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unusual facts about Ground Level


Ground Level

Ground Level was an Australian-based electronic music performance and production duo: David John Walker (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) and Jean-Marie Guilfoil (Madison, Wisconsin, United States).



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30 Hudson Street

Provident Bank of New Jersey and Così are also located on the ground level, and open to the general public.

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

David Coulthard performed some more doughnuts on the helipad of the Burj Al Arab luxury hotel in Dubai, 210 metres above ground level.

Bagarmossen metro station

The current station is 19 metres (62 ft) below ground level and was opened on 15 August 1994 as the extension to Skarpnäck was taken into service.

Birmingham board school

Typically in red brick and terracotta, gabled, with steep roofs supported by large arches of internally exposed ironwork, and freely planned, they were towered to provide ventilation using the Plenum system, with fresh air being drawn in from above the polluted ground level, heated if necessary, and vented also from the tower.

Box Hill railway station, Melbourne

The original station opened in 1882 at ground level, when the railway line was extended from Camberwell to Lilydale.

CBS Studio Building

A Duane Reade store opened on the ground level and for several years CBS used the space as offices.

Central Freeway

The final compromise took a two-way freeway down to ground level at Market Street, where Octavia Boulevard - a widened Octavia Street on the former freeway right-of-way — would continue to Fell Street.

Constantine tramway

The works include 11 stations, three of which are multinodal (tram-bus-taxi), two viaducts stretching 465 and 114 metres, an underpass for urban traffic (with an open cutting at 70 metres at the Emir Abdelkader Mosque), 12 supporting walls having an overall length of 1,885 metres, a ground level depot (65,000 sq. m.) that guarantees the maintenance and parking of 27+20 trains.

Delaware Route 141

Following this interchange, the six-lane freeway rises to ground level and passes to the west of the former Wilmington Assembly plant used by General Motors before coming to a bridge over CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision railroad line.

Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station

It is the third deepest MRT station (after Bras Basah then Promenade) in Singapore, with the deepest point at 28 metres below ground level.

Donetsk Metro

In 2012 the Vice-Prime-Minister Borys Kolesnikov informed the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that Ukrzaliznytsia is starting to work on the project of ground-level metro in Donetsk.

Gilmerton

Below ground level in the centre of Gilmerton are a series of shallow linked caves known collectively as Gilmerton Cove.

Graecostasis

A theory has been put forth that the finale phase of the structure was constructed of stone and concrete and is visible in the topmost layer directly beneath the contemporary ground level next to the remains of the original Rostra before it was moved by Julius Caesar.

Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation

A 17th-century account by Quaresmi, the Italian writer and Orientalist, indicates that the church was not visible above ground, but that the top of the vault of a subterranean chamber that had remained intact was at ground level.

Groundscraper

China Vanke headquarters in Shenzhen is as large as the Empire State Building, but is laid out horizontally and 5 stories above ground level.

Kavi Subhash metro station

This metro station is at ground level and located adjacent to New Garia Railway station on the Sealdah-Sonarpur section.

Kontula metro station

Kontula (Finnish) or Gårdsbacka (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the northern branch (Itäkeskus - Mellunmäki) of the Helsinki Metro.

Lands of Brownmuir

The area is very wet with a high humidity and as a consequence the habitat is characterised by a large number of Sphagnum moss hummocks which rise up as much a metre above ground level.

Lescot

Lescot Wing, the oldest portion existing above ground level of the Louvre Palace, in Paris, France

Ma On Shan Line

This model has the maximum running speed of 130 km/h, but trains will only reach a maximum service speed of 100 km/h; travelling between Shek Mun Station and Tai Shui Hang Station, when it is on ground level between Tate's Cairn Highway.

Madron Parish Church

The work that this involved was extensive and involved extending to the north which in turn involved demolishing a cottage and compensating the leaseholder, diverting the stream from Madron Well and raising the ground level 6 feet to meet the general level.

Marsh Tapaculo

It forages at or near ground-level and feeds on small arthropods, mainly insects such as bugs and beetles.

Mellunmäki metro station

Mellunmäki (Finnish) or Mellungsbacka (Swedish) is a ground-level bridge station on the northern branch (Itäkeskus - Mellunmäki) of the Helsinki Metro.

Myllypuro metro station

Myllypuro (Finnish) or Kvarnbäcken (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the northern branch (Itäkeskus - Mellunmäki) of the Helsinki Metro.

Newtown Halt railway station

Comprising a single wooden platform situated at ground level, Newtown Halt was located on the northern side of Salisbury Road, approximately ½-mile north of the line's terminus at Yarmouth Beach, giving visitors access to the attractions found in the northern part of Yarmouth, as well as being convenient for Great Yarmouth High School.

Oyasato-yakata

The ground-level architecture can be compared somewhat to Karl Marx-Hof, a massive tenement complex in Vienna, and the pilotis evoke Charles Fourier's phalanstère, an architectural form specifically designed to evoke and construct an egalitarian utopia.

Pozzuoli

The Macellum includes three majestic columns in cipolin marble, which show erosion from marine Lithophaga molluscs when, at an earlier time, the ground level was much lower due to Bradyseism, and sea-water could flow in.

Pyramidology

Alford takes as his starting point the golden rule that the pharaoh had to be buried in the earth, i.e. at ground level or below, and this leads him to conclude that Khufu was interred in an ingeniously concealed cave whose entrance is today sealed up in the so-called Well Shaft adjacent to a known cave called the Grotto.

Rastila metro station

Rastila (Finnish) or Rastböle (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the eastern branch (Itäkeskus - Vuosaari) of the Helsinki Metro.

River Taf

Water drains from high ground above the village of Crymych in Pembrokeshire, and at one time flowed at ground level across the main CardiganTenby road (A478) before falling to the level of the defunct Whitland and Cardigan Branch Line railway station "Crymmych Arms" (Great Western Railway) where, on the UK Ordnance Survey map of 1866 it is shown as the source of the Taf.

Storrow Drive

For example, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has proposed covering Storrow Drive near the pedestrian Arthur Fiedler Bridge, replacing the old overpass with a wide, ground-level park space that would better connect the green space of Boston's Public Garden with the Esplanade.

The Shops at North Bridge

The mall also occupies a topographically unusual site, as Michigan Avenue at this location is elevated, gently sloping back down to ground level from its bi-level bridge over the Chicago River.

Vuosaari metro station

Vuosaari (Finnish) or Nordsjö (Swedish) is a ground-level station on the southern branch (Itäkeskus - Vuosaari) of the Helsinki Metro.

Woodberry, Baltimore

Three of the TV outlets, WMAR-TV (channel 2), WBAL-TV (channel 11), and WJZ-TV (channel 13)–along with radio stations WIYY (97.9 FM) and WZFT (104.3 FM)–transmit from a red-colored, tri-mast candelabra tower, which stands 997 feet (304 meters) above ground level.

Yau Tong Station

Although the train platforms are constructed above ground level, they are sealed from the outside with concrete walls to prevent the noise of trains from disturbing the nearby residents of Yau Tong Estate.

Yellow-throated Scrubwren

Insectivorous, they feed at ground level, unlike the related Large-billed Scrubwren (S. magnirostris) which lives in the same wet forest habitat but forages higher in the leaf layer and on branches.