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Typical apartment building, Fortress Hill. Given the soot and pollution, I don't know how useful it was to hang the clothes outside.
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Saturday Self-challenge:; Something White
Taken on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, a resort strip where the beaches are lined with high rise apartments, almost all of which are white.
The recently restored Divine Lorraine Apartments in North Philadelphia. Constructed between 1892 and 1894.
I took this in Chicago, Illinois on one of my summer trips there. The one on the left is called City Front Place and the rents go from $1400 to $3500 a month. Sadly, rents are getting higher and higher here in Austin as well. I'm starting to think about moving to another town.
Anyway, I'm not promoting Chicago apartments but this shot looked pretty good after I finished processing it so I figured I would throw it up here..;)) Happy Hump Day..:))
Nun's Island, Verdun, QC. Note how the roof line is not thicker than the other horizontals. There were leaks, but it is on a grid!
Although the original pure volumes were designed by Mies, balconies were later added as part of a collaborative effort to adapt the design to local needs and enhance usability.
I think a little power washing is needed to entice the birds to move in!!
Taken through my dirty window...
The Lafayette Apartments is a 62-unit building completed in 1920 that sits on the northwest corner of Washington and McLean streets, just a few blocks east of downtown Bloomington. The building is the design of architect A. T. Simmons, probably best known for his more than 71 Carnegie libraries in Illinois and a dozen other states, along with numerous courthouses, schools, churches and other public buildings. Simmons also designed most of the houses in the Cedar Crest Historic District of Normal, Illinois, the other half of the twin municipalities of Bloomington and Normal.
Constructed at a cost of $250,000, the building is a mix of architectural styles. The limestone columns and carved details, as well as the rooftop urns, are French Renaissance-inspired, while other elements, such as the inclusion of a sunroom in each apartment, is common to Amercan Arts and Crafts design.
Advertised during construction in 1919 as being modern and fireproof, each apartment included an icebox connected to a centralized refrigeration unit in the basement. There also was a centralized vacuum cleaner system.
On the roof of the building is an apartment, and atop the rooftop apartment is an observation tower. The roof apartment was once planned as a solarium or winter garden, and legend holds that it served as a Prohibition-era party house.
The Lafayette Apartments building underwent major renovations in the 1990s, and looks much like it did back in 1920.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is home to State Farm Insurance, Country Financial and Beer Nuts. Illinois Wesleyan University is located here, while the neighboring city of Normal is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
The source of this information comes from a July 29, 2007 article in the Pantagraph newspaper written by Bill Kemp, archivist/librarian for the McLean County Museum of History.
The Mabeyn Courtyard forms the last section of the Harem, and overlooks the Boxwood Garden (Şimşirlik Bahçesi). The courtyard was initially closed for women, but eventually opened up to them with the construction of the Apartments of the Favourites (Gözdeler Dairesi) for the Favourites (official Consorts) of Sultan Abdülhamit I
Public housing apartments in Northcote, Victoria. These rather interestingly designed apartments replaced some older ones which were quite run down. I think the new ones were built around 2010. The building on the right hand side of the picture is part of a fairly new privately developed complex. Taken at twilight hence the bluish effect.