Buildings uploaded for August 31, 2007

Here are the latest uploads to Google’s Cities in Development section of the 3D Warehouse since my last post.

Nagoya, Japan

NAGOYA PORT SEA TRAIN LAND


Wuppertal / Germany

Eigentümergemeinschaft Höhne/Schuchardstr


Weißenburg (Germany) and vicinity

Ellingen - Pleinfeld gate

Description
The "Pleinfelder Tor " (gate towards Pleinfeld) is nowadays the only intact city gate of Ellingen. The other two gates were destroyed in or after Second World War. On the gate's face you can see the symbol of the Teutonic Knights ("Deutscher Orden"). Today the gate houses a small museum of local history.
http://www.barockverein.de/Denkmaehler/Gesamt/EPLEINTO.HTM

London, England

10 Downing Street, London

Description
10 Downing Street is the residence and office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the headquarters of Her Majesty's Government. It is situated on Downing Street in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is actually the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, but in modern times this post has always been held simultaneously with the office of Prime Minister.

Nelson's Column, London

Description
Nelson's Column was built to commemorate the dead British naval hero, Horatio Nelson, who was killed in the Battle of Trafalgar which the square it is hosted in is named after.The column was proposed immediately after Nelson's death and the Committee of the Patriotic Fund raised £1,330 from public subscriptions. Thanks to interest this had swollen to £5,545 in 1838 when another appeal was run. The column stands at 46.5m tall, with a 5.5m tall statue of Nelson on top, making a total height of 52m.

Guy's Hospital, London

Description
Standing at 142.6m tall, Guy's Hospital London's 11th tallest building, the world's tallest hospital & brutalist building.

Roma, Italy

Fungo dell'EUR

Description
Il serbatoio idrico dell'EUR, conosciuto dai romani come "il Fungo", è situato sulla collinetta di piazza Pakistan, in quella zona ubicata nei pressi del Palazzo dello Sport oltre il laghetto artificiale, e realizzato nel 1957-59 da R. Colosimo, S. Varisco, A. Capozza e A. Martinelli, ha la funzione di tenere in pressione, con una vasca d'acqua di 2.500 metri cubi, la rete antincendio e di innaffiamento del quartiere. La struttura in cemento armato ha una configurazione tesa a esprimere l'andamento delle forze necessarie a sostenere un peso di 2.500 tonnellate, oltre al peso proprio, a 50 metri dal suolo. Gli otto pilastri pentagonali che ne conformano il fusto si biforcano alla base e si ricongiungono in quota ognuno con il pilastro adiacente dando luogo a un colossale e geniale sistema a canestro formato da elementi obliqui abbinati tra loro che terminano su otto mensole protese a sostenere a sbalzo l'ombrello del serbatoio. A livello terra, nella base, e' presente un bar con tavolini all'aperto, mentre nel livello superiore, oltre alla grande vasca, è contenuto un anello perimetrale nel quale fu ricavato, a cura dell’architetto Lorenzo Monardo, un belvedere vetrato a sezione triangolare adibito a ristorante.