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One of a pair of images that I took outside the Tower of London. Trying to capture the atmosphere of foreboding and fear that the tower holds for every Englishman, and the incredible 1000 yr history before your eyes. The focus of the shot was to isolate the skyline and see the silhouette. Cant make my mind up whether the colour or monochrome works best.
Eton Chapel Church of God. Eton, GA
According to the sign they still have worship here on Sunday mornings. I would love to see the inside of this beautiful church!
I'm embarrassed to admit how many years I've been working in the squiggly brown building on the right and drinking beer on a bar stool in the squiggly white building in the middle, wondering if the reflections would make a good picture. ;-)
Empire State Building 02/05/2015 10h54
Looking Eastward from the observation deck of the Empire State Building at a heigth of 373.1 meters (86th floor). East River and at the other side of this river Long Island City. On the foreground below the East 33rd and 34th Street.
The building in the foreground which is rotated 45 degrees relative to other buildings and the pattern of streets is the 3 Park Avenue building, designed by Graham Fruisen and opened in 1975. Heigth 169.5 meters and a floor count of 41.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets. It has a roof height of 380 m, and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 443 m high. Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York (although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world), until One World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. he Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 25th-tallest in the world (the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai). It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
FACTS & FIGURES
« Tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970 »
Preceded by: Chrysler Building
Surpassed by: World Trade Center (Twin Towers)
Architectural style: Art Deco
Location: 350 Fifth Avenue - Manhattan, New York 10118
Construction started: March 17, 1930
Completed: April 11, 1931
Floor count: 103
Height:
Architectural: 381.0 m
Tip: 443.2 m
Roof: 381.0 m
Top Floor and observatory: 373.1 m
Length (east-west): 129.2 m
Width (north-south): 57 m
Lifts/elevators: 73
Architect: Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
[ Source & more Info: Wikipedia - Empire State Building ]
trent barton 449 FE02KDV Optare Solo M920 B34F at Ilkeston Wharncliffe Road on 29 October 2011.
With blank destination screens it has a small handwritten sign saying Ilkeston Flyer to indicate its route name.
Running just in front of the Felix bus on the fast route to Derby, this competitive ghost service was only registered to run for 10 days before it was cancelled. It did however lead to Felix Buses being sold to the Wellglade Group.
New campus of the University of Economics and Business in Vienna. The nickname of this faculty building D4 by Architects of Estudio Carme Pinós S.L. from Barcelona, Spain, is Tetris Building. See www.wu.ac.at/campus/architecture/en/
The Department building D4 was designed by Barcelona's Estudio Carme Pinós S. L. It is located directly across from the AD administration building and forms the northernmost border of the campus to the exhibition grounds Messe Wien.
The geometric façade features a playful arrangement of parallelograms with dynamically placed windows, also based on a pattern of intersecting parallelograms. Folding aluminum shutters provide protection from direct sun and give the façade an ever-changing appearance. While spacious and rambling, the building has a well-defined central point, from which various connections branch off.
The entry area is the main hub for accessing the offices, the café, and the Library for Social Sciences located on the ground floor of the building. The front offices of three Departments as well as five Research Institutes on four upper levels are also accessible from this central core. Additional Department offices are distributed over two stories of the building, connected by internal staircases. Seminar and project rooms are located in separate, slightly raised elements on the ground floor, as are the self-study zones. The interior design is based on the same parallelogram pattern as the façade, creating hallways, additional functional areas, and storage space.
364 Water Street, Vancouver, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Holland Block is a three storey plus basement mixed-use flatiron Victorian Italianate masonry building with retail areas on the ground floor. It is located on the western edge of the historic district of Gastown, on a triangular lot at the convergence of Cordova and Water Streets.
Heritage Value:
Gastown is the historic core of Vancouver, and is the city's earliest, most historic area of commercial buildings and warehouses. The Holland Block is valued as an early Gastown commercial building and hotel, representative of the area's mix of uses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Vancouver emerged as western Canada's predominant commercial centre. Hotels such as this provided both short and long-term lodging, serving primarily those who worked in the seasonal resource trades such as fishing and logging. Many of these hotels had combined functions of commercial services on the ground floor and lodging rooms on the upper floors, which contributed to the lively street life in Gastown.
The Holland Block is valued for its architecture as a fine example of the Victorian Italianate style from the late nineteenth century, illustrating how popular architectural styles were used by the hotel business to market a progressive image. The building was constructed in 1891-92 for James M. Holland, an early real estate developer, to take advantage of a wedge-shape lot that allowed the ground-level retail stores access to two street frontages. The Holland Block is also valued as evidence of the influence of American architecture, as illustrated by design elements such as the repetitive bay windows that provide increased light and space in the second and third-floor rooms. Also of significance are the ground floor cast iron columns, manufactured by B.C. Iron Works, which demonstrate the use of prefabricated elements that enabled large storefront windows that maximized merchandising display space and took advantage of natural light.
The landmark location and flatiron shape of the Holland Block marks the western boundary of Gastown. This unusual lot was created when the subdivisions adjacent to the original 1870 Granville Townsite survey were oriented to different compass directions. Until the north side of Water Street was filled in at the turn of the nineteenth century, this site would have faced the waterfront across the street.
Source: City of Vancouver, Heritage Planning Street Files
Character-Defining Elements:
The character-defining elements of the Holland Block include:
- landmark location at the western edge of Gastown, at the convergence of Water and Cordova Streets, in close proximity to the waterfront of Burrard Inlet and the Canadian Pacific Railway yard
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- form, scale and massing, as exemplified by its three storey height, flat roof and flatiron shape, resulting from the converging relationship of the two streets
- masonry construction: rough-dressed sandstone piers at the ground floor level; brick cladding above with flush-struck mortar joints
- repetitive double-height semi-octagonal bays, clad in wood with formed sheet metal cladding on the curved base
- fenestration: double-hung 1-over-1 wood-sash windows on the upper floors; and large rectangular storefront windows with wood-sash storefronts
- wide projecting wood-clad cornice with sheet metal edges and flashings, with large decorative scroll-cut brackets between each bay
- prefabricated elements such as the storefront cast iron columns, with 'B.C. Iron Works' maker's stamps
- entry at front corner to basement level that extends in areaways under the sidewalks on both Water and Cordova Streets
- entry to the upper floors from Cordova Street
- surviving interior features such as original room configuration
The Buhl Building (c.1913) Pittsburgh, PA. This is one of my favorite buildings downtown. The facade is being restored, and a Depression-era first-floor alteration is being removed. The blue and cream terra cotta tiles are meant to evoke the popular Wedgewood Jasperware china patterns.
View Large to see the patterns better.
Ambasada Litwy, Uus, Tallinn, 5 października 2016 r.
Ulica Uss była pierwszą ulicą zbudowaną poza murami obronnymi Tallinna. Barokowy budynek zajmowany od 1995 r. przez Ambasadę Litwy jest najznamienitszą budowlą na tej ulicy. Powstał w 1751 r., ale piwnice i parter pochodzą ze starszego XVII-wiecznego budynku. Budynek, w którym odbywało się sortowanie tkanin, był własnością bogatych kupców i mieszczan. Od 1876 r. do 1988 r. w budynku mieściła się szkoła.
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Embassy of Lithuania, Uus, Tallinn, October 5, 2016
Uss street was the first street built outside the Tallinn city walls. The Baroque building which since 1995 has been occupied by the Embassy of Lithuania is the most distinguishable building in the street. It was built in 1751 but it incorporated basement and ground floor of an older 17th-century structure. The building which was used for sorting fabric was a property of rich merchants and burghers. From 1876 to 1988 a school was in the building.