Sunday, August 12, 2007
Mystery Photo II
Since you guys served up a complete and correct answer to the day's first Mystery Photo within one hour of its posting, I thought I'd come back at you with a tougher one. Ignoring the bits of people on the edges, what are we looking at? There are huge extra-credit opportunities in this one, including the names of famous buildings, the architects who built them, World War II trivia, and a renewable-energy anecdote. Playing-field leveling tip: We're roaming around New England, and I took the picture this morning.
9 Comments:
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Sun Aug 12, 03:11:00 PM:
I'm going to narrow it down to some place in Boston.
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 03:24:00 PM:
Not familiar with the area but who is driving the DUCK that big green amphibious vehicle?
I cant quite make out the text of the reverse image , but Boston something Tours.
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 03:31:00 PM:
Trinity Church in Boston is a guess
Built by Henry Hobson Richardson
Still looking for the energy link
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 03:33:00 PM:
From the looks of the photo, you took the picture reflected off the glass walls of the John Hancock Tower doing a self portrait.
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Publius, at
Sun Aug 12, 03:34:00 PM:
Trinity Church in Boston, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, reflected in the Hancock center, built by IM Pei.
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 03:50:00 PM:
The mirrored glass was to reduce the ac load, during construction they had a lot of then fall out until they got the mountings right
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 03:59:00 PM:
The big clues came from Boston Duck Tours and their interactive map.
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 07:34:00 PM:
OK, I;ll guess. The Christian Science Mother Church.
JLW III
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 07:46:00 PM:
Actually, the architect in the firm of Pei, Cobb, and Fried who was principally responsible for the John Hancock Tower was Henry Cobb, who also designed the Friend Center for Engineering Education at Princeton University (2001).
