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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
During Easter 1986 I explored the Cooleman Gorge, Coolamine Homestead and Bimberi Range area in northern Kosciuszko National Park, an area near the NSW/ACT border.
Het nieuwe verdiepte station van Nijverdal, enkele dagen na de opening. De combitunnel voor het wegverkeer links gaat pas later open...
Nordstrom might be the busiest anchor in the mall. It features a restaurant and a man that plays a piano near the escalators.
International Plaza opened in 2001 on the site of the old Hall of Fame golf course. It was geared toward higher-end market, while also catering to customers from Tampa International Airport, located directly behind the mall. The two-level mall was the last enclosed mall constructed in the Tampa Bay Area. Its construction indirectly killed the long-ailing Tampa Bay Center, located about 1¾ miles to the northeast and caused West Shore Plaza, located one mile to the south, to remodel and greatly update its appearance and store offerings.
International Plaza opened with Dillard's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Lord and Taylor. Dillard's relocated from West Shore Plaza, while all of the other anchors were their respective companies' first stores on Florida's West Coast. International Mall was the first area mall to offer an outdoor lifestyle area, Bay Street, that features upscale clubs and restaurants and remains open after the mall closes. Lord and Taylor closed in 2004 and the building was split between two upscale furniture and interior design stores.
Since opening, the property has added business centers, a hotel, and various upscale outlots. The mall is always busy, even on weekdays.
Boy Scout Boulevard at West Shore, Tampa.
920 O Street
Completed in 1879 as a U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at a cost of $200,000 in Gothic Revival and French Second Empire style.
In 1906 a new U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was completed and the federal government sold the city of Lincoln the building for $50,000. It served as City Hall until 1969.
Placed on NRHP Oct. 15, 1969---No. 69000132.
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Dating from the 12th century, the Maghoki-Attar Mosque in Bukhara is the oldest mosque in Central Asia. It also boasts an illustrious history of sacredness - remains of a Zoroastrian temple and a Buddhist temple have been found beneath it, and Jews once used it in the evenings.
This site was originally occupied by a Buddhist temple, then later a Zoroastrian temple that was built in the 5th century. Zoroastrianism was a monotheistic faith and the state religion of the Persian Empire before the rise of Islam.
The Zoroastrian temple was destroyed by the Arabs and replaced with a mosque in the 12th century, which was named Maghoki-Attar ("Pit of the Herbalists") because of the nearby spice bazaar.
The Maghoki-Attar Mosque is said to have been used by Jews as a synagogue in the evenings until it was rebuilt in the 16th century. An earthquake destroyed the mosque in 1860. It was excavated and restored in the 1930s, during which the earlier structures were found.
The Maghoki-Attar Mosque (also spelled Magoki-Attori) is a pleasing mishmash of the original 12th-century building (mainly in the southern facade and doorways) and the 16th-century reconstruction.
The plaza that surrounds the mosque is lower than the surrounding streets and is at the level of the town in the 12th century. When excavations began in the early 20th century, only the top of the mosque was visible.
Inside the mosque, visitors can see a section of the excavations that has been left exposed and an exhibition of Bukhara carpets and prayer rugs.
Names: Maghoki -Attar Mosque; Magoki-Attori Mosque; "Pit of the Herbalists" Mosque
Type of site: Mosque (with remains of Zoroastrian and Buddhist temples)
Location: North of the Taqi-Sarrafon Bazaar, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Masonic Temple, Trowel Lodge #132, 235 Pearl Street, Jackson, Ohio. This lodge was chartered on October 22, 1845. The building dates from 1891.
All buildings are scratch built also using kit-bashed parts and pieces from various other building models -- I fully scratch-built the AUTOMAT and signs
St. Leonard's Street, West Malling, Kent, 21 Sep 2010. The Startled Saint used to be the local pub for the airmen stationed at nearby RAF West Malling. Sadly both the pub and the airfield have closed and been converted.
