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Die Erde aus der #Cupola der #ISS: Dieses #Zeitraffervideo bietet einen atemberaubenden Blick durch die Fenster des #Beobachtungsmoduls der Internationalen #Raumstation auf #Wolkenformationen und die #Erdoberfläche. Die #Fotoserien stammen von der Crew der #ISS-Expedition 42. 
There is no Planet B.
#Raumfahrt #Weltall #Astronomie #Zeitraffer #timelaps #Soyuz #Sojus #Fisheye
Found a beautiful cupola!
'Cupola; a relatively small, usually dome-like structure on top of a building. Cupolas often serve as a roof lantern to admit light and air or as a lookout.’
#photography #streetphotography #city #nature #building #architecture #cupola
The other side!
Found a beautiful cupola!
'Cupola; a relatively small, usually dome-like structure on top of a building. Cupolas often serve as a roof lantern to admit light and air or as a lookout.’
Found a beautiful cupola!
'Cupola; a relatively small, usually dome-like structure on top of a building. Cupolas often serve as a roof lantern to admit light and air or as a lookout.’
Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station – Goleta, California
NEARLY 90 YEARS AFTER IT was built, a #beautiful #little #abandoned #gas #station waits in Goleta, California, for its fate to be decided.
The Barnsdall-Rio Grande gas station was born of the sudden tremendous success of its namesake oil company and the influence of the civic leader #Pearl #Chase.
Chase was leading the efforts to rebuild the Santa Barbara area after the 1925 earthquake, and favored #Spanish #Colonial style architecture.
When the oil company hired the firm Morgan, Walls & Clements to build its flagship gas station near their oil fields on Highway 101, it followed Chase’s example. The building was small but impressive, with #white #stucco walls, red #mission #tiles on the roof, a molded border for the upper windows, a #domed #cupola on top, and blue and white #tile around the doors and windows on the first floor.
#William #Randolph #Hearst was known to stop there when traveling between Los Angeles and San Simeon.
The gas station survived a Japanese #submarine #attack on the California coast in 1942, but a few years later Highway 101 was rerouted, isolating the little gas station, and by the early 1950s it had closed.
Still #abandoned, its future is uncertain. Residents hope the building will be restored to its former beauty and made into a #museum.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/barnsdall-rio-grande-gas-station