Architecture

Hong kong post will issue a set of four stamps showing the design of new Stonecutters bridge from different perspectives.

Scheduled to open in 2009, Stonecutters Bridge further reflects Hong Kong's image as a unique and vibrant Asian city.

Title: Stonecutters Bridge
Date of Issue: 17 December 2009
Country: Hong Kong
Denominations: $1.40, $2.40, $3.00, $5.00

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Title: Modern Sports Constructions
Date of Issue: 30 November 2009
Country: Belarus
Denominations: 1500 BYR x 2

On December 2002 Football covered manege for 5000 spectators was built in Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk. Its area is 1200 sq. m., the height is 26 metres. The main activity of the manege staff is the organization and conducting of football tournaments of men, women and youth teams of Belarus and other countries.

Multi-functional culture and sports complex “Minsk-Arena” for 15000 spectators is the newest and the most prestige sports complex in Belarus. It is being constructed in Pobediteley Avenue in Minsk for conducting international sports competitions, for sportsmen training, for people to go in for physical culture and sports, for cultural activities and tourism.

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Title: Architecture 2009
Date of Issue: 9 September 2009
Country: Spain
Denominations: 0,32 € x 6

The Architecture series is made up of six stamps devoted to the Puente de Los Tilos in the island of La Palma, the Canal de Castilla and some other four ones making up the souvenir sheet depicting the four towers of a new business centre near the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid, amongst which the two known as Cristal and Espacio.
The Puente de los Tilos, is a bridge built by engineers Santiago Pérez-Fadón Martinez and José Emilio Herrero Beneítez and their team near San Andrés y Sauces in the island of La Palma (Canary Islands). It was inaugurated on the 18th December 2004 and it consists of a 255m span arch. The arch and spandrel piers are made of high resistance concrete. The length of the bridge is 357 m and stands more than 150m high over the del Agua gully. With this bridge, the authors broke the span record in the building of concrete arches in Spain.

The Canal de Castilla is one of the most important civil engineering constructions in Spain. It was built as a means of communication for the region of Tierra de Campos so that agricultural produce could be transported along the canal to the northern sea ports. It was finished by 1849 and has an inverted Y shape with a total length of 270 km running through the provinces of Palencia, Burgos and Valladolid. With the arrival of the train, the canal lost its purpose as a means of communication and became an irrigation channel in 1909. Since 1972 the Hydrographic Confederation of the Duero River is in charge of its management and maintenance.

The four towers standing out in the skyline of Madrid are built over the grounds of the old centre of the Ciudad Deportiva Real Madrid (Real Madrid Sports City) which is now a business park. There are buildings such as the one designed by Norman Foster resembling a shelf and measuring 250m, the highest building in Spain. The Torre de Cristal is 249 m high and is the work of Argentinean architect César Pelli; the third one is a triangular tower 236m high covered in glass and designed by Carlos Rubio Carvajal and Enrique Alvarez-Sala Walter; lastly, Torre Espacio measures 223m, is quadrangular shaped and is the work of the Mew York studio of Pei, Cobb Freed & Partners.

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Title: Thingvellir Church
Date of Issue: 5 November 2009
Country: Iceland
Denominations: 190 ISK

Thingvellir has been a church site since shortly after the adoption of Christianity. The present church was consecrated in 1859. The church possesses many splendid artifacts, among them a pulpit dating back to 1683 and an altarpiece painted by local farmer Ófeigur Jónsson in 1834.

The church acquired another altarpiece by Danish painter Anker Lund in 1896. The baptismal font dates back to 1962 and was designed by local farmer Guðmann Ólafsson. The church was declared a protected site January 1st 1990, according to law on national relics which came into force on June 1st 2007. This means that the Church is the property of the Icelandic State. The Bessastadir Church and the Hólar Cathedral have already been declared historic sites and are owned by the State

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World has many many various types of places to see and enjoy. To be different and extending the list of places to see here is the list of biggest sport stdiums of the world where every year several types of sports are held and herds of people gather here to encourage their favorite team, favorite player, their country they act as the team spirit and gives every players and games a great encouragement and spirit.[Read More]

So on visiting the places listed don't miss to visit the stadiums of the appropriate countries!!!! Really it will be a great experience,and  if we are quite lucky enough we might get chance  to see the live sport held !!!!

The list of biggest sport stadiums are

• Rungrado May Day Stadium
• Salt Lake Stadium
• The Estadio Azteca Stadium
• Michigan Stadium
• Beaver Stadium
• Jornalista Maria Filho
• Ohio Stadium
• Neyland Stadium
• National Stadium Bukit Jalil
• Melbourne Cricket Ground
• Plaza De Toros
• Arthur Ashe Stadium

Heres the short detailed description of first 6 stadiums and rest will be followed in my next blog

Rungrado May Day Stadium

• Location - Pyongyang North Korea
• Opened - May 1, 1989
• Field - Main Pitch 22,500 m sq.
• Dimensions -  Total Floor Space Over 207,000 m sq.
• Capacity - 1,50,000
• Tournaments - Football Matches,athletics matches,spectacular Arirang Matches or Mass Games

Title: German Bundestag and the Bundesrat
Date of Issue: 3 September 2009
Country: Germany
Denominations: 0,90 Euro; 0,55 Euro
60 years ago, on 23 May 1949, entered the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany in force, etc. constitutional bodies, the German Bundestag and the Bundesrat defined. Shortly afterwards, both institutions began on 7 Its work in September 1949. Since German reunification on 3 October 1990, the Constitution is the supreme law of all citizens of Germany.

The Bundestag is the German parliament. As the only constitutional body at the federal level, its members are elected by the people. The main tasks of the Bundestag, the election of the Chancellor, the legislation and the monitoring of government performance. The Bundestag assembled since 1999 in the Reichstag building in Berlin.

The Bundesrat represents the interests of the Länder at the federal level. It consists of representatives of the countries. The Federal Council can influence the federal legislative initiatives, or even block. He meets since 2000 in the historic Prussian manor house in Berlin.

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