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Burford Priory and the Lenthall Chapel
On Saturday Lawrence and I went west from Oxford to the historic Cotswold town of Burford.
One feature of the main house (Priory) are two very finely carved giants possibly representing Hercules and Antaeus. They would have supported the Tanfield arms, now replaced by the Lenthall arms. The hairy giant Anaeus has a hare between his feet, possibly a play on the name Harman.
If you wish to know or read more about the Priory and its history may I suggest you get the helpful guide ISBN 1 85943 140 2 Enquiries should be sent to “The History House” in Burford
Interior, the Chapel, Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich (1779-89) by James "Athenian" Stuart and William Newton
Rochelle was originally called Perry Junction, for Governor Madison Starke Perry who owned most of the area land. later it was named Gruelle after a railroad surveyor. During the mid-1880s, it had about 175 residents and a hotel, two churches, two schools, plus a cotton and grist mill. By 1888, 24 trains passed through daily. The Railroad bed is now a popular Alachua County biking and roller blade trail. The demise of the town was primarily to the 1895 freezes that decimated most of the Florida citrus crops of the day.
Ihre Fassaden sind aus Glas oder aus Beton, sie sind mal schmal, mal rund, mal spitz, mal mit und mal ohne Antenne. Frankfurt haben sie den Beinamen Mainhattan eingebracht. Noch in den fünfziger Jahren war der Kaiserdom mit seinen 96 Metern das höchste Gebäude der Stadt. Heute reckt sich der Commerzbankturm samt Antenne mit fast 300 Metern in die Höhe. Insgesamt überragen rund hundert Hochhäuser die Stadt, meist Bank- oder Bürogebäude.
Aber das Motto der mächtigen Bauherren in der Finanzmetropole lautet inzwischen nicht nur immer höher, sondern auch: immer schöner. Schwer zu sagen, wer in der Konkurrenz die Nase vorn hat: der von Helmut Jahn gestaltete Messeturm, das rötlich schimmernde Japan-Center oder der in Rautenoptik wie ein Apfelweinglas gestaltete Westhafen Tower? In der Beliebtheitsskala der Frankfurter ganz oben steht der Maintower. Denn mit ihm gab es eine Premiere im Frankfurter Hochhausbau: Der im Jahr 2000 fertig gestellte Turm wurde mit einer Aussichtsterrasse im 56. Stock für Besucher geöffnet; der blitzschnelle Aufzug bringt sie auch zum Drink oder Abendessen in die Höhe.
Nachdem die Mainstadt sich bereits eine in Europa einmalige Skyline gebaut hat, wurde die Innenstadt selbst aus dem 20. in das 21. Jahrhundert katapultiert. Mitten im Herzen der City, an Hauptwache und Zeil, ist das "PalaisQuartier" entstanden: an einer der umsatzstärksten Einkaufsmeilen Deutschlands ist - neben zwei Hochhäusern mit einer Höhe von 120 Meter und 90 Metern für ein Hotel und Büros - das Einkaufszentrum "MyZeil" ein großer Publikumsmagnet. Das abgerissene Thurn und Taxis Palais wurde nach historischem Vorbild wieder errichtet und bietet weiteren Geschäften, Büros und Versammlungsräumen Platz.
Quelle: www.frankfurt.de
Track shows --- Continuty
Tracks on left and right ---- Similarity
Focus on tracks --Figure and blury on the buildings--Ground (Figure-Ground)
Atomic Energy of Canada rig at Eastway Fire Truck in Ottawa (Nepean), Ontario. AECL GMC Heavy Rescue/Haz-mat/Command.
Digitised image from the Town Hall Photographer's Collection - GB127.M850
The Town Hall Photographer’s Collection is a large photographic collection held in Manchester City Council’s Central Library archives, ranging in date from 1956 to 2007.
The collection consists of tens of thousands of images, covering the varied areas of work of Manchester Corporation and latterly, Manchester City Council.
The photographs were taken by staff photographers, who were tasked to document the work of Corporation/Council departments and, in doing so, captured many aspects of Manchester life and history, including significant changes to the Manchester landscape.
The collection includes many different formats from glass negatives, to slides, prints, CDs and even a couple of cine films.
What is especially exciting is that the majority of these images have never before been available in a digital format and therefore have only ever been seen by a handful of people.
A team of dedicated Staff and Volunteers are currently working on the systematic digitisation of the negatives held within the collection.
This album represents the result of their work to date.
