The old Wembley stadium, which opened in 1923 as the Empire Stadium, often referred to as "The Home of Football", was one of the world's most famous football stadiums until its demolition in 2003. Designed by Foster and Partners and Populous, the new Wembley is the largest and tallest stadium in the world, and includes a partially retractable roof. A signature feature of the stadium, following on from the the old Wembley's distinctive Twin Towers, is the 134 metres (440 ft) high Wembley Arch. With a span of 317 metres (1,040 ft), this steel arch is the longest single span roof structure in the world. The stadium was built by Australian firm Multiplex at a cost of £798 million.
She and her husband are still valued today as the forerunners of our modern bridges. The towers of the bridge are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. The blocks used on the bridge were built in Manie and shipped to New York by schooner. Once the construction of the suspension/cable-stay hybrid bridge was complete in 1883, it had a total length of 5,989 feet and with a width of 85 feet. It was 41m tall and weighed a whopping 14,680 tons.
Nathan Higley Period 3 August 21, 2012 AP European Extra Credit Brunelleschi’s Dome The thesis of the book Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King is that the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore built by Filippo Brunelleschi at the time was the biggest and most magnificent dome ever built and to this day no one has built a dome quite like it. The cathedral took over a century to build, Filippo worked on it for a quarter of that time all on the dome. He came up with all new machines and architectural ideas to help achieve this grand feat. One of his ideas was building the dome without wooden centering which was unheard of at the time. The dome was so massive that no one believed he could build it without centering.
Inside the hall were engines and generators representing not only the best and newest engineering of America but also of England, Germany, and France (Buers 14). The Palace of Machinery held the power plant that created the 56,000 horsepower needed to sustain the amount of energy used for the Fair. It generated electricity for the lights; as well as ran the massive pumps that fed water to the grounds lagoons and picturesque Cascades. At this point in time only two other power plants in the world had a greater horsepower than the engines featured here. The Allis Chalmers vertical and horizontal refrigerating engine was also here, capable of generating 5,000 horsepower, along with the Curtis Steam Turbine from General Electric Company, which could produce 8,000 horsepower (Corbett 3-5).
Speer was designated Chief of Architecture when the former, Paul Troost, died in 1934. Speer was responsible for designs such as the Zeppelintribüne, the Nuremberg parade grounds seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda masterpiece, Triumph of the Will. The grounds were built at a tremendous scale and was capable of holding 240,000 people. At the 1934 Party rally on the parade grounds, Speer surrounded the site with one hundred and thirty anti-aircraft searchlights, creating the effect of a “Cathedral of Light”. Speer later described this as his greatest work.
The pyramid of khufu stands 481 feet high, measures roughly 756 feet on each side and cover 13 acres of land it is the largest of ancient Egypt's 70 pyramids, if the blocks that form the pyramid were reduced to foot-sized square cubes and lined up, the cubs would stretch for 16,600 miles. originally the great pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface, consists of more than 2.3 million limestone blocks the largest granite stones in the pyramid found in the king's chamber weight 25 to 80 tonnes and were transported more than 500 miles away from aswan, two types of limestone were used for construction, A soft limestone either pure or nummulitic was used for the bulk of the core blocks and a hard white limestone for the mantle. The four faces of the pyramid are slightly concave, and it is the only pyramid to have been built this way. Contemporary experiments have demonstrated that the copper chisels and stone hammers used by workers were sufficient to chip away at limestone, Tests have determined that 2.5-ton limestone blocks can be transported a fair distance in a
The pyramid is also the tallest man made structure for over 3800 years, and was later surpassed by Lincoln cathedral. The pyramid is a tomb built for the fourth dynasty Egyptian king Khufu, and that is why the pyramid of Giza is also called Khufu’s pyramid or the pyramid of Khufu. Khufu was remembered as a very ruthless king, but he is also remembered as the builder of the pyramid. The pyramid was built just under 30 years, used about 2 million blocks of stone, each blocks weigh 2.5 tons, and how did they move them from 500 miles away? Well a lot of people belief that sloping ramps built out of mud, stone, and wood were used as transportation.
It was considered to be the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel Tower was built. Although they think it took almost eighty years to build the Great Pyramid at Giza, it is estimated that the smaller pyramids usually took around twenty years to build. The Great Pyramid at Giza was built by hand using over two million of blocks of stone. Each stone weighed around 2,500 pounds, which is about as much as a car weighs. It probably took thousands of very strong men to build each pyramid by rolling the stones up ramps using ropes, levers, and logs.
Some 39,000 tons of steel and 115,000 cubic metres of concrete were used in the construction. The total cost of the bridge including the approach roads consisting of 13 kilometres of dual carriageway, 13 kilometres of minor access roads and 24 minor bridges was £19,500,000 (~£250,000,000 today). The bridge has a main span of 1006 metres between the two main towers. The side spans which carry the deck to the side towers are each 408 metres long. The approach viaducts are 252 metres and 438 metres long on the north and south sides respectively.
Case Study II: Sir Alex Ferguson, A Leader Robin Macdonald El Yazid Alaoui School of Business and Admistration MGT 3301 Spring 2012 -Introduction: Born on December 31, 1941 in Glasgow, Scotland, Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the best football managers that the sport of football has ever known. He is married and have three children. Before he started his manager job in Manchester United, he was also an excellent football player from 1957 to 1974. He occupied the position of the striker for clubs such as Rangers FC and Queen’s Park FC. During the seventeen years in which he was a player, he scored 167 goals in more than 300 appearances.