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Urania Sternwarte is a public observatory in Zürich, named for the muse of astronomy in Greek mythology. Built between 1905-7 and the oldest concrete building in Zürich, its 51 metre tower dominates the western end the historic Altstadt.
Despite the light-polluted location, it remains a working observatory with a 30 cm refractor.
At first blush it might appear to be a typically Georgian gem of Newcastle city centre, but the Sun Insurance Buildings were in fact built between 1902 and 1904. They were designed by Oliver, Leeson and Wood, all carved sandstone topped by a copper roof. On the top floor, the company's blazing solar logo crowns the scene; this mustachioed sun (click F11 and then L to see it more clearly) isn't smiling, but frowning in the way one might expect and even hope an Edwardian insurance company director to.
Located on the corner of Collingwood Street and Westgate Road on the edge of Grainger Town.
Completed in 1958, this former building now houses the Yerevan Marriott. It is located on the main square of Armenia's capital, Republic Square.
The chapel of the First Order Benedictines (males professed to live in community) of the Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York. This is an Anglican/Episcopal community rather than a Roman Catholic one. The community moved here in 1902, having been founded in 1884. The plain architecture is almost Augustinian in its austerity.
The monastery's site has commanding views over the River Hudson and to Franlin D Roosevelt's country residence at nearby Hyde Park. The nearest city is Poughkeepsie.
Spring flowers -- tulips and bluebells -- in a border bed of Hidcote Manor Garden (in at Hidcote Bartrim in Gloucestershire, west-central England), on a partly sunny morning in mid-May 2010.
The cold winter of 2009/2010 had delayed blooming by several weeks, particularly up in the northern Cotswold Hills, where Hidcote is located, so tulips were still at a peak.
Hidcote Manor was purchased by Gertrude Winthrop, an American, in 1907. Her son, Major Lawrence Johnston (1871-1958), who became a British citizen, designed the garden as a series of garden "rooms," each with its distinctive planting themes, colour schemes, and so forth, typically separated by high topiary hedges or walls -- an approach that became a classic of garden design. (This border was beside a wall of the Old Garden.) It continues to be considered an outstanding example of an Arts and Crafts garden. In 1947, Johnston donated the property to the National Trust.
(Historical information from the National Trust website and Wikipedia, both last consulted 10 April 2020, as well as from the print guidebook, Hidcote Manor Garden (London: National Trust, 2004). Major Johnston's birth and death dates from US Library of Congress/Name Authority Cooperative "authority record" nr 90004663.)
(From the "archive" -- 2010.)
[Hidcote Manor Garden tulip bluebell bed 2010 may 18 c; IMG_2590]
A classic building in Soviet Empire Style, 25 Khreshchatyk in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is also known as the “House with a Star” or “Friendship”. It is a three-section brick residential building, built in 1954, consisting of a central 15-storey residential building, topped by a tower and a spire with a star and framed by two 9-storey “wings”. The architects were Anatoliy Dobrovolsky, Alexander Malinovsky, and Petro Petrushenko.
On construction this was Kyiv's tallest building, a position it held until 1981.
As well as being located on the city’s premier street in Khreshchatyk, the building anchors the perspective of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street as one descends it from the Ukrainian National Opera.
This description incorporates translations from the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
El Vilar, La Cortinada, Ordino, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees
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Looking through the
archway of the 1900-2 neo-baroque building that now houses the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra, down Pasažo Skersgatvis, to the baroque spire of All Saints’ Church (1620-30).
Samvel Safaryan's 1950s Government House (now the official residence of the Prime Minister of Armenia) at 2 Republic Square in Armenia's capital, Yerevan.
First National Bank building on Main Street in Paarl in the Western Cape. Built in 1940 in Cape Dutch Revival style. This building is on the South African Heritage Register.
St Michael's Anglican Church in the upmarket Durban suburb of Umhlanga Rocks. St Michael the Archangel, patron of seafarers is an appropriate dedication in this beachside district.
I am trying to find more information about the history of the building but I seem to remember from my visit being told it was built in the 1970s.
'The Chinese Bell Tower'
Alton Towers’ (Chinese) Pagoda Fountain is a three-storey, octagonal, cast iron structure with twenty-four hanging bells. The pagoda stands on an octagonal White Hollington sandstone base. The cast iron structure was designed by Robert Abraham (1773–1850), who modelled it on the To-ho pagoda in Canton, Southern China. It was cast and built by the famous Coalbrookdale Iron Company. Work started on the pagoda in 1826 and it was completed some six years later in 1832.