The Danube city was only in 1954 from the 1938 from Floridsdorf (21st district) separated communities Stadlau, Kagran, Hirschstetten, Aspern and Lobau, the former Lower Austrian municipalities Süßenbrunn, Breitenlee and Essling, as well as the from the 2nd district separated Kaisermuehlen formed. Another 15 Marchfeld townships, which in 1938 during the formation of the 22nd district "Grossenzersdorf" also came to Vienna were again returned to Lower Austria in the same year. The district, which initially after 1945 was listening to the name of Stadlau, was now called Danube city (Donaustadt).
Today's 22nd district is geographically by far the largest district with 102.34 km2 and was for a long time also the least populated; in the last decades as a result of intensive urbanization (residential buildings of the Municipality of Vienna in Aspern, Hirschstetten, Kagran and Kaisermühlen) rapidly rising population numbers have been recorded (1951: 53,000; 2002: 136,000 inhabitants). However, there are still areas predominantly used for agricultural purposes.
In the modern Danube City are situated the 1964 at the Vienna International Garden Show laid out Danube Park with the 252 m high Danube Tower, the in 1975 opened Danube center, Vienna's biggest shopping center, the UNO-City (1979) and the Austria Center (1987), the Social Medical Center East (1984), the OMV, the Opel Austria (on the site of the former airfield Aspern) and the Danube power plant Freudenau (1998). By covering over of the Danube bank highway and the construction of office and residential towers, currently arises an entirely new urban center in the Danube city.
The Danube city with the at the beginning of the 20th century arosen beach area at the Old Danube and the Danube Island also has some of the most popular leisure and recreation centers of Vienna.
Erection of the Danube Tower 1962 / Photo: media wien
Danube Island / Photo: SPÖ / Dimko
The Lobau, in which the Danube city also has its share, in 1977 was elevated into the rank of a nature-sanctuary and in 1996, into the rank of National Park "Danube Floodplains".
Large parts of today's Danube city in the First Republic still belonged to Floridsdorf; the early history of the social democratic movement of the Danube city therefore with that of the 21 district is largely identical.
Goethehof 1934 / Photo: SPÖ
Memorial plaque Danube Park / Photo: Bauer
In February 1934 also in the Danube city it came to fierce fightings. The headquarters of the Republican Defense League (Schutzbund) of Kagran was located in Komzak alley/Mälzel square (memorial plaque). Actually, Kagran was the only area where even aircrafts of the Heimwehr (right-wing para-military organization) were used. Hard-fought was also the Goethe court where in memory of February 1934 on 10 Febraury 1983 also a commemorative plaque was unveiled; another memorial plaque at the subway station Kagran center remembers the fallen tram workers of 15th February.
In many large companies, most of all in the transport companies, the gas and electric plants, but also in the fire service, the railways, the post office and the police, there were from 1934 to 1945 anti-fascist resistance groups. In the Danube Park a memorial plaque remembers that on the military firing range Kagran (in present-day park area) on October 31, 1944 the two firefighters Hermann Plackholm and Johann Zak were executed before the eyes of 600 of their colleagues. Two lanes in the Danube city were named after the two men.
In the Wurmbrand alley 12 a memorial plaque remembers the machinist Franz Stelzel who lived in this house; he also was a member of a resistance group, was arrested in 1941 and beheaded on November 10, 1942 in the Provincial Court (Landesgericht).
On May 2, 1945, the district organization was re-established in Aspern. First head of district of the 22nd district became Leopold Horacek (1946-1959), after which a residential complex is named in the Lenk alley 1-3. 1947 moved the district organization into the former Kagraner school, Donaufelder street 259.
Yet in the fifties and sixties, emerged thousands of new apartments in the hitherto sparsely populated Danube City.
1972 finally on the Racecourse grounds one of the largest municipal construction projects was tackled - the 1977 populated residential complex Rennbahnweg with 2,440 dwellings; a little later emerged the Dr. Josef Bohmann court south of Aderklaaer street with 1,600 apartments.
In parallel, also in infrastructure was invested. As early as 1978, the leading to Stadlau Südosttangente could be opened to traffic, since September 1982, the U1 runs to the center Kagran, and 1985, followed the ground-breaking ceremony for the hospital SMZ-Ost.
The Danube city today is the district of Vienna which by far continues to grow the strongest. In the municipal housing policy, however, towards the end of the eighties it came to renunciation from the large buildings of the former decades, which as an urban experiment by many are considered as failed.
