Re: GESO - Philly City Hall

2022-06-12 Thread Alan C
Wonderful set, Rick - very Eurocentric. So clean too. Must be inspiring to live in such a place. Very little of that in SA, restricted to the old cities & a few rural Churches. Nothing at all in my part of the world. Here they even burn or tear down what little we have (e.g. Parliament which is

Re: GESO - Philly City Hall

2022-06-12 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Your gallery does a wonderful job in displaying the essence of that remarkable structure. For those of us who occasionally drive in downtown Philly, City Hall is right there, smack in the middle of the street, forcing traffic around it. With all the traffic, one is forced to stare at this massive

GESO - Philly City Hall

2022-06-12 Thread Rick Womer
After Reading Terminal Market, our group made its way to Philadelphia’s City Hall. It is the second-tallest masonry building in the world at 538 feet/ 167 meters (a building in Italy is a few cm taller). It is topped by a statue of William Penn, and until 1987 there was a “gentleman’s agreement