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Title: Building east side Friend Street corner Hanover Street
Creator: Boston Transit Commission
Date: 1905 November 5
Source: Public Works Department photograph collection, 5000.009
File name: 5000_009_0996
Rights: Public domain
Citation: Public Works Department photograph collection, Collection 5000.009, City of Boston Archives, Boston
Picture Taken From Bryant Park Of Seven Bryant Park Building Under Construction On Sixth Avenue Between 39th/40th Street In New York City. Photo Taken Friday March 14, 2014.
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The art deco facade of the 'Burton Buildings' is a similar design throughout the uk.
Notice the stylised elephants.
Many buildings in the centre of Rejkjavik are dull, but this facade stood out with its decorative elements.
Over the past few years, the City of Chicago has acquired about 500 homes & businesses in Bensenville, Illinois that make up about 15% of the entire town. The City of Chicago wishes to demolish these structures to make way for O'Hare Airport Expansion. Most of them been bought & boarded up, but about 25-30 of the homes remain occupied.
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This was originally a bank with three attached storefronts, one being a pharmacy. Not sure what the other two were over time.
Building is a relic from the early Tantie days.
Was very fortunate to be able to get some interior shots thru open wall spaces and crevices.
Autrefois, ces maisons bourgeoises étaient occupées par une seule famille avec du personnel pour accomplir les tâches ménagères ,a partir des années 30 ,la plupart de ces bâtisses ont subi des transformations en y ajoutant des annexes même au dernier étage pour en faire un appartement par niveau
Formerly, these mansions were occupied by a single family with the staff to perform household chores, from the 30's, most of these buildings have been transformed by adding annexes to the same floor to make an apartment level
Closed in 2003, Medfield State Hospital was used to film Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. In my opinion, along with others, it is one of many films that is underrated. Spread across 900 acres this hospital was used for psychiatric rehabilitation. Built in 1892, it included 58 buildings and had roughly 2,200 patients.
Deze 19de-eeuwse hoeve ligt aan de Werkenstraat, ten zuidwesten van de parochiekerk van Bovekerke (Koekelare). De hoevesite is al aangeduid op de Ferrariskaart. Het huidige, witgeschilderde bakstenen boerenhuis dateert volgens jaarankers in de zijgevel uit 1828. In het achteruitspringend gedeelte links bevindt zich de paardenstal. Ten zuiden van het erf bevindt zich een bakstenen stalling uit 1868. De dwarsschuur ten oosten van het boerenhuis dateert uit de jaren 1920. In 2011 werd de hoeve voorlopig beschermd als monument.
Foto: Willy Vereenooghe
Blogged at : www.jaillustration.com/2011/08/mile-end.html
Two sketches today in Mile End - probably my favourite part of Montreal. On the right, a corner of the fire department which is located on the corner of St Laurent and Laurier. This building also houses a Fire fighter's museum, which I have not yet visited. I'll have to go back and sketch more of this building – it is quite an interesting, castle-like place that deserves a much bigger part of the page.
To the left, Fairmount Bagel, an institution in Montreal eating. To maintain bagel-equality, I promise I will sketch St-Viateur Bagel another day. The two are the main Montreal bagel headquarters.
The Empire State Building as viewed from the northern side of 34th Street in August 2008.
Few buildings replicate the dominating presence of the Empire State Building.
Palace of Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
The enormous palace was built during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaucescu in Romania from 1983. This is the second largest administrative building of the Earth. (The Pentagon is a little bit larger.) The volume of the building is the third on the planet after the rocket assembly hangar of Cape Canaveral and the Quetzalcoatl pyramid. The total cost of the building is estimated to be more than 6 billion dollars (the Romanian GDP in 1993 was 17 billions). Many citizens worked on the palace free as "patriotic labor".
The palace is located in the geometrical center of Bucharest and it is surrounded by similar administrative buildings. To create the construction site, parts of the old town were demolished. A dozen churches, a cathedral and many 19th century buildings were destroyed and a new Stalinist style quarter was created. There were apartment buildings along the 3.5 km large Avenue of Victory of Socialism for those "more equal than the others".
Some halls of the palace are bigger than a football field. During the construction 1 million m3 of marble, 3500 tons of crystal and 3500 m2 of leather was used. The purpose of the palace was to create a place for the administrative institutions of the State and the Communist Party. The building was called People's House. Its architect was Anca Petrescu. During the construction in the country electricity, heat and food was rationed.