Alton Towers was a country house designed in the early 19th century for the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury. In the second half of the 20th century, the grounds were redeveloped as a visitor attraction and theme park.
Near the garden entrance is a cenotaph to the 15th Earl, a marble bust with an inscription reading "He made the desert smile". Landmarks include a Chinese Pagoda Fountain, The Swiss Cottage, Miniature 'Stonehenge', a Greek Choragic Monument, and orangeries.
Latvia has great markets, and its second biggest behind only the enormous Riga Central Market, is the one in Liepāja, its third largest city (population 70,000).
At the core of St Peter's Market (Pētertirgus) is the covered section, housed in this lovely 1910 art-nouveau building.
Radio City Tower (also known as St John's Beacon) is a radio and observation tower in Liverpool built in 1969 and designed by James A. Roberts Associates in Birmingham. It is 138 metres tall, and is the second tallest free-standing building in Liverpool.
The Kiev Opera dates to 1867, when the company that is the ancestor of today's took residence in the City Theatre, built on this site in 1856. This sadly burned down in 1897 after a morning performance of Eugene Onegin.
The City Council launched an international competition to design a replacement auditorium, and the winner was the Russian architect Victor Schröter. His neo-renaissance design, which we still enjoy today, was opened in 1901.
Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin was assassinated here in 1911, during a performance of The Tale of Tsar Tsaltan in the presence of the Tsar and his two oldest daughters, Olga and Tatiana. The assassination took place while his personal bodyguard had nipped out for a smoke.
Now named the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National Opera House, it occupies a prominent site on Volodymyrska Street, between St Sophia's Cathedral and the TsUM shopping mall.
A classic building in Soviet Empire Style, 25 Khreshchatyk in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is also known as the “House with a Star” or “Friendship”. It is a three-section brick residential building, built in 1954, consisting of a central 15-storey residential building, topped by a tower and a spire with a star and framed by two 9-storey “wings”. The architects were Anatoliy Dobrovolsky, Alexander Malinovsky, and Petro Petrushenko.
On construction this was Kyiv's tallest building, a position it held until 1981.
As well as being located on the city’s premier street in Khreshchatyk, the building anchors the perspective of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street as one descends it from the Ukrainian National Opera.
This description incorporates translations from the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
The Bowl holding the Flame of Glory at the National Museum of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv. This is part of a complex of monumnets to Ukrainians who died during the war.
St James’ in the Durban inner suburb of Morningside. In this upmarket area, St James’ was once the spiritual home for those who resided at King’s House, the Governor’s home just a short walk up the hill. Over the years, St James’ has not only hosted members of the British Royal Family (the King and Queen in 1947 and more recently the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester), but also members of the South African Government, including the late State President, Nelson Mandela.
The foundation stone for the church was laid in 1902.
It is photographed here in evening twilight.
Casa Nicolau top, Pal, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees
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Old house of La Cortinada El Vilar, Ordino (parroquia), Ruta del Ferro, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees
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The former warehouse for Fulton's linen manufacturers at 52-58 Howard Street in Belfast City Centre. Designed by Young and Mackenzie architects and built 1901-3 in classic Belfast red brick and red sandstone. Stone carving on the pediment credits the building to "F&J Co Ltd".
By 1911 it had become a woll warehouse, then was converted to offices and shops in 1930. Between 1940 and 1966, the landscape and portrait painter Frank McKelvey (1895-1974) had a studio here.
Ruta del Ferro: El Vilar, La Cortinada, Ordino, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees
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The domes of Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral (Ukrainian: Успенський собор) viewed from the south.
The original Dormition Cathedral was built in 1073–8 during the golden age of Kievan Rus’. At the end of the 11th century many additions to the cathedral were built, with more cupolas and decorative elements in the Cossack Baroque style added in the 17th Century.
In the 1930s, Stalin had flattened any church in Kyiv he could find and excuse for, and although the Dormition Cathedral survived that, it was blown up by the Red Army in its scorched earth operation of 16-17 September 1941 in advance of the Nazi German capture of the city, along with much of the city centre. After Ukrainian independence, reconstruction of the cathedral began in 1998 and was completed in time for its reconsecration during the Ukrainian Independence Day ceremonies in August 2000. This frenetic pace saw the work completed without serious scientific research and using modern materials. Restoration work continues on the cathedral’s interior.
