International Volvo Photo Locations Part 335 Hamilton Gears Warehouse is located at the corner of Dupont Street and Dovercourt Road in Toronto, Canada. The building, at 950 Dupont St., was once the home of the Hamilton Gear and Machinery Co. It was just one of dozens of manufacturing plants that once lined Dupont St., just […]
Archives for architecture
Lefty O’Doul Bridge at 3rd street in San Francisco – USA 🇺🇸
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 333 Lefty O’Doul Bridge is a bridge on the 3rd street in San Francisco, USA. The Lefty O’Doul Bridge (also known as the Third Street Bridge or China Basin Bridge) is a drawbridge connecting the China Basin and Mission Bay neighborhoods of San Francisco, carrying Third Street across the Mission […]
Caja Vital Kutxa HQ on La Biosfera Ibilbidea in Vitoria-Gasteiz – ES 🇪🇸
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 329 Caja Vital Kutxa Bank HQ is located on La Biosfera Ibilbidea in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. This is the headquarters for the local savings bank. The building reproduces the scale of the surrounding small woods, a park of the Natura 2000 networking programme. The floor plan has a chromosome shape with […]
A weekend at Manifesta 12 in Palermo on Sicily, Italy
Summer 2018, we visited Palermo to join the opening of Manifesta 12 event on Sicily. We stayed in Palermo between Thursday June 14 and Sunday 17. The weather was not as warm as expected, but great for a city trip. After this weekend we stayed a week in Cefalu, a bit east of Palermo. Read […]
Nordea HQ on Strandgade in Copenhagen – DK 🇩🇰
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 323 Nordea Bank Headquarters i Danmark is located at Strandgade in Christianshavn in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nordea Bank Headquarters in Denmark makes part of a Henning Larsen Architects masterplan for the Christiansbro area. Won in 1995, the masterplan concerns the redevelopment of a former shipyard site. The interaction between the exquisite […]
Kvarterhuset Amagerbro on Christian Svendsens Gade in Copenhagen – DK 🇩🇰
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 319 Kvarterhuset Amagerbro is located on Christian Svendsens Gade in Copenhagen, Denmark. Often called one of the most beautiful public spaces in Copenhagen, the Kvarterhuset Amagerbro or Neighbourhood Centre of Jemtelandsgade is living proof that nothing is more attractive than the combination of beauty and brains. Emptying an old industrial […]
Vemork powerstation in Rjukan – N 🇳🇴
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 318 Vemork is the name of a hydroelectric power plant outside Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. The plant was built by Norsk Hydro and opened in 1911, its main purpose being to fix nitrogen for the production of fertilizer. At opening, it was the world’s largest power plant with a capacity […]
Nylandsveien near Barcode in Oslo – N 🇳🇴
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 315 The Barcode Project is a section of the Bjørvika portion of the Fjord City redevelopment on former dock and industrial land in central Oslo. It consists of a row of new multi-purpose high-rise buildings, that was completed in 2016. The developer is marketing the project as “The Opera Quarter.” […]
Rostockgata at Barcode in Oslo – N 🇳🇴
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 314 Rostockgata is a street in the Barcode area in Bjørvika, Oslo in Norway. The street runs between Trelastgata and Dronning Eufemias gate. The white building shown in the photos houses DNB NOR and is called DNB öst-bygget (east building). DnB NOR Building. Architects: MVRDV, Dark Arkitekter and a-lab. Three […]
De Gamles By on Alléen in København – DK 🇩🇰
International Volvo Photo Locations Part 283 De Gamles By is located on Alléen near Nørre Allé on Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Denmark. De Gamles By or The Old Town defines an area of nursing homes and elderly homes at Nørre Allé in Nørrebro, Copenhagen. It is also encircled by Guldbergsgade, Sjællandsgade and Møllegade. The name De […]