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This is a continuation of the original Where's That Landmark? thread located here

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=270543&page=480
 
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It's been two days now. I'm guessing ImaLooser doesn't know the rule of confirmation, so I'll just continue:

View through a white arched gateway with green metal gates toward a pale yellow Orthodox church with green onion domes, under a clear blue sky; a few people walk on a paved path.
 
When my friend mentioned this landmark, the name was most alien to me. I didn't have a pen, so I made a mnemonic: "Toe tied". This turned out to be a wrong pronunciation.
She also mentioned it was 350 km NE of of big city. This was also not very accurate, as it looks to be only 250 km away, and way more NNE than NE.
 
My friend says that the wiki entry on how the town got it's name is totally bogus. The namesake man who died was not a general, but the town drunk. Imagine living in a town named after the town drunk, when it's original name was associated with royalty.
 
Is it The Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Tutaev or Tutayev, Russia?
 
fuzzyfelt said:
Is it The Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Tutaev or Tutayev, Russia?

It is!
 
That's unfair. A Russian church actually in Russia. What is this world coming to :-p

Kidding I'm swamped these days.
 
OmCheeto said:
It is!

That was another lovely one to find, thank you, Om, and thank your friend from me, too!
I'll find something.
 
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I meant to apologise to Imalooser for not attributing a quote to him or her with a find (Punchbowl falls), in case I was wrong, and I'm pleased Om rectified that. (no hint)
 
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OmCheeto said:
It's been two days now. I'm guessing ImaLooser doesn't know the rule of confirmation, so I'll just continue:

Yes, it is correct.
 
fuzzyfelt said:
Low-angle view of the Sydney Opera House sail-shaped shells against a pale blue sky, with a white rectangular block in the left foreground and a stone-faced wall below.

It looks like little baby Sydney Opera house beings, who've just woken up, and saying in unison; "Wow! A rectangle!"

Not a clue.
 
OmCheeto said:
It looks like little baby Sydney Opera house beings, who've just woken up, and saying in unison; "Wow! A rectangle!"

Not a clue.

:smile:
 
OmCheeto said:
It looks like little baby Sydney Opera house beings, who've just woken up, and saying in unison; "Wow! A rectangle!"

Not a clue.
:smile:

It mightn’t be so easy- there could be a trist.
 
I’ll mention what I discovered about my last landmark-



fuzzyfelt said:
:) The repetitive hint was of a building at Yale University that Kahn designed and which was named after him, that has an art gallery and is where he taught architecture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatiyo_Sangshad_Bhaban

My landmark and hints were more repetitive than it seemed. That last landmark, the Assembly Building by Kahn that I gave had repetitive hints from another recent landmark I gave, The Salk Kahn Institute. I used the triangular ceiling etc., of the Kahn Building at Yale as hints for both Kahn landmarks, e.g. on this page-
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=270543&page=479

But it turns out the last Kahn landmark, The National Assembly building by Kahn had already been a landmark, with Kahn related hints, before, from post no. 2934 -
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=2257773

I must have missed the same landmark when it was offered years ago and wasn’t well when I checked.(no hint)
 
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This is another not very realistic image of the landmark-

Physical architectural scale model in pale wood or card on a terrain base with contour lines, showing a long rectangular block building, tall slender tree-like forms and a smaller building at right.




And it is difficult to tell there are things like an outdoor pool-

Overhead view of a bright blue swimming pool with rippling water caustic patterns and two pale, blurred shapes near the top left edge.
 
"Trist", here, doesn’t refer to someone’s name.

The images so far exclude the landscape at large and, as well, I don’t have a usable indoor image, but it could be something like this-

Two swimmers with dark heads moving through choppy grey-green water, with pale light reflecting off the surface behind them.


Something occurred in time possibly somewhere around here.
 
Although what has been shown of the landmark so far is recent in the area, it equates with older ideas, like those of form follows function, which have continued on in time, e.g., an internal pool wall takes on oscillating shape like this wall-

Forum Game - Where's That Landmark? Part 2


Some landscape images-


Calm lake with a grassy green hillside on the left and a steep, pale rocky mountain slope on the right, with a small boat near the left shore.
Shallow clear water over a rocky, sandy bottom with a small wave edge at the lower right and dark submerged rocks beneath the surface.
Low-resolution still of a small brown animal, possibly a dog or otter, swimming with its head and back above dark, rippling water.
 