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киeво-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was founded as a cave monastery in 1051, since which time it has usually been a preeminent centre of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral a few kilometres away, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among others, the remains of Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, assassinated at the Opera in the city centre, lie at rest here.
While remaining a major cultural and tourist attraction, the monastery has been active again as a religious community since the 1980s, having been shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and turned into a museum-park. Nowadays, there are now over 100 monks in residence.
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the River Dnipro and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Anthonite monks who founded a monastery built by archit
Part of the magnificent 1902-4 Sun Insurance Buildings at the corner of Westgate Road, the Camera Shop at 27 is in fact now, and rather inevitably, a rather hipster food and coffee shop.
Will this still be a viable basis of our city centre economies once the coronavirus crisis passes, I wonder?
VESS COLA Relic ~ St Joseph, Missouri ~ before some imbecile tried to repaint it. ~ Copyright ©2016 Bob Travaglione ~ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Two of The Three Graces on Liverpool's Pier Head. The shot is taken from the upper decks of a ferry from Belfast which had just pulled into port at Birkenhead.
The Pier Head (properly, George’s Pier Head) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It was part of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004 and lost its status in 2021, partly thanks to the squat low ugly building to the right of shot.
This is the 2009 ferry terminal, about which one critic said: ”The architect evidently once looked at a Zaha [Hadid] building in a magazine. It is essentially a horrible sectional idea that has been extruded like a stick of rock."
In front of it is The Cunard Building, built from 1914-7 in a mix of Italian Renaissance and Greek Revival styles to a design by William Edward Willink and Philip Coldwell Thicknesse. The building was, from its construction until the 1960s, the headquarters of the Cunard Line, and home to Cunard's passenger facilities for trans-Atlantic journeys departing from Liverpool. Today, the building is owned by Liverpool City Council and is home to numerous public and private sector organisations.
In the centre is the Royal Liver Building, built from 1908-11 to house a local insurance company. It was designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas. The eclectic style includes baroque and Byzantine references. Atop each of its twin towers stand the mythical Liver Birds, designed by Carl Bernard Bartels. The birds are named Bella and Bertie, looking to the sea and inland, respectively. Popular legend has it that while one giant bird looks out over the city to protect its people, the other bird looks out to sea at the new sailors coming in to port. The building remained the head office for Royal Liver Assurance until its merger with Royal London Group in 2011. The building was purchased by a Luxembourg-based investment group, Corestate Capital, for £48 million in February 2017 along with Everton F.C. majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri. Moshiri plans to run Everton's affairs from the building.
Far on the left, with its slender spire, is the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Liverpool. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least 1257. The Chapel of St Nicholas (Patron Saint of Sailors) was built on the site of St Mary del Quay, which in 1355 was determined to be too small for the growing borough of Liverpool. The current shape of the building is largely indebted to 18th and 19th Century expansions, but the main body of the church was destroyed by fire in a German air raid on 21 December 1940, leaving only the parish rooms, vestries and the 19th century tower. Rebuilding did not begin until March 1949, and the completed church, dedicated to 'Our Lady and St Nicholas', was consecrated on 18 October 1952 (the Feast of St Luke). A new ring of 12 bells was cast by John Taylor and Co. of Loughborough. The new church was designed by architect Edward C. Butler, who introduced major changes to its design. Rather than the traditional practice of placing the altar at the east end (for the light of the rising sun and to signify the Resurrection), Butler placed it at the western end of the church.
By the end of the 19th Century, Liverpool’s main central dock, dating to 1771, was essentially redundant. The City of Liverpool and Harbour Board jointly began to redevelop the site, with the Harbour Board launching a competition for local architects to design its headquarters. The neo-baroque building by Briggs, Wolstenholme, Hobbs and Thornley was built from 1903-7 and is on the right of this shot. It is formally the Port of Liverpool Building.
Left of the Liver Building is Liverpool Parish Church, the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least the 1250s. The current building dates from the late 14th Century and was expanded substantially in the late 15th and early 16th Centuries, and then again in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries. The 53 metre high spire was added in 1746. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is an active parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool. It is part of the Greater Churches Group.