Rennbahnweg / Photo: SPÖ
Stundlgasse / Photo: Bauer
An excellent example for a modern continuation of tradition of dwelling is the in 1990 completed residential complex in the Stundl alley.
At an installation ceremony at the Parliament Bulidings, Janet Austin took the Oath of Allegiance and Oaths of Office, administered by Chief Justice Robert J. Bauman, before members of the legislative assembly, dignitaries, family and friends. Austin succeeds Judith Guichon as the Queen’s representative in BC.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018PREM0064-000723
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The last work of Cass Gilbert, the architect behind the Woolworth Building, and one of the last Neoclassical Federal buildings constructed in Manhattan. It is composed of a base constructed like a Greek Temple and a tower topped with a gilded pyramid. Later, it was renamed to honor Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.
I say a little more about the courthouse on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.
National Register Number
US Courthouse: 87001596
I sprayed on the stucco 'till I thought I'd faint
With twelve shades of brown and for real I cain't...
Believe all the blandness, oh no artist I ain't
But it's my destiny to be the King of Paint
Finally, I figured out something fitting (albeit strange) for that song!
Yes, the new Taco Bell looks to be already past the stucco and paint stage, at least on the exterior (minus painting the confetti if they do that here), and that's right at one mere month from pouring the foundation! In this pic grooves in the stucco for confetti (on the top of the walls) are clearly visible.
If the old TB remains standing after all (looks like it very well might), the new building will have no choice but to assume the 1117 address that the construction crew is using. Will the old building be re-addressed correctly when Taco Bell vacates? I doubt it but stay tuned...
A little further downstream from Hope Mill.
The Lang Mill was built in 1846. Flour was produced here until 1956. The building is constructed of limestone blocks.
Located beside the Lang Pioneer Village.
Appeared in Flickr Explore - September 3, 2007
Clock tower bell.
One of a series of photographs taken inside the Post Office building in Deseronto, Ontario, by Dana Valentyne.
DWL-terrein
Watertorenweg e.o.
E. Poot (stedenbouwkundig plan) i.s.m. diverse architecten
1983-1996
De Rotterdamse Drinkwaterleiding kreeg in 1873 een complex aan de Oude Plantage in het verlengde van de Honingerdijk, ver buiten de toenmalige stadsgrenzen. De gemeenteraad had in 1869 de plannen voor een drinkwaterbedrijf goedgekeurd. Tot die tijd betrokken de inwoners van Rotterdam hun drinkwater uit de vervuilde singels en vesten en waren er regelmatig cholera-epidemieën. Rose had al eerder gepleit voor een hygiënischer waterbeheer.
In het nieuwe complex, ontworpen door stadsarchitect C.B. van der Tak, werd rivierwater gezuiverd in twee grote bezinkbassins en een viertal kleinere filterbassins. Al gauw werden beide types bassins uitgebreid.
Een 48 meter hoge ronde watertoren domineerde het complex. Bovenin het gebouw bevond zich een reservoir van 1000 m3. Het gebouw is in een mengeling van romaanse, neorenaissancistische en moorse stijl ontworpen. Verder waren er een ketelhuis, een directeurswoning en een pompgebouw, alle ontworpen door Van der Tak.
Vanwege de toenemende vraag naar schoon drinkwater werden tussen 1928 en 1950 drie snelfiltergebouwen gerealiseerd. Deze snelfilters werkten drie keer zo snel als de open zandfilters. De langwerpige betonnen gebouwen zijn rond het productieproces ontworpen door stadsarchitect Van der Steur. In de jaren vijftig werden nog enkele bassins aangelegd in de aangrenzende polder De Esch.
In 1977 vertrok de DWL naar nieuwbouw bij de Van Brienenoordbrug. In 1970 was het DWL-terrein door de gemeente aangewezen als toekomstig recreatiegebied. De plannen voor Lagorama, Europa's grootste pretpark, maakten weinig enthousiasme los. Ter voorbereiding van een nummer over watertorens togen de redactieleden van het Delftse tijdschrift Utopia naar het DWL-terrein aan de Honingerdijk. Met goedkeuring van de gemeente vestigden zij vervolgens in 1978 de woon- en werkgemeenschap Utopia in de watertoren en de bijgebouwen. Utopia speelde een vitale rol in de ontwikkeling van het DWL-terrein. In 1977 werd het gebied door de motie Bakema als woonwijk bestemd. De aanwezige waterbekkens, filterbakken en gebouwen vormden de basis van het stedenbouwkundige plan. Hiermee is het DWL-terrein één van de eerste oude haven- en industriegebieden die met behoud van de bestaande structuur zijn getransformeerd tot woonwijk. De watertoren en bijgebouwen zijn in 1981 rijksmonumenten geworden.