The palace is now called Palace of Parliament and houses the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, two museums, other parts of the building are used during conferences, etc. (The movie Amen of Costa Gavras was partially filmed here in 2002.)
Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank later Martins Bank, Market Street, Bacup
Market Hotel, Hooley's, Barclays Bank
The iconic Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, on the corner of Market Street and Union Street, stands proud with its corner turret, four Harry Potter-esque gargoyles, three shields and two lions - even the bank safe remains in the basement. Now, thanks to a loan of £195,000 from the Architectural Heritage Fund, through the Heritage Impact Fund, and further funding from Rossendale Borough Council, building preservation charity Valley Heritage is investing in the Grade II Listed building’s future.
“In the 19th Century when building banks, the architecture was high quality and the design of the building was all about trying to engender a sense of confidence and that is appropriate to what we are doing today,” said Valley Heritage chairperson Stephen Anderson. “It is one of the most beautiful buildings in Bacup with its instantly recognisable Scottish Baronial style. It is utterly beautiful. Valley Heritage has got confidence in Bacup and that is why we want to preserve that building, there are challenges but there are real indications of positive change.”
Valley Heritage will now be bidding for a further £400,000 to renovate the interior, once remedial work to make the place watertight is carried out. Its future use will be two-fold. The ground floor and basement storage will be a co-working hub for freelancers and people currently working from home with separate spaces to use for meetings. This will be in partnership with Indycube. Upstairs will be four supported self-contained apartments for single young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and will be run in conjunction with the M3 Project in Rawtenstall.
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Die ältesten Teile des Hölderlinhauses gehörten der mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung an. Vermutlich aus dem 13. Jahrhundert stammen Stadt- und Zwingermauer als nördliche und südliche Begrenzungen, sowie der Sockel eines Befestigungsturms, dessen Schießscharten heute noch zu sehen sind.
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In den Bauplänen erschien erstmals die Bezeichnung "Hölderlin's Turm".
The government of the Swiss Confederation has been based in the Bundeshaus (Parliament) in Bern since the building was completed in 1902.
Built to the plans of architect Hans Wilhelm Auer in the Neo-Renaissance style, it is home to both the National Council and the Council of States, with each of the country’s cantons represented.
Guided tours are available in many languages, allowing you to look around both of the chambers and the impressive domed hall which stands between them and beneath the copped-topped dome seen from the outside.
The parliament is fronted by the Bundesplatz, where 23 water jet fountains – one for each of the cantons – shoot up into the air from the pavement every day.
Marina City is a mixed-use residential/commercial building complex occupying an entire city block on State Street in Chicago, Illinois. It lies on the north bank of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, directly across from the Loop district. The complex consists of two high rise corncob-shaped 65-story towers (including five-story elevator and physical plant penthouse), at 587-foot (179 m) tall. It also includes a saddle-shaped auditorium building, and a mid-rise hotel building, all contained on a raised platform adjacent to the river. Beneath the raised platform at river level is a small marina for pleasure craft, giving the structures their name. Marina City is notable in that it is the first building in the United States to be constructed with tower cranes.
Work on the construction of the Boscombe British School began in 1878.
After several enlargements it became the Boscombe County Primary School before closing in the 1960s, when the nearby Kings Park County Primar.y School, now the Kings Park Primary School, opened on Ashley Rd.
The former school was then used as a drama centre by Bournemouth Council, visited by the town's school children as part of their educational activities
The centre closed in 2007 and is under threat of being redeveloped with housing, a plan that led to a group called Occupy taking over the premises in a bid to save it as a community asset, although they were subsequently evicted
As of July 2013 Bournemouth Council still plan to redevelop the site with 11 family homes.
This from the Daily Echo.
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10535826.Last_ditch_e_mail...
The site used to be listed under Gladstone Rd as the buildings main frontage was on this road, however, it's main entrance was later created from Haviland Rd.
The old photo shows buildings abandoned, likely right before demolition was to commence. This whole block of buildings were wiped out for Pacific Centre/TD Tower construction. In the background, the Granville Square building is under construction. This is looking north down Granville street.
The good pub guide says:
The ancient-feeling bar below this comfortable hotel is housed in an unusual long and narrow stone barrel-vaulted crypt, its curving walls being up to eight feet thick in some places. Plush stools are lined along the bar counter on ancient flagstones and next to a narrow drinks shelf down the opposite wall; TV. Upstairs, the Derwent Room has low beams, old settles, and sepia photographs on its walls, and the Hilyard Room has a massive 13th-c fireplace once used as a hiding place by the Jacobite Tom Forster (part of the family who had owned the building before it was sold in 1704 to the formidable Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham). Black Sheep Best Bitter and Ale on handpump, and a good selection of wines. High up on the moors, and built by the Premonstratensians around 1235 as the abbot's lodging for their adjacent monastery, the building is immersed in history, with a lovely walled garden that was formerly the cloisters, and this is a most appealing place to stay.