1898, W. & G. Audsley. This distinctive building fits loosely within the Classical Revival movement of the day but has a bit of an Egyptian look. The AIA guide says, "'Eclectic' was invented for stylistic collections such as this." It housed the White Star Line offices in New York; Cunard was right next door. This was where the traveling public came to book passage.
Panthéon militaire
Plusieurs hommes de guerre français reposent aux Invalides. Ainsi, pour les périodes monarchique et révolutionnaire : le maréchal de Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, le cœur du maréchal de Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, le cœur de Théophile Malo Corret de La Tour d'Auvergne, héros des guerres de la Révolution, le général François Séverin Marceau et Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, l'auteur de La Marseillaise.
Napoléon Ier décédé en 1821 à l'Île Sainte-Hélène, y fut inhumé le 15 décembre 1840, sous la Monarchie de Juillet dont les dirigeants cherchaient à rassembler les partisans de l'empereur défunt (dans le même temps, était en effet achevé l'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile). Les cendres de Napoléon sont placées dans un monumental sarcophage en quartzite rouge aventuriné de Finlande, lui-même reposant sur un socle en marbre noir provenant de Sainte-Luce (Isère), l'ensemble étant placé dans une crypte ouverte de forme circulaire pratiquée au centre de la chapelle Saint-Louis, sous le dôme.
Son fils, le roi de Rome Napoléon II (également appelé « l'Aiglon ») y est inhumé en 1940 sur proposition d'Adolf Hitler. Joseph et Jérôme Bonaparte, frères de l'empereur, y sont également enterrés dans deux alcôves latérales. Le tombeau de Napoléon Ier est entouré par ceux des généraux d'Empire Gérard Christophe Michel Duroc et Henri Gatien Bertrand. Les restes du général Lasalle y ont été ramenés en 1891.
Plusieurs commandants en chef de la Première et Seconde Guerre mondiale sont aussi enterrés aux Invalides tels : les maréchaux de France Ferdinand Foch, Hubert Lyautey, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Alphonse Juin et les généraux Robert Nivelle, Charles Mangin et Pierre Auguste Roques. Les gouverneurs de l'hôtel des Invalides, qui reste une place militaire, le sont également. L'amiral Émile Guépratte est enterré dans le caveau des gouverneurs.
À défaut de leurs dépouilles, plusieurs grands personnages militaires français ont seulement leur cœur inhumé aux Invalides.
A long exposure shot in Boston, when the sky turns so blue.... The car lights trails add a bit of contrasty colors to the overall bluish image
Width fields (Breitenfeld) Parish
Interior view of the nave
Portal of the parish
The Breitenfelder parish church in Vienna is a Roman Catholic parish church on the Uhlplatz in the district part Breitenfeld of the 8th district of Vienna, Josefstadt. It is dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi.
History
In honor of the in 1835 late Emperor Francis I in the then the manorial system of Schottenstift monastery subordinaded location Breitenfeld, a suburb of the still by its ancient walls sourrounded Vienna, a memorial church was to be built. The domain judge of Breitenfeld, Karl George Gaber, became deeply committed because he expected on these grounds rather to get a church for his small and insignificant place. Dowager Empress Karolina Augusta to this 1835 still made a large donation. The Church Building Association, founded on Gabers initiative in 1839 collected in the whole monarchy donations. The Archiepiscopal Ordinariate and the Schottenstift monastery saw no need for a church in Breitenfeld, and supported the project, therefore, not a long time.
When 1886 finally the architectural competition for the Church could be tendered, the Dowager Empress and initiator Gaber had long since passed away; Breitenfeld in the meantime had become a densely built-up part of the district of Josefstadt. 1887 Emperor Franz Joseph I approved the winning project of Alexander Wielemans. The laying of the foundation stone on the 1885 chosen building site at projected Hernalser belt (Hernalser Gürtel) took place in 1894 in the presence of the Emperor and the Vienna archbishop Cardinal Josef Anton Gruscha. The church was solemnly consecrated in the presence of the Emperor on 18 June 1898.