Tussen 1981 en 1994 verrees hier een nieuwe woonwijk met 2800 woningen. De bebouwing varieert van rijen standaard- eengezinswoningen tot urban villa's, woontorens en energiezuinige woningen met zonnecollectoren. Behalve Van Dam-eenheden en gezinswoningen bevat het project nog een studentenflat, een bejaardentehuis en luxueuze appartementen. Verder is er een basisschool, een wijk- en winkelcentrum en een theater; ook zijn er bedrijven gevestigd. De bedrijfsgebouwen met de watertoren als middelpunt zijn als industriële monumenten behouden en hebben een nieuwe functie gekregen. De drie snelfiltergebouwen werden als eerste gerenoveerd.
Langs de drukke Abram van Rijckevorselweg werd een langwerpig gebouw van Pi de Bruijn gerealiseerd, de 'Schicht', dat als geluidswal fungeert (1981 1983). De 123 woningen in zeven lagen hebben hun buitenruimte op het zuiden. Twee dubbelhoge galerijen aan de noordkant langs de weg ontsluiten de woningen en zijn voorzien van een glazen wand. Het verticale transport vindt plaats door twee trappenhuizen in 'punt' en 'staart' van het 200 meter lange bouwblok en twee liften ter plaatse van de knikken in de gevel, waar zich ook de hoofdtoegangen bevinden. Aan de zuidzijde hiervan is een wijkje met flexibele woningen van Wytze Patijn en Jan Mulder gerealiseerd (1981-1984).
Op de reinwaterbassins bij de Oude Plantage zijn 66 zonnecollectorwoningen gebouwd naar ontwerp van J. van Ringen (1982-1984).
Aan de entree van de wijk staat een seniorenflat met 140 woningen van Bakema Zavrel Architecten (1985-1987).
Het gedeeltelijk door brand verwoeste voormalige pompstation is tot wijk- en winkelcentrum verbouwd door Kraaijvanger Architecten (1987-1990).
De watertoren met bijgebouwen werd gerestaureerd door R.J. den Burger van Gemeentewerken (1985 1988). In het reservoir van de watertoren is kantoorruimte gerealiseerd. Daarvoor is een deel van de witgeverfde verticale houten beschieting vervangen door ramen. In de bijgebouwen zijn behalve bedrijven en werkplaatsen een theater (Hal 4) en een restaurant gevestigd. In een van de bijgebouwen huist Uitgeverij 010.
In het gedeelte de Lage Filters zijn tussen de voormalige filterbassins zes stroken met in totaal 294 woningen gebouwd door Boudewijn Mannot (Groosman Partners) (1983-1986). De strook wordt aan de ene zijde afgesloten door een basisschool naar ontwerp van J. Jonges (1984-1985) en aan de andere zijde door een studentenflat met negen verdiepingen van Architektenburo Kraamer Partners (1986-1988).
In een middenzone zijn de bassins gedempt en tot groenstrook omgevormd, waarbij de karakteristieke bedieningsgebouwtjes zijn gehandhaafd. Het gedeelte van het Binnenbassin, het eerste grote bezinkbassin, is bebouwd met vijf urban villa's van De Nijl (1988-1990) en twee langgerekte woongebouwen van Anarcos met in totaal 377 woningwetwoningen (1985-1989). Vanwege de gebogen daklijn bij de trappenhuizen hebben de gebouwen de bijnaam de 'Kamelen'.
Op het gedempte Buitenbassin zijn woontorens met uitzicht op de Maas gebouwd. Twee woontorens van SAS Architecten (1988-1991), één van Bonnema (1988-1992), drie waaiervormige torens van Henk Klunder Architecten (1989-1991) en ten slotte de woontoren Tympanon aan de kop van het inlaatkanaal (Van der Zee & Ybema, 1990-1991). De torens bevatten duurdere woningen en staan vrij in een door Paul Achterberg ontworpen park.
In het gedeelte de Hoge Filters in De Esch zijn 320 appartementen in zeven lage en één hoge woontoren gerealiseerd (Tuns + Horsting, 1990-1992).
