Month: February 2014

Bridge Builders

Figure is considered to be allegories of Russian rivers: the Volga and the Dnieper at North Rostral columns, Volkhov and Neva River at the south. The two statues are no attributes of rivers (filled with flowing water). The figure of the Dnieper made master of the Antwerp Kamberlenom. The remaining three – Frenchman F. Thibault. Initially, Rostral columns, height of 32 meters, served as a beacon for ships coming into being when something is a trading port.

In the bowl on top of the resin is poured and set fire to it. In 1957, with gas here, the holidays lights a torch in the bowls. Its name the bridge has received from the former Stock Exchange building, located on the Spit of Basil Island. In 1894, the Exchange was built a wooden 25-span girder bridge, a length of 328 and a width of 21.4 meters, with an adjustable 14-meter span in Center (project engineer NM Mazurova). The route of the bridge took place along a narrow alley zoo. In 1918 it was renamed Bridge Builders. In 1930 and 1947, the wooden bridge was repaired and rebuilt, resulting in width of the bridge was reduced to 18.1 m. In spring 1957, the bridge was badly damaged by drifting ice.

In 1957-1960. built a new 5-span welded metal arch bridge. Central bascule span dipterous, disclose, with rolls back the rotation axis and hinged counterweight. In the river piers are reinforced concrete pile foundations, pipe piles with a diameter 56 cm bridge was shifted 70 m downstream relative to the old wood. Moreover on the Petrograd side were covered with cotton and cotton duct island, to create a bridgehead area. Authors of the project – engineers, VV Demchenko, B. Levin and architects L. Noskov, PA Areshev. Was created symmetrical composition of two bridges – Builders and the Palace. The bridge builders 239 meters of the Palace – 250 meters. The width of the river supports a movable span of the bridge builders of 9 meters, at the Palace – 10,7 meters. Both bridges were the same number of bays – 5, and the river piers – almost the same width – 3,5 and 3,2 m respectively. Legs are covered with pink granite. Handrails are composed of traditional darts, and between twin pedestals included tridents Neptune. Since 1989, the bridge was again called by the Exchange.

Creative Economy Seminar

“Design is an instrument capable of producing global changes,” said Bruce Mau, one of the most creative of the contemporary design sceneand keynote speaker of the Seminar “Creative Economy: Vision of the Future” organized by the IN-MOD , SPFW institutional arm and the newspaper Valor Economico. This Canadian designer based in Chicago (USA) made the reinvention of marketing strategy models to add value to businesses, which was implemented for clients such as ID, Coca Cola and MTV.With an impressive academic career extended to the field and editorial, Bruce Mau sensitized consciousness, expanding a positive outlook about the ability of design to provoke social change: “The market is not natural, is designed … That’s why we need re-engineering, to rethink the concept wealth. There can be only capital wealth, but wealth of technology, Mobility … During his lecture rescued creative thinking as an outlet for times of economic crisis and put in value the collective processes and networking as the only way for massive change.

Economy

Iron door. Chapultepec Zone. WTC Guadalajara. Centro Magno. Providence’s Financial District. Financial District Puerta de Hierro. Providence’s Financial District. Guadalajara’s economy is active in all three economic sectors (economic activities) that are the primary, secondary and tertiary. The primary activities are based on the transit and trade of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, poultry. The secondary activities are based on textile and metalworking industries. Guadalajara is the industrial capital in western Mexico and its industrial sector grows and recovers quickly from events in the mid-1990s. The food industry exports most of its products (juices, canned goods, candies, sauces and food in general) of these exports is 60 domestic and 40 are submitted to the U.S., where products are leaders in tapatios the market.In the pharmaceutical industry Guadalajara plays the biggest role in the national production surpassed only by the Federal District and is one of the largest distributors in the country. Currently, Guadalajara is known as “Silicon Valley” of Mexico, due to the high growth and development of the electronics industry: the main software factories in the country and the largest manufacturers of electronic components and cutting-edge digital devices hosting companies General Electric, IBM, Kodak, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, Flextronics, Gateway, Sanmina-SCI, Dell, Solectron, and BlackBerry, and is also one of the major cities in the metalworking industry.The city is also pioneering textile production and exports nationally, and one of the largest distributors of clothing in Mexico, the fashion industry is another sector that is growing strongly in the city, fashion designers, photographers agencies, coordinators, models, and people around this area are supported by the Chamber of the Clothing Industry (CAINVE) and the Chamber of the Footwear Industry (CAIC) through the Chamber of Commerce, the city hosts the event most fashionable in Mexico Intermoda Another of the most dynamic and productive sectors in Guadalajara are major footwear and leather production. The city is the largest producer of footwear and leather goods in the country doing dumbbell in the city of Leon.Production of furniture and handicrafts is another important economic activity, exporting a large amount of manufacturing in the country, Europe and the U.S., the latter being one of the main consumers of furniture, handicrafts and decorative items manufactured in the city. Guadalajara is the leading producer of jewelry in the country and world leader in production of tequila. One of the economic sectors that grew in the late nineteenth century is the health of Guadalajara has prestige in heart operations, transplantation, dermatology, cosmetic surgery industry is one of the fastest growing at present, has the most prestigious doctors national graduates of academic institutions based in Guadalajara that enjoy international prestige also making formal education colleges, private and public schools in other sectors that attract more economic development to the city.The national expansion of businesses Tapatias has had the fastest growth at the beginning of this century, both small and international emporiums tapatios have had one of the biggest growth nationally such as Oils, Fats and Derivatives Aceros Corey Asci Bansi Chocolatera Ibarra cklass, Companhia Siderurgica de Guadalajara Computing in Action Consorcio Aga, Dulces de la Rosa Dulces Vero Farmacia Guadalajara Ferreter as Calzada Amutio Ferretero Group, Hills Industries, Laboratorios Julio Laboratorios Pisa Dairy Guadalajara Libraries Gonville, Lob, Megacable, Mexico Lubricant Furniture Plascencia Notisistema Omnilife Technology Solutions, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac and Urrea, among others.Tertiary activities are based on tourism, which is one of the most important sectors in Guadalajara, architectural aesthetics, historical and cultural heritage make it attractive for both domestic and foreign tourism. The city has a large infrastructure of malls, museums, recreational parks, passages, architectural, sports clubs, restaurants, bars, shopping areas and interest, nightclubs, hotels etc.., Which are sufficient to practice cultural tourism (which expected one of the most significant growth worldwide within the next 5 years), tourism, entertainment, sports and tourism academics. Trade is one of the most dynamic of the city, we make the sale of domestic and imported products, the city is a leader nationally in growth and investment in shopping malls. The services are of all kinds: financial, professional, technical, community, social, personal, maintenance and tourism.