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Nice traditional Newfoundland biscuit box house in Trinity East, Newfoundland. A larger example of this style of home, this example boasts a double set of full length bay windows and a side porch, two features not seen on all examples of this style. The double bay windows really add to the look of this house.
Die im 13. Jahrhundert erbaute Evangelische Kirche Klosterfelde ist ein ganz besonderes Kleinod. Dieser Granitbau mit dem reich verzierten Altar von 1719 und der Kanzel bildet bis zum heutigen Tag den Mittelpunkt des Ortes.
in Virginia ..with 52 rooms and made of marble, built in 1912 at a cost of 2 million for railroad millionare James H Dooley. I havent been inside yet but they do give tours ....for odc..rock
Light is all natural available day light.
A veranda of Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore - Pakistan.
This is almost 450 years old. Arch is a very special element in Mughal Architecture. This building is a remarkable example of mughal architecture in indo-Pak subcontinent.
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This building is actually not Tudor at all. It only dates back to 1925 — and was originally a cunning disguise for something the Tudors could only dream of. Beneath the hut was an electricity substation for the Charing Cross Electricity Company. It was necessary for the station to have a private, above-ground entrance and, as there had been a hut there before dating back to the 1870s, this design was thought a fitting piece of architectural camouflage.
During the second world war, the space under the hut took on a new role, as a bomb shelter. Leslie Hardcastle, president of the Soho Society explains what conditions were like inside: "It was lined with about 12 inches of brick and had concrete as a roof.
"It could take about 150 to 200 people initially although that became less when they put tiers of bunks in. The only facility was a toilet and it could get quite smelly with all the people down there."
Nowadays the hut is little more than a shed. It's filled with gardening tools, used to keep Soho Square prim and pretty.
But the hut's future might be somewhat different: in 2015, reports surfaced that Westminster Council was attempting to sell the space underneath. It's said the council wants a restaurant to move in — although that might be a hard sell, considering that any subterranean diners would have to contend with noise from the nearby tunnels, of both the Northern line and Crossrail. Maybe it could be marketed as an earthquake experience restaurant?
For now the hut remains a simple repository for spades and wheelbarrows.
Source: Londonist.com
En las cartujas, el claustrillo era el corazón de la vida cenobítica. En la Cartuja de Monegros se denomina Claustrillo de las Capillas por que daba acceso a los oratorios destinados a la celebración cotidiana de la misa particular de los padres, mientras que el gran claustro –centro de la vida eremítica- comunicaba, además de las celdas de los monjes, con el refectorio, la cocina y otras dependencias de servicios. Estaba prevista la construcción de otro claustrillo, simétrico al existente, para situar el refectorio y la cocina, pero no se realizó por falta de recursos económicos. El Claustrillo de las Capillas y sus estancias fueron pintadas por Fray Manuel Bayeu (aunque han aparecido otras pinturas sin valor artístico).
La Cartuja de Nuestra Señora de las Fuentes, también conocida como Cartuja de Monegros, es un antiguo monasterio de la Orden Cartuja situado en la comarca de Monegros (Huesca, España). Su historia está llena de adversidades. El monasterio actual se construyó en el siglo XVIII siguiendo los modelos de la orden cartuja, rodeado por una cerca que lo aísla del exterior y siguiendo esquemas marcados por la simetría. En el eje central se sitúa la iglesia y el gran claustro, en torno al cual se emplazan el refectorio, la cocina, las celdas de los monjes y del prior, la sala capitular y el claustrillo. Además se hallan dispersas dentro del recinto el edificio de obediencias, diversas dependencias de uso ganadero y la cisterna, y en la entrada la portería-hospedería. La edificación, de estilo barroco tardío, es de ladrillo y llama la atención por su sencillez y falta de ornamentación. El templo y el claustro de capillas está decorado por pinturas murales realizadas entre 1770 y 1780 por Fray Manuel Bayeu, hermano de Francisco Bayeu y cuñado de Goya, y miembro de esta comunidad. El conjunto acusa un avanzado estado de deterioro.
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I'm not sure what the name of this building is, but it's one of the many glass and steel ones behind Tate Modern.
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A quick sunset HDR, processed via my new method, from my visit to Madison last week. Image made from the middle of King Street (IIRC) after walking from the Great Dane Pub.
View it large--find the geese, and observe the flag in different positions during the three bracketed exposures.
A couple quick facts from Wisconsin.gov:
• The Wisconsin State Capitol is 284.4 feet high from the ground floor to the top of the statue on the dome - just three feet and one-half inch shorter than our Nation's Capitol in Washington D.C.
• Accenting the beauty of the Capitol building is the 13.5 acres of Capitol grounds on which it sits. During the summer, there are 15 flowerbeds on the grounds, containing over 25,000 annual plants. The grounds are also home to 154 trees, of which there are 30 different varieties.
Gojżewskich tomb is located in the Old Cemetery in Lodz lies on the border between the Orthodox and Catholic part. It is the resting place of a mixed Catholic-Orthodox marriage.
Her husband was probably an officer in the tsarist army and a follower of the Orthodox Church, his wife - Alexander the Sztachów - Catholic. As part of the Catholic tomb is modest, in part resembles the Orthodox Byzantine temple.
Spouses lie in a common crypt, but the two sides of the border.
On the tombstone of Alexandra is the inscription in Polish: "Dearest Wife, Mother and Grandmother - sorrowful husband."
After decades of destruction for renewal tombstone took the authorities of Lodz. Thanks to this built with white and brown brick tomb regained its former glory. Were reconstructed vegetable ornaments, dark dome in the middle and gilded inscription "Tomb Gojżewskich family."