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Inside Mann Island Apartment Buildings
Liverpool, United Kingdom
24 May 2015
A l'intérieur des bâtiments de Mann Island
Liverpool, Royaume Uni
24 mai 2015
Lighting Up The Dawn.
I wanted to get this shot last night, but my street is relatively busy, and I'm pretty certain people would have been wondering why this woman was taking photos of an apartment complex. Up to no good, they'd be sure. So, I just forgot about it. Plus, it was still raining off and on as the cold front came through.
Then, when I woke up at 5:30 this morning, I realized not only had the rain stopped, but that it would be the perfect time to take camera and tripod outside for an overall shot of my lone little Christmas tree in the window.
What I did not count on was the fact that the long white light shining directly into my lens would cause every little mote of dust on the lens to show up, no matter how much I used my polishing cloth. Ah well.
I remember when that long panel of bright light was first installed. There's one on the back, too. I groused about getting blackout curtains because I wouldn't be able to sleep, 'cause baby, thhose are some bright lights. Now, it's not a bad thing. It's nice and bright for me to get to my car at dark-thirty every weekday morning when I head out to work, and aint nothin' is hidden, that's for sure. Nobody can sneak around without being clearly seen in that well-lit environment. I'm sure it makes the retired population in my complex feel a little safer.
Copyright Rebecca L. Latson, all rights reserved
London Terrace Towers. 405 W 23rd St, New York, NY.
"This vast buff brick pile, in protomodern planar style with faintly Gothic verticality, is actually two rows of connected apartment buildings flanking a block-long private garden. All in all, it contains 1670 units, with swimming pool, solarium, and shops and banks on the avenue fronts. The name comes from a row of four-story houses that once stretched along the same 23rd Street frontages, facing the 18th Century Clarke mansion. When the present complex was new, doorman were dressed as London "bobbies," as a play on the name"
— American Institute to Architects' Guide to New York City by Noval White/Elliot Willensky 1967, pg. 86
Check out my other roadtrip photos, Impressions of America!
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.
On January 21, 2015, a 5-alarm fire completely destroyed this section of the Avalon oh Hudson Apartment Complex....
the windows are like mouths - some with clenched teeth, others gaping wide. they will swallow you whole - and did me.
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.
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 €43 million which is about €205,000 per apartment which is revealing considering that a friend of mine purchased his apartment for about €700,000 plus an additional €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?
Wonderful community amenities are available to residents here at The Point at Silver Spring, including the fire pit - now open for use!
This high school was designed by Charles M. Robinson and built in 1926. It is Second Renaissance Revival in style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Petersburg, Virginia
No solicitation, Santa. Just leave the gifts and don't try to sell me anything. Ok?
Copyright Rebecca L. Latson, all rights reserved
To get this shot I walked through a huge open field not knowing thorn bushes would abound, but having made it more than half way, in shorts, there was no turning back till I got my shot.
While working on my contract for the City of Perth I've come across some pretty amazing sites... but nothing could have prepared me for this!!
Boliger, Drammen | Apartments, Drammen
Stein Halvorsen AS Sivilarkitekter MNAL
-1. Premier, konkurranser, Bragernes Torg - trinn I 1998 og trinn II 2000. Utvidelse av rådhus, bibliotek, kino etc.
-1. Premie, konkurranse boliger Rådhushaven, 2001
-Ferdigstilt 2008
-99 leiligheter, 9 000 m2.
-1st prize, competition Bragernes Torg, 1998 and 2000
-1st prize, architectural competition Rådhushaven, 2001
-Completed 2008
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Canon EOS 5D | Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM | 2nd of June 2010
28mm | ISO 200 | 1/250sec (Mid of 3 exp. HDR in PS CS5) | f/8,0
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 €43 million which is about €205,000 per apartment which is revealing considering that a friend of mine purchased his apartment for about €700,000 plus an additional €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".
Remember last winter with all of that cold and the snow? It now seems distant with the hot summer we now have. Yesterday was the first time in 18 days the temperature did not reach 100F. Today it returned to the triple digits. I'm ready for summer to end. This shot was taken at my apartment complex several days after Christmas.
Inside Mann Island Apartment Buildings
Liverpool, United Kingdom
24 May 2015
A l'intérieur des bâtiments de Mann Island
Liverpool, Royaume Uni
24 mai 2015
The third time it snowed that December. The snow barely stuck to the ground and melted within several hours since the temperature was 34F. I never knew at the time what turned into a long, cold, and snowy winter would be followed by a long, hot summer.