Two weeks ago was the during the church building erected belt line of the Vienna city railway, which here runs in elevated position, opened in the immediate vicinity of the church. From the viaduct of the since 1989 as subway line U6 operated means of travel one has today a direct view to the main portal of the church. This one does not open to the district area Breitenfeld, but to the arterial road Gürtel, which was noted critically by the Breitenfelder population at the opening.
The church in 1945 during World War II suffered severe bomb damages and was restored from 1947 to 1958. The last general renovation was begun in 1989 and completed in 1998 to mark the centenary.
Architecture, Design
Wielemans erected the church as a brick shell in the style of the early Lombard Renaissance of Trento and Karst marble. The church interior is laid out with three aisles and offers room for 2000-2400 people. Major artists of the time were involved with the design, including Richard Kauffungen (1854-1942; Franz-von-Assisi-relief above the portal), Alfred Roller (Christ mosaic), Hermann Klotz and Othmar Schimkowitz (Sacred Heart statue). Altar and pulpit, both designed by Wielemans are of Grisignana marble. The high altar in Renaissance form is surmounted by a temple-shaped roof crown. The oil paintings of the two side altars are by Rudolf Bacher (Nativity) and Franz Xaver Zimmermann (Cross). After 1945, statues of St. Francis and St. Anthony were erected, the Albin Moroder has created. The statue of Pope Gregory the Great stems from the hand of Hans Müller.
DSC_11411 Taken at Robertson Quayside. Note: The last time I visited this site on March 2008, this building was already torn down and made room for re-development.
Just an amazing building the Venetian Macau, its just MASSIVE. In fact its the 3rd largest building on the planet..
The Theatre of Marcellus (Latin: Theatrum Marcelli, Italian: Teatro di Marcello) is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic. At the theatre, locals and visitors alike were able to watch performances of drama and song. Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant'Angelo, Rome, once again provides one of the city's many popular spectacles or tourist sites. It was named after Marcus Marcellus, Emperor Augustus's nephew, who died five years before its completion. Space for the theatre was cleared by Julius Caesar, who was murdered before it could be begun; the theatre was so far advanced by 17 BC that part of the celebration of the ludi saeculares took place within the theatre; it was completed in 13 BC and formally inaugurated in 12 BC by Augustus.
The theatre was 111 m in diameter; it could originally hold 11,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theatre was built mainly of tuff, and concrete faced with stones in the pattern known as opus reticulatum, completely sheathed in white travertine. The network of arches, corridors, tunnels and ramps that gave access to the interiors of such Roman theaters were normally ornamented with a screen of engaged columns in Greek orders: Doric at the base, Ionic in the middle. It is believed that Corinthian columns were used for the upper level but this is uncertain as the theater was reconstructed in the Middle Ages, removing the top tier of seating and the columns.
Like other Roman theaters in suitable locations, it had openings through which the natural setting could be seen, in this case the Tiber Island to the southwest. The permanent setting, the scaena, also rose to the top of the cavea as in other Roman theaters.
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This magnificent building built in 1925 was the residence of a couple with a particular history. An injured World War I soldier was hospitalized in England and reportedly met his future wife, the widow of a wealthy governor. After marrying in Brussels, they built this castle in a Belgian village, with architecture inspired by many trips made by the aristocratic wife. The building has many rich architectural characteristics, with oriental, Art Deco and chinese inspirations. Some receptions were organized for the village inhabitants, and the owner was a time elected alderman of the community.
Both died in 1940, and the castle was bought in 1988 by a wealthy entrepreneur and his wife. As the building was too big for the two of them, they saw the opportunity to turn the space into a luxury hotel, then into a bed and breakfast, before being abandoned, presumably after the couple's death.
