The Mutual Building, ELEPHANT (6th level)...
#AbFav_WINDOWS_DOORS_đź’’
We explore Cape Town, it is full of history and I make some interesting discoveries.
Looking up is often a very good thing! LOL
The Mutual Building in Cape Town, South Africa, was built as the headquarters of the South African Mutual Life Assurance Society, now the "Old Mutual" insurance and financial services company.
It was opened in 1940, but before the end of the 1950s—less than 20 years later—business operations were already moving to another new office
The granite cladding of the building was hewn from a single boulder on the Paarl Mountain, north east of the city of Cape Town.
The cladding incorporates decorative baboon, elephant and tribal heads that project from the upper facades of the Darling Street elevation (the front of the building).
The rising nature of the ziggurat mass of the exterior of the building is reinforced by the prismoid (triangular) windows, which extend up and down the height of the building.
Have a wonderful day and thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
"Mutual Building", elephant, "Old Mutual", architecture, windows, building, detail, Cape Town, "South Africa", colour, horizontal, "Magda indigo"
The Mutual Building, ELEPHANT (6th level)...
#AbFav_WINDOWS_DOORS_đź’’
We explore Cape Town, it is full of history and I make some interesting discoveries.
Looking up is often a very good thing! LOL
The Mutual Building in Cape Town, South Africa, was built as the headquarters of the South African Mutual Life Assurance Society, now the "Old Mutual" insurance and financial services company.
It was opened in 1940, but before the end of the 1950s—less than 20 years later—business operations were already moving to another new office
The granite cladding of the building was hewn from a single boulder on the Paarl Mountain, north east of the city of Cape Town.
The cladding incorporates decorative baboon, elephant and tribal heads that project from the upper facades of the Darling Street elevation (the front of the building).
The rising nature of the ziggurat mass of the exterior of the building is reinforced by the prismoid (triangular) windows, which extend up and down the height of the building.
Have a wonderful day and thank you for your visit, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
"Mutual Building", elephant, "Old Mutual", architecture, windows, building, detail, Cape Town, "South Africa", colour, horizontal, "Magda indigo"