Straightforward bar food includes soup, filled rolls, generous ploughman's, cumberland sausage with black pudding and daily specials, as well as more elaborate restaurant food (available in the evening).
The Hungarian Parliament Building (Országház) is the seat of the National Assembly of Hungary, one of Europe's oldest legislative buildings, a notable landmark of Hungary and a popular tourist destination of Budapest. It lies in Lajos Kossuth Square, on the bank of the Danube, in Budapest. It is currently the largest building in Hungary, and the second largest Parliament in Europe.
Budapest was united from three cities in 1873 and seven years later the National Assembly resolved to establish a new, representative Parliament Building, expressing the sovereignty of the nation. A competition was published, which was won by Imre Steindl, but the plans of the other two competitors were also realized, facing the Parliament: one serves today as the Ethnographical Museum, the other as the Ministry of Agriculture.
Construction from the winning plan was started in 1885 and the building was inaugurated on the 1000th anniversary of the country in 1896, and completed in 1904.
Picture Of Empire State Building Lit Up In Honor Of The Athletes Competing In The 2014 Winter Olympics In Sochi Russia By Displaying Rotation Of Countries Flag Colors. Photo Taken Friday February 7, 2014.
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The National Trust
We’re a charity founded in 1895 by three people who saw the importance of our nation’s heritage and open spaces and wanted to preserve them for everyone to enjoy. More than 120 years later, these values are still at the heart of everything we do. We look after special places throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland for ever, for everyone.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/moseley-old-hall
Moseley Old Hall
"The estate was owned by a Cordsall family until it was purchased by Henry Pitt of Bushby, one of the Merchants of the Staple, in 1583. He constructed the Hall around 1600 (the exact date is unknown). Originally known as 'Mr Pitt's new Hall at Moseley', it was a half-timbered building located in remote woodland. When Henry died in 1602, the Hall was inherited by Alice Pitt, his daughter, who later married Thomas Whitgreave from Bridgeford, Staffordshire, whose family came from the nearby Whitgreave.
After the final battle of the English Civil War, the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, King Charles II escaped and was on the run from Parliamentarians. Charles arrived at the back door of Moseley Old Hall in the early morning of 8 September,[1] after the journey from Boscobel House. He arrived cold and wet, disguised in workman's clothing and ill-fitting shoes that had made his feet bleed. He was welcomed by Thomas Whitgreave, the owner of the house, Alice Whitgreave, Thomas's mother, and John Huddleston, the Catholic priest of the house. They gave Charles dry clothes, food, and a proper bed (his first since Worcester on 3 September)."
A picture of Barnsley town hall taken in the early morning showing up the Portland limestone fascia at its best. The stone is full of fossils.
Located in South Yorkshire, England.
Timothy Street, after whom the former Town of Streetsville was named, was a very enterprising individual. In payment for his surveying work, Street received a substantial grant of land, which he used to establish industries on the banks of the Credit. His house at 41 Mill Street, built in 1825, is believed to be the first brick house constructed in Peel County; it remains at the site of his former milling complex.
Like most early Ontario communities, Streetsville relied heavily on its proximity to water for the power to operate its grist, saw, carding, and planning mills. Water power remained the key factor in Mississauga's early industrial development of the 19th century, particularly in Streetsville.
In addition to meeting the village's needs, Streetsville manufactured items for export at a early stage with its Woollen production at the Barber Woollen Mills, for example, once located (1840s-1880s) on the site of the present-day Reid Milling complex.
After the railway development of the 1850s bypassed Streetsville and the village lost the county seat to Brampton in 1867, it never fully regained the economic momentum it had begun to enjoy. It was not until 1879, with the arrival of the Credit Valley Railway, that Streetsville benefited from better links to Toronto and beyond. Streetsville, which has the highest concentration of heritage buildings in the City, incorporated as a village in 1858 and a town in 1962.
Amid the hesitation of many people, Streetsville amalgamated with the City of Mississauga in 1974. The Mayor of Streetsville at the time, Hazel McCallion, went on to become the Mayor of Mississauga, and remains one of Canada's longest serving and best-known mayors.