Furthest to the left is the 1972 Atlantic Tower building, built as a hotel and now run by Mercure. It was designed to resemble the prow of a ship to reflect Liverpool's maritime history. It may not be as pretty as some of the other buildings here, but I used to stay here for work regularly in the early 2000s and the views are stunning. It is flanked here by some spectacularly ugly 21st Century buildings that look like something an 9 year-old put together on Minecraft, and which are another part of the story of how Liverpool lost its UNESCO World Heritage List status.
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Opérateur Boulanger frères, extrait de Sites et Monument, volume Basse Loire, édité par le Touring Club de France.
A view of BRadford Cathedral from the south-west, at the top of the steps that lead up from Lower Kirkgate. I think perhaps the most attractive view of the Cathedral although the trees obscure the view somewhat, especially in summer.
The Grade I Bradford Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St Peter, is built on a site used for Christian worship since the 8th century, when missionaries based in Dewsbury evangelised the area. It is notable for having a distinctly more Protestant tradition of furnishing, worship, and theology than any other Church of England cathedral, and it is under the patronage of the Simeon Trust.
The Saxon church fell into ruin during the Norman Invasion in 1066. The Norman Lady of the Manor, Alice de Laci, built a second church that three hundred years later would be destroyed by raiding Scots.
During the 14th century the church was rebuilt and some of the older masonry may have been used in the reconstruction of the nave. The nave arcades, the oldest parts of the present building, were completed in 1458. A clerestory above them was added by the end of the 15th century. Chantry chapels were founded, on the north side of the chancel by the Leventhorpe family, and on the south by the owners of Bolling Hall. The tower in the Perpendicular style was added to the west end and finished in 1508.
The building was extended in the 1950s and 1960s by Edward Maufe. The east end of the Cathedral (shown in the photo) is Maufe’s work, but he reused the Morris & Co. stained glass from the old east window—there is therefore Victorian stained glass throughout the building. In 1854 Robert Mawer carved a new reredos in Caen stone for the church – there is a photograph of it in the church archive – but this was lost during Maufe’s rebuild. There was a substantial internal reordering in 1987, which included the replacement of the Victorian pews by chairs.
St Peter’s Church became a cathedral in 1919, when the Diocese of Bradford was created out of the Diocese of Ripon; it became one of three co-equal cathedrals of the new Diocese of Leeds upon its creation on 20 April 2014.
Edwardian architecture’s crowning glory: The Three Graces on Liverpool's Pier Head. The shot is taken from the upper decks of a ferry from Belfast which had just pulled into port at Birkenhead.
The Pier Head (properly, George’s Pier Head) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It is part of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004.
By the end of the 19th Century, Liverpool’s main central dock, dating to 1771, was essentially redundant. The City of Liverpool and Harbour Board jointly began to redevelop the site, with the Harbour Board launching a competition for local architects to design its headquarters. The neo-baroque building by Briggs, Wolstenholme, Hobbs and Thornley was built from 1903-7 and is on the right of this shot. It is formally the Port of Liverpool Building.
In the centre is The Cunard Building, built from 1914-7 in a mix of Italian Renaissance and Greek Revival styles to a design by William Edward Willink and Philip Coldwell Thicknesse. The building was, from its construction until the 1960s, the headquarters of the Cunard Line, and home to Cunard's passenger facilities for trans-Atlantic journeys departing from Liverpool. Today, the building is owned by Liverpool City Council and is home to numerous public and private sector organisations.
On the left is the Royal Liver Building, built from 1908-11 to house a local insurance company. It was designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas. The eclectic style includes baroque and Byzantine references. Atop each of its twin towers stand the mythical Liver Birds, designed by Carl Bernard Bartels. The birds are named Bella and Bertie, looking to the sea and inland, respectively. Popular legend has it that while one giant bird looks out over the city to protect its people, the other bird looks out to sea at the new sailors coming in to port. The building remained the head office for Royal Liver Assurance until its merger with Royal London Group in 2011. The building was purchased by a Luxembourg-based investment group, Corestate Capital, for £48 million in February 2017 along with Everton F.C. majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri. Moshiri plans to run Everton's affairs from the building.
