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Russo-Chinese bank was built 1901 and was designed by Heinrich Bake
the Bank of Taiwan Building was built in 1924 for a japanese bank of that name. The two floors above the main banking hall were originally rented out, whilst the top floor provided living quarters and recreational rooms for bank staff.
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'the Bund'
Shanghai
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This is the skeleton of the former Leeuwensteyn office building on the Jaarbeursplein. On this place a new high-rise office building is planned. The flags are for the users of the nearby city offices.
The Höllenhof at Hölle 11 was built in three stages between 1215 and 1301, that is before the city fortifications were completed. This probably explains the massive stone construction that was designed to fortify the building.
St Mary's Church Beverley founded in 1120. in the second quarter of the 13th century the nave was built. The church has been developed over 400 years of almost continuous building from about 1120 to 1530.
Not much info available on this location...The Villa Hagspihl has been build in 1875, after renovating an old steam distillery, which was located on the same property. The owner of the villa, Guido Hagspihl lived here with his family, but at the same time, a part of the enormous complex was used as office space as well. The iron fence is original.
Later, not sure when, this building has obviously been used as a school, as you can see clearly on the pictures.
Dam Square in Amsterdam, Holland in 1984.
One large advertising sign is for Air France; another is for the Amsterdam Diamond Centre.
Chronology
Period Description
1704-1712 overall planning and construction period
History
The Episcopal Church in Hessian Fulda looks to a history reaching back to Frankish time that is closely linked to the missionary work of the Empire territory.
The karolingical predecessor construction
On the site of a probably in the Saxon wars destroyed Frankish Herrenhof (manor farm) founded Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, the monastery of Fulda. After the Anglo-Saxon missionary was killed by the Frisians 754 and was buried in the newly built church, developed this quickly to a popular pilgrimage site. Not least the growing number of monks and pilgrims made a comprehensive extension of the as hall church with a semicircular apse designed construction necessary. So the abbot Ratgar (791-819) first began with the establishment of a new Ostanlage (east layout) before to the then to a three-aisled basilica expanded building then a weitausladendes (elaborate) transept was added a second apse in the west. This Westanlage (west layout) refers clearly back to the Constantinian Church Old St. Peter in Rome and documents architecturally impressive the Rombezug (reference to Rome) of the directly to the Holy See subordinated monastery when it was founded.
Also the ring crypt under the western apse follows the example of the early Christian Roman Peter Church. There, Pope Gregory I about 600 had made the grave of the Prince of the Apostles by a similar facility for the pilgrims accessible.
The baroque new building
Not only the for its time of creation unique size and complexity of the Ratgarbasilika, but also its religious significance as burial place of Boniface allowed the Carolingian building to become a model for its Baroque successor. Thus Johann Dietzenhofer oriented himself with his in 1704-12 erected new building at the disposition of the previous building, those foundations were taken as far as possible. Also the baroque atypical system as three-aisled basilica seems explicable only from the reverent preservation of the original design. Only the west choir of the early medieval double chancel replaced the architect through a two-tower facade.
After air war damage during the Second World War, the restoration was completed in 1954.
Architecture
Following the example of the Carolingian episcopal church, Johann Dietzenhofer built the baroque cathedral as a three-aisled basilica with a transept and crossing tower. The above discussed Rombezüge (references to Rome) of the "Ratgarbasilika" he revived by a clear reference to Francesco Borromini's reconstruction of the Lateran Basilica once again. The Roman model paraphrasing, alternate in the nave large arched openings with smaller rectangular, above which figure niches are set into the high nave wall. In the aisles the individual yokes appear as independent, by horizontal oval domes centered spatial units.
Above the intersection arches a massive dome, whose drum is divided by double pilasters between which windows and figure niches alternate.
The as canopy formed high altar, where Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Marmorziborium in St. Peter's Church is evoked, gives a clear view of the elongated monk choir.
