The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, located in Port Elizabeth is the third stadium designed by gmp Architekten for the football World Cup. The host eight matches, including the match for third and fourth place. Designed as football and rugby stadium, the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is located next to North End Lake.

The stadium is located in the suburbs and has become a landmark building, growing in the lake with a shape biomimetics. The silhouette of the stadium shows the clean design of its structure. This hall with columns contains the whole stadium.

The roof structure is geared to local climatic conditions and protects the spectators not only from the sun, but and especially against the frequent and violent gusts of wind. The protection is made of aluminum trusses braced caldding done on white PTFE membrane. All technical installations, such as sound and lighting system, and the maintenance of the walkway, integrated into the roof.

The stadium designed for 48,000, divided into two levels. The rounded design of the stadium ensures optimal viewing conditions, also an intimate and emotional. The design takes into account not only the function, technical and climatic aspects but also the cultural aspects. Local African artisans giving an exhibition of 700 meters wide from the traditional and modern African culture completed the facade, which is in the back of colonnading.

The construction of the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium offers the opportunity to Port Elizabeth with a high level of quality sports facilities, will revitalize the entire urban area. The design objective is to encourage the maximum for it to be used after the World Cup. All areas of the stadium press can become offices and leisure facilities. There is open area between the stadium and the sea offering recreation for visitors. Existing sports clubs in Port Elizabeth use the stadium on a daily basis.

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The Baroque city palace in the St. Johanns-Vorstadt in Basel has proved in the recent restoration, treasure chest. Under centuries-old layers of the original substance came to light and revealed a surprise: The house is older than previously thought.

The architectural design interested visitors will quickly establish in Basel, the city known as architecture capital of Switzerland, not only promotes modern building, but also maintains a careful handling of their historic buildings. Obvious example, the facades: Where dominate in other cities long ago modern and functional window shutters – which most historic buildings is visually detrimental unfortunately – in Basel, the original glazing and shutters kept and restored. “It is indeed the case,” said Dr. Thomas Lutz, Adjunct conservator of Basel, “that we promote the protection zone in the preservation of old windows and Vorfenster. But even with the population there is a tradition of preservation and care, so many historic districts are very well preserved. “

A treasure trove that makes the heart beat faster every conservator, Thomas Lutz did recently when he was invited to the evaluation of a baroque palace in the suburb of St. John, the house at the hospital Faesch road. “The property has indeed been around since the forties, under protection,” he says, “but we had this time to do so little, as it is since the end of the 19th Century, family-owned and was structurally nothing has changed. “This also lacked a detailed inventory. When Thomas Lutz entered the house about three years ago for the first time, he noted with pleasure that the building – up to a few, was conditional mode simplifications – get integral. The only downside was the modernization – that is commonplace – two upstairs rooms and the courtyard side of Pompeii salons. Deprived of its former glory, this room does, in contrast to the richly painted and seldom ausgetä other salons a bit miserable impression. Pragmatically, the new owner of the space has therefore painted white and fitted out the temporary office. He is a definite lover of old buildings and has made it his task to find objects such as the Baroque city palace to buy and renovate together with the preservation of monuments.

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The handsome three-story commercial structure at 738 Seneca, now vacant but secured, was the longtime home of the Hydraulics branch of the Marine Trust Bank, which occupied the building in 1919. The building, constructed in 1900 to house Henry Schaefer’s grocery, was designed by architect Joseph J. W. Bradney. Architecture firm Mann & Cook headed up the building’s expansion in 1919 when Marine Trust moved to into its first story, and in 1954 the storefront was re-clad in polished stone and a bay window on the second story was removed. For years, a billboard Marine Trust installed in 1927 on top of the building was a landmark of its own accord.

The branch’s establishment at 738 Seneca in 1919 was no coincidence. John D. Larkin, president and founder of the Larkin Company, was also on the board of Marine Trust Bank and almost certainly had a hand in this choice of location to provide an amenity for factory workers and shoppers at the famed Larkin Store. The bank was a fixture in the neighborhood into the 1990s, though under different names. Marine Trust became Marine Midland in the 1960s and then became HSBC in the 1990s.

The former bank branch, no longer serving a large factory and residential base in the neighborhood, was one of the last remaining community amenities to disappear in the 1990s. Forty years earlier the four-block strip of Seneca was filled with taverns, restaurants, groceries, barber shops, drug stores, even a movie theater and a bowling alley. Though not one remains, many of the character buildings that housed them do – establishing conditions for a future revival.

