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MEYRIN: AN EXAMPLE OF A SWISS SUBURB

This may I was for the first time in Switzerland. I just wanted to see how do all those science things work. The thing is that CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) is in Geneva, but not really there.  For that moment I was not able to visit the city of Geneva because I was there for CERN, and the headquarters of this center was in the suburb of Meyrin. Meyrin is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The main site of the CERN particle physics laboratory is in Meyrin. Meyrin was originally a small agricultural village until the 1950s, when construction of CERN began just to the north. It is now a commuter town dominated with apartment high-rises, and many of its residents work at CERN or in central Geneva.  Meyrin has a population (as of December 2015) of 22,152. As of 2008, 41.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (14,320 or 73.3%), with German being second most common (

BUILDINGS PORTAYING STALIN'S ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS

The main ideas of the Stalinist architecture, art déco totalitarian skyscrapers, powerful „imperial” administrative palaces and the classic revival in one post Moscow Expo, 1954 The Stalinist architecture was a current in the USSR in the mid-1930s, which had fallen in the mid-1950s and was specific to Joseph Stalin's totalitarian ambitions. This architecture combined several styles, united by common characters that distinguished Stalinist architecture from the other architectural currents of the USSR (constructivism, rationalism) and from outside (mainly modernism). Its role was classic monumentalism that combines elements of empire, eclectic and art déco. After the Second World War, the Stalinist architecture expanded into the European Communist countries, the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Wonderful examples of this style in Europe can be found in ex-Soviet republics, Poland and Romania. This architecture is appr

BIOSHOCK: ATLANTIC EXPRESS ART DECO

“Our trains run on time when YOU run on time!” The Atlantic Express (originally named the Atlantic Transportation Company on the train's blueprints) was created by Prentice Mill to be the primary mass transit system of Rapture. It was eventually made obsolete by competition from the increasing private bathysphere use and the expanding Rapture Metro. Prentice Mill put his cash reserves into the city's banking system when asked by Andrew Ryan, in an attempt to hold off its collapse. After Prentice Mill became bankrupt, he was forced to sell the Atlantic Express. With no one to turn to for help, he sold his company to Austen Bathysphere Co., a subdivision of the Rapture Metro. The Atlantic Express train system again became the main mode of transport through the city during the Rapture Civil War because of the subsequent lockdown and destruction of much of the Rapture Metro system. Subject Delta travels on one of the remaining trains during the course of Bi

CHANGING BERLIN 1937. THE BEAUTY OF A PRE-WAR BERLIN

Berlin always was a beautiful city built by great people, with an incredible architecture sights. The Berlin always was charming... until the World War II. The Second World War destroyed those aesthetics of an old city, with an extremely rich history. Unfortunately, Berlin will never be the same. I want to present you a great album of the capital city of Germany (then The Third German Empire / Reich) in the 1937. Pictures are made by the National Geographic reporter Douglas Chandler during the National-Socialist regime. I want to present you one of the greatest city on Earth before it was tortured by the war. Because of her position on the map, military necessity long ago led Germany to build stone-paved roads radiating in various directions from Berlin.  A movie created by an American company founded by Jews from Germany is presented on the Billboard of the Kulfurstendamm. The vast dome of Berlin's Protestant Cathedral. The biggest department stor