Category: engineering
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St María Cathedral, Burgos
Its official name is Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Santa María de Burgos. Its construction began in 1221, in the style of French Gothic architecture and is based on a Latin cross. After a hiatus of almost 200 years, it went through major embellishments of great splendor in the 15th and 16th centuries: the…
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St María Cathedral, Logroño
The Cathedral of Santa María de la Redonda is a co-cathedral located in Logroño, in La Rioja, Spain. The name “redonda” refers to the rounded shape of an earlier church on the site. It had the status of collegiate church from the 15th century when Logroño became a city. The church has two elaborately decorated…
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St María Cathedral, Pamplona
Pamplona Cathedral (Santa María de la Asunción) is a Roman Catholic church in the archdiocese of Pamplona, Spain. The current 15th century Gothic church replaced an older Romanesque one. Archaeological excavations have revealed the existence of another two earlier churches. The Neoclassical facade was designed by Ventura Rodríguez in 1783. It has a 13th-14th-century Gothic…
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Guadalajara Cathedral
Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady, Mexico. This music video and the photo that inspire it shown at the end of the video screams “CULTURA” (culture), like no other photo I have taken before. From the music, traditional customs, the cathedral architectural design, etc…
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Petronas Towers
New Year’s Eve Celebrations 2023. The Petronas Towers at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia may not be the tallest sky scrapers in the world, like the Burj Khalifa sky scraper, but I think they are the most beautiful of all. A marvel of engineering and architecture the inspiration for their design had to come from no other…
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The Chronicles of Georgia
Ones I had a dream that I was a Knight of the Order of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar, and that I was traveling alongside a lake exactly like the one seen in this video. My role as a Knight Templar was that of a “military architect and siege engineer”, I had nothing…
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Dubai Singing Fountain
This is the biggest and mightiest singing water fountain in the world. Like always, the UAE brakes another Guinness World Record with this one. The water in the fountain is used to cool down the air conditioning systems of nearby buildings specially for the Burj Khalifa skyscraper. The engineers found a dual purpose for all…
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Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
“The White Mosque” Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This is how the heavens look like when I have dreams about them. Is by far, the most beautiful mosque I have ever seen, and I have seen many. But they have a hidden treasure which cannot be shown on video nor photograph and that is the…