Literatuur:
R. Daalder - Werkstad, 30 industriële monumenten in Rotterdam, Rotterdam 1985
Bouw 1984-26
Stadsvernieuwing Rotterdam 1974-1984, 1984
H. Berens e.a. - DWL-terrein Rotterdam, 1991
Architectuur Rotterdam 1970-1995, 1995
bron : www.wonen.rotterdam.nl/
History of the castle
Architecture and use of the castle
Events connected with the castle
Did you know that ... ?
(Pictures, quite old ones, you can see by clicking on the link at the end of the site!)
History of Bratislava castle dating back to the Celts and Romans, because Castle Hill was a strategic location at the crossroads of important trade routes. BC was in its place Celtic settlement, which for centuries was replaced by a Roman frontier fort.
The first written reference dates back to 907, when the subject is mentioned under the name Pressalauspruch. Period of the Principality of Nitra and Great Moravia document remains Slavic fortress with three-aisled basilica. Slovak princely castle of several reconstructions and modifications gradually arose from a medieval mid 11th century castle and county. At the time it became a treasure trove of crown jewels and coronation castle later. It established the priory and the Priory School and Church of the Most Holy Saviour. Documentary evidence shows that in the first quarter of the 13th century stood on the highest point complex terrain Romanesque residential tower with separate walls with defensive towers, from which to this day despite rearrangements preserved so. Crown Tower.
For King Sigismund from 1427 began to radically change the appearance of the castle, rebuilding it today vtlačila (pressing) character block monumental structures. King had demolished almost all of that time the building and gradually grew large two-story Gothic palace representative trapezoid in plan. The earlier buildings remain standing today as southwestern Crown defense tower. In this period were also two entrance gates to the castle area, of which only the eastern was preserved, called Sigismund's Gate. Richly structured double-shell architecture with the goal of stonework demanding solution in the form of a donkey back a vault in crossing it included the construction centers of development in the Danube region, which were the models for a wide range of architectures in the period.
The current layout of the castle with a regular quadrangular ground-plan around a central courtyard is a result of the construction directions during the Renaissance and early Baroque. After the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the castle became coronation seat of the Hungarian kings, by the Turkish troops expelled from the original center of the Hungarian Empire in Buda.
Conversions were oriented not only to improve the fortifications of the castle, but also on its modernization. During pálfyovskej conversion in the first half of the seventeenth century, the palace was redundant the third floor, the two original towers were added two more were rebuilt and redesigned interiors defenses. On the southern fortifications and bastions of the castle built in 1674 has been added Leopold Gate.
Bratislava Castle experienced a golden age in the reign of Maria Theresa. The concept of the construction of major projects by French, Italian and Austrian architects were directed at making the castle as a representative residence of the Habsburg Kingdom equalized leading European royal court.
In the western headquarters of the castle have been built new representation staircases. Extensive changes to the application of luxury and contemporary taste, however, occurred in the wider area of the castle. In the east wing of the old palace was added under a new name Theresianum, which served mainly to accommodate the monarch.
It set up a gallery, library and valuable art collections, especially graphic cabinet viceroy Albert of Saxony-Cieszyn. Cabinet known as the Albertina later moved to Vienna, where it is now. The spacious surface area of land improved - there grew terraces, French garden, orangery, summer and winter riding school and stables, where ustajňovali (military censor) breeds rare horses.
Bratislava Castle after the death of Maria Theresa fell significantly. Her son and successor to the throne was Joseph II. He has set up a training center for Catholic clergy seminar where eminent scholars have studied the then time, among them Anton Bernolák. During the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century served as barracks, what happened to it ultimately fatal. Due garrison in 1811 the castle burnt down and more than 140 years remained a dilapidated ruin.
After several attempts to restore the castle returned to his new life as a big renovation, which was decided in 1953. Curators were architects Alfred Piffl and Dušan Martinček. After restoring the castle took shape as it was never called. Theresian reconstruction of the 18th century. In 1961 the Bratislava Castle, declared a national monument.