Far on the left, with its slender spire, is the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Liverpool. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least 1257. The Chapel of St Nicholas (Patron Saint of Sailors) was built on the site of St Mary del Quay, which in 1355 was determined to be too small for the growing borough of Liverpool. The current shape of the building is largely indebted to 18th and 19th Century expansions, but the main body of the church was destroyed by fire in a German air raid on 21 December 1940, leaving only the parish rooms, vestries and the 19th century tower. Rebuilding did not begin until March 1949, and the completed church, dedicated to 'Our Lady and St Nicholas', was consecrated on 18 October 1952 (the Feast of St Luke). A new ring of 12 bells was cast by John Taylor and Co. of Loughborough. The new church was designed by architect Edward C. Butler, who introduced major changes to its design. Rather than the traditional practice of placing the altar at the east end (for the light of the rising sun and to signify the Resurrection), Butler placed it at the western end of the church.
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Samvel Safaryan's 1950s Government House (now the official residence of the Prime Minister of Armenia) at 2 Republic Square in Armenia's capital, Yerevan.
Lovely ornate stonecarving on the upper façade of the old Central Post Office building in Yerevan. There is a Soviet star here as well as a masonic square and compasses, bizarrely as freemasonry was suppressed entirely in the USSR. Perhaps we see an operative mason proud of his work and wishing he were part of the speculative fraternity his profession gave birth to!
The former Central Post Office building is the most modern of the monumental Soviet-era buildings which makes up Republic Square, the central square of Armenia's capital Yerevan. It was built from 1956-8 in a very ornate variant of the grandiose Stalinist architecture style.
Monument to the Uprising of the People of Banija and Kordun, Petrova Gora, Croatia (Vojin Bakić and Berislav Šerbetić, 1981)
The nave of Bradford Cathedral from the West End.
The Grade I Bradford Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St Peter, is built on a site used for Christian worship since the 8th century, when missionaries based in Dewsbury evangelised the area. It is notable for having a distinctly more Protestant tradition of furnishing, worship, and theology than any other Church of England cathedral, and it is under the patronage of the Simeon Trust.
The Saxon church fell into ruin during the Norman Invasion in 1066. The Norman Lady of the Manor, Alice de Laci, built a second church that three hundred years later would be destroyed by raiding Scots.
During the 14th century the church was rebuilt and some of the older masonry may have been used in the reconstruction of the nave. The nave arcades, the oldest parts of the present building, were completed in 1458. A clerestory above them was added by the end of the 15th century. Chantry chapels were founded, on the north side of the chancel by the Leventhorpe family, and on the south by the owners of Bolling Hall. The tower in the Perpendicular style was added to the west end and finished in 1508.
The building was extended in the 1950s and 1960s by Edward Maufe. The east end of the Cathedral (shown in the photo) is Maufe’s work, but he reused the Morris & Co. stained glass from the old east window— there is therefore Victorian stained glass throughout the building. In 1854 Robert Mawer carved a new reredos in Caen stone for the church – there is a photograph of it in the church archive – but this was lost during Maufe’s rebuild. There was a substantial internal reordering in 1987, which included the replacement of the Victorian pews by chairs.
St Peter’s Church became a cathedral in 1919, when the Diocese of Bradford was created out of the Diocese of Ripon; it became one of three co-equal cathedrals of the new Diocese of Leeds upon its creation on 20 April 2014.
May the 8th 2020 marked V.E. Day (Victory in Europe) 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.
A German delegation arrived at the headquarters of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Lüneburg Heath,
east of Hamburg, on 4 May. There, Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in the Netherlands,
northwest Germany and Denmark.
It was signed by Colonel Fritz Poleck, representing the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, (the German armed forces high command). On 7 May, at his headquarters in Reims, France, Supreme Allied Commander General Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of all German forces. The document of surrender was signed on behalf of Germany by General Alfred Jodl and came into effect the following day.
Soviet leader Josef Stalin wanted his own ceremony. At Berlin on 8 May, therefore, a further document was signed – this time by German Field Marshal William Keitel. The war against Japan did not end until August 1945. The Staue is of General Bernard Montgomery "Monty" outside the M.O.D. (Ministry of Defence) U.K in London. I took it on my trip there in 2018.
Mr. Joseph A. Nolan, Coal Merchant purchased a bone shaker if ever there was one. Back in 1922, this must have been the wonder of the age, and was probably badly needed in Waterford with its many hills. In my neck of the woods, the horse and cart lasted until well into the 1960s. This looks a solid piece of work, and what can we find out about it?
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Collection, Waterford
Date: Monday, 2 October 1922
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 3054
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