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The River Medway flows through the British town of Gillingham
6 July 2019
Le fleuve Medway coule à travers la ville britannique de Gillingham
6 juillet 2019
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
Converting an old gas storage unit (gasometer) into apartments was a nice idea but things did not work out as the original developers had hoped.
Currently the complex is attractive and well maintained.
The Gasworks apartment complex built by developer Liam Carroll became one of the more interesting symbols of the Irish property crash and it went on sale about seven years ago for â¬43 million which is about â¬205,000 per apartment which is revealing considering that a friend of mine purchased his apartment for about â¬700,000 plus an additional â¬40,000. I m not fully sure if the purchase went through [or if he was bought out when the plan was to convert it into a hotel] but the last time I met him he was still living in the complex but it was a subject that he did not want to discuss even though he now likes living there.
I believe that the complex is now known as the The Alliance and it was constructed within the metal shell of the old gasometer which had been on the site since 1885.
A gas holder, or gasometer, is a large container in which natural gas or town gas is stored near atmospheric pressure at ambient temperatures. The volume of the container follows the quantity of stored gas, with pressure coming from the weight of a movable cap. Typical volumes for large gas holders are about 50,000 cubic metres (1,800,000 cu ft), with 60 metres (200 ft) diameter structures.
Gas holders now tend to be used for balancing purposes, to ensure gas pipes can be operated within a safe range of pressures, rather than for actually storing gas for later use.
South Lotts is a small area to the south of the river Liffey in inner city Dublin 4, one km east of Dublin City Centre, Ireland. It was created following the embankment of the River Liffey in 1711 between the city and Ringsend, thereby reclaiming the marshes as North and South Lotts. It is at the westernmost end of Ringsend, overlapping with the Grand Canal Dock area, but is generally accepted to be within Ringsend.
The district originally referred to 51 reclaimed plots of land directly behind City Quay sold to the highest bidder in 1723. A detailed history of South Lotts is given in the 2008 book Dublin Docklands - An Urban Voyage by Turtle Bunbury [some of my photographs are included in the book], in the chapter "The Docklands - South Lotts & Poolbeg".
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
A carport that is supposed to protect residents' cars only partially shielded them from the snow due to the wind.
This block of Art Deco flats in East Melbourne has a wonderful entranceway with geometric Jazz Age designs around it.
This block of flats is typical of the Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. They are as chic today as when they were first built in the 20s or early 30s.
This is one wing of a three-building, Streamline Moderne apartment complex on Chicago Boulevard. Built in 1939 and designed by Charles Agree, the complex has a large courtyard and separate entrances for each group of six apartments. The complex is currently abandoned.
Throughout this area, the DPH Kings gang's graffiti is the most ubiquitous spraypaint scrawlings. Here on the side of the Mirador Apartments--by far the best-looking complex here among several squalid and poorly kept complexes--the DPH Kings have sprayed a more mournful message: "Rember Are Fallen" [sic].
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAR 02, 2014: Aerial view of construction of new high buildings with green building grid at Vinogradnyi complex.
The Raymond Hillard Center, a Chicago Housing Authority complex located on the near south side of Chicago, contains two 16-story round towers for elderly housing and two 18-story curved towers for low-income family housing. Supporting 756 dwelling units, the complex includes lawns, playgrounds, and an open air theater.
Unlike Marina City, which was largely supported by its core, Hillard Homes was supported by its exterior structure, what Goldberg called a "shell structure." As Goldberg described it, "an eggshell is more efficient than a tree." In the core he placed the usual mechanical systems and also a community space, because he felt that this was important for the elderly and also hoped that by designing a complex for both the young and old that the elderly could bring their wisdom experience to the younger groups and the elderly would also benefit from their interaction with the young.
Meant as a new solution to public housing woes, Raymond Hillard was built to be a structure which residents would be proud to live in. Goldberg felt that much public-housing was designed in such a way to make the poor feel that they were punished for being poor and did little other than warehouse them. As stated by Goldberg in a 1965 promotional piece, "their architecture must meet them and recognize them, not simply store them." Residents were chosen from records of model citizenry in other housing projects, and for many years this was the only public housing complex which needed no constant police supervision. The unusual tower shapes maximized the space allowed by Public Housing Authority standards while creating a sense of community and openness.
Despite being younger than fifty years old, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, recognized for its exceptional design. The building is now being renovated as mixed income housing.
This block of Art Deco flats in East Melbourne has a wonderful entranceway with geometric Jazz Age designs around its stairwell windows. The stairwell area itself with its stepped roofline has been made an architectural feature as it stands out from the rest of the block's facade. This block of flats is typical of the Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. They are as chic today as when they were first built in the 20s or early 30s.
