #woods #beautiful #outdoor #foveonyc #woodlands #woodland #tree

[thefuture-tomorrow]

Lakhta Center, the tallest building in Russia, the tallest building in Europe and 16th tallest building in the world, St.Petersburg.

#futuristic buildings #Russia #St. Petersburg

[pwlanier]

Valerian Kamenev (1823(1822?)-1874)

SUNSET IN THE VICINITY OF ST. PETERSBURG. LAKHTA

1869

Russian artist Valerian Konstantinovich Kamenev devoted most of his life to the career of an official. However, the civil service did not prevent the creation of a romantic series of landscapes of St. Petersburg and the surrounding area, which glorified his work.

At the word St. Petersburg, the architectural communities of the imperial capital are imagined: long avenues, wide squares, high spires of towers and shiny domes of cathedrals. However, the artist moved away from the usual associations and painted a picture in which the depicted place can only be recognized by name.

Oil on canvas

Tretyakov Gallery

[zaharprostoi]

Lakhta center. St. Petersburg

[evilbuildingsblog]

Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg, Gazprom's headquarters (Neo-futurism)

#evil #building #scary #villain