Forum Game - Where's That Landmark?

rollcast

Good work Andre, what clue was it as I thought about maybe making the last one a bit more obscure?

Andre

Ah 'Kelvin', could mean Belfast Glasgow or Camebridge. But I could not get adequate visual confirmation earlier.

Googling Belfast Kelvin site:panoramio.com gives good results.

I'll start working on a next.

rollcast

If you googled Kelvin glasshouse

You get up a couple of pictures of the Gardens on the first couple of pages but I suppose I have a bit of an advantage as I've walked through them before. In fact the very first picture links to the wikipedia page for the gardens.

Andre

Nice

The next one (no hint)

Andre

The legendary architect 'enlarged' his country.

Andre

(Note for FF (no hint) I really did not manage to undo the masking for the reverse image searcher. But if it's still possible, I'd like to know how.)

Andre

Andre

The adagium "God created the world but the ..... created ........" is mainly about this person.

fuzzyfelt

I haven’t been playing, but here was a claim of soundness and unsoundness was already demonstrated. As well, it seems unessential for a Dutch emptywater landmark hint anyway. On a good note, I see gel returned. That is nice.

Andre

Thanks, yes this one seems very tough to sell.

The person is also known for his report about his survival of a great flood in 1634

gel

That's the City Hall of Graft-De_Rijp in the Netherlands, and is a former weigh house designed by Jan Leeghwater. See the Google Streetview image.

With the last clue it is rather easy to find. Searching for 1634 flood in Google gives the Wikipedia entry for Burchardi flood as the first result. This in turn links to Jan Leeghwater, which contains a picture of the building with a link to the entry on Graft-De Rijp.

Andre

Correct of course and as Fuzzyfelt remarked Leeghwater translates to empty water. The problem is likely the "h" as when you translate empty water to leegwater, without "h", it's not going to help much. Maybe I should not have given the year of the flooding but I'm off tomorrow on a mission and I wanted it to be solved.

If reverse image search on the mill would have worked it would have produced this page, revealing the correct place of the landmark (De Rijp) in the Beemster polder, the first one.

Borg

I've been very busy and didn't have time to research but my first thought was to search for 1630 Netherland architect because of the date on the top of the building.

gel

Next one - the name is blanked out in the lower right corner.

gel

Apologies for the time taken for the first clue.

fuzzyfelt

Nellcôte, Villefranche-sur-Mer?

fuzzyfelt

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/pic/4625/
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=nel...9,r:4,s:0,i:86
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