Even though Functionalist Moderne buildings, like this block of red brick flats in Garden Avenue East Melbourne, often featured horizontal emphasis, there was still a certain focus on the vertical as well, as this wonderful bank of stairwell windows shows.
Looking through them you can just make out the wonderful wrought iron balustrades of the original internal staircase, still in tact.
May 29, 2023 - The Gravity 2 project seen from the grounds of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum. Columbus, Ohio.
Near the corner of busy Wellington Parade at 1081 Hoddle Street stand the very Art Deco "Ascot" bijou flat complex.
On the very border of East Melbourne and Richmond Hill, these wonderful Functionalist Moderne red and brown brick flats with rounded porches, porthole windows and Functionalist windowframes achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on a vertical emphasis, Functionalist Moderne buildings often featured horizontal emphasis. "Ascot" does this through its white painted portico, which runs above the windows of both floors.
Whilst once the height of fashion, and the homes of the comfortable "bright young things" of well heeled East Melbourne up until the 1960s (according to a friend that used to go to parties in one of the upper flats), time has not been so kind to "Ascot". Whilst the exterior has been well maintained, it is now a rooming house of sorts, and no longer has the prestige of some of its contemporary Functionalist Moderne apartments in the surrounding streets and cul-de-sacs.
In East Melbourne, just off busy Wellington Parade in the little cul-de-sac of Garden Avenue is a blissfully quiet piece of "between the wars" Melbourne.
The entire avenue is made up of wonderful Functionaist Moderne blocks of flats including "Tuffnell Lodge", a clinker brick block with brown brick features. It has a wonderfully moderne entranceway with a circular porch which forms part of a balcony of a first floor flat. The front door is graced with a wonderful wrought iron grillework flyscreen door, whilts a pretty porch light in true Art Deco style hangs to the right of the door.
Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on a vertical emphasis, Functionalist Moderne buildings often featured horizontal emphasis, which is why it has horizontal bands of brown feature bricks.
The expansive Hillcrest Apartment Complex was one of the largest apartment buildings constructed in Salt Lake City during the first half of the 20th Century. The main structure was completed in 1916. A garage and an additional building were added on the Second Avenue side of the complex in 1925. Full-height porch piers supported by square columns and topped by Iconic capitols make the structure unique.
Rising above a protective hedge of trees, these red brick Art Deco flats on Alexandra Avenue in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra afford splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline.
Made of red brick and concrete they are very Streamline Moderne, feature Functionalist windows and are typical of the style of avant-garde architecture that grew in popularity amongst the more affluent areas of Melbourne in the late 1930s.
Originally known as "Wandella Mansion", "Eyre House" is the large mansion found on the corner of Dawson and Eyre Streets, Ballarat.
Information on the mansion's history is very difficult to find. It was built somewhere in the 1880s during the Ballarat Gold Rush, and was undoubtedly built on the fortunes made in the Ballarat gold fields.
"Eyre House" when it was "Wandella Mansion" was built in Victorian Second Empire style, an architectural movement that existed between the 1840s and the 1890s. Althought much of the original features have been replaced with more modish design, the mansard roof of "Eyre House's" tower still remains. Such a roof with its ornate cast iron cresting was typical of the Victoria Second Empire movement.
When boom turned to bust and the money ran out, the ownership of "Wandella Mansion" passed between several very large and wealthy families, who staved off tax and death duties and maintained a comfortable lifestyle by selling off parcels of the surrounding land bit by bit during the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. It remained a grand family home until the Great Depression of 1929. In the early 1930s, "Wandella Mansion" was converted into a complex of flats and was renamed "Eyre Flats". Its facade had an Art Deco facelift to make it more fashionable and attractive to those who could afford to buy bijou apartments. Whilst altered completely internally, the new flat complex did maintain the original cornices in the main entrance. Eventually, as times in Ballarat worsened, "Eyre Flats" entered its final incarnation as "Eyre House", a twenty-three bedroom, six bathroom rooming house, which it remained throughout the Second World War and through the later half of the Twentieth Century. In the Twenty First Century it became short stay apartments and has only recently been put up for sale yet again, as the current owners, who have been renovating for the past five years, prepare to move on.
Who knows what "Eyre House's" future holds?
Yovanny's apartment building seems to be gradually reverting to wetlands.
It's the Circle of Life, people.
This massive building (16 floors, 210 apartments) goes by two nicknames, the Erlander House or the Accordion. It was designed by architect Henning Orlando (1914-2003) and built in 1962. The accordion shape results from the design decision to maximise the views over the RiddarfjÀrd bay and the southern Stockholm areas.
The Swedish Prime Minister at the time, Tage Erlander, moved in as one of the building's first residents, in a 5-room apartment on the 7th floor. Those were the days of social-democratic egalitarianism in Scandinavia, but even then having a Prime Minister move into a middle-class apartment complex while in office did not go unnoticed.