Today, this superb place is abandoned and at the mercy of squatters and vandals of the region. One part of the building was recently the target of a fire, in March 2017. Today, the site could be transformed into a nursing home and/or apartment buildings. These photos were taken before the fire.
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Cette magnifique bâtisse construite en 1925 était la résidence d’un couple à l’histoire particulière. Un combattant blessé de la Première Guerre Mondiale fut hospitalisé en Angleterre et y aurait rencontré sa future épouse, veuve d’un riche gouverneur. Après s’être mariés à Bruxelles, ils firent construire ce château dans un village de Belgique, avec une architecture inspirée de nombreux voyages effectués par l’épouse aristocrate. Le bâtiment présente en effet de nombreuses et riches caractéristiques architecturales, orientales, Art Déco, ou encore chinoises. Le lieu servit notamment de réception pour des fêtes de village, de même que son propriétaire fut un temps élu échevin de la communauté.
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Décédés tous deux en 1940, le château fut racheté en 1988 par un riche entrepreneur et son épouse. Le bâtiment étant trop grand pour eux deux, ils y virent l’opportunité de transformer l’espace libre en hôtel de luxe, puis en Bed & Breakfast, avant d’être laissé à l’abandon, vraisemblablement après le décès du couple.
Aujourd’hui, ce superbe lieu est délaissé et à la merci de squatteurs et vandales de la région. Une partie a récemment été la cible d’un incendie, en mars 2017. On parle actuellement de transformer le site en maison de repos et/ou cité d’appartements. Les présentes photos datent d’avant l’incendie.
And so we come to the first of the Kent churches visited this month. Well, not quite true, as the very first church I tried to enter, St Mildred's in Preston, was locked fast as usual. Being the heritage weekend as well as ride and stride, and being on the latter list, one really hoped that the church would have made an effort, it being so remote and all.
But, they put a trestle table out, placed a rock on top of the check in sheet to stop it blowing away, and left the church for the day, despite arrangements having been made by another church the day before for it to be open.
This really is not good enough.
Anyway, St Mildred's was the first of three that were locked, but I managed to gain entry to seven previously closed churches to me. So, on the whole, I was pleased.
St Nicholas is a large and imposing church, with a huge churchyard, showing that it is one of the larger and better populated parishes in the area of east Kent.
There was a warden sitting at the table in the large doorway, and after a warm welcome we entered inside.
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The present parish of Ash, more than 7,000 acres in extent and one of the largest in Kent, was once only a part of the great manor of Wingham. Originally a royal manor, Wingham was given by King Athelstan of Kent to the See of Canterbury about 850 : it covered the present parishes of Ash, Goodnestone, Nonington, Wingham and parts of Staple and Womenswold.
In a list of churches probably made in 1071, in which 'Aesce' is said to belong to Wingham, mention is also made of an apparently more important church 'de Raette', as well as one at 'Fleota' belonging to the manor of Folkestone. If, as seems likely, 'de Raette' refers to Richborough, this is the only record of that church; but the chapel of Fleet, actually within the 3rd century Roman walls of Richborough Castle, continued in use until the 16th century. Leland in the time of Henry VIII wrote that 'withyn the castel is a lytle paroche Chirch of S. Augustine'.
It was believed that when St. Augustine first stepped ashore in England in 597 the impression of his foot was miraculously left upon a stone. This relic was afterwards kept in this chapel dedicated to him, and pilgrims flocked there upon the anniversary of the landing to pray and to recover their health. Excavations have uncovered the ground plan of the chapel, and confirm that it was pre-Norman in origin. Excavations in the northwest comer of the Roman fort have also, revealed the foundations and font of an even earlier church of c.400, one of the earliest Christian structures known in Britain.
By the 13th century there was another chapel in the northwest of the parish, at Overland, where complaint was made in 1294 that 'there used to be a baptistery and seven years ago it was taken away and is at Esse'. Edward Hasted, writing about 1790, said that the chapel had been 'for some time in ruins ... having been desecrated about the beginning of this century'. Its exact site has now been lost : some carved stonework which may come from it is at Knell; a few more pieces are in the church.