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This just in! The January emergency demolition of the Sacred Heart School at 198 Emslie Street not only broke hearts, it also broke the bank.

The emergency demolition of the landmark building reportedly cost taxpayers a cool $125,000. Economic return on the investment? Zero. While few doubt the necessity of the demolition in light of its collapsing brick facade and the imminent threat the building posed to human safety, fewer still believe the school’s “demolition by neglect” was inevitable.

Buffalo is at the cross-hairs of continuing economic struggle and an invigorated comprehension of the revitalization resource of the city’s historic architecture. The redevelopment of certain historic resources is being realized, but hundreds of opportunities persist in going unnoticed. The Sacred Heart School is one example, one of those buildings that, if only the foresight had been there ten or fifteen years ago, might have been sealed up and saved for a better day, set aside for some future entrepreneur who would have seen what others now see: economic potential. Lofts. Offices. Gallery space. Who knows? Now, we’ll never know what might have been.

Thirty years of neglect is a difficult situation to arrest, particularly in eleventh hour scenarios. When historic landmarks are literally crumbling into the street, which is what occurred in this case, immediate remedies are elusive. As economic opportunities like the Sacred Heart School pass us by, however, others come into greater focus. Hefty demolition tabs are putting a spotlight on the urgent need to preserve now the restoration potential of character buildings far in advance of preservation crises. The threatened Sacred Heart Church (above), which stands tenuously adjacent to the now demolished school, may be a test of the community’s ability to preserve economic value while there is still a fighting chance to reverse the “inevitable.”

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The Larkin Power House smokestack is one of the obelisks of industrial Buffalo. It is one among these quickly-disappearing landmarks that define the city’s character and place in time, in many ways more than the buildings to which they are connected. The smokestack, as symbol of the Machine Age, is fading from memory – and skylines. In December 2006, the Buffalo region lost one of its mighty stacks at Tonawanda’s Spaulding Fibre plant, which at 250 feet could be seen for miles around and was probably the single most important connector to the history of the suburban municipality. The smokestack of the Larkin Power House survives, defying its obsolescence.

Like American industry itself, the stack is not at the high and mighty status of its youth, having been halved by a lightning strike some decades ago. It’s miraculous the stack exists long after it has lost its purpose and when, seemingly, any one of its owners over time could have rid themselves of it. Its current owners maintain the stack rather well, to the benefit of the public memory.

When the Power House was built in 1902, the smokestack was the tallest in the city, at 275 feet. It rivaled the tallest stacks in the country. (Guess where the tallest stack in the world is today.) The Larkin Company boasted of the Power House in its promotional literature. With 50,000 tourists visiting the plant every year, it was a highlight of the plant tour schedule. The 1906 edition of its tour pamphlet, Home of the Larkin Idea, fills the reader in on the Power House better than any ancillary description:

The Larkin Power-House is equipped to furnish 10,000 horse-power. The stack is the highest in Buffalo, being 275 feet above bed-rock. The power by which the Larkin Factories are run is applied electrically, enough current being generated in the Power House to furnish light for a city of 25,000 inhabitants. There are 20 safety boilers of 500 horse-power each, and 125 tons of coal are consumed every twenty-four hours. So complete are the mechanical devices that the work of handling this immense quantity of coal and the cinders resulting from its consumption, is done by two men. One operates the great crane that lifts the coal from the pit into which it is dumped from the coal-cars and conveys it to a bin at the rear of the Power-House. From the bin the coal passes automatically into a trolley-car that runs to the different furnaces. This car’s capacity is 2 1/2 tons. The furnaces are stoked automatically and as the coal is consumed, the cinders drop into a car that runs to the cinder pit. When the pit becomes full, it is emptied by the electric crane. A little steam engine attached to each furnace keeps the grate-bars gently rocking. This movement feeds coal into the fire from a magazine above the furnaces and dumps the cinders into cars in the basement. The scoop picks up a ton of coal at a time and makes the trip in a minute. Sixty tons of coal can be delivered into the Power-House every hour.

The Power House today is still occupied by vast, 1950s-era HVAC systems provided for the Seneca Industrial & Warehouse Complex, connected to the Power House by an underground tunnel across Larkin Street. The ground floor of the Power House, stripped entirely of its original power generation-related machinery, is used for automobile and boat storage. While the upper floors of the building remain vacant and windows are filled with cinder block, the opportunity for adaptive reuse of the building remains. A symbol of the structure’s industrial might endures – the smokestack stands tall.

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