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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!
Scan from medium format negative. Photo taken from balcony. Background appears to be of California. Negative found on eBay.
In memory of the WWI fallen Kettlerer neighborhood residents, named for the beloved Mainz Bishop Kettlerer and in honor of his tremendous social outreach; we paused quite a while at this site on the edge of the Kettlerer neighborhood
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Denkmal der Siedlungsgemeinschaft des Ketteler-Bauvereins für die Toten des Ersten Weltkriegs in der Ketteler-Siedlung; Wilhelm Emmanuel Maria Freiherr von Ketteler, Mainzer Bischof, war ein Bischof mit Blick für die Menschen
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Mainz, Germany – 2017NOV05 – Ketteler Neighborhood:
We strolled through the Ketteler Neighborhood in Mainz-Oberstadt, named in honor of the German theologian and politician who served as Bishop of Mainz. He resolved to consecrate his life to maintaining the cause of the freedom of the Church from the control of the State, bringing him into collision with the civil power, an attitude which he maintained throughout a stormy and eventful life.
We then walked through the site of Fort Weisenau, exercise that did us good on such a damp day with its dreary weather.
The best 36 of 142 photos from this layover are a 5-album set:
• Mainz-Weisenau, Germany – 05NOV2017 – Sunday Stroll
• Mainz, Germany – 05NOV2017 – Via Seculprum Mogontiaci
• Mainz, Germany – 05NOV2017 – Ketteler Neighborhood
• Mainz, Germany – 05NOV2017 – Fort Weisenau
• Mainz, Germany – 05NOV2017 – Jewish Community Center
Hope you enjoy this 28% of 14 Ketteler Neighborhood photos!
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
"Drewan Court" is a wonderful set of Streamline Moderne red and brown brick flats built on the front of an old Gothic Victorian mansion in Lyons Street. With rounded balconies and Functonalist windowframes, "Drewan Court" achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s.
Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on angular detail, Streamline Moderne buildings often placed emphasis on rounded edges, as though they were standing up against a great wind. The rounded concrete rendered windows are prime examples of such architectural features. Aside from these and a small amount of feature brickwork, the detail on these flats is minimal.
Out at the apartment complex's dog park with Opal & Rose.
Bark Park
Knoxville, Tennessee
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020
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"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.
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".
An apartment complex in the suburbs of the Romanian city of Bacău.
30 July 2022
Un immeuble d'appartement dans une banlieue de la ville roumaine de Bacău.
30 juillet 2022
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
These wonderful Streamline Moderne red and brown brick flats with rounded balconies and Functonalist windowframes achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s. Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on angular detail, Streamline Moderne buildings often placed emphasis on rounded edges, as though they were standing up against a great wind. The rounded concrete rendered balcony edges are prime examples of such architectural features. Aside from these and a small amount of feature brickwork, the detail on these flats is minimal.
This was a detail in the wall of an old apartment building, the Manning Manor in Detroit. They were built in 1929. It is still occupied and in good shape. I remember the manager was nice enough to let us explore a little bit.
Dad, outside his Tampa apartment in the summer of 2010. Legally blind these days.
A remembrance for Veteran's Day.
Someone opened or closed a window as I took this photograph and this caused some lens flare.
This building is new to me. I was aware that several off-campus facilities were due for completion by start of 2017 academic year however I had never heard of Buckley Hall until I walked past it today.
Approximately 103 students in total can be accommodated at Buckley Hall. Most of the apartments are two bedroom units with one single room and one twin room, therefore 3 residents per apartment is the norm. There are two five bedroom units with three single rooms and two double rooms which are designed to accommodate 7 residents. Each apartment is a self contained unit with an open plan kitchen and living area. Shared, private and ensuite bathrooms are available depending on the unit.
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".
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
"Drewan Court" is a wonderful set of Streamline Moderne red and brown brick flats built on the front of an old Gothic Victorian mansion in Lyons Street. With rounded balconies and Functonalist windowframes, "Drewan Court" achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s.
Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on angular detail, Streamline Moderne buildings often placed emphasis on rounded edges, as though they were standing up against a great wind. The rounded concrete rendered windows are prime examples of such architectural features. Aside from these and a small amount of feature brickwork, the detail on these flats is minimal.
Apartment complex was ravaged by the storm. Hurricane Andrew's damage in South Florida was compared to that of an F-3 tornado.
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?
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
"Drewan Court" is a wonderful set of Streamline Moderne red and brown brick flats built on the front of an old Gothic Victorian mansion in Lyons Street. With rounded balconies and Functonalist windowframes, "Drewan Court" achieve the refreshingly sleek style that was popular in the mid to late 1930s.
Unlike many Art Deco buildings which focussed on angular detail, Streamline Moderne buildings often placed emphasis on rounded edges, as though they were standing up against a great wind. The rounded concrete rendered windows are prime examples of such architectural features. Aside from these and a small amount of feature brickwork, the detail on these flats is minimal.