The exterior building is largely determined by the additive looking arrangement of towers, domes and chapels. The per se narrow twin-tower facade with its incorporated Ottonian towers is corrected in its Gesamtproportionierung (overall proportioning) by the two laterally attached chapels. The two flanking obelisks let the show side of the church gently fade away.
Decoration and equippment
The spatial effect is determined by the contrast between the white of the wall surfaces and the stucco on the one hand and the black and gold color chord of the architectural elements and the equipment to another.
The stucco with its many figurative representations was created by Giovanni Battista Artari.
Of the rest of its features, especially the numerous baroque tombs deserve special attention.
Markus Golser
Wikipedia article
Baroque Cathedral Church Basilica Two towers Crossing tower
Preston, Lancashire
The Corn Exchange was built to provide a market hall and a venue for meetings and exhibitions. In 1882 it became the Public Hall.
The Corn Exchange was completed in 1824 for the town’s wheat, flour, butter and cheese markets. In 1853 a glass roof was added and the fish, egg and poultry markets were moved here from the Market Square. The building became a venue for fairs, arts and science exhibitions, public meetings and temperance tea parties. After the building of a new covered market the Corn Exchange became the Public Hall, which could hold up to 3500 people.
www.revolutionaries.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&a...
Het Invorderingsbedrijf is gevestigd aan de Laan Copes van Cattenburch 137 te Den Haag, gelegen in de Haagsche Archipelbuurt en schuin tegenover het hoofdkantoor van Koninklijke Shell.
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Headed to the Grand Hilton in Seoul over the New Years Eve weekend with the little lady. Let me tell you, that place is SWANKY. This is the view from the balcony of our real hotel room at the Hilton Grand Suite just across the way. Our building shared all the amenities of the Grand Hilton, but for a fraction of the room cost. Score for us!
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Stephen Harris House, 135 Benefit Street (1763) — “The Shunned House” of Lovecraft’s story, which Lovecraft referred to as the Babbitt House. This house was abandoned and in poor condition during Lovecraft’s day.
"The house was - and for that matter still is - of a kind to attract the attention of the curious. Originally a farm or semi-farm building, it followed the average New England colonial lines of the middle eighteenth century - the prosperous peaked-roof sort, with two stories and dormerless attic, and with the Georgian doorway and interior paneling dictated by the progress of taste at that time. It faced south, with one gable and buried to the lower windows in the east ward rising hill, and the other exposed to the foundations toward the street. Its construction, over a century and a half ago, had followed the grading and straightening of the road in that especial vicinity; for Benefit Street - at first called Back Street - was laid out as a lane winding amongst the graveyards of the first settlers, and straightened only when the removal of the bodies to the North Burial Ground made it decently possible to cut through the old family plots.
At the start, the western wall had lain some twenty feet up a precipitous lawn from the roadway; but a widening of the street at about the time of the Revolution sheared off most of the intervening space, exposing the foundations so that a brick basement wall had to be made, giving the deep cellar a street frontage with the door and two windows above ground, close to the new line of public travel. When the sidewalk was laid out a century ago the last of the intervening space was removed; and Poe in his walks must have seen only a sheer ascent of dull grey brick flush with the sidewalk and surmounted at a height of ten feet by the antique shingled bulk of the house proper.
The farm-like grounds extended back very deeply up the hill, al most to Wheaton Street. The space south of the house, abutting on Benefit Street, was of course greatly above the existing sidewalk level, forming a terrace bounded by a high bank wall of damp, mossy stone pierced by a steep flight of narrow steps which led inward be tween canyon-like surfaces to the upper region of mangy lawn, rheumy brick walls, and neglected gardens whose dismantled cement urns, rusted kettles fallen from tripods of knotty sticks, and similar paraphernalia set off the weather beaten front door with its broken fanlight, rotting Ionic pilasters, and wormy triangular pediment."
Note: NC, then and now, the then picture is:
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The restored home af Thomas Wolfe, an American writer. The first time I visited it had a nostalgic feeling and smell like my grandmother's house. Soon after, there was a fire and a restoration. Now it does not have the "old" smell.