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Babel Blocks is a collection of five wooden action figures, representing New York City's cultural and religious diversity.
MoMA / dept: Architecture and Design
660 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Holbrook Block is a three-storey masonry hotel, with arched window hoods and a projecting cornice. The upper floors retain their late Victorian-era appearance, while the ground level storefront has been restored to its 1940 Streamline Moderne appearance. It is located on the south side of Columbia Street, the main commercial street in New Westminster's historic downtown core.
Heritage Value:
The Holbrook Block is valued for its continued use as a saloon and hotel since 1899. Additionally, the Holbrook Block is significant for its contribution to the consistent and distinctive built form of Columbia Street, which dates from 1898 to 1913, when New Westminster was the major centre of commerce and industry for the booming Fraser Valley area. In the 1880s, Henry Holbrook constructed a brick and stone block facing Columbia Street and the wooden Holbrook Hotel facing Front Street. Both structures were destroyed by the Great Fire in 1898. The following year the Holbrook Estate, managed by local businessman and then Mayor Thomas Ovens, financed this $20,000 brick replacement, dubbed the Holbrook House.
The Holbrook Block is also significant for its late Victorian-era architecture, and displays modest Victorian Italianate styling on the upper floors, reflected in its segmented arch window hoods, connected by a continuous horizontal band. The storefront was renovated in 1939-1940, and its Streamline Moderne appearance was recently restored including replica neon signage.
The Holbrook Block is valued for its architectural associations. George William Grant (1852-1925), the original architect, designed many of the buildings in downtown New Westminster before and after the Great Fire. Gardiner and Mercer, one of the more enduring and prolific architectural partnerships in the province, were responsible for the 1913 renovation that added a third storey to the structure. Architects Watson and Blackadder designed the storefront renovation in 1939-1940.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of New Westminster
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Holbrook Block include its:
- continuous use as a hotel and saloon since its time of construction
- mid-block location on Columbia Street, part of a grouping of late Victorian and Edwardian era commercial buildings in historic downtown New Westminster
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- boxy, symmetrical form, three-storey plus lower level height, flat roof and cubic massing.
- front facade elements, such as: segmented arch window hoods connected by a wide, horizontal band at the second and third stories; continuous horizontal window sills; continuous vertical pilaster on second and third stories on the western side; discontinuous vertical pilaster on the eastern side, cribbed to party wall with the Paramount Theatre;
- masonry construction, including brick cladding and segmental arched openings on the front and rear facades, and common red brick side walls
- fenestration, including double-hung 1-over-1 wooden-sash windows on the front and rear facades
- reconstructed Streamline Moderne storefront with arched window openings and neon signage
A couple of shots today showing the modern architecture in Paddington Basin, London. Seems to work best in B&W.
I've posted these buildings before, but not with the Fuji X-T1.
Designed by Jake Finch from Generation Q Magazine.
Free tutorial here:
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Japanese hand blocked print.More recent excavations from personal archives, these dating back about 20 years.
She asked for a wonky star with the fabrics she provided. I'm afraid mine isn't too wonky, though...
Block Island, RI
Leica M6, Summicron 50mm v.3, Ilford FP4. Xtol 1:1, printed on Ilford FB, scanned HP Photosmart 4599.
I’m hoping this is cinema film related and not an election poster advertising some rather violent characters in this rather rich tapestry of life - and death.
Strange but each (male) character seems to sport exactly the same style of moustache, almost as if they have been added in post processing.
Seen in Peshawar, Pakistan.
December 2021. © David Hill
For her block in A Quilting Journey Round Robin Bee Cindy's inspiration block was a tradtional block with some appliqué featuring soft colours.
This block is "Rose Trellis" from "Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 1." I used Strawberry Fields by Fig Tree Fabrics for Moda. I have never used Fig Tree fabrics before and I had thought that they weren't my style (not modern enough.) However, the colours and prints are so pretty that I think I will have to make a quilt out of them some day. I love the vintage scrappiness of this block.
Farmer's Wife 1930s block no. 97. Paper-pieced.
You can find all my Farmer's Wife 1930s quilt blocks over at the Patchsmith's blog.
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Photographer: Alicia Mess
Model: Danilo Thomaz (Sight Models)
Stylist: Sushipop Pop
Make up & hair: Marina Rosich Simon
For her month in Bee Unique Bee Knotty Nancy sent a piece of Christmas fabric (the green fabric in the centre of the block) and asked for any kind of pieced Christmas block.
After making this block I was on a paper-piecing kick. This block is "Sunblock" from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 3. I think that it looks like a Christmas flower.
Waffle Blocks Wee Waffle Blocks Car Truck From the Collection of Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia and TheToyChannel on YouTube. Wee Waffle Blocks by Little Tykes Little Tikes Toys 1980's-1990's Toys
Completed another block today. This is one (side) of 30 2.75x2.75 two-sided blocks that'll make up this next interactive piece.
Raaga Block Printed Textiles (P) Ltd. (Raaga Textiles) is located in the heart of Sanganer, Jaipur. It was established in the year 2009, with the passion of conserving and promoting the art of Block Printing, through the preservation of such wonderful artistic heritage by evolving the new designs with the use of innovative ideas and design and development.
Raaga Textiles shows its dominance as a role model of excellence in business practices, and supports the revival of traditional textile skills. Block Printing is a much celebrated craft-work known for its typical traditional style in the printing industry, which was evolved in mid 17th century in India during the reign of Mughal empire.
We specializes to develop the designs with exclusive & beautifully handcrafted textiles and soft home furnishings using cotton, silk and linen, with specialized skills of Hand Block Printing, Hand Embroidery and Hand Quilting.
(Raaga Textiles uses eco-friendly and skin safe dyes and colors in its printing work.) We use all fast Azo free wet dyes for making colors. These dyes are fast, and the content in these dyes are approved by renowned and prestigious International Certification agencies, such as, SGS, CMA, ETC, FITI and Codetex Srl Textiles Laboratories.
In an attempt to maintain the highest Quality standards (as per the International norms), all the execution of fabric processing, i.e. dying, printing, finishing, checking, and packaging is completed at the workshop of Raaga Textiles. We have In-house production capacity of printing 800 meter per day with the workforce of 32 highly experienced craftsmen (devoting 8 hours/day).
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Star Quilt block of the month. Blogged here. piecenquilt.blogspot.com/search/label/block%20of%20the%20...