In 1282 Ash became a separate parish. In the deed founding a College of Canons at Wingham and dividing that parish into four, Archbishop Peckham explained, 'We have turned our eyes to the church of Wingham as it were to a fruitful vineyard..... which cannot be easily cultivated by the labours of one husbandman... from the great extent of the parish as well as its numerous population'. He assigned to Wingham parish church the chapel of Overland; to Ash he gave the chapel of Fleet. It was the duty of the canons of Wingham College, to whom the tithes of Ash were paid, to provide a vicar. In 1535 the parishioners of Ash complained: 'There has always been a vicar here to serve the cure till for the last 22 years the said Canons have usurped the vicarage to their own use ... within a quarter of a year we have had seven curates, which has caused much strife as we are 500 residents.'
In 1547 Wingham College was suppressed by Henry VIII, and its possessions forfeited to the Crown. In 1549, "the late chapel called Richborough Chapel in Ash Parish with its burial ground, buildings, lead, glass, iron, stones and tiles except the bells and leaden roof", and "the late Chapel of Overland in Ash parish next Sandwich in width 22 feet in length 34 feet, with its burial ground of half a rod, buildings, etc.", were both sold to William Hyde and Hugh Cartwright.
The right of presentation to the benefice of Ash was granted by Queen Mary to the Archbishop in 1558, and three years later Queen Elizabeth I gave the rectory - the right to the great tithes - to the See of Canterbury. The Archbishop is still the patron of the living today.
In the 19th century the need again arose for chapels in the more distant parts of the parish. In 1842 Holy Trinity Church at Ware was built, and Westmarsh was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1849. The corrugated-iron mission room of St. Augustine's, Richborough, was opened in 1888. It was followed in 1892 by a similar room at Goldstone, rebuilt in 1904. But by the 1960s the motor car had made these separate buildings less necessary. In 1967 the parish of Westmarsh was re-united with Ash; St. Augustine's, Richborough, was closed in 1969, and Holy Trinity Church in 1970.
An unusual feature of the church is the south chancel, whose axis is out of alignment with the nave. It was once supposed that this architectural oddity represented the inclined head of Christ on the Cross, but a structural fault caused by rebuilding and restoration is a more likely explanation.
(Bygone Kent, 1985, Michael David Mirams.)
In recent years the Parish of Ash with Westmarsh has been linked to the parish churches at Goodnestone and Chillenden through a united benefice. Further pastoral reorganisation in the East Bridge Deanery means that a new canonry benefice is to be formed of the parishes of Ash, Chillenden, Elmstone, Goodnestone, Preston and Wingham. This is expected to be undertaken between 2012 and 2014.
The current station was designed by the North Eastern Railway's chief architect, William Peachey, with an ornate Gothic style frontage. It was built in 1877 and is the second station on the site. There was an overall roof of elliptical design which was constructed out of wrought iron of lattice design, with glass covering the middle half and timber (inside)/slate (outside) covering the outer quarters. The two end screens were glazed with timber cladding around the outer edges. The roof was high in relation to its width.
However, the roof was severely damaged in a German daylight air raid in the afternoon of 3 August 1942 and eventually removed in 1954, to be replaced by the current design over the concourse and platforms
Something recent, in this year of appreciation: www.foa2016.com/events/2016-october-1-celebration-of-pete...
There it is across the street in its pristine glory, a community aspiring to be the kind of egalitarian democratic society that many wish America was as a country.
The mayor can evict this camp but the Occupy Boston movement will live on and be seen taking action in other parts of the city, taking up occupation in areas the city government of Boston never thought the occupiers would dare to occupy. And who knows, maybe there will be a re-occupation of Dewey Square some time in the future.
For the struggle is far from over.