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I've been playing with digital and AI images for a week now. Just now, I decided I should just walk around the buildings where we have lived for nearly two dozen years. We sometimes ignore what is right under our noses.
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I've been playing with digital and AI images for a week now. Just now, I decided I should just walk around the buildings where we have lived for nearly two dozen years. We sometimes ignore what is right under our noses.
dennissylvesterhurd.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-dose-of-realit...
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Probably the package delivery people require separate notification to deliver to the leasing office instead of a person's unit at this apartment complex. But it would seem more organized if they had a list of people who wanted leasing office deliver, and another list that did not, instead of all these post its. And yet, the post-its are sort of a fascinating display of information that has likely crept up over time.
Not until 2004 did doctors proclaim his unusual height is due to normal body conditions and gave him a clean bill of health. Before then, XiShun was plagued by low self-esteem. His best-friend turned PR manager whispered that people used to call him names because everyone, including XiShun, thought he had a condition or disorder of some sort.
Alden Park Towers is one of the 1920s vintage apartment buildings (some now are condos) along the "Gold Coast" of East Jefferson Avenue. With over 350 apartments, it's one of the largest of the period. The Detroit AIA guide calls it "robustly Tudor in its ornamentation."
The guide now names Edwin Rorke as architect of this 1923 building, confirming my research on the structure ( Rorke designed a similarly styled complex, also called the Alden Park, in Philadelphia) . There is another, architecturally similar Alden Park in Brookline, Massachusetts (now known as Longwood Towers). All three Alden Parks were originally developed by C.C. Mitchell.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
This block of Art Deco flats in East Melbourne has a wonderful entranceway with geometric Jazz Age designs around its stairwell windows.
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.
The Barbican Centre apartment complex in the British capital of London.
22 June 2019
Les appartements du Barbican Centre à la capitale britannique de Londres.
22 juin 2019
My objection in pictures to the proposed development at Bulloch Harbour on my blog www.johncoveney.ie/blog
A tough day with the loss early this morning of Nancy's sweet, old dog. I buried him this evening. It was all for the best, but still not easy. Busy days coming up for Patrick & Nancy....
I never did get to experience the Italian Gardens (it closed around the time that I was still a kid) As I got older, my family would talk of the Italian Gardens when we drove by where it used to sit along Almaden Expressway, usually about the functions they had at the Gardens over the years, from wedding receptions to anniversaries.
I had read on here (flickr) that some of the landscaping was saved from the old banquet hall. A few days ago, I was leaving a friend's place (at the complex where the Italian Gardens stood) and I came across this area in the back of the complex. The historic LoCurto House is to the left of where I am standing.
I mentioned it to my parents and showed them the picture above I took, they went and took out past wedding pictures that were taken in the same location some 30 years earlier.
Certainly odd to see that this small portion of what was a one time popular banquet hall sitting at the back of a nondescript apartment complex.
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. This red brick complex is one of the more remarkable blocks with its rounded drawing room windows, white painted frames which stand out against the red of the bricks. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on a vertical emphasis, Functionalist Moderne buildings often featured horizontal emphasis, which is why it has horizontal white painted concrete stripes between the blocks of windows and a horizontal band of feature bricks above the ground floor flat windows. Even the lamp in the garden is in a wonderful Art Deco style!
Please also note the lucky horseshoe on the outer windowsill of the ground floor bay window.
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), higher costs of living and the "servant problem" made living in the grand mansions and villas built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras a far less practical and attractive option for both those looking for new housing, and those who lived in big houses. It was around this time, in answer to these problems, that flats and apartments began to replace some larger houses, and became fashionable to live in.
"Shirley Court" is a stylish Art Deco complex of flats, featuring one dwelling above the other with interconnecting staircases, and they would have suited those of comfortable means who could afford to live in Trvancore (the suburb in which these flats are located), and dispense with the difficulties of keeping a large retinue of staff.
Built in 1939 by Melbourne architect James Wardrop (1891 - 1975), this cottage style block with its roof in a mixture of tiles in different shades, brick walls with picked out sections of red and clinker bricks, stylised chimneys and round balconies follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. "Shirley Court" has a street frontage four times the size of what is seen in the photograph.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens.
James Wardrop also designed Alkira House and the United Kingdom Hotel in 1937.
parking lot south of queen st just off dufferin... and a certain someone at the border of parkdale and liberty village
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".
modernist architecture erected as part of the redevelopment of the Western Addition
"at 85 Cleary Court, is a complex of six three-story, 12-unit buildings designed by Claude Oakland (1963). Common alterations include the enclosing and glazing of ...the low-rise buildings"
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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. This red brick complex is one of the more remarkable blocks with its a wonderfully moderne entranceway. Beautiful porthole windows screen the entrance slightly, and the front doors are graced with wonderful wrought iron grillework. A pretty porch light in true Art Deco style hangs above the porch. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on a vertical emphasis, Functionalist Moderne buildings often featured horizontal emphasis, which is why it has horizontal white painted concrete stripes between the blocks of windows and a horizontal band of feature bricks above the ground floor flat windows. Even the lamp in the garden is in a wonderful Art Deco style!