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Designed by Henry Trost in 1917. The interior was renovated in 1934 due to a fire. The terra cotta was crafted by the Denver Terra-Cotta Tile Company.
This is on the National Register #78001805.
Built in 1805 but never completed - and the victorian/edwardian villa at the far end really isn't in keeping.
The Iolani Palace was constructed in 1871 in the Hawaiian Regional style (think of Second Empire in this case).
The Iolani Palace is on the National Register #66000293, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
Let's see a Renaissance Revival apartment building, three different styles of skyscrapers, and Formalism/Brutalist small office building. Definitely architectural contrast!
This must have been a Firestone as this is they're building style. I'm assuming the Firestone signs were removed during the Ford/Firestone tire fiasco a few years ago.
The Chicago Federal Center is a complex of buildings designed from 1959 onwards and completed in 1974. They were designed by Mies van der Rohe among other architectes. This is the 42-story John C. Kluczynski Federal Building. To the left is the Daniel Burnham and John Root designed Monadnock Building from 1893. The Chicago Federal Center is on the National Register of Historic Places #08001165. The Monadnock Building is on the National Register of Historic Places #70000236 and part of a National Historic Landmark district.
The 1889 Auditorium Building has been home to Roosevelt University since 1847. Behind it is the university's new 32-story building scheduled to open in 2012.
The San Carlos Hotel was designed by Kinnie and Westerhouse in the Renaissance Revival style. It opened to the public in 1928.
The hotel is a member of the National Trust's Historic Hotels of America.
The San Carlos Hotel is on the National Register #83003498.
London West End
built in 1730-34, designed by the architect Henry Flitcroft in the Palladian style (the first English church in that style)
Burial of Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, burial (according to the parish Burial Register) on 1 July 1681, canonised in 1975 (he was later exhumed and taken to Lamspringe in Germany, with the head being now at Drogheda and the body at Downside). St Giles was also the last church on the route between Newgate Prison and the gallows at Tyburn, and the churchwardens paid for the condemned to have a drink (popularly named "St Giles' Bowl") at the next door pub, the Angel, before they went to be hanged, a custom that had started in the early 15th century[1][2]. The dissolute nature of the area is described in Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz.
The Cathedral of the Incarnation was designed by Fred Asmus and Bishop Byrne and was completed in 1914. The church itself is modelled after Saint Martin's on the Hill in Rome while the bell tower is modelled after Saint Damase in Rome.
The Guggenheim Museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in 1959. It is on the National Register #05000443, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
The area around Houston's historic district is full of interesting old buildings like this one nestled among modern structures. This one is now a bail bonding agency.
Georgetown is on the National Register #66000243, and it is also a National Historic Landmark district.
The older area of Hujialou, going back to the 1950's contrasts with China Zun skyscraper and CCTV HQ building
A warm September afternoon at the older Hujialou area looking towards the China Zun tower and CCTV HQ
A mini van drives up Hudson Street, spoiling a shot of some fine architectural contrasts and a bodega in Greenwich Village. The photographer was in too much of a hurry to wait for a lull in traffic. That's life in the big city.
Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. In front, the Ozark National Life building, originally KC's public library, was designed in the 1890s by William F. Hackney. I had been told that Hackney was a great-great uncle of mine, but my own research casts doubt on that old family notion. Behind the old library is the recently built Ilus Davis District Court House.