Palais Preysing - West- und Südansicht
München - Residenzstraße 27
Architekt Joseph Effner
errichtet von 1723 - 1728 - Rokokofassade
Wiederaufbau mit der Originalfassade 1961 durch Architekt Erwin Schleich
für Dr. H. Hartlaub
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Preysing
- nördlich davon ... direkt angeschlossen ... die Feldherrnhalle -
www.youtube.com/user/ernststolz#p/u/46/3eIfmEHjRlE
Heute zur Erinnerung zum 100. Geburtstag an den Architekten und Denkmalpfleger Erwin Schleich, der maßgeblich beim Wiederaufbau Münchens zahlreiche Bauten im Original wieder errichtet und somit wesentlich für die Erhaltung des historischen Stadtbildes von München beigetragen hat, wie zum Beispiel mit dem Wiederaufbau des Alten Peter (zusammen mit Rudolf Esterer), der Heilig-Geist-Kirche, dem Alten Rathausturm und vielen anderen historischen Gebäuden.
Die Pfarrkirche Sankt Peter, deren Turm im Volksmund Alter Peter genannt wird und zu Münchens Wahrzeichen zählt, ist die älteste erwähnte Pfarrkirche Münchens und vermutlich der Ursprung Münchens überhaupt.
Palais Preysing - Westansicht
München - Residenzstraße 27
Architekt Joseph Effner
errichtet von 1723 - 1728 - Rokokofassade
Wiederaufbau mit der Originalfassade 1961 durch Architekt Erwin Schleich
für Dr. H. Hartlaub
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Preysing
- nördlich davon ... direkt angeschlossen ... die Feldherrnhalle -
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schleich
Erwin Schleich wurde 1986 vom Deutschen Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz der Deutschen Preis für Denkmalschutz - die Silberne Halbkugel - verliehen.
Der Entwurf der Silbernen Halbkugel stammt vom Künstler Fritz Koenig.
In die Schlagzeilen kam Fritz Koenig nach dem 11. September 2001 durch die von ihm geschaffene große Kugelkaryatide. Die goldene Kugel mit dem Werknamen "The Sphere" überstand schwer beschädigt den Einsturz der Türme des World Trade Centers. Im Inneren der aufgerissenen Kugel wurden unter anderem Wrackteile der in die Türme gestürzten Flugzeuge gefunden. Am 11. März 2002 wurde die Skulptur als temporäres Mahnmal im New Yorker Battery Park aufgestellt.
Ghosts of the West II
Ghosts of the West - Crested Butte - Tuck's Cabin
Here's the second in the series. This area has a full and rich history of ranching and mining. It also has an abundance of old houses and cabins (if only I could get to them all). This one is just south of Crested Butte, Colorado.
Взрыв в доме на улице Академика Королева
Взрыв в многоэтажном жилом доме по адресу улица Академика Королева, дом 8, корпус 1, произошел 4 апреля 2008 г. около 19:15 по московскому времени. По предварительным данным, взрыв произошел в районе 11-12 этажей. В результате произошло частичное обрушение конструкций здания
I'm not sure what to think about the new City Center. We joked that these buildings look like something out of the movie Inception.
A freshly detailed and repainted Hornby J94 Austerity posed in from of some of the Mendip Colliery buildings. Photo taken in sunlight in the garden.
Want to know a little more? nevardmedia.blogspot.com/search/label/Austerity
10/20/11
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Built: 1914 to 1923 - Architect: John Smith Murdoch - Architectural style: Inter-War Beaux-Arts
The Perth General Post Office is a fine example of monumental civic architecture and one of a precinct of Commonwealth buildings which introduced Beaux-Arts monumentalism to the city.
The imposing building has seven main storeys plus basement and roof level rooms. It has a concrete encased steel frame faced with brick and stone. The ground floor of the east elevation is faced with granite from Mahogany Creek with Donnybrook sandstone above. Paired ionic columns rise through three upper storeys. Red brick walls trimmed with stone are set back between stone towers and form the side and back walls.
The design was conceived in 1912 by Commonwealth architect, John Smith Murdoch, in association with Hillson Beasley (Western Australian Public Works Department). The initial contract was signed in 1914 and another (after delays due to a steel embargo and a strike) in 1921 for an additional two storeys. Construction was completed in 1923.
Information sourced from the Heritage Council of Western Australia - Places Database:
Place No: 1979 - Name: Perth General Post Office
The Admiralty Building is an edifice that was re-built in the nineteenth century to support the Tsar's maritime ambitions. The original design was a fortified shipyard which was later surrounded by five bastions and further protected by a moat.
The corner building at "North Moat Street" & "The Wends Street" (my translation)
Wiki about the Wends: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends
"Smuk taglejlighed"
Hjørnebygningen ved Nørre Voldgade & Vendersgade
Wiki om Venderne: da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vender