The area can be covered in snow around Dec 25, and there are trees close to the landmark.

(Edit: deleted a pink rose.)
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvk5HfVfTgw
Blurry low-resolution frame showing a brownish animal head and shoulders emerging above rippling grey water, possibly swimming.
 
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Often, landmarks I give involve a combination of areas of study. Google image placing changes but for me terms from either area could give the landmark: one, by naming the specialty and function in the landmark, or alternatively, by investigating and finding where, roughly, an idea of significance for a different specialty took form. However, googling with a combination of terms from both specialties would probably be easiest to recognise.
 
fuzzyfelt said:
Often, landmarks I give involve a combination of areas of study. Google image placing changes but for me terms from either area could give the landmark: one, by naming the specialty and function in the landmark, or alternatively, by investigating and finding where, roughly, an idea of significance for a different specialty took form. However, googling with a combination of terms from both specialties would probably be easiest to recognise.

I do believe, that it will be another 6 months before I figure this out.

You, Fuzzy, must be the namesake of Fuzzy Logic. :-p

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ps. I've been all over Banff, Scotland, New Jersey, and a few other places. Only 12 hours of unadulterated web surfing pleasure.
Not sure if I've ever mentioned it before, but thinking, is the best way to travel.
 
I have 4 architects in the room. The closest I can come is the A.G. Scientific San Diego Corporate something or other.



Eminating from a comment; "It reminds me of the Tod Williams and Billie Tein design of the California Science Institute"

Fuzzy, does this place exist? :-p
 
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OmCheeto said:
I do believe, that it will be another 6 months before I figure this out.

You, Fuzzy, must be the namesake of Fuzzy Logic. :-p

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ps. I've been all over Banff, Scotland, New Jersey, and a few other places. Only 12 hours of unadulterated web surfing pleasure.
Not sure if I've ever mentioned it before, but thinking, is the best way to travel.


:-p

OmCheeto said:
I have 4 architects in the room. The closest I can come is the A.G. Scientific San Diego Corporate something or other.



Eminating from a comment; "It reminds me of the Tod Williams and Billie Tein design of the California Science Institute"

Fuzzy, does this place exist? :-p

It does really exist – but this is a fairly recent look in the area.

Really, really nice idea, but it isn’t the correct one. Other hints refer to a particular branch of physics, spurrrlash!
 
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fuzzyfelt said:
:-p



It does really exist – but this is a fairly recent look in the area.

Really, really nice idea, but it isn’t the correct one. Other hints refer to a particular branch of physics, spurrrlash!

One of the four architects last night commented; "You're right. Those really do look like little Sydney Opera House babies."

The architect, to whom I've been referring to over the last few months, told the three newbies; "Don't talk to him. He's crazy." :-p
 
OmCheeto said:
One of the four architects last night commented; "You're right. Those really do look like little Sydney Opera House babies."

The architect, to whom I've been referring to over the last few months, told the three newbies; "Don't talk to him. He's crazy." :-p

:-p

Another hint, it could involve a psa or a spi or something like that.
 
The architect is not very well known, but does credit Kahn as a strong influence. Just for interests sake this is another of his work-
Curved grey concrete wall of a modern building rising at left, with green trees, a mountain slope and blue sky behind it.


Also, two to three very well known people visited the area this year for an event slightly related to the landmark, and they could have enjoyed the relaxation the landmark offered.

I will post the rose, which could help with recognising the name of the area.
Close-up photo of a pink rose in full bloom, with layered petals curling inward toward the center against dark green foliage.


Handwritten Schrödinger equation on a chalkboard: i h-bar times partial psi(x,t) over partial t equals negative h-bar squared over 2m times partial squared psi over partial x squared plus V(x) psi(x,t).
 
The trist or twyst could involve an unnamed, mystery Viennese woman in the 1920s.
 
fuzzyfelt said:
:-p

Another hint, it could involve a psa or a spi or something like that.

Ha! I spent quite a few hours looking at Neutrino detectors around the world.
I was going to suggest Gran Sasso the other day, but I can't find the outdoor buildings!
The whole thing is under a mountain.
The images of the topography are very similar to yours.

and:

Underground pool: check!
Tri = Neutrino's have 3 metamorphic states.

And today "christmas at gran sasso" brings up nothing like your landmark.

No more hints though Fuzzy. I'm sure today's clues will allow me to figure this out in